Day 4 / Wednesday, July 28, 10.30 - 12.00 am

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Ideologizing Greek Tragedy

Chair: Stephen E. Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Denis Poniz (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia):
  Aeschylus' Oresteia and the Notion of Body and Spirit in Communism
• Hana Worthen (Columbia University, USA):
  Casting Humanism in Postwar Finland. Arvi Kivimaa's 1968 Antigone
• Idlikó Sirató (National Széchény Library / Hungarian Dance Academy Budapest, Hungary):
  Modernity of Ancient Myths on Stage

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Asian Theatre (WG)}
Focus on 1916: Asian-Western Modernist Interactions

Chair: Mitsuya Mori (Seijo University, Japan)

• Chua Soo Pong (Chinese Opera Institute, Singapore):
  The New Opera of Mei Lan Fang in Shanghai, 1916
• Matthew Isaac Cohen (Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
  An Evening of Indies Art. Performing Indonesia in Colonial Holland
• Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (University of California, Los Angeles, USA):
  Itō Michio and the Crucible of 1916

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques}
Actor Pedagogy and Kinesthetic Imagination. Revisiting Modern Psychophysical Heritage

Chair: Pauliina Hulkko (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland)

• Esa Kirkkopelto (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland):
  Actor's Art in Modern Times – A Pedagogical Attempt to Re-invent Performing Body
• Petri Tervo (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland):
  Figures of Physicality: Actor Pedagogy and the Kinesthetic Movement
• Marja Silde (University of Helsinki / Theatre Academy of Helsinki, Finland):
  Performing Habitus

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernization of Theatre Institutions}
Company Case Studies

Chair: Graham Saunders (University of Reading, UK)

• Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK):
  Modernism, Modernity and Modernisation in the British Urban Context: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Challenge of Convergence
• Meredith Rogers (La Trobe University, Australia):
  The Mill Community Theatre Company 1976 - 1984: A Study in Provincial Modernity
• Nagesh V. Bettakote (Bangalore University, India):
  Theatre Troups in the Development of Kannada Theatre (India)

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Theatre Architecture (WG)}
Documenting Modernity

Chair: Stanley Longman (University of Georgia, USA)

• Dorita Hannah (Massey University, New Zealand):
  Absolute, Abstract & Abject: Event-Space of the Historical Avant-Garde
• Dominique Lauvernier (Université de Caen, France):
  The SCENOVIRTUEL Laboratory: Rebuilding Lost Stage Decorations and Theatres
• Frank J. Hildy (University of Maryland, USA):
  Report on the Theatre Finder Project

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
Tradition – Own and Other

Chair: Meike Wagner (LMU Munich, Germany)

• N.P. Ashley (University of Hyderabad, India):
  Roots Constructed: Modernist Theatre, Third World Native Elite and Indigenous Spectator in Kerala
• Jean Graham-Jones (City University of New York, USA):
  Ricardo Monti's Mobile Modernities: From A South American Passion-Play to Finland and Back

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Theatre and Technological Innovation}
Liveness & Techno-Corporeality

Chair: Johan Callens (Free University Brussels, Belgium)

• Jaqueline Rodrigues de Souza (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
  Universe Performance: Practice as Research Into Movable and Under Suspicious Territories
• Franziska Weber (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Feeling Live
• Joel Anderson (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK):
  Capturing Stillness in Corporeal Mime: the Photography of Etienne Bertrand Weill

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Cross Cultural Mise-en-Scène

Chair: Meike Wagner (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Ravi Chaturvedi (Indian Society for Theatre Research, India):
  King Lear with Happy Ending: A New Cultural Construct
• Satyabrata Rout (University of Hyderabad, India):
  Shifting of Focus in Post-modern Indian Theatre: Breaking the Boundary of Text
• Yuh Jhung Hwang (Leiden University / LIAS, Netherlands):
  A Mad Mother and her Dead Son: The Impact of the Irish Dramatic Movement in Early Modern Korean Theatre

_{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}