Day 5 / Thursday, July 29, 8.30 - 10.00 am

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Play, Performance, Ritual and Politics

Chair: Anneli Saro (University of Tartu, Estonia)

• Bruce McConachie (University of Pittsburgh, USA):
  An Evolutionary Perspective on Play, Performance, and Ritual
• Barbara Orel (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia):
  Makrolab. Community Formation and the Mode of Information in Postindustrial Society
• Willmar Sauter (University of Stockholm, Sweden):
  Art Against the Law

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

Chair: Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick, UK)

• Mnena Abuku (Benue State University, Nigeria):
  New Styles in Contemporary Theatre
• Babatunde Allen Bakare (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa):
  Modernization of Nigerian Theatre Performances. Ogunde, Soyinka and Rotimi as References

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques}
Moving Out of the Modern: Corporeal Resistance and Generation of "Other" Bodies and Ambivalent Modernities (Part I)

Chair: Katherine Mezur (University of Washington, USA)

• Naomi Inata (Feelance Dance Critic, Japan):
  Changes in Ankoku-butoh Choreography at the Beginning of the 1970s: The Appearance of "Kata"and Disorganization of the Disciplined Body
• Hayato Kosuge (Keio University, Japan):
  The Making of Hijikata Tatsumi's Anti-modernist Idea: the Collaboration with Hosoe Eikoh
• Katherine Mezur (University of Washington, USA):
  Anti-Modern Girls: Japanese Women Butoh Artists and Their Explicit Bodies

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Ontologies of the Innovative}
Eastern European Theatre and the Challenge of the New

Chair: Christopher Balme (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Berenika Szymanski (LMU Munich, Germany):
  The Orange Alternative or The Riot of Dwarfs
• Jurgita Staniskyte (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  Strategies for Leaving Modernity: The Case of Lithuanian Theatre

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Modernism and Gender}
Performance (Studies) and Gender

Chair: Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK)

• Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford, UK):
  Women, Evolution, and Theatre
• Tiina Rosenberg (Lund University, Sweden):
  Gender and Sexuality in Meret Oppenheim's Performance Art

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
(Post)Modern Subject and Subjectivity

Chair: Aoife McGrath (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  On Language, Multiplicity, and Void: The Radical Politics of the Modernist Subject
• Wonjung Sohn (Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
  Beyond a Binary Frame: Chinese Aesthetics and an Alternative Concept of Representation
• Edgaras Klivis (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  Colonial Emotions: Eimuntas Nekrošius and Nostalgia in the Late Soviet Lithuanian 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}