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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