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