Assistant Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman and Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer will both present public talks in November 2023 as part of the exhibit Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano / The American Dream at the Coconino Center for the Arts. His work is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the… Read more
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CCS Assistant Professor Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in September
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Implements of Dissent: Resisting Family Structures in the Noh” at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in September.
Abstract: The 14th century Nō plays Kanawa and Kinuta take as the subject matter marital relationships, betrayal, and abandonment. In Kanawa, husband takes a mistress, upon which his wife seeks to exact revenge by ritually transforming into… Read more
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies in August. Her paper analyzed michiyuki – travel sequences – in two “mad women” Noh plays arguing that depictions of travel and landscapes create symbolic language which articulates the protagonists’ frantic wandering as a… Read more
Congratulations to CCS Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Björn Krondorfer!
Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer was recently invited to the leadership of several organizations, including the Honorary Committee for the establishment of the Social Museum of Jewish History and Heritage of Kielce in Poland, the Board of Directors of the Genocide Awareness Week at Arizona State University, and… Read more