WG Theatre Architecture

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1201}

Conveners: Arnold Aronson (Columbia University, USA), Frank J. Hildy (University of Maryland, USA)

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25

• Edna Nahshon (The Jewish Theological Seminary, USA):
  A Temple of Art on Second Avenue
• Cécilia Ferrari (Université de Caen, France):
  Architecture and the Avignon Festival 1947
• Juliet Rufford (University of Reading / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK):
  Giving Shape to the National. Theatre Architecture and the Forces of Modern Britian
• Denise de Alcantara-Hochbaum (Architect, New York, USA):
  Exploring New Ideas in Old Buildings. Teatro da Vertigem. Sao Paolo, Brazil
• David Grant (Queen’s University of Belfast, UK):
  Belfast's Old Museum Arts Centre. A Quarter of a Century of Lived Space
• Keren Zaiontz (University of Toronto, Canada):
  Site-Spectators on the Canadian Stage. Witnesses and Players
• Maya Nanitchkova Ozturk (Bilkent University, Turkey):
  Theatre? A Mode of Spatial Organization
• Rachel Hann (University of Leeds, UK):
  V. E. Meyerhold. Utopianism and Architecture

Day 2 / Monday, July 26

• Dhanajay Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India):
  The Aesthetics of the Theatre House (Ranga) According to the Natyashastra
• Cecil Thomas Ault (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA):
  Sacra Rapprasentazione. Sacred Plays and Ceremonies in 15th-Century Ferrara
• John Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia):
  Places for Playing Tennis, Baiting Bears and Making Theatre in 16th-Century Paris and London. Part I
• Tim Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney, Australia):
  Places for Playing Tennis, Baiting Bears and Making Theatre in 16th-Century Paris and London. Part II
• Natalie Tenner (University of Maryland, USA):
  Ludwig Tieck and the Rediscovery of Shakespearian Architecture
• Panayiota Konstantinakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece):
  An Original Version of the "Architectural Stage" in Interwar Greece
• Dave Peterson (University of Pittsburgh, USA):
  Shakespeare's Globe. Collisions of Past and Present in Contemporary Globe Performance
• Ildiko Solti (Middlesex University, UK):
  Experimenting with the Globe. Theatre Architecture as Research Instrument and Compositional Device

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}