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2024 AAP & AAP@ATHE Conference Schedules


We look forward to seeing everyone in Atlanta in just a couple of weeks! Please find the draft schedule for our 2024 AAP Conference and the AAP-sponsored sessions at ATHE below.


If you plan to attend and have not registered, please do so by Wednesday July 24, 2024: https://www.asian-performance.org/events/2024-aap-annual-conference



2024 Association for Asian Performance Annual Conference

Loews Hotel Atlanta

July31-August 1, 2024


Wednesday July 31, 2024 (All Events in Chastain Ballroom)


8:00 am Registration Desk Open 


8:30-9:00 am Registration, Breakfast and Coffee Available (ROOM)


9:00am-9:15 am Welcome Remarks

Xing Fan, AAP President


9:15-10:30 am Session 1: Community and Performance (Panel)

Moderator: David Jortner

  • Hayana Kim, “Performing Insurgent Grief in South Korea: The Kwangju Uprising, the May Mothers and their Activism in the Graveyard”

  • Sunny Deol Mandi, “Exploring the Significations of Binties among the Santal: An Ethnographic Study”

  • Zhixuan Zhu, “Roaming Constellations: Intermedial Community Building in the Chinese Translations of the French Musical Mozart L’Opéra Rock”


10:45-12:00 pm Session 2: Decolonizing Research—Sponsored by the Anti-Racism Committee (Panel)

Moderator: Tarryn Chun

  • Melissa Flower-Gladney, “Physical Education, Rajio Taiso, and the National Body”

  • Yining Lin, “Theatrical Healing: Creating a Trauma Informed and Culturally relevant Dramaturgical Practice”

  • Akhila Vimal, "Shaping Narratives: A Dialogue on Disability in Asian Performance Spaces" 


12:00-2:00 pm Lunch & Grad Student Mentoring Session


2:00-3:30pm Session 3: Theory of Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century China (Panel)

Moderator: Man He

  • Annelise Finegan, “Chen Dabei’s Theorization of Amateur Theater and Tragedy in Early Spoken Drama”

  • Siyuan Liu,“Creative Artist versus Interpretive Artist: Zhang Junxiang 张骏祥’s Theorization of the Spoken Drama Director”

  • Man He, “From Dialogue to Voice: The Soundscape of Street Theatre in Wartime China”

  • Emily Wilcox, “Curriculum as Theory: The Beijing Dance School’s First Chinese Classical Dance Teaching Syllabus as a Theoretical Artifact”


3:30-3: 45pm   Coffee Break


3:45-5:00 pm Session 4: Graduate Student Poster Presentations

Moderator: Alex Rogals

  • Jinhee Kim, “Translating Nostalgia: The Journey Home in Korean Classical Crossover Music”

  • Kay Kim, “Performance Captured Through Media Art: Dongnae Crane Dance 동래학춤”

  • Yingman Tang, “Lost in Translation: The Challenges of Chinese Operas in the American Landscape”

  • Yunfan Xing, “The Role of Ethnic Dances in the Chinese Spring Festival Gala in Constructing the Power of the Chinese Communist Party”


5:15-7:00pm Session 5: Emerging Scholars Panel

Moderator: Jashodhara Sen

Presenters: Yuning Liu, Chee-Hann Wu, and Minu Park


7:30-9:00pm  Schmoozefest, Urban Hai (77 12th St NE suite 7, 

Atlanta, GA)


9:00-10:30pm  Happy Hour, TBD



Thursday August 1, 2024 (Salon A)


8:00-8:30 Coffee and Breakfast 


8:30-9:45 am Session 6 (Salon A): Asian Performance in Diaspora (Panel)

Moderator: Linda Ehrlich

  • Margaret Coldiron, “Performing Balinese Culture in Diasporic Spaces: The Case of Lila Cita and Lila Bhawa”

  • Julie Iezzi, “From "Nihonjin Shibai" to "Ōkabuki"—the early decades of kabuki in Hawaiʻi (1890s-1920s)”

  • Meera Kanageswaran, “GTA Bharathanatyam Arangetrams: An Exclusive Affair?”


10:00-11:15 am Session 7 (Salon A): What in the Academic Transformation? (Roundtable)

Roundtable Participants: Radhica Ganapathy, David Jortner, Dave Mason, Jashodhara Sen, Hesam Sharifian


11:30-12:45 pm LUNCH and AAP Board Meeting (Location TBD)


1-2:30 pm Asian Theatre Journal Lecture (Salon C)

"Re-Addressing the Nation: Theatre and Political Protest in South Korea since 2014"

Presenter: Kee-Yoon Nahm




And don't miss our sponsored programming @ATHE 2024! Full details can be found on the ATHE website: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/athe2024/home/


Thursday, August 1, 2024

8:30am – 10:00am

Re-Visiting Translations: Teaching, Scholarship, and Performance of non-English work

David Jortner, Siyuan Liu, Xing Fan


1-2:30 pm Asian Theatre Journal Lecture (Salon C)

"Re-Addressing the Nation: Theatre and Political Protest in South Korea since 2014"

Presenter: Kee-Yoon Nahm


Friday, August 2, 2024

8:30 am – 10:00. Revisiting Pedagogies for Asian Drama, Theatre, and Performance

Alex Rogals, Joshodhara Sen, Xing Fan, Tara Rodman


3:00 pm – 4:30 pm. AAP Meet and Greet


10:30 am – 12:00pm. Get the Job and Thrive: Navigating the PWI Hiring Process as a Scholar of Color (a BIPOC Affinity Space)

With ATDS, BTA, LGBTQA+, LIA, MET, VASTA, WTP

Amy Mihyang Ginther, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Heidi L. Nees-Carver, Martine Green-Rogers, Nicole Hodges Persley, Sadya Trujillo


Saturday, August 3, 2024

3:00pm – 4:30pm. Pathways to Equity, Access, and Belonging Through Interdepartmental Collaboration

With, MET, TASC

Alex Rogalsm Daniel Banks, Dapnie Sicre, Kyla Kazuschyk, Michelle Gibbs, Rana Esfandiary, Rowan Jalso, Wendy- Marie Martin


5:00pm – 6:30pm Retelling Stories of Tradition

An-Ru Chu, Chengyuan Huang, Dahye Lee











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