Day 5 / Thursday, July 29, 1.30 - 3.00 pm

New Scholars' Forum

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)}
Brecht's Legacy

Chair: Balakrishnapillai Anandhakrishnan (University of Hyderabad, India)

• Christine Korte (York University, Canada):
  Vivifying the Contradictions: Ongoing Processes of Struggle in Contemporary Political Performance Praxis
• Lara Stevens (University of Melbourne, Australia):
  The Politics of Aesthetics: Brechtian Dialectics in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
• Olga Kekis (University of Birmingham, UK):
  Brecht Adapts Antigone: How Sophoclean Tragedy and Brechtian Epic Theatre Can Go Hand in Hand
• Arora Swati (University of Warwick, UK):
  Street Theatre in Delhi: Traditions and New Perspectives

^{Room 2 (A 120)}
American Feminisms

Chair: Gay Morris (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

• Pamela Decker (Ohio State University, USA):
  Chicago and Machinal: Two Modernist Plays as Postmodern Predictions of Gender
• Vivien Aehlig (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany):
  Subjectivity and Postmodern Panic in Johanna Went's Performance Art
• Melissa Lee (Ohio State University, USA):
  The Royal Family: American Parody in the Age of Terrible Honesty
• Ian Pugh (Ohio State University, USA):
  Feminism and the Fight for Control of Gender Identity in Sophie Treadwell's Machinal

^{Room 3 (A 119)}
Bodies / Corporealities

Chair: Hanna Korsberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Haruka Noda (Osaka City University, Japan):
  Butoh and Corporeal Mime: Alternative Thoughts on the Modern Concept of the Body
• Lonneke van Heugten (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands / University of Warwick, UK) and
  Jocelyn Chng (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands / University of Tampere, Finland):
  Dancing around Femininity: Between Self-Exoticism and Self-Expression
• James Lange (University of Calgary, Canada):
  Degeneration, Eugenics, and Industrialization in Elizabeth Robins' and Florence Bell's Alan's Wife (1893)
• Jasmin Binder (LMU Munich, Germany):
  BodyImageMediaWorlds

^{Room 4 (A 016)}
Theatrical Institutions and their Contexts

Chair: Christina Nygren (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

• Joscha Chung (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan):
  Cultural Elitism and the Birth of Chinese Spoken Drama: Wang Zhongsheng and his Tongjian School
• Asta Petrikiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  Subsidized Theatre: Precondition for Modernization or Conflicting Interests
• Satu-Mari Korhonen (Theatre Academy / University of Helsinki, Finland):
  Modifying Conventional Practices – A Narrative Construction of Meeting the Difficulties in an Institutional Theatre
• Natalia Alejandra Sanchez Muñoz (Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg / University of Los Lagos, Chile):
  Modernization of Theatre Institutions in Chile

^{Room 6 (A 021)}
Adaptation: Crossing Genres and Cultures

Chair: Farah Yeganeh (University of Quom, Iran)

• Justin Poole (University of Maryland, USA):Toxic Dreams and "the McDonalds Avant-Garde": Europe's New Fringe Aesthetic
• Magdalena Zorn (LMU Munich, Germany):
  The LICHT Opera Cycle: About the Roots of Spiritual Music in Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Emer O'Toole (Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
  Translation and Agency: A Study of Pan Pan Theatre Company's The Playboy of the Western World
• Monica van der Haagen-Wulff (University of Technology Sydney, Australia):
  Dancing in the Contact Zone

^{Room 8 (M 110)}
Postmodern Aesthetics

Chair: Sophie Proust (Université de Lille, CNRS/ARIAS Paris, France)

• Joy Kristin Kalu (Free University Berlin, Germany):
  Theatricality and Repetition: How the Modern Notion of Repetition Paved the Way for a Postmodern Aesthetic
• Denis Leifeld (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany):
  Performing Postmodernism
• Nora Niethammer (LMU Munich, Germany):
  Dramaturgic Characteristics of the Plays by René Pollesch
• Michael Anderson (City University of New York, USA):
  Performance Theory: Benjamin and Phelan