Association for Asian Performance Annual Conference 2023 JW Marriott, Austin, TX August 2, 2023
8:00am Registration Desk Open
8:00-8:40am Breakfast and Coffee Available (Lonestar A) 8:15-9:10am AAP Board Meeting (Lonestar B) 9:15am Welcome Remarks (Lonestar A)
Xing Fan, AAP President
9:30-10:45am Session 1
Panel 1 (Lonestar A) Moderator: Alex Rogals
Fanchen Kong, “Thick Description for Scripts and Ideographic Body Movement in Kunqu Performance”
Eason Lu, “Performing the Women’s Script: The Archive and Repertoire of Nüshu
Menghang Wu, “Performing Nuclear Waste in Eiko Otake’s A Body in Fukushima”
Panel 2 (Lonestar B)
Moderator: David Jortner
Zhen Cheng, “Not the Other Avant-Garde: Zhang Guangtian’s Avantgarde Theaters
Man He, “The Voice of ‘Communist Bandits’: Theatre Professionals’ Migration across the Taiwan Straight in Early Cold War
Hansel Tan, “Staging Singlish: How Singapore’s English Language Theatre found its Voice”
11:00-12:15pm Session 2 Panel 3 (Lonestar A) Moderator: Radhica Ganapathy
Amanda Culp, “Scripting History “For the Record””
Sakriti Sinha, “The Indigenous Binaries of resistance in postcolonial India”
Akhila Vimal, “Forbidden Culture: Understanding Ritual Space and Challenge to Normativity in Kodungallur Bharani”
Panel 4 (Lonestar B) Moderator: Tara Rodman
Yujie Chen, “Applying a Gaudy filter for Chinese Contemporary Dance: ErGao’s Dance Film Kongxi Facai N+”
Alissa Elegant, “Nurturing Spaces of Workers Art: The Role of Labor Unions in Developing Julebu (Workers Clubs 工人俱乐部) and Wenhuagong (Cultural Palaces 文化 宫) in the Early People’s Republic of China”
Yao Xu, “As if Zhao Feiyan was incarnated in Zhang Qi”—Mediating the Modern “New Woman” through the Plum Blossom Girls’ Song and Dance Troupe’s “Dance on Hands”
12:15-1:15pm Lunch and Mentoring Session (JW Austin Marriott Lobby Bar)
1:30-2:30pm Session 3
Panel 5 (Lonestar A) Moderator: Amanda Culp
Radhica Ganapathy, “Decolonize this: Examining the immaterial and the material in performance”
David Jortner, “Bewildering ‘Cabuques’: A Historiography of Early Anglophone Scholarship on Japanese Theatre”
2:45-4:00pm Session 4: AAP Membership Meeting (Lonestar A)
4:15-5:30 pm Session 5: Anti-Racism Workshop: Call to Action (Lonestar A)
Moderators: Jyana Browne, Amanda Culp, Xing Fan, Alex Rogals (on behalf of the AAP Anti-Racism Committee)
5:45-7:00pm Session 6: Emerging Scholars Panel (Lonestar A)
Moderator: Siyuan Liu
Hanyang Jiang, “A Babel of Nature: The English-Language Sources of Zheng Junli’s “Tan biaoyan” (On Acting, 1936)”
Yihui Sheng, “The Performers’ Brush: A Case Study of Scene Twelve “Composing the Score” (“Zhipu”) in a Mid-Qing Stage Script of Palace of Everlasting Life (Changsheng dian)”
Menghang Wu, “Beyond Orientalism: Tracing the Nonhuman Aesthetics in Shen Wei’s Folding and Near the Terrace”
7:30-9:00pm Schmoozefest
9:00-10:30pm Happy Hour (Hosted by AAP Grad Student Reps)
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Plus, don't miss all of the AAP-sponsored panels and events at ATHE!
August 3:
1:00pm – 2:30 pm “The Problem of Pronunciation,” Lonestar F
5:00pm - 6:30 pm “AAP Meet and Greet,” Meeting Room 311
5:00pm – 6:30pm “Collaborating Against Colonialism,” Meeting Room 302
August 4:
10:30pm - 12:30pm “Mixed-Asian Voices in Acting Pedagogy,” Meeting Room 307
1:30pm – 3:00pm “Publication Pipeline,” Meeting Room 306
4:00pm – 5:30pm “Cover Letter and CV Workshop”
**Special Event for Grad Students!** Conference registration not required; AAP membership is. This event is virtual.
August 5:
8:30am – 10:00 am “After Theory,” Meeting Room 301
1:00pm – 2:30 pm “Asian Theatre Journal Lecture,” Lonestar H
**Invited Speaker: Siyuan Liu, “Writing for the Historically Marginalized Voices”
August 6:
11:15am – 12:45pm “Performing Social Protest,” Lonestar C