Day 3 / Tuesday, July 27, 3.30 - 5.00 pm

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Postdramatic Dramaturgies

Chair: Shannon Jackson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Michael Bachmann (University of Mainz, Germany):
  Against Itself. Postdramatic Theatre and the Politics of Modernism
• David Cregan (Villanova University, USA):
  Theatrical Etherialism and the Connotation of Performance
• Maria Helena Werneck (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
  The Reinvention of Modernity and the Theatre in Brazil

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Global Theatre History}
Modernization 1

Chair: Christopher Balme (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Melis Sulos (Bogazici University, Turkey):
  Theatrical Politics: The Use of European Music and Drama for the Ottoman "Modernization"
• Antonis Glytzouris (University of Crete, Greece):
  Between Modernism and Modernization: Early 20th Century Greek Theatre

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques}
Dancing Cultural Identities

Chair: Rachel Fensham (University of Surrey, UK)

• Johanna Laakkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  National vs. International: Early Modern Dance in Finland
• Chi-fang Chao (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan):
  "Indigenization of Modernity": Dance Performances of the Indigenous People in Post-Colonial Taiwan

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernism and Popular Culture}
Native Popular Culture – Lost and Found

Chair: Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Australia)

• Catherine Diamond (Soochow University, Taiwan):
  Modern and Contemporary Hybridity in Southeast Asian Theatre
• Emma Willis (University of Auckland, New Zealand):
  Lost in Our Own Land: Re-staging Cultural Loss as Blockbuster Tourism

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Ontologies of the Innovative}
Modern(ist) Theatre and Religion

Chair: Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

• Sharon Aronson-Lehavi (Bar Ilan University, Israel):
  Re-presenting the Sacrificial Figure in Avantgarde Theatre since Modernism
• Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):
  Redemption through Secular Re-invention. Modern Liturgical Drama in Sweden
• Peter Eversmann (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands):
  Religious Tendencies in the Modernist Project. The Amsterdam International Theatre Exhibition of 1922 and beyond

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Historiography (WG)}
Modernity, Modernism and Prejudice in Theatre Historiography

Chair: Jan Lazardzig (Free University Berlin, Germany)

• Thomas Postlewait (University of Washington, USA):
  The Function of the Ideas of Modernism and Modernity in Theatre History
• David Wiles (Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
  The Problem of Periodization
• Viktoria Tkaczyk (Free University Berlin, Germany):
  The Theatre and the Lecture Hall. A History within and across Modernity

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Theatre and Technological Innovation}
Transitions and Gaps: Inter-Media Relations

Chair: Andrew Lavender (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)

• William Worthen (Columbia University, USA):
  Postmodern, Posthuman, Postdramatic: A Postcard
• Hein Goeyens (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands):
  Addressing Media in Theatre
• Youngju Julie Baik (Chung-Ang University, Korea):
  Reformed Experience: The Mechanization of Performance Space

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Displacing (Post)Modernities

Chair: Charlotte Canning (University of Texas, USA)

• Gareth Evans (Aberystwyth University, UK):
  Positioning the "Post"': The Failed Modernisms of Welsh-Language Theatre
• Heike Gehring (Rhodes University, South Africa):
  Form(ing) Chaos

_{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}