The International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) 2016 Annual Conference will be hosted by Stockholm University on 13-17 June 2016. This year’s theme will be “Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices”. I am excited because it will be my first time in Sweden and I get to talk about… Continue reading
Gong Semar Pegulingan Rehearsals from habi on Vimeo. This semester, gamelan master I Made Agus Wardana teaches Gong Semar Pegulingan (Balinese Gamelan) at the Musicology Department at the University of Amsterdam. It is meditative to be repeating the complex interlocking rhythms over and over until it becomes second… Continue reading
The deadline for application for the MA International Dramaturgy is 1 March 2015, (1 February for those applying for scholarship). For more information and online application procedure, visit the program website. Scholarships for non-EU citizens must be applied for directly on the Nuffic website.
Prof. dr. Nic Leonhardt invited me to give a guest lecture on “Medating Modernities” as part of her lecture Kolloquium Globale Theater und Mediengeschichte(n) at the Institut für Medienkultur & Theater, Universität zu Köln, Germany. Perhaps see you there? 17 December 2015 Institut für Medienkultur & Theater, Universität zu Köln,… Continue reading
Volume 6 Issue 2 of Popular Entertainment Studies Journal is now out. The special issue is entitled, “Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers at the Turn of the 20th Century”. My article, “Brokering Sonic Modernities: migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948”, is included in the issue. You can… Continue reading