WG Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

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

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 2U01}

Convener: Kurt Taroff (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

• Sam Bicknell (University of Birmingham, UK):
  Adaptation, not Appropiation. Cultural Memory and the New Mimesis in Wole Soyinka's Opera Wonyosi
• Catherine Bouko (University of Brussels, Belgium):
  Intercultural Postdramatic Directing. The Model of Intersemiotic Translation
• Alyson Campbell (Queen's University Belfast, UK):
  International Gayworld. The Unlikely Cultural Benefits of Translating Australian Thongs and Speedos to Belfast (in Winter)
• Arjun Ghosh (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, India):
  Sculpture / Scripture. Jana Natya Manch and Translating Plays Together
• Sarah Grochala (University of London, UK):
  The Eagle Rising From the Ashes. New Dramaturgical Approaches to the Translation of the Contemporary Text from Page to Stage in Polish Theatre
• Gad Kaynar (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
  Dramaturgical Transpositions Between Fidelity to the Source Text and to the Target Dramaturg as Text
• Kara McKechnie (University of Leeds, UK):
  Flawed Taxonomies. Opera Studies and Adaptation Studies
• Mary Ann O'Donnell (Lingnan University, China):
  Translation as Critical Practice. Making Theatre in Shenzhen
• Nicky Renault (University of Mainz, Germany):
  Acting Between Languages. A Case Study of the Performer in a Bilingual Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
• Jeannette Rissmann (University of Warwick, UK):
  Drama Translation Practices in German-Speaking Europe
• Tatyana Shestakov (York University, Canada):
  Theatre Translation as Intermarriage Between the Translator and the Actor
• Carole-Anne Upton (University of Ulster, UK):
  Modernism in the Maze. Translating Armand Gatti's Northern Ireland Plays for the Present Day
• Tomasz Wisniewski (University of Gdansk, Poland):
  Dramatic Text – Theatrical Performance. George Steiner's Concept of Restitution in Samuel Beckett and Complicite
• Jenny Wong (University of Glasgow, UK):
  Lost in Translation. Where Have all the Religious References Gone in China's Shakespeare?
• Roger Wooster (University of Wales, UK):
  Deproblematising Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Text and Pretextes for Changing Subtext
• Merita Zekovic (Queen's University Belfast, UK):
  Class Enemy. The Journey from Brixton to a Sarajevo Classroom

_{Please contact your convener for programme details.}