Temporal Shifts is a daylong symposium that brings together scholars, artists, and curators to discuss questions of temporality in time-based art forms such as cinema, sound, dance, and performance across China and Taiwan. Taiwanese playwright/director/filmmaker Stan Lai will deliver the closing keynote.

Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-Chuan) earned his Ph.D. in Dramatic Arts at UC Berkeley in 1983 and is the author of thirty plays and a best-selling book on creativity. He has received Taiwan’s National Arts Award twice and has been inducted into the Chinese Theater Hall of Fame. Lai is a 2013 Avenali Resident Fellow in the Departments of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies.

Free and open to the public.

Event Contact: ucb_arts@berkeley.edu