MENACASEA 2025
Third Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, Central Asia and South East Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts
Organisers:
Anthony Shay
Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies at Pomona College. He holds a PhD in Dance History and Theory. His most recent publication: Folk Dance and the Construction of National Identities: Staging the Folk (Palgrave Macmillan), is due in May 2023. He is editor and contributor to Dance in the Persianate World: History Aesthetics, and Performance, (Mazda Publishers) due in Spring 2023
Robin Dougherty
Roberta L. Dougherty is the Librarian for Middle East Studies at the Yale University Library. She has numerous presentations and publications on a variety of topics to her credit, from the histories of Arabic printing, American Orientalism, and U.S. collections of Islamic manuscripts, to the social construction of performance and the expressive arts in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt.
Shahrzad Khorsandi
Shahrzad Khorsandi is an Iranian-American choreographer (BA in Dance; MA in Creative Arts). Artistic director of Shahrzad Dance Company, she teaches and performs internationally. Author of The Art of Persian Dance, she is also a member of an international research team, studying the effects of dance on the brain.
Katia Chaterji
Katia Chaterji is an interdisciplinary scholar of Muslim Southeast Asia, and her research centers the shared histories between Islam and the performing arts in Sumatra, Indonesia. Influenced by her classical Odissi dance training, she engages with dance ethnography, oral history, and archival methods in the field to situate an embodied archive of Islamic performing arts. She received her PhD in History from the University of Washington and is an Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University.
María Faidi
PhD Dance
University of Chichester UK
Specialised in belly dance history and aesthetics (raks al-sharki). Egyptian Golden Era Cinema during the colonial modernity period. Other fields of study: Postcolonial Sociology, Pierre Bourdieu, Popular Cinema, Screendance, Egyptian History (19th and 20th centuries), Performing Arts and Cultural Industries of the Middle Eastern and the Mediterranean Area.
MA Political Science Universidad Complutense Madrid SPAIN
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