Performing the intercultural through scholarship, theatre and history

Calling students from the School of Arts and Humanities!

“Performing the intercultural through scholarship, theatre and history”

This is the first in a seminar series that aims to connect students at the University of Cambridge, UK and Nanjing, China to explore together the topic of intercultural connections, past and present, through the approaches taught and studied within the Arts and Humanities.

We shall meet on Friday 21 March, 10am - 12 noon (UK time)

Cambridge students will gather in person in the Anna Bateson Room, Newnham College

**We will connect with Nanjing University via zoom link.

The seminar is aimed in particular at postgraduate students but undergraduates are welcome to attend.

• We shall begin with short presentations from Prof Chengzhou He and Prof Chen Chang, Nanjing University and Prof Jenny Mander, University of Cambridge.
• We will then encourage graduate students to lead discussion around the topic of the intercultural, based on the specified readings below.
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Readings:

Charlotte McIvor, 'Introduction: New Directions?' in Charlotte McIvor and Jason King eds, Interculturalsm and Performance Now (2019)

Zhang Longxi, 'The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability' in Unexpected Affinities: Reading aacross Cultures (2007)

Chengzhou He, 'Encountering Shakespeare in avant-garde Kun opera', in Orbis Litterarum, 2021

Vanessa Ogle, 'Time, Temporality and the History of Capitalism' in Past and Present, 2019

Sybille Krämer, 'Jean-Luc Nancy' in Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy (2015)

If you would like to participate in the seminar and receive copies of the readings, please contact Professor Jenny Mander, jsm15@cam.ac.uk