Wayang, Ecology and the Sacred Symposium. Yale University, Connecticut. November 9, 2024. The article summarizes a single-day symposium on the theme of Wayang, Ecology, and the Sacred organized by Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen with support from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. Participants from a wide range of disciplines, including Theatre, Visual Arts, Puppetry, Ethnomusicology, and Museum Studies, investigated how wayang puppet traditions are both sacred and related to ecological issues. Rahul Koonathara is currently pursuing graduate studies at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies under the guidance of Professor …
Category: Conference Report
CONFERENCE REPORT: Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium
Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, University of Connecticut, October 25-26, 2024. The article summarizes the presentations of the two-day “Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium” organized by The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, with support from the University of Connecticut, in October, 2024. This exhibition explored the fifty-year interracial collaboration of two pioneering puppeteers, Alice Swann and Nancy Schmale, in the late twentieth century. The symposium investigates the works, influences, and societal challenges faced by Alice Swann and Nancy Schmale, who lived in the Concord Park community inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of …
CONFERENCE REPORT: Early European Puppetry Studies Conference
Early European Puppetry Studies Conference. Yale University, Connecticut. October 13-14, 2023. The article summarizes the offerings at the two days of presentations at the Early European Puppetry Studies conference organized by Michelle Oing and Nicole Sheriko at Yale University in October of 2023. Participants from a wide range of disciplines, including Medieval Studies, Art History, and English, investigated how using puppetry studies as a lens could help shed new light on a variety of performative events from early Europe. In so doing, the event demonstrated the promise this research area holds as a new field of study. Claudia Orenstein, Theatre Professor at …
