Dis-Orient| Autumn Talks: Landscapes of Erasure and Presence

2023 King Lane Northeast,Seattle WA 98105

18 November, 2021

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Wa"Dis-Orient| Autumn Talks: Landscapes of Erasure and Presence" reflections and thoughts by Lamees Ashour, Weiyu Li, Duygu Erdogan Monson "Dis-Orient: Autumn Talks" is an event by C.O.M.R.A interdisciplinary cluster launched under the support of the Simpson Center for Humanities at the University of Washington. We like to describe it as an encounter whereby a series of presentations are delivered to highlight artistic disciplines practiced elsewhere and to challenge the dominating Western grand narrative. Having as a title "Landscapes of Erasure and Presence", the first encounter of "Dis-Orient: Autumn talks" will host three panelists sharing their research practices around architecture & theatre. Thus, 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 veine,on the 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. Presentations titles: “Censoring the little man- a Karagoz story” | Duygu Monson Erdogan “Beyond Bigness: Landscapes of the disenfranchised in Mega Cities” | Lamis Ashour “Performing race in early modern China” | Weiyu Li About Panelists: Duygu Erdogan Monson: recently completed her doctoral studies at the theatre research, theory and criticism PhD program at the University of Washington. She currently works as a director and actor in Seattle and is a professor of film and theater at Shoreline Community College. Lamis Ashour: is a third year PhD student, instruction and a research assistant at the department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. Lamis holds a Master's Degree in Sustainable Critical Infrastructure from the MIT and Masdar institute cooperative program, 2017. Weiyu Li: is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Drama. She is currently lending attention to the relation between racial performance, writing, and racialized national identity both in and outside the theater field. Her dissertation, "The Black is the New Red: Performance of Racial Blackness in China” traces the history of staging theatrical representations of Blacks on the Chinese stage About Panelists: Duration of the event: 90 minutes Where: Communications Building | CMU 120 Date: November 18th 2021 Time: 6:00 pm (Doors open at 5:30 pm) About Tickets: As a COVID safety measure, we have limited the number of attendees to 30. If you need to cancel after RSVP’ing, please contact COMRA organizers at [[email protected]] or using the contact organizer button ASAP, so your spot will be available to others.