KEY PASSAGES TALK: THE MAKING OF GHOST VILLAGE: ACROSS THE BORDERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, SCHOLARSHIP AND OPERA

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

McCune Conference Room

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Judith T. Zeitlin, Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, will explore the creation of Ghost Village, an experimental opera based on a ghost story from Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi. The project is a collaboration between scholar and librettist Judith Zeitlin and composer Yao Chen, a Beijing-based professor trained in Chicago.