Day 4 / Wednesday, July 28, 3.30 - 5.00 pm

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Origins of English Dramatic Modernism

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (University of Lincoln, UK)

• Diane Dubois (University of Lincoln, UK):
  Studying Women's Contribution to English Modernist Theatre and Drama
• Kelly Jones (University of Lincoln, UK):
  Every Little Movement Has a Meaning of Its Own: Music Hall Performance and the Crises of Category in English Theatre Cultures, 1890-1914
• Benjamin Poore (University of York, UK):
  You Never Can Tell: Bernard Shaw's "Galvanic Laughter", Farce, and Modernism

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Modernism Abroad}
Modern Theatre in India

Chair: Ravi Chaturvedi (Indian Society for Theatre Research, India)

• Biplab Chakraborty (University of Burdwan, India):
  Tagore and His Modern Theatre: Essence and Aspects
• Tapati Gupta (Calcutta University, India):Negotiating Modernity: An Indian (Bengali) Adaptation of Ibsen's The Master Builder (shifted paper)

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques}
Modern Acting and Dance Techniques

Chair: David Fancy (Brock University, Canada)

• Claudia Case (City University of New York, USA):
  Innovators Despite Themselves: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Modernist Performance
• Mariko Okada (Centre de Recherche sur l'Extreme-Orient de Paris Sorbonne, France):
  Bodies Constructed in School Education

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernization of Theatre Institutions}
Autonomy of the Theatrical Field in Contemporary Europe

Chair: Peter Eversmann (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Joshua Edelman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  A Brief History of Theatrical Autonomy
• Ott Karulin (University of Tartu, Estonia):
  Preservation of Art-theatres in Estonia as an Outcome of Baseless Fear
• Quirijn van den Hoogen (University of Groningen, Netherlands):
  New Public Management: Non-aesthetic Criteria and Autonomy in Dutch Theatre Politics

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

Chair: Mitsuya Mori (Seijo University, Japan)

• Yuko Kurahashi (Kent State University, USA):
  Ping Chong and Modern Dystopia: Theatrical Works in the 1970s and 1980s
• John Andreasen (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
  Futures Revisited 2010

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre - A Panel Discussion

Speakers / Facilitators:

• Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and
• Jeanette Malkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Further panel discussion participants:

• Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer (LMU Munich, Germany),
• Marvin Carlson (City University of New York, USA),
• Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University Berlin, Germany),
• Peter Marx (University of Bern, Switzerland),
• Thomas Postlewait (University of Washington, USA)

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Asia-Pacific Modernities – Liquid Modernity in the Regional Theatre Space

Chair: Diana Looser (University of Queensland, Australia)

• Barbara Hatley (University of Melbourne, Australia):
  Indonesian Modernity on Stage
• Chris Hudson (University of Melbourne, Australia):
  Performing Liquid Modernity: Chay Yew's Visible Cities
• Denise Varney (University of Melbourne, Australia):
  New and Liquid Modernities in the Regions of Australia

_{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}