October 1-3, 2020
Free on Zoom
Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. The conference explores conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through individual inquiries, the aim is to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD, UCSB.
Conference participants:
Jyana Browne (University of Maryland), Xing Fan (University of Toronto), Man He (Williams College), David Jortner (Baylor University), Jieun Lee (Wake Forest University), Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia), Jessica Nakamura (UCSB), Cody Poulton (University of Victoria), Katherine Saltzman-Li (UCSB), Catherine Swatek (University of British Columbia), Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University), Miseong Woo (Yonsei University), Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University), Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University), Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University), with Risa Brainin (UCSB) and William Davies King (UCSB)
Learn more about the conference HERE.
Schedule
Please note that the final presenter on each of the first three panels will offer a topic overview rather than a full paper presentation.
All times are Pacific Daylight Time.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 1
4:30 pm: Opening Remarks
Co-organizers Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li
5:00 -7:30 pm, Panel #1: ABSORPTIONS
5:00 Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia)
The Deep Reality of Style: From Michel Saint-Denis to Huang Zuolin
5:30 Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University)
Three Kingdoms of Pain and Sorrow: Verisimilitude of Warfare Presented in Pansori Jeokbyeokga
6:00 David Jortner (Baylor University)
Author, Translator, Adaptor, Director: The Perplexing legacy of Osanai as Playwright
6:30 Miseong Woo (Yonsei University)
Colonial Temporality, Diasporic Displacement, and Korean Realism in Yun Baek-nam’s Destiny
6:50 Panel Q&A
FRIDAY OCTOBER 2
2:00-4:00 pm, Panel #2: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
2:00 Cody Poulton (University of Victoria)
Realism, the Real, and (Virtual) Reality: Hirata Oriza and Beyond
2:30 Man He (Williams College)
Script to See: Eyes Rule the 1920s Chinese Realist Theatre
3:00 Catherine Swatek (University of British Columbia)
Suzhou Dialect in early Qing Kunqu: A Theatre of Realism in Embryo?
3:20 Panel Q&A
4:00-4:30 pm: Break
4:30-7:00 pm, Panel #3: INSTRUMENTS OF REALISM
4:30 Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University)
Costume of the Present: Clothing and Time in Traditional Chinese Drama
5:00 Jessica Nakamura (UCSB)
After the Colloquial: Staging the Real in Japan’s Digital Age
5:30 Jyana S. Browne (University of Maryland)
Yoshida Bunzaburō’s Quest for the Real
6:00 Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University) and Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University)
Racing the Real: Realism and Racial Representation in 20th Century Korean Theatre
6:20 Panel Q&A
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3
2:00-4:00 pm, Panel #4: ADAPTING FORMS
2:00 Jieun Lee (Wake Forest University)
The Making and Unmaking of Shinpa: On Representation, Realism, and Reality of Birth Search and Reunion in South Korea
2:30 Katherine Saltzman-Li (UCSB)
Theatrical Realism on the Kabuki Stage: Configurations of Representation
3:00 Xing Fan (University of Toronto)
Understanding a Haunting Paradigm: Theatrical Realism on the Jingju Stage in Twentieth Century China
3:30 Panel Q&A
4:00-4:30 pm: Closing Remarks; Wrap-up
Co-organizers Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li
4:30-5:00 pm: Break
5:00 pm, PLAY READING of The Son, by Osanai Kaoru, translated by David Jortner
Introductory comments by David Jortner
Play Reading directed by Risa Brainin and performed by LAUNCH PAD, UCSB
Comments by William Davies King (UCSB)
Open Discussion and Q&A with the artists
