美國南加州大學人類學及美國研究教授Dorinne Kondo將於十月來港公開演講。是次演講是香港中文大學性別研究學系主辦、利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2010的壓軸項目。
Kondo教授是《Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace》(1990) 一書的作者，該書曾奪得J.I. Staley Prize，對人類學科的貢獻得到肯定；而其另一書目《About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre》(1997) 亦曾獲研究獎項。此外，Kondo教授更是一名劇作家，她的第一部戲劇《Dis)graceful(l) Conduct》便曾奪得全國性的喜劇獎。
是次訪問，Kondo教授將作兩場公開演講。第一場題為 “Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre”，Kondo教授會討論當代非白人藝術家，包括美國黑人劇作家及演員Anna Deavere Smith及劇作家David Henry Hwang的作品，並分析這些作品如何動搖及重新定下戲劇的常規。
第二場演講題為 “Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary”。Kondo教授將演繹她寫的劇本《Seamless》(天衣無縫)其中數場，並分析她在當中面對性別和種族表述的兩難，以及她作為一個帶着人類學學者的身份的劇作家，如何在戲劇世界中定位。
除兩場演講外，Kondo教授亦會舉行一場題為 “Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies” 的研究生研討會，及名為 “Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies” 的學者圓桌會議。
如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。
活動詳情：
公開講座（香港中文大學）
題目：Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre
日期：2010年10月25日（星期一）
時間：下午4時 - 6時
地點：香港中文大學何添樓B6演講廳
公開講座
題目：Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary
日期：2010年10月27日（星期三）
時間：晚上7時30分 - 9時30分
地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈2樓202室（灣仔港鐵站A2出口）
研究生研討會
題目：Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies
日期：2010年10月26日（星期二）
時間：下午2時30分 - 4時30分
地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）
學者圓桌會議
題目：Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies
日期：2010年10月29日（星期五）
時間：下午4時 - 6時
地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）
登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm
查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:2603 7223
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(English version)
Dorinne Kondo, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California, U.S., will visit Hong Kong in October as visiting scholar of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.
Professor Kondo is the author of Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (1990), the winner of the J.I. Staley Prize for a book having an impact on the field of Anthropology. Her second book About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre (Routledge, 1997) won the Cultural and Literary Studies Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Kondo is also a playwright and dramaturge. Her first play Dis)graceful(l) Conduct received a national comedy playwriting award.
Professor Kondo will give two public lectures during her stay in Hong Kong. In the first one, titled “Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre”, she will focus on the work of contemporary artists of color—African American playwright-actress Anna Deavere Smith and playwright David Henry Hwang—and analyze the ways their work destabilizes—and inevitably reinscribes—theatrical convention.
In the second lecture, titled “Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary”, Professor Kondo will present selected scenes from her play SEAMLESS, analyzing the dilemmas of gender and racial representation she faces, and the implications of her position as an anthropologist “going native” as a playwright in the world of theatre.
Apart from the two public lectures, Professor Kondo will also hold a postgraduate seminar titled “Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies”, and a faculty roundtable focusing on “Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies”.
For enquiries, please call 2696 1026 or e-mail to genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk. Members of the public are welcome to register for the public lectures at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm.
Event Memo:
Public Lecture (CUHK)
Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre
Date: 25 October 2010 (Monday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre B6, Ho Tim Building, CUHK
Language: English (Discussion in English and Cantonese)
Public Lecture
Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary
Date: 27 October 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, HK [Wan Chai MTR Exit A2]
Language: English (Discussion in English and Cantonese)
Postgraduate Seminar
Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Date: 26 October 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK
Language: English
Faculty Roundtable
Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies
Date: 29 October 2010 (Friday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK
Language: English
Registration
Public Lectures
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm
Postgraduate Seminar and Faculty Roundtable
Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk
Enquiries
Tel: (852) 2696 1026
Fax: (852) 2603 7223
Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk
