DRAFT SCHEDULE 19 June 2021

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IFTR Draft Schedule

This document provides the provisional schedule for IFTR Galway 2021.

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We look forward to seeing you soon!

Miriam Haughton, Marianne Kennedy, Patrick Lonergan, Charlotte McIvor, Ian Walsh IFTR 2021 conference organising team, National University of Ireland, Galway

Document Contents

Outline Schedule 2 General Panels 5 New Scholars Forum 25 Working Groups 37

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Day 1 – Monday 12 July

09.00 – WG1: 13 x Working Groups 10.15

11.00 – WG2: 13 x Working Groups 12.30

13.15 – WG3: 13 x Working Groups 14.30

15.15 – WG4: 11 x Working Groups 16.45

Opening & Plenary

Welcome: Patrick Lonergan, Elaine Aston 17.00 – 18.45 Presentation of New Scholars’ Prizes by Bishnupriya Dutt

Plenary Lecture: Chantal Bilodeu: “Interconnectedness on Stage” Chair: Marianne Kennedy

18.45 Evening entertainment (videoed performance will go live and stay onwards online for 24 hours)

Day 2 – Tuesday 13 July.

12.00-13.00 Book launches (12.00-12.30, 12.30-13.00)

13.00 – GP1: 12 x General Panels 14.15

15.00 – GP2: 12 x General Panels 16.15

17.00 – NSF1: 12 x New Scholars Forum 18.15

19.00 – WG5: 12 x Working Groups 20.30

21.15 – WG6: 11 x Working Groups 22.30 3

20.00 Evening entertainment (videoed performance will go live and stay onwards live for 24 hours)

Day 3 – Wednesday 14 July

09.00 – NSF2: 10 x New Scholars Forum 10.15

Plenary 2: Denise Varney, ‘Caught in the Anthropocene: Theatre and 10.30 – Ecology in the Global South’ 12.00 Chair: Ian Walsh

12.45 – WG7: 13 x Working Groups 14.00

14.45 – WG8: 13 x Working Groups 16.15

16.30 – Book launch 17.00

17.00 – GP3: 12 x General Panels 18.15

Plenary: Mojisola Adebayo in conversation 18.30 With Justine Nakase

19.30 Working Group convenors meeting

19.30 Evening entertainment (videoed performance will go live and stay onwards live for 24 hours)

Day 4 – Thursday 15 July

Book launch 12.00-12.30

13.00 – NSF3: 9 x New Scholars Forum 14.15

15.00 – WG9: 11 x Working Groups 16.15 4

17.00 – WG10: 12 x Working Groups 18.15

19.00 – GP4: 11 x General Panels + NSF Professionalisation Workshop I 20.30

21.15 – Gp5: 11 x General Panels + NSF Professionalisation Workshop II 22.30

20.00 – Evening entertainment (videoed performance will go live and stay onwards live for 24 hours)

Day 5 – Friday 16 July

09.00 – WG11: 11 x Working Groups 10.15

11.00 – WG11: 12 x Working Groups 12.30

13.15 – GP6: 10 x General Panels + NSF Professionalisation Workshop III 14.30

15.15 – NSF4 Caucus 16.45

Plenary & Closing

Presentation by IFTR 2022 hosts Closing remarks: Charlotte McIvor, Elaine Aston 17.00 – 18.30 Plenary Lecture: Brian Singleton “Standing by Small Acts of Citizenship: Contemporary Irish Theatre at the Faultlines of Social Change” Chair: Miriam Haughton

Evening entertainment (videoed performance will go live and stay 18.30 – tba live for 24 hours)

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General Panels

GP1 – Tuesday 13.00 to 14.15 GP2 – Tuesday 15.00 to 16.15 GP3 – Wednesday 17.00 – to 18.15 GP4 – Thursday 19.00 – 20.15 GP5 – Thursday 21.00 – 22.15 GP6 – Friday 13.15 to 14.30

GP1 Tuesday 13.00 to 14.15

Panel GP1-A – Theatre and the Pandemic

Theatre Loyals Felipe Cervera (Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore) Artistic freedom in Digital Ecology: Iranian Azadeh Ganjeh (University of Tehran) theatre-makers reclaiming their right of speech 'This is My Life’: Kirsty Young and Maggie Inchley (QMUL) Cumbernauld Theatre’s LipSync (2019) and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Panel GP1-B Curated Panel - Environments and Physicality of ‘Royal Bodies’ Chair: Hayato Kosuge

Celebrated “Hittorā” - Nazi Salute onstage in Ken Hagiwara (Meiji University) the Postwar Japan

The Representation of the Symbol of Japan: Rei Inayama (Senshu University) An Analysis of the Japanese Emperor in Noda Hideki’s “To the South” (2011) from the Perspective of the Political and Social Environment

