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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Chinese Drama and Performance at the RMMLA 2013 (fwd)

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Chinese Drama and Performance at the RMMLA 2013 (fwd)


> H-ASIA
> February 2, 2013
>
> Call for papers: Chinese Drama and Performnce, Rocky Mountain Modern
> Language Association (RMMLA), Vancouver, Washington
> *****************************************************************
> Ed. note: It will be obvious to those with local knowledge, but it
> is probably helpful to remind readers that the RMMLA meeting is in
> the "other" Vancouver; Vancouver, Washington, just across the Columbia
> River from Portland, Oregon--the PDX airport is closer to Vancouver
> than to its namesake city. FFC
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Megan Ammirati <meammirati@ucdavis.edu>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
>
>
>
> Abstracts are currently being accepted for a Chinese Drama and
> Performance panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA. The 2013 conference will
> be held in Vancouver, Washington from October 10th to 12th.
>
> The field of Chinese drama is positioned at a crucial crossroads
> between the past and present, East and West. Beginning in the start
> of the 20th century, scholars have held up traditional theater as
> "national drama" (*guoju*), a cultural icon for the country's past.
> Modern drama, commonly called "spoken drama" (*huaju*), is defined
> as the genre of Chinese art that has been the most influenced by
> Western models. Borrowing from Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Strindberg,
> practitioners and researchers of modern theater describe *huaju* as
> inherently hybrid and global.
>
> A panel on Chinese drama and performance at the Rocky Mountain MLA in
> 2013 will question the validity of these common constructions.
> Participants will ask to what extent realism can be allied with
> modernity and whether history inevitably belongs to tradition. The
> included papers also point out that folk performances were still
> invested in innovation and reform while modern playwrights found value
> in conventions and stock character types. A probing look into the
> categories that make up Chinese drama will additionally provide
> scholars an opportunity to discuss to particular methodological
> approaches necessary for approaching performance-based materials.
>
>
>
>
> Please submit a proposal of no more than 250 words to Megan Ammirati
> (Meammirati@ucdavis.edu) by March 1, 2013. Notice of acceptance or
> rejection will be given by March 30, 2012.
>
> --
> Megan Ammirati
> Graduate Student
> Department of Comparative Literature
> University of California, Davis
> <meammirati@ucdavis.edu>
>
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For every action there is a reaction. Do you think karma applies to everyone in this world?
This is a very interesting thread.

I don't believe in "karma." I don't believe in doing good for blessings. I don't know what that means.

Life is very unfair. My "good" may very well be someone else's evil. Isn't that what we tell the tomcat on the way to the vet? It's for your own good?

Even the economist, the late Milton Friedman said, in today's world it is very difficult to do good. Who knows, it may even be impossible.

Life is simply mystery. No one can even guarantee that they will be here tomorrow. It's all very unfair and shrouded in layers of mystery.

Perhaps instead of looking for neat little answers, we should be pondering the big questions, perhaps still unanswered after thousands of years of speculation and debate? Perhaps we should not tell lies to our cats anymore?
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For every action there is a reaction. Do you think karma applies to everyone in this world?
Mahesh, Your arguments are boomeranging on you. Because you are using the term religion for values and darshan. Religion is understood in a very peculiar way by westerners. When we use the term religion for cultural values, they stamp us being superstitious and the values as dogmas.
I, too, agree that the theory of "Karma" can not be proved with the so called scientific tests. examples do not establish a theorem. "Karma Siddhant is darshan and adoptable value. Simply because it provides a divine phase to life. Let science disapprove it. Let it be termed as superstition. We shall adopt it.
I also request you to go through my comments on "NISHKAAM KARM" a value, superior to Karma siddhant.
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