Day 3 / Tuesday, July 27, 10.30 - 12.00 am

_{Venue: LMU main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1}

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Post/Modern Discourses 1

Chair: Hanna Järvinen (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland)

• Bettina Brandl-Risi (Free University Berlin, Germany):
  Perpetually Beating Records. Virtuosity Between Modernity and Post-Fordism
• Josef Bairlein (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Performance Beyond Modernity
• Marie Vandenbussche (Université de Poitiers / Université de Paris III, France):
  The Crisis of Representation in French Theatre Productions Today: Which are the Transitions from the Crisis of Drama at the End of the 19th Century to the Postmodern Context?

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Global Theatre History}
Global Theatre History: Concepts and Beginnings

Chair: Peter Marx (University of Bern, Switzerland)

• Christopher Balme (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Global Theatre History: Concepts and Paradigms
• Janne Risum (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
  Swapping Narratives of Theatrical History

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Scenography (WG)}
Spacing-out: Legacies of Modernity in Contemporary Scenographic Practice, an Impossible Survey

Chair: David Vivian (Brock University, Canada)

• Introduction: Brief Review of the SWG Meetings: Discourses and Discoveries
• Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida, USA):
  Modernism Reassessed: The Legacy of Modernist Aesthetic in Contemporary Theatre
• Natalie Rewa (Queen's University, Canada):
  "Breaking through the Blue Lampshade": Contemporary Scenographic Debts to Modernist Experiments

^{(followed by a directed Q&A)}

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernism and Popular Culture}
Eccentrics – Explosions – Urban Entertainment

Chair: Jim Davis (University of Warwick, UK)

• Jörg von Brincken (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Massacres, Anarchy and Explosions: Scenes of Destruction and Metaphors of Intensity from 19th-Century Popular Clown Theatre to Alfred Jarry
• Evelien Jonckheere (University of Ghent, Belgium):
  Spectacular Bodies between Play and Display: Bodymadness in Belgian Variety Theatre (1903)
• Nadja Thoma (University of Vienna, Austria):
  The modern City as a Stage for Hip-Hop Culture

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Ontologies of the Innovative}
The Promise of the New in the Old: From Modernist Ideals of Presence to Postmodernist Experiments in Remediation

Chair: Veronica Baxter (University of Warwick, UK)

• Kimberly Jannarone (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA):
  The Aftermath of the Artaudian Ideal of Presence in Modern Performance
• Liz Tomlin (University of Birmingham, UK):
  The Postdramatic Overlap: From Modernist Presence to Postmodernist Deconstruction
• Kara Reilly (University of Birmingham, UK):
  Re-mediating / Remaking: New and Old Spectres in American Adaptation

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
The Cold War's Performance Front (shifted panel)

Chair: Franziska Weber (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Anja Klöck (University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Germany):
  The Politics of Being on Stage – Actor Training in Germany 1947-1953
• Charlotte Canning (University of Texas, USA):
  Cold War Utopians: US Theatre and Internationalism, 1945-1965
• Hanna Korsberg (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  Performing Politics between East and West

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Theatre and Technological Innovation}
Stage Innovations and Modern Scenography

Chair: Sigrid Merx (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

• Stanley Longman (University of Georgia, USA):
  Stage Geography in the Modern Era
• Andreas Englhart (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Modern and Postmodern Director's Theatre – New Media in the Productions of Erwin Piscator and Frank Castorf
• Birgit Wiens (LMU Munich, Germany):
  The Performativity of Light: Transcultural Perspectives

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy (WG)}
Creativity, Fidelity, and Transformation

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

• Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland, Australia):
  Translating Metadrama to (Meta?)theatre
• Szabolcs Musca (University of Bristol, UK):
  Fragments on Stage: Translating and/or Adapting Woyzeck
• Katalin Trencsényi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary):
  The Devil in the Details

_{There are 14 Main Programme Topics:
Beyond Words / Composing the Modern / Genealogies and Legacies /
Global Theatre History / Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques / Modernism Abroad /
Modernism and Gender / Modernism and Popular Culture /
Modernization of Theatre Institutions / Ontologies of the Innovative /
Pasts of Modernity / Theatre and Technological Innovation /
Theatre for Development / Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}