Panel GP1-C – Ecofeminisms

Four Women in the Woods: An Ecofeminist Catherine Diamond (Soochow Reading of Theatrical University, Taiwan) Reproductive Rights in (Semi-)Public Spaces: Eva-Maria Kubin (University of Two Case Studies Salzburg) "Mother-Land" in the works of Ana Mendieta Rezvan Zandieh (Sorbonne Nouvelle University

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Panel GP1-D – Sustainability and Performance

Regaining the Performativity to the ecological Youngjoo Choi (Korean National view University of Arts) Performing Water Governance in Peru: Michelle Nicholson-Sanz (Royal Effecting Natural Resource Governance by Central School of Speech and Drama) Means of Performance Theatresports ‘Thoda’: Diminishing Legacy of Yogesh Chander (B.P.S. Mahila Rites and Rituals in Western Himalaya Vishwavidyalaya, India)

Panel GP1-E – Historical Contexts

Witches and Nature: Ecosystems at the Sascha Forster (University of Cologne) Bergtheater Thale and its 1926 production of Goethe’s “Faust I” Spitting distance: ecologies of change and Susan McClements Wyss, (University classic-ing of Cologne, Germany and Flinders University, Australia) Misbehavior and Passion on the xixth Century Katalin Ágnes Bartha (Babes-Bolyai Stage University, Romania)

Panel GP1-F - Staging Animals

Theatre in the place of animals Mihai Florea (University of Bristol) and Ileana Gherghina “Stage animals”, ethical-philosophical Carlos Dimeo (University of Bielsko- problems and social representations of the Biala) human-animal / non-human-animal in the theatre Theatre and Animals in Transcultural Johanna Hörmann (University Perspective. Three Case Studies: Ancient Greek Salzburg) Theatre, Performance Art, 21st-century stage works

Panel GP1-G – Ecologies of Collaboration

Social Sustainability and Backa Theatre’s Sandra Grehn (University of Staging of Red Card (2014) Gothenburg) The Collaboration Conundrum: The Case of “A Olivia Kristine Nieto (University of the New Normal Cinderella: A Bedtime Story for Philippines) Adults” at the APAF, Tokyo Festival 2018 Drama Translation and Theatrical Ecosystems Andrea Pelegri Kristic (Pontificia in Chile (1818-1910) Universidad Católica de Chile)

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Panel GP1-H – Digital and Multimedia Performances, in and through the pandemic

Insistent Theatre: Ecologies of Survival Jazmin Llana (De La Salle University, Philippines) WEATHER# A virtual theatrical venue to Monica Cristini (University of Verona) promote the dialog about the climate change Transmedia performance: a dramaturgy of Ester Fuoco (University of Genoa) gaze through technology

Panel GP1-I – Nature Stories and Mythologies

Nature Stories and Mythologies: Questions of M. Rizwan Khan (Aligarh Muslim Performance and Ecology in India University) The playworld of mountain drama: assessing Jonathan Pitches (University of Leeds) the climate of theatre and high landscapes. Reading Spanish Playwright Juan Carlos Junko Okamoto (Osaka University) Rubio’s Arizona with Ecological Points of View, rather than Racial and Gender Problems

Panel GP1-J – Natural worlds, Networks, and Underworlds

Gorky’s The Lower Depths in Japanese theatre: Iryna Kastylianchanka (Osaka the motif of homeless and waste University) Tawiran: An Eco-Theatre Performance About Maria Shantelle Alexies Ambayec the Pasig River (University of the Philippines) THE EARTH'S NATURAL INTERNET: Iván-Daniel Espinosa(New York Experiencing Mycelium and Shapeshifting University) Fungal Networks sonically and somatically through Tatsumi Hijikata's experimental theater methodologies and site-specific performance frameworks

Gp1-K Contemporary Eco-performances

Contemporary Eco-performances and Alain Ellen Redling (University of Badiou’s theory of the ‘event’: Exploring ‘new Birmingham) possibilities’ in the face of climate change Boiling frogs revisited: the state of play in Ian McNish (University of South acting practice Wales) Humans, Nature and Disgust, or, “Without Leila Michelle Vaziri (University of man, the fox will rule” Augsburg )

GP1-L Political Performance WG Curated Panel - The Politics of the industry Chair: Benjamin Poore 8

‘LIVING AND LEARNING’: Evaluating the David Grant (Queen’s University Playhouse Theatre and Peace-building Belfast) Academy (2018-2020) Politics, Culture, and Identity in Actor Peter Zazzali LASALLE College of the Training: An Ethnographic Investigation of Arts) Drama Schools in Oceania Ecology of Political Theatre in Punjab Qaisar Abbas (University of Exeter) (Pakistan) under the NGOs projects: From the politics of resistance to the politics of rights

