Day 6 / Friday, July 30, 3.30 - 5.00 pm

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

^{Room 1 (A 125)
MP: Genealogies and Legacies}
Modernizing Theatrical Spaces

Chair: Christine Hamon-Sirejols (Université de Paris III, France)

• Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK):
  The Modernist Stage at the Bauhaus
• Shauna Dobbie (University of Toronto, Canada):
  Suddenly There Were Stairs
• Martynas Petrikas (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):
  How to Stage Modernity. Images of the Society in Interwar Lithuanian Theatre

^{Room 2 (A 120)
Modernism Abroad}
Inter-Asian Perspectives of Modernity

Chair: Yasushi Nagata (Osaka University, Japan)

• Daniela Pillgrab (University of Vienna, Austria):
  Oscillating Between Stasis and Kinesis: Sergej Eisenstein Films Mei Lanfang – A Connection of Body Techniques and Media Techniques
• Michael Gissenwehrer (LMU Munich, Germany):
  The Hidden Discourse on Modernity in Olympic Ceremonies

^{Room 3 (A 119)
Film Presentation & Screening}
The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds (Part 2)

Zvika Serper (Tel Aviv University, Director, Israel):
A Presentation and Screening of The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds by S. Ansky. An Israeli Production using Traditional Japanese theatre aesthetics (in Hebrew with English Subtitles, 120 min.; with a Short Introduction, followed by a Q&A Session)

^{Room 5 (A 014)
MP: Music Theatre (WG)}
Decomposing Opera

Chair: Dominic Symonds (University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Pieter Verstraete (University of Exeter, UK):
  Modernizing "the Turk", or What is Turkish, Through Opera
• Tereza Havelková (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic):
  Czech Television Opera: A Modernist Project?
• Nicholas Till (University of Sussex, UK):
  Pop Star to Opera Star: High Art Lite
• Clemens Risi (Free University Berlin, Germany):
  Opera: Live – Fetishized – Mediatized

^{Room 6 (A 021)
MP: Pasts of Modernity}
Colonial Pasts – Global Modernities

Chair: Christine Matzke (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

• Gay Morris (University of Cape Town, South Africa):
  Breaks and Bifurcations: Modernities and Theatres in the City of Cape Town
• Connie Rapoo (University of Botswana, Botswana):
  Retraditionalized Soundtracks: Constructions of Botswanan Modernity

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

Chair: Katharina Pewny (University of Ghent, Belgium)

• Barbara Lewis (University of Massachusetts, USA):
  Minstrel Macbeth; or, Brutus Enduring
• Marina Kotzamani (University of Peloponnese, Greece):
  Lysistrata's Projects: Modern, Postmodern and on the Web
• Awo Mana Asiedu (University of Ghana, Ghana):
  Modernisation or Westernisation?: Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards and the Discourse on the Modernisation of Africa

_{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}