WG Historiography

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

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 2401}

Conveners: Jim Davis (University of Warwick, UK), Jan Lazardzig (Free University Berlin, Germany), Yael Zarthy-Levo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25

• Rainer Godel (University of Halle, Germany):
  "One Small Favorite Prejudice"? How 18th-Century Philosophy Instrumentalized the Critique of Prejudices
• Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA):
  Modernity as Antitheatrical Prejudice. Interrogating the Notion of "Verbürgerlichung" in 18th-Century German Theatre
• Rosemarie Bank (Kent State University, USA):
  Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Theatre and Prejudice in 19th-Century America
• Jim Davis (University of Warwick, UK):
  Proud and Prejudice. The Impact of Modernism and Modernity on European Theatrical Representations of and in India in the mid- to late 19th and early 20th Century
• Robin C. Whittaker (University of Toronto, Canada):
  Prejudices of Professionalization in Theatre Historiography
• John Carnwath (Northwestern University, USA):
  Theatre Enterprise in Modern Economy

Day 2 / Monday, July 26

• Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota, USA):
  Modernity as Prejudice. Commerce and Real Abstractions in 18th-Century London
• Sarit Cofman-Simhon (Kibbutzim College, Israel):
  Exagoge by Ezekiel of Alexandria, and the Modern Rhetoric of Jewish Theatre
• Mary Caulfield and Stephen E. Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  Monuments and Landscapes in the Performance of the Nation
• Pirkko Koski (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  A Folk Play Challenging the National Theatre to Defend its Cultural Image. How to Break the Canon Created by Modern Historiographical Tradition?
• Ioulia Pipinia (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece):
  New Rules, Old Dilemmas. Shaping a Historiography Canon for Modern Greek Theatre
• Svein Gladsø (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway):
  The Role of Audience Reception in the Construction of Historical Narratives

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}