Event Title
Brief Scholarly Presentations 1
Location
Hart 116
Start Time
16-5-2013 11:45 AM
End Time
16-5-2013 12:15 PM
Description
Voices of Actors Performing on Stage over Several Decades
Dr. Minae Savas
Noh and Kyogen, traditional theater arts of Japan, were fully established as all-male performance arts in the fourteenth century. Medieval playwrights created their librettos with the assumption that male actors would be performing all roles, including those of female characters. In performances of Noh and Kyogen, the dichotomy of male versus female should be thus challenged, questioned, and redefined. With the help of a FLRG, I was able to interview two prominent professional actors; Nobumoto Ando, a 78-year old Kyogen actor, and Ken Mikata, an 81 year-old Noh actor. My interviews focused on how contemporary performers interpret medieval scripts on the theme of femininity in general, of feminine madness in particular. I sought their insights about what they bring to their interpretation of these librettos of medieval provenance and how male performers represent female roles in Noh and Kyogen.
Men Accessing and Learning to Engage in Health Enhancing and Learning Programs (M.A.L.E. H.E.L.P.)
Dr. James Leone
Men have everything including the highest death rates in 9 out of the 10 leading causes of death ranging from cancer and heart disease to unintentional injuries (accidents) and suicide. Many of these illnesses are preventable; however, many males do not have a consistent source of health care nor do they access health care in a timely or frequent manner to prevent these outcomes. There are many postulates as to why men avoid accessing health care, but these are mainly subjective. There remains a dearth of empirical and conceptual literature exploring and confirming this phenomenon. Having a comprehensive, theoretically sound and empirically tested model as to what precludes men from accessing preventative health care enables allied health professionals to devise more targeted and cost effective preventative programming improving overall health related quality of life in men. This research presents a theoretical model and qualitative data to support the model.
Brief Scholarly Presentations 1
Hart 116
Voices of Actors Performing on Stage over Several Decades
Dr. Minae Savas
Noh and Kyogen, traditional theater arts of Japan, were fully established as all-male performance arts in the fourteenth century. Medieval playwrights created their librettos with the assumption that male actors would be performing all roles, including those of female characters. In performances of Noh and Kyogen, the dichotomy of male versus female should be thus challenged, questioned, and redefined. With the help of a FLRG, I was able to interview two prominent professional actors; Nobumoto Ando, a 78-year old Kyogen actor, and Ken Mikata, an 81 year-old Noh actor. My interviews focused on how contemporary performers interpret medieval scripts on the theme of femininity in general, of feminine madness in particular. I sought their insights about what they bring to their interpretation of these librettos of medieval provenance and how male performers represent female roles in Noh and Kyogen.
Men Accessing and Learning to Engage in Health Enhancing and Learning Programs (M.A.L.E. H.E.L.P.)
Dr. James Leone
Men have everything including the highest death rates in 9 out of the 10 leading causes of death ranging from cancer and heart disease to unintentional injuries (accidents) and suicide. Many of these illnesses are preventable; however, many males do not have a consistent source of health care nor do they access health care in a timely or frequent manner to prevent these outcomes. There are many postulates as to why men avoid accessing health care, but these are mainly subjective. There remains a dearth of empirical and conceptual literature exploring and confirming this phenomenon. Having a comprehensive, theoretically sound and empirically tested model as to what precludes men from accessing preventative health care enables allied health professionals to devise more targeted and cost effective preventative programming improving overall health related quality of life in men. This research presents a theoretical model and qualitative data to support the model.