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Stage Body, Stage Gender: Kabuki Actors and Print Identity in Early Modern Japan: Wednesday, April 12, at 5pm, Ustler Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:00 P.M. in Ustler Hall Auditorium   This talk explores the star system that emerged in the context of early modern Kabuki theater, focusing in particular on Kabuki female-role actors, or Onnagata. I propose a revision of established critical discourse about these actors, in which their acting and identities have been […]

Film Screening of “Come Back Anytime”: Friday, Nov. 4 at 6pm, 170 Pugh Hall

Friday: Nov. 4 at 6pm, Pugh 170   “Ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko have run their tiny Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than forty years. Scores of devoted customers have joined them in creating an intimate place of community there. On the weekends, they venture together across the lush Japanese countryside. […]