Professor Conceison on Revolutionary Nostalgia in Contemporary China Mar. 31

On Tuesday, March 31st, visiting Professor Claire Conceison (Duke University) will be talking about the expressions of collective identity and Maoist nostalgia on stage in contemporary Beijing at a Cultural Revolution-themed “red restaurant” and in Meng Jinghui’s hit play “I Love XXX. She is a scholar, translator, and director and is currently teaching 21M.848 (Topics in Performance Studies) here at MIT. Her areas of research and teaching are contemporary Chinese theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American theatre, translation, and sport as performance. Conceison’s talk will take place in Killian Hall at 5:30pm. Photo by Roger Andrews