Public Lecture - Professor Emily Wilcox: “Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Culture: International Dance Exchanges in Mao-Era China”
The Mao era (1949 – 1976) is often misunderstood as a time of “isolation” and “closing off from the world.” In this talk, Professor Wilcox will demonstrate how dance served as a space where Mao-era China’s diverse and fluctuating connections with the wider world were explored intellectually and concretized in physical bodies and experiences. In spite of real challenges and barriers that sought to limit Cold War-era mobilities, dance made possible experiments of empathy, proximity, and mutual learning that advanced radical ideas of geographic reimagining and political relationality.
Speaker: Professor Emily Wilcox
Date: 12 September, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, G/F, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
*Tea reception will start at 4:30 pm in the Courtyard, Institute of Chinese Studies.
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