GP1-M – Cognitive Ecologies in Theatre History, Training and Performance - Curated Panel

Maiya Murphy (National University of Cognitive Ecologies in Theatre Singapore) History, Training and Performance

Christina Penna (University of Derby)

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GP2 – Tuesday 15.00 to 16.15

GP2-A: Colonial and Post-Colonial Ecologies

Other Landscape – Post-colonial theater in Margarida Adónis Torres (College of Portugal Education of Coimbra) Sensorial Intimacies: More-than-Human Emilia Maria Duran Almarza Ecologies in Post-Colonial Performance Art (University of Oviedo) Environmental activism and the decolonial Dirk Gindt (Stockholm University) labour of contemporary Sami cultural performers

GP2-B – Sceneographic Perspectives

50 years of set design in France: How Clarence Boulay (EHESS Paris) representation of nature on stage is connected to the evolution of an environmental consciousness Eco-Scenes. Strategies of Scenographic Birgit Wiens (LMU Munich) Intervention Climate crisis scenographics: Superflex’s ‘This Rachel Hann (Northumbria is not the end of the world’ (2019) University)

GP2-C – Political Protest

Theatrical and performative strategies in Juliana Coelho de Souza Ladeira (São contemporary Brazilian politics in some iconic Paulo University/ FAPESP – São Paulo examples (2015-2020) Research Foundation) From Youth Education to Performing the Wojciech Baluch (Jagiellonian World - Apeal of Krakow Youth Climate Strike university) to IFTR. Poland Theater, an unsolicited casualty of the Magdalena Szuster (University of political climate change in Poland. Łódź)

Panel GP2-D – Agency, Activism, Urgency

“Doing Something”: Climate Breakdown and a Teemu Paavolainen (Tampere Performative Outline of Alternatives University) “This is not a drill”: The Urgency of Affirmative Candan Kızılgöl Özdemir (Ankara Ethics in the Anthropocene and Tom University) Stoppard’s Darkside Theatre, theatricality and the (still)birth of the Marco Galea (University of Malta) Second Republic in Malta

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Panel GP2-E – Ways of Seeing, Ways of Re-Presenting

Shipwreck without spectators. Reflections on a Johanna Zorn (LMU Munich) theatre of isolation Performing in the Pastoral Mode at the Stephanie Vella (CUNY) Supermarket Representations of the Steppes by Soviet Natalia Semenova (St Petersburg Playwrights State University)

Panel GP2-F – Power, Politics, Performance

The Intervention of Nature and Landscapes in Sophie Bastien (Royal Military Albert Camus’ theatre College of Canada) Decoding Garland-Giving: Power, Acceptance, Luxsnai Songsiengchai and Social Relations in Thai Popular Folk (Chulalongkorn University) Theatre Repeat, perform, engage: staging history in Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa) Кirill Serebrennikov’s political theatre

Panel GP2-G. The Ecology of Theatrical Environments: Space And Fantasy In Nineteenth Century Performance (Curated Panel)

Fantasies of the Natural World in Popular Jim Davis (Warwick) Nineteenth-Century Theatre [Part of Panel Melodrama, Immersion and Affect Kate Newey (University of Exeter) Is this the Real Thing? Immersive Technologies Patricia Smyth (University of on the Nineteenth-Century Stage Warwick) The Fantasy of Unmechanised Flight in an Kate Holmes (University of Exeter) Other World: Jules Léotard at Cremorne Pleasure Gardens in 1861

Panel GP2-H – Choreographic Encounters

Gergő Téglási (Eötvös Loránd University) Dancing Out. (Ex)Positing the Posthermeneutic Category of Presence Rossella Mazzaglia (Univ. of Bologna and Urban Renewal for Community-Building: Messina) Virgilio Sieni’s choreographic model of action. Cristina de Lucas (University of Valladolid) There were Angry Young Choreographers. And They Arrived Early.

Panel GP2-I: Acting, Presence, Embodiment

Steps to an ecology of theatre Anita Piemonti (University of Pisa) 11

FOUR ECO-ACTIONS. FOUR PARADIGMS OF Orestes Pérez Estanquero SCENIC ACTING (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona / Universidad de las Artes de Cuba) Embodied I-San Tone: I-San identity in Thai Tanatchaporn Kittikong (Khon Contemporary Theatre & Performance Kaen University)

Panel GP2-J ‘Leftist Ecologies in Everyday Life and Theatre’ CHAIR: Bishnuprya Dutt

Revolutionary Intimacies: Friendship, Love, Silvija Jestrovic (Warwick University) and Theatre Dark Things Anuradha Kapur Why I am Still a Socialist Janelle Reinelt (Warwick University)

