Matthew Isaac Cohen

Full-time theatre professor and part-time dalang. Interested in puppets, Asian (particularly Indonesian) theatre & performance, arts & culture of Cirebon.

[Indonesian Embassy London @KBRILondon]

Beautiful collaboration @RoyalHolloway University...thank you pak Matthew Cohen and all the fascinating players...

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"Not Just a Collaboration" with visiting artists Lili Suparli & Achmad Farmis at RHUL on 25 May. https://t.co/JC150EBXhv @EventbriteUK

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@KeneIgweonu @Kasia_Lech -- thanks for coming to hear Jeremy and me speak on puppets from Indonesia and Japan today. Have reposted your pic.

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Speaking today on SE Asian shadow puppets at the British Museum. https://t.co/EE32SDVOwK

[Indonesian Embassy London @KBRILondon]

Beautiful collaboration of shadow puppet and gamelan @britishmuseum...bravo @isbibandung & @RoyalHolloway...@Portal_Kemlu_RI @MoazzamTMalik

[Karina Perez @_KarinaPerez]

Had an incredible #first #experience watching a #shadow #puppet #theatre #performance @britishmuseum #britishmuseum #indonesia @RHULDrama

[Puppet Notebook @PuppetNotebook]

We also launched @routledgebooks Companion to #puppetry w articles by @Rouge28Theatre @Matthew_I_Cohen @ellanOrnell http://t.co/Y6V4zo0V5T

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Speaking Thursday at University of Sussex on Shadow Puppetry and Its Global Reinventions http://t.co/5FU5wjuuX5 via @SussexUni

[British UNIMA @BritishUNIMA]

Thrilled that Gary Friedman @puppetrynews to speak on 21 May to @BritishUNIMA Puppet Research Group. Contact @Matthew_I_Cohen to book.

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Going to Wellcome Collection to see exhibit with b-floor, the experimental theatre collective from Bangkok. Will take workshop on Saturday.

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Wayang Golek "Dewi Gegurit" with Matthew Cohen,Marisa Sharon Hartanto: http://t.co/PZLG7bVhhj via @youtube

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J. Yeager: Francophonic writers desire to be understood by French, show that rational, capable. Self-affirmation thru colonizer's language.

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EUROSEAS 2013, Lisbon. Coffee break over..Jack Yeager now speaking on Rereading the Vietnamese Francophone Narrative Corpus.

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Ben Tran: Globalization of creative writing programmes and Anglophonic lit happening while comp lit folding up its tent. Levinas needed.

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Ben Tran (Vanderbilt) citing Iyer: people you might once have called Other are now in your neighborhood, in your bed, maybe even in yourself

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Art Mitchells-Urwin: Thai porn's low quality so American porn with generic Asian bodies dominates. constructed eroticism of passive body.

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Art Mitchells-Urwin (SOAS): Browsing for porn in Thailand one's blocked due to ‘national security’ with message ‘long live the king’.

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EUROSEAS, 2003, Lisbon. Art Mitchells-Urwin (SOAS) speaking about Thai pornography.

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EUROSEAS 2013, Lisbon. Drag artist Chen Chung Yun is speaking about kathoey (transsexual or transgender people) in contemporary Bangkok.

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Harrison: Levinas transcends academic trends, asking what it means to be in a world of difference & how to bring goodness into the world.