Panel Discussion/Round Table and General Conversation on Intermedia and Japanese Traditional Arts
Indra Levy
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Stanford University
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
5:00–6:30 pm
Abstract: After the last presentation, we will wrap up the symposium with a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Indra Levy. The symposium starts out with an in-depth look at Noh as Intermedia — its creation and reception, followed by papers examining Hashitomi and Kokaji from perspectives as diverse as the canonical status to the very structure of these plays. The last panel of the symposium explores avenues by which Noh, and by extension, traditional performing art forms, could be transmitted and introduced to audiences within and beyond pedagogical setting.
The Noh concert at the first evening of the symposium highlights the very nature of Noh — a performance genre that can be better experienced and appreciated with an understanding of the multilayer media elements.
Papers presented at the symposium illustrate each presenter’s unique engagement with Japanese traditional performing forms and media. The closing roundtable will provide the valuable space where presenters and audience members engage with each other by sharing insights and discoveries and by answering questions. Attendees of the symposium are cordially invited to participate in the roundtable panel with questions and comments.
About the presenter: Indra Levy is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her publications include Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia University Press) and Translation in Modern Japan (Routledge). In 2022, she was named the inaugural recipient of the Irene Hirano Inouye Award for her contributions to Japan Studies.