Thinking through Performance in China – A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting, Singing, and Theater (c.1200–1850) [Day 1]
9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM: Panel 1 – Thinking through Performance
Chair: David Wang, Harvard University
Thomas Kelly, Harvard University, “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”
Ling Hon Lam, UC Berkeley, “In Search of Bad Singing: A Disarticulation of the Automaton, or a Mathematical Critique of ‘Self-So’ Cosmology”
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Panel 2 – Performance as Method in Song and Oral Storytelling
Chair: Si Nae Park, Harvard University
Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University, “Surprise as Method: Performance Aesthetics in Yuan Sanqu Songs”
Canaan Morse, Boston University, “The Image of the Book and the Performance of Reading in The Drunken Man’s Talk and the Early Huaben”
3:30 PM: Panel 3 – Performing Spectatorship
Chair: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
Yinghui Wu, UCLA, “The Passion for Performance and Performers in the Late Ming: Between Therapy, Obsession, and Bad Karma”
Ming Tak Ted Hui, Oxford University, “Vocal Imaginaries: Connoisseurship of the Operatic Voice in the 16th Century”