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Amanda Shuman, Transnational and International: Athletes and sports networks in China under Mao

Date: 13 January 2021,18.00-19.00 UK time This International Sports' History and Culture (@ICSHC) research webinar is part of the Decolonising DMU project Dr Amanda Shuman is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She received her PhD in East Asian History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and researches the …

Ayanna Thompson, Arizona University – On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity

From the early modern period, actors have been praised for being "protean" when they perform cross-racial impersonations. This talk will think through that legacy and how virtuosity in acting is implicitly and explicitly racialized. Speaker Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) Biography Ayanna Thompson is director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona …