Day 6 / Friday, July 30, 10.30 - 12.00 am

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

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

Chair: Nina Hein (American University, Dubai)

• Riitta Pohjala-Skarp (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  The Genealogy of Modern Tragedy – Büchner's Early Alternative
• Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
  Ham Funerals. Patrick White in the Theatre
• Maria Ignatieva (Ohio State University, USA): Reversing Hauptmann:
  The Lonely Lives at the Moscow Art Theatre

^{Room 2 (A 120)
MP: Modernism Abroad}
Dramaturgy Abroad and Back: Transnational Reflections on a Modern Western Theatre Paradigm – A Curated Discursive Panel Discussion

Curators and Facilitators:

• Peter M. Boenisch (University of Kent, UK),
• Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner (University for Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria),
• Katharina Pewny (University of Ghent, Belgium):

Dramaturgies in-between East and West: Exchanges, Instances, Methodologies

Lecture:
Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (Wesleyan University, USA):
Dramaturgy and Anthropofagy at Work in Cia. dos Atores

Further panel discussion participants:
Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Jung-Soon Shim (Soongsil University, Korea)

^{Room 3 (A 119)
MP: Modern Bodies, Modern Techniques}
Puppets, Puppeteers and (Post)Modernity

Chair: meLê Yamomo (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Anton Krueger (Rhodes University, South Africa):
  Woyzeck on the Highveld: Revising a Prototype
• Bhanbhassa Dhubthien (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand):
  The Use of "The Method" in the Modernisation of the Grand Shadow Theatre (Nang Yai)

^{Room 4 (A 016)
MP: Beyond Words}
(De)Colonizing Words & (Re)Evolving Language

Chair: A. Gabriela Ramis (University of Washington, USA)

• Jean Graham-Jones (City University of New York, USA):
  Ricardo Monti's Mobile Modernities: From A South American Passion-Play to Finland and Back
• Olga Muratova (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA):
  In a Globalizing World, Dumb Shows Aren't so Dumb: Slava's Snowshow and Fuerza Bruta Performances in New York
• Chinenye Amonyeze (University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria):
  African Drama: A Story Told in a Storyteller's Form
• Adrian Curtin (Northwestern University, USA):
  The Artificial Language Movement and the Modernist Theatrical Avant-Garde

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Composing the Modern}
Modern Music Theatre and Politics

Chair: Clemens Risi (Free University Berlin, Germany)

• Friedemann Kreuder (University of Mainz, Germany):
  German Art and German Politics. Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867) in the Age of a Risky Modernity
• Jukka von Boehm (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  The Dominance of Choir in Wagner's Lohengrin in Wilhelminian Germany and in the Third Reich
• Claudia Wier (Eastern Michigan University, USA):
  Hans Krasa, Avant-garde Internationalism, and the Lehrstück Brundibár

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
Tradition of Form

Chair: Peter Eckersall (University of Melbourne, Australia)

• Shu-Mei Wei (Ching-Yun University, Taiwan):
  Beyond the Now and Here: A Case Study of A Dream Like a Dream
• Anna Stecher (LMU Munich, Germany):
  From China to Europe – in One Circle. On the Living Memories Project by Tian Mansha, Ke Jun and Wu Hsing-kuo and Contemporary Experimental Forms of Traditional Chinese Opera
• Akihiro Odanaka (Osaka City University, Japan) and
  Masami Iwai (Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, Japan):
  Imaginary Revenge on State: A Margin of Individuality on the Threshold of Modernizing Japan

^{Room 7 (A 213)
MP: Modernism and Gender}
Female Leading Figures of Modernity

Chair: Birgit Wiens (LMU Munich, Germany)

• Anna Sica (University of Palermo, Italy):
  An Evidence of Modernity: Eleonora Duse's Library
• Katharine Cockin (University of Hull, UK):
  History, Gender and Translation: Edith Craig, the Pioneer Players and the Religious Play
• Lesley Ferris (Ohio State University, USA):
  Modernity's Performance of Female Character

^{Room 8 (M 110)
MP: Transitions from Modernism to Postmodernism}
Dance between Modernism and Postmodernism

Chair: Wolf-Dieter Ernst (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

• Christel Stalpaert (University of Ghent, Belgium):
  Re-enacting Modernity: Fabian Barba's A Mary Wigman Dance Evening (2009)
• Aino Kukkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland):
  Possible Postmodern Places in Reijo Kela's Dances
• Aoife McGrath (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  "Dead Flesh" Dancing: Death, Hope and Verticality in Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre's Giselle (2003) and The Rite of Spring (2009)

_{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}