27-28 April 2023
Programme
(All times are British Summer Time [GMT+1])
Day One, 27 April 2023: From India to China
1.15pm: Introductions: Lucia Boldrini (CCL, Goldsmiths) & Margaret Shewring (SEFR, University of Warwick)
Session 1. Chair: Dr Marc Jaffré
1.30-2.00pm: Khalid Chaouch (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco): Illustrators as Co-authors: Exoticizing the Sino-Indian World in C18th Editions of The Arabian Nights.
2.00-2.30pm: Tiziana Leucci (CEIAS, EHESS/CNRS Paris): The French East Indian Company in India: the Court Ballets ‘Le Triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes’ and ‘Le Triomphe de l’Amour’ as Metaphors of the King Louis XIV’s Political Triumph in Asia.
2.30-3.00pm: André Godinho (Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Lisboa): The Cradle of the Sun: Portraying Asia in Public Rituals in Portugal (16th and 17th centuries).
3.00-3.45pm: Discussion and short break.
Session 2. Chair: Professor Iain Fenlon
3.45-4.15pm: Marie-Claude Canova Green and Naomi Matsumoto: Exoticism or Eclecticism? Carnival at Court and the ‘Mascarade du Roy de la Chine’ (1700).
4.15-4.45pm: Qi Wang (PhD Student, Theatre and Performance Department, Goldsmiths, University of London): The First France Tour of The Orphan of Zhao (1731).
4.45-5.15pm: Discussion.
Day Two, 28 April 2023: Japan and Persia
Session 3. Chair: Dr David Chataignier
2.00-2.30pm: Maria Maciejewska (University of Innsbruck, Austria): ‘Applause for Failure. Japanese Topics in Jesuit Drama on the Example of the Play Sanctus Franciscus Xaverius (Lucerne, 1677)’.
2.30-3.00pm: Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women’s University): (In)grata Iapon! Contrasting Images of Japan in the Oriental plays of Andrzej Temberski (1662-1726).
3.00-3.30pm: Discussion and short break.
Session 4. Chair: Professor Clare Finburgh Delijani
3.30-4.00pm: Susan Mokhberi (Rutgers University): Illustrating the Persian Embassy in France in 1715.
4.00-4.30pm: Magnus Tessing Schneider (University of Southern Denmark): Venetian-Persian Connections in Busenello’s La Statira principessa di Persia (1656).
4.30-5.00pm: Sheiba Kian Kaufman (University of California, Irvine): Staging Shakespeare’s Persian Tom in King Lear.
5.00-5.30pm: Discussion
5.30pm: Conclusion
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