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Day 4 / Wednesday, July 28, 1.30 - 3.00 pm


New Scholars' Forum

Venue: LMU main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1


Room 1 (A 125)

Empowerment / Efficacy / Ethics

Chair: Janelle Reinelt (University of Warwick, UK)

  • Faustina Brew (University of Education Winneba, Ghana):
    The Mirror and its Image: Reflections for Change in Evelyn Anfu's Edibles and Disposables
  • Polash Larsen (University of Melbourne, Australia):
    Stories in the Kitchen: Performance in Domestic Spaces as Anti-modernist Activity
  • Danielle Szlawieniec-Haw (York University, Canada):
    Ethics of Representing Trauma


Room 2 (A 120)
Identity / Ethnicity

Chair: Anneli Saro (University of Tartu, Estonia)

  • Minka Paraskevova (Queen Margaret University, UK):
    Translating into Scots: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Dramatic Adaptations of Liz Lochhead
  • George Panaghi (City University of New York, USA):
    The Theatrical Unmodern: The Decline of New York City's Immigrant Theatre Culture
  • Sofia Varino (City University of New York, USA):
    Put Your Hand Inside My Wound: Posthuman Corporealities in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and Saints
  • Saul Garcia Lopez (York University, Canada):
    Do Global Markets Care about Race? Casting in Mainstream Theatre and Telenovelas in Mexico


Room 3 (A 119)

Modern Dance and Beyond

Chair: Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Australia)

  • Gillian Sneed (Stony Brook University, USA):
    Ways to Strength and Beauty: Modernism, Gender, and the Choreography of Leni Riefenstahl
  • Lotta Harryson (University of Stockholm, Sweden):
    Modernity Expressed in the Dance of a Swedish Lyrical Theatre in the mid-20th Century
  • Riikka Korppi-Tommola (University of Helsinki, Finland):
    Cultural and Stylistic Encounters in Finnish Modern Dance during the 1960s
  • Debanjali Biswas (University of London, UK):
    Her Body, Her Story and History: Situating Maibis in the Ritual-Performance of Lai Haraoba in Manipur


Room 4 (A 016)

Performing Cities

Chair: David Whitton (Lancaster University, UK)

  • Joao Carrolo (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands / University of Warwick, UK) and
    Victoria Mountain (University of Helsinki / University of Tampere, Finland / University of Warwick, UK):
    Negotiating the Negative: Inscribing Absence and Memory in the Contemporary City
  • Seojae Park (University of Bristol, UK):
    Tourist Gaze as Audience Experience in Venice
  • Dorothea Volz (University of Mainz, Germany):
    Staging Places – Staging Identity? Scenes of Venice at the End of the 19th Century
  • Jake Hooker (City University of New York, USA):
    The Berlin Moment: Displacement, Mythology, and Imagination in Expatriate(d) Performance


Room 6 (A 021)
Popular Performances and Folk Traditions

Chair: Stephen Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

  • Christina Ritter (University of Kentucky / for/word company – Artistic Director, USA),
    Christopher Roche (Ohio State University / for/word company – Artistic Associate, USA) and
    Jennifer Schlueter (University of Oregon / for/word company – Artistic Director, USA):
    Pasts of Modernity: The For/word Company and The Little Book
  • Mohammad Althaf (University of Hyderabad, India):
    Transforming Folk Game in to Theatre Games for Children – Encounters and Appropriations
  • Mathias Bremgartner (University of Bern, Switzerland):
    Hamlet Is Back and He Is Not Happy!


Room 8 (M 110)
Modernism / Anti-Modernism

Chair: Yasushi Nagata (Osaka University, Japan)

  • Sebastián Calderón Bentin (Stanford University, USA):
    Baroque Theatricality in Latin America
  • Matthew Yde (Ohio State University, USA):
    The Utopian Modernism of George Bernard Shaw
  • Francesca Spedalieri (Ohio State University, USA):
    Teatro Totale: The Future of Italian Futurism
  • Mark Swetz (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK):
    Blind Spectatorship: Non-Visual Accessibility and Modern Drama