{"id":1725,"date":"2021-11-12T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1725"},"modified":"2021-11-12T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T00:28:00","slug":"dis-orient-autumn-talks-landscapes-of-erasure-and-presence","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/event\/dis-orient-autumn-talks-landscapes-of-erasure-and-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis-Orient: Autumn Talks; Landscapes of Erasure and Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDis-Orient\u201d is an encounter whereby a series of presentations | papers are delivered by the members of the cluster and by external Guests and Alumni. The latter will deliver purviews of artistic disciplines practiced at their homeland and that challenge the dominating grand narrative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Having as a title “Landscapes of Erasure and Presence”, the first encounter of “Dis-Orient: Autumn talks” will host\u00a0three panelists sharing their research practices around architecture & theatre.\u00a0\u00a0Thus, choreographies of spaces as architectural manifestations of monumentality, bigness and Mega-presence are negotiated and reshaped by the disenfrenchized in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. On a similar vein, on\u00a0the stage, racial politics – most notably blackface performances – transform to be a vehicle for national identity building, modernization and decolonization in China while in Turkey, Karagoz a phallic shadow theatre figure during the Ottoman empire is subject to castration during the Modern Turkey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Presentations:\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cCensoring the little man- a Karagoz story\u201d | Duygu Monson Erdogan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Bigness: Landscapes of the disenfranchised in Mega Cities\u201d | Lamis Ashour<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPerforming race in early modern China\u201d | Weiyu Li<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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We would be happy if you can attend. For reservations, please sign up\u00a0here<\/a>\/<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: Reservation on Eventbrite is required. Seating is limited due to Covid-Safety measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

About C.O.M.R.A:\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

C.O.M.R.A \u2013 an acronym for Conjecture | Other | Meet | Reckon| Acknowledge –\u00a0\u00a0was founded by a group of international graduate students at the University of Washington. Decentering the dominant narratives in the Humanities\u2019 field is one of the germane foregrounds hoped to be achieved by the Cluster\u2019s members. C.O.M.R.A\u2019s main objectives are to challenge the Eurocentric approaches to Literature, Arts and Social sciences by highlighting the scope of aesthetical practices elsewhere and by unfolding other ways of knowing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDis-Orient\u201d is an encounter whereby a series of presentations | papers are delivered by the members of the cluster and by external Guests and Alumni. The latter will deliver purviews of artistic disciplines practiced at their homeland and that challenge the dominating grand narrative.\u00a0 Having as a title “Landscapes of Erasure and Presence”, the first encounter of “Dis-Orient: Autumn talks” will host\u00a0three panelists sharing their research practices around architecture & theatre.\u00a0\u00a0Thus, choreographies of spaces as architectural manifestations of monumentality, bigness…<\/p>\n

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