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
Professor Conceison on Revolutionary Nostalgia in Contemporary China Mar. 31
March 31, 2015
