WG Asian Theatre

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

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1210}

Conveners: Mitsuya Mori (Seijo University, Japan), Yasushi Nagata (Osaka University, Japan)

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25

• Kirstin Pauka (University of Hawaii, USA):
  Changing Gender Roles in Indonesian Theatre
• Kaori Okado (Osaka City University, Japan):
  When Women are Kings. Cross-Gendered Expression in All-Female Central Javanese Court Dance Drama and its Public Reception
• Shoko Yonaha (University of Ryukyus, Japan):'
  Identity and Ideology in Modern Okinawa as seen in the Play Saraba Fukushu Ryukyukan (Good-bye Fujian Ryukyu Consulate) and Shurijo Akewatashi (Surrender of Shuri Castle) from the Period of Annexation by Japan in 1879
• Masae Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan):
  How Can Noh/Kyogen Contribute to Shakespeare Productions, and How Can Shakespeare Contribute to Indigenous Theatre in Asia?
• Elzbieta Koldrzak (University of Lódz, Poland):
  Indian Traditional Topos of the Womanhood in the Heroine of Classical Drama
• Ming Yang (University of Hawaii, USA):
  Women on Asian Stage, But not Female. A Study of Mei Lan Fan and Tamasaburo Bando

Day 2 / Monday, July 26

• Meewon Lee (Kyung-Hee University, Korea):
  The Possible Creation of a Far Eastern Intercultural Theatrical Block. The Joint Production of The Story of Choonhyang by China, Korea and Japan
• Boris Daussà-Pastor (The Graduate Center / Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA):
  Traditions on the Plane. Where is Kathakali Travelling Today?
• Peter Eckersall (University of Melbourne, Australia):
  Cine-Dance and the Radical Politics of Intermedia Space in 1960s Japan
• Paul Rae (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore):
  Dance in the Time of the Swine Flu
• Lim How Ngean (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore):
  The Tradition will be Televised. The Modern Dance Dramas of Aznanin Ahmad
• Mitsuya Mori (Seijo University, Japan):
  Bilingual Inter-Asian Performances in Japan
• Yasushi Nagata (Osaka University, Japan):
  Asian Performances in Contemporary Japanese Theatre

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}