8:00-9:15

Breakfast

9:00-9:15

Opening Remarks 
Brad Richardson, Director, East Asian Studies Center

9:30-11:30

Panel One: Dramatic Performance in Contemporary China

Chair: Lesley Ferris, Theater (OSU)

Matinees and Tourist Peking Opera: Two Windows on the Current Health of Jingju (Peking Opera) in Beijing

             David Rolston, University of Michigan

Staging Mao's Wife: Public Trial, Political Theater, and Gender Politics in Contemporary Chinese Drama

             Xiaomei Chen, DEALL (OSU)

Interracial Casting in Chinese Plays: A Tale of Two Cities

             Claire Conceison, University of Michigan

Discussant: Julia Andrews,  History of Art (OSU)

11:30-1:30

Lunch (on your own)

1:30-3:30

Panel Two: Plays in Historical Context

Chair: Rick Livingston, Comparative Studies (OSU)

Performing Chinese History and Culture: "The King's Farewell"

              Joseph Lam, University of Michigan

"Making It New": Iconoclasm in Two International Productions of The Peony Pavilion

              Catherine Swatek, University of British Columbia

Old Plays, New Selves: Drama and Discourses of Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Chinese Autobiographies  

           Patricia Sieber, DEALL (OSU)

Discussant: Katherine Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh