Day 5 / Thursday, July 29, 10.30 - 12.00 am

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Brechtian Legacies

Chair: Matthew Isaac Cohen (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

• Silvija Jestrovic (University of Warwick, UK):
  Seeing Better. Modernist Legacy and its Modifications
• Paola Botham (University of Worcester, UK):
  The Persistence of Modernity. Brenton's Return to Brecht
• William Farrimond (University of Waikato, New Zealand):
  From Kolkhoz to Iwi: Revalidating Brecht in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Modernism Abroad}
African Perspectives

Chair: Awo Mana Asiedu (University of Ghana, Ghana)

• Samuel Ravengai (University of Cape Town, South Africa):
  "Unhappily, we are Afraid of it": Modernism as Deracination on the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Stage
• Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick, UK):
  Modernism under Apartheid
• Jacques Raymond Fofié (University of Yaoundé, Cameroon):
  Cultures of Modernity in Africa: Revivals of Cameroon and African Culture in Drama/Theatre and the Fight Against Cultural Imperialism

^{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 II)

Chair: Katherine Mezur (University of Washington, USA)

• Ya-Ping Chen (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan):
  Pre-Modern? Anti-Modern? A Comparative Study of Japanese Butoh and Taiwanese Body-Mind-Soul Dance
• Manabu Noda (Meiji University, Japan):
  The Ambivalent Modernity of Hijikata and Ninagawa in Japan of the 1960s
• Ivy I-chu Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan):
  Negotiating Modernity in the Interstices between the Japanese Body and the Western Canon: Tadashi Suzukis Cyrano de Bergerac

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Modernization of Theatre Institutions}
Theatre Politics and Institutional Logics (panel fusion)

Chair: Joshua Edelman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Balakrishnapillaki Anandhakrishnan (University of Hyderabad, India):
  Nationalism and Modernity – Theatre Institutions in Post Colonial India
• Ina Pukelyte (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  Crisis of "Art Theatre" in Postsoviet Lithuania
• Bianca Michaels (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Transformations of German Public Theatre in the Second Modernity
• Christopher Vorwerk (Yale School of Drama, USA / LMU Munich, Germany): Managing for Quality – But What is Quality?!

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Ontologies of the Innovative}
Kantorian Legacies

Chair: Anja Klöck (University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Germany)

• Bryce Lease (University of Bristol, UK):
  Modernism and the Excremental Object
• Mara Stylianou (University of Athens, Greece):
  Tadeusz Kantor – The Theatre of Transgression: Event & Freedom
• Magda Romanska (Emerson College, USA):
  The "Poor" Theatre of Kantor and Grotowski

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
Historicising the Spectacle. Crises of Modernity in the 19th Century

Chair: Gad Kaynar (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

• Kati Röttger and Alexander Jackob (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands):
  On Reproduction and Revolution: Issues of Crisis and Confusion in the Opera Der Freischütz
• Bram van Oostveldt (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Stijn Bussels (University of Groningen / University of Leiden, Netherlands):
  Immersion / Spectacle / Modernity: Old Antwerp at the Antwerp World Exhibition of 1894 and the Past as Living Presence Experience
• Jörn Etzold (University of Giessen, Germany):
  "Credibility" and Spectacle

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Modernism and Gender}
Dance, Gender and (Post)Modernity

Chair: Fintan Walsh (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Stefanie Watzka (University of Mainz, Germany):
  Dressing up for Modernity? Eleonora Duse between Corset and the Rational Dress Movement
• Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK):
  Modernity, War and Precarious Life
• Yin-ying Huang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan):
  Gender, Moving Bodies, and Choreographies of the Visual: Taiwanese Post-modern Feminist Dance Theatre Works Inspired by Western Literature

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Gertrude Stein & the Drama of Modernism

Chair: David Whitton (Lancaster University, UK)

• Christopher Innes (York University, Canada):
  Cocteau, Stein, LeComte, Wilson, Lepage – the Modernist Roots of Contemporary Theatre
• Brigitte Bogar (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):
  Virgil Thomas to John Cage: Gertrude Stein and Post/modernist Music
• Annabel Rutherford (York University, Canada):
  "Snake Hips to Gothic" - Movement and Art in Four Saints in Three Acts

_{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}