BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//CMRS Center for Early Global Studies - ECPv6.17.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20270314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20271107T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20280312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20281105T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270406T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270406T235959
DTSTAMP:20260706T221633Z
CREATED:20260706T221633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T221633Z
UID:10000475-1806969600-1807055999@cegs.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Orietta Da Rold
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-and-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-orietta-da-rold/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270430T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270430T235959
DTSTAMP:20260811T232950Z
CREATED:20260706T221742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T232950Z
UID:10000476-1809043200-1809129599@cegs.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Performing the Early Modern Across the Americas Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference presents ongoing research findings of an international group of scholars studying the topic of dragons in performance. \nIn the past\, the cartographic legend “hic sunt dracones” (like “hic sunt leones”) indicated the extent of known territories (land and seas) and the boundaries of safety\, yet what laid beyond pervaded the consciousness of many artists\, travelers and scholars. Dragons\, which have occupied the human imagination since antiquity\, gained particular importance after 1400 CE\, and appear in many guises— St. George plays\, Karagöz\, Chinese shadow puppets\, etc.—and so mark the outlines of a Denkraum (or “thinking space”) between cosmology\, zoology\, superstition\, and spectacle\, with many offspring up to the present day. While theatre history is also a theatre of migration\, circulation\, miscegenation\, globalism\, and affect\, performance often indexes all these experiences within “marvels” such as dragons and mystics. \nWe began “sharing dragons” in 2022 and have met in Chicago\, Cologne\, Beijing\, Shanghai\, and now\, in Southern California. In our ongoing discussions over the course of the Southern California conference\, our current questions encompass the following: \n\nWhere and how do dragons emerge\, enchant\, and connect? What and how do they signify? How are they entangled within their own contexts\, and how do they provoke and inspire further entanglements with other bodies\, texts\, beings?\nHow do dragons arise in a media ecology across times\, places\, and diverse cultures? How do they destabilize or consolidate through/as performance?\nWhat do performing dragons ask of historiography? How does centering dragons in research sustain counter-histories? How does it reveal grounded performance theory?\nWhat are “dragons” in any given culture? How are their performances evidence of syncretism\, either from human migration and trade or technological exchange? What do such insights suggest for further research?\n\nInvestigating performing dragons allows for an in-depth reading of how form and content are inseparable\, providing a critical object with which to reflect on representations\, implied modes of perception\, and the historical (dis)continuities that make the dragon appear. In staging dragons\, certain conventions are always involved\, but a more inclusive investigation addressing multiple centuries and cultural vectors enables a better grasping of their complex histories. The dragon is very specific\, and at the same time exemplary for culturally bound cyphers that can manifest in many forms and shapes. We look forward to exploring these topics with our UCLA participants and audiences. \nSpeakers: \nErith Jaffe-Berg\, University of California Riverside\nLeo Cabranes-Grant\, University of California Santa Barbara\nTracy C. Davis\, Northwestern University\nPeter W. Marx\, University of Cologne\, Germany \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 or via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/performing-the-early-modern-across-the-americas-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR