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Cultural Mediation: Creativity, Performance, Display—6th Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”

Dr. Nic Leonhardt, Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme, and I will be presenting a panel entitled:  “Detecting Performance Brokers: Theatrical Agents, Managers and Impresarios in Global Theatre Histories (1850-1920)” at the Cultural Mediation: Creativity, Performance, Display—6th Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. 8-10…

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Philippine Studies Lecture Series – Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia

Next month, I will be at the University of British Columbia to give a guest lecture at the Philippine Studies Lecture Series. The title of my talk is “Echoing Sonic Modernities: Migrant Manila Musicians across Asia-Pacific, 1869 -1948”. Please come, there will be Filipino food in the after talk reception!…

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Globalizing Opera (Workshop)

Saving the world with meals on wheels. You know how I sometimes have really brilliant ideas? They’re not aliens, they’re Earth…liens! Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush. You know how I sometimes have really brilliant ideas?

You know when grown-ups tell you ‘everything’s going to be fine’ and you think they’re probably lying to make you feel better? All I’ve got to do is pass as an ordinary human being. Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

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Theatrescapes: Global Media and Translocal Publics, 1850-1950

Saving the world with meals on wheels. You know how I sometimes have really brilliant ideas? They’re not aliens, they’re Earth…liens! Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush. You know how I sometimes have really brilliant ideas?

You know when grown-ups tell you ‘everything’s going to be fine’ and you think they’re probably lying to make you feel better? All I’ve got to do is pass as an ordinary human being. Simple. What could possibly go wrong?

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