Day 3 / Tuesday, July 27, 5.00 - 6.30 pm

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Global Spaces / Urban Zones

Chair: Sabine Sörgel (Aberystwyth University, UK)

• Diana Looser (University of Queensland, Australia):
  Moving Islands. Charting Modern/ist Genealogies in Contemporary Pacific Transnational Performance
• Shannon Jackson (University of California, Berkeley, USA):
  Katrina's Aesthetics. Modernist Theatre in (De-)Modernized Spaces
• Ulf Otto (University of Hildesheim, Germany):
  Cosplays, Flashmobs, Livecasting. On Some Modern Prejudices Concerning Some not so Modern Theatrical Practices

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

Chair: Nic Leonhardt (LMU Munich, Germany)

• meLê Yamomo (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Staging Modernity: Western Classical Opera and Modernity/(ies) in South East Asia
• Anirban Gosh (LMU Munich, Germany):
  "Colonies of Contest": Lost and Found Histories of the Circus
• Gero Tögl (LMU Munich, Germany):
  The Bayreuth Festival and the Art of the Laboratory

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Choreography and Corporeality (WG)}
Specters of Modernism – Bodies, Democracies, Histories

Chair: Thomas F. DeFrantz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

• Yutian Wong (San Francisco State University, USA) and
  Jens Richard Giersdorf (Marymount Manhattan College, USA):
  Identity Politics and Universal Historiography
• Barbara Gronau (Free University Berlin, Germany):
  The Theatre of Ascetism – Restraint as Artistic Practice
• Lena Hammergren (University of Stockholm, Sweden):
  Dance, Democracy and Open Source Movement

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernism and Popular Culture}
Modernity, Tradition, Counter-Modernity in India and Pakistan

Chair: Farah Yeganeh (University of Quom, Iran)

• N.K. Chauhan (Sardar Patel University, India) and
  Vedkumari Patel (Freelance Artist and Researcher, India):
  Fusion of Modernity and Tradition in Bhavai – The Folk Theatre Form of Gujarat
• Vibha Sharma (Aligarh University, India):
  From "Cultures of Modernity" to Modernity of Culture: Critiquing the Vertical Shift in the Post Colonial Indian Aesthetics
• Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Montclair State University, USA):
  Counter-Modernity in Pakistani Popular Culture

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Ontologies of the Innovative}
(Post)Modern Theatre and the Transgression of the Body

Chair: Kimberly Jannarone (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

• Ruta Mazeikiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  Modern Acting Reconsidered. Legacy of Modern Acting Theories in Contemporary Performance
• Judith Rudakoff (York University, Canada):
  Body of Work: The Artist as Art
• Jade Rosina McCutcheon (University of California, Davis, USA):
  Modernism, Theatre, Consciousness and the Idea of "Self"

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Intermediality (WG, Discussion)}
Figuring Intermediality from the Perspective of Modernity

Chair: Sigrid Merx (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

Panel discussion participants:

• Klemens Gruber (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Chiel Kattenbelt (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
• Ralf Remshardt (University of Florida, USA)
• Marina Turco (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
• Kurt Vanhoutte (University of Antwerp, Netherlands)

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Politics and Identity

Chair: Gareth Evans (Aberystwyth University, UK)

• E. J. Westlake (University of Michigan, USA):
  Nationalism, Fascism, and Folk Drama in Nicaragua: The Vanguardia's  Appropriation of El Güegüence
• Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile):
  "Teatro testimonial" in Chile: Transitions at the Crossroads of Modern and Postmodern Aesthetics
• Avraham Oz (University of Haifa, Israel):
  Disavowing the Narrative: Hanoch Levin's Nomadic World

_{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}