Panel GP2-K: Theatre in the face of changing urban environments (curated panel)

Science, Technology, and Theatre: Performing Kornélia Deres (ELTE University) New Environments Modernization and a representation of Biblical Olga Levitan (The Hebrew University and Shtetl history in Luftglass theatre design of Jerusalem)

Panel GP2-L Back from the Future – Theatre and Performance in Central Eastern Europe Beyond the Anthropocene, 1920–Today (curated panel)

Back from the Future – Theatre and Micha Braun (University of Leipzig) Performance in Central Eastern Europe Beyond the Anthropocene, 1920–Today The Life of Things or: Mo(ve)ments of Veronika Darian (University of Uselessness Beyond the Human Scale Leipzig) Revisiting the Anthropo(s)cene: Theatrical Michael Wehren (Leipzig) practices beyond the human stage

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GP3 – Wednesday 17.00 – to 18.15

GP3-A – Political Histories, Political Legacies

Challenging social environment of Darko Lukic revisionism: Theatrical Reminder on Holocaust as an act of cultural “ecology” Fascist Theatrical Imperialism: Ancient Patricia Gaborik (University of Spaces, Modern Stagings, and the Creation of Calabria) a New National Collective Theatre in a hostile environment – Jerzy Verena Arndt (University of Mainz) Jurandot’s Love is looking for a room written in the Warsaw Ghetto and its treatment of an environment built to destroy life.

Panel GP3-B – Dramaturgies of The Biosphere

The Theatre Stage as Space of Potentiality. Neil Jill Planche Coppen’s NewFoundLand: an ancient rite of storytelling invested in the South African landscape. Tipping Points. On the Consequences of Activist Benjamin Wihstutz Performance (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Panel GP3-C – Buildings And Institutions

Theatres made for people? John Andreasen (Aarhus University)

The Wiesbaden Theatre in 1920 – Continuity Sabine Paesler (University of Colgone) and Change of the German Theatre Ecology At the limits of social sustainability, before Alexandra Manske (Hafen City and after the COVID-19 outbreak – labour University Hamburg) and Sebastian flexibilization in German theatre and beyond Stauss (LMU München)

Panel GP3-D – Barriers, Borders, Landscapes

Our Carceral Landscape: Aesthetic Precarities Keri Watson and Julia Listengarten and the Politics of Representation (University of Central Florida) Look at my inter:face. The Mexico-US barrier Julia Stenzel (University of Mainz) as a demagogic lieu de parole

Panel GP3-E – Ecodramaturgical Re-Examinations 13

The Destruction of Paradise: An Examination of Yasmine Beverly Rana Environmental Trauma Experienced by Meena (Northeastern University) and Ash in the Stage Play, Paradise [Space] Ecologies of Political and Intellectual Thought in Andreea Chirita (University of Li Jing’s Comedies from the State of Qin Bucharest) Communal discomfort: documentary theatre Luke Lamont(University College and protest in the Covid-19 pandemic Dublin)

Panel GP3-F: Ecocritical Readings And Re-Readings

Environments of Terror: An Ecocritical Ngozi Udengwu (University of Reading of Soji Cole’s Embers. Nigeria, Nsukka) "Landscapes of Dystopia: Post-Apocalyptic Avra Sidiropoulou (Open Imagery in Karen Malpede’s Pandemic Play University of Cyprus) Troy Too" "The rivers connect us": The Environmental Diana Benea (University of Consciousness of Ping Chong + Company's Bucharest) When the Salmon Spoke (2020)

Panel GP3-G: Pandemic Perspectives

Interviewing Freelance Theatre-Makers James Rowson (University of Essex) During COVID-19: Precarity, Labour, and Hope COVID-19 and theatre ecology sustainability: Ali FitzGibbon and Kurt Taroff considerations of Freelance Artists (Queen's University Belfast) Freelancers in the Dark: Surveying Theatre Laura Harris (Manchester Freelancers During Covid-19 Metropolitan University)

Panel GP3-H: Feminist Working Group Curated Panel CHAIRS: Lisa Fitzpatrick, Bishnupriya Dutt

Citizen Spectators? Elin Diamond (Rutgers University– New Brunswick) Theatres of the streets - a socialist materialist Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru feminist practice and analysis University) Wom(e)n Directing Shakespeare in the 21st Kim Solga (Western University) Century

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Panel GP3-I: Water Flows: Performing Cultural and Political Ecologies (Curated panel)

Be Water! Envisioning a New Global Order of Daphne Lei (Univ of California, Irvine) Intercultural Justice Goddess Saraswati's Defiance and Other Ketu Katrak (Univ of California, Irvine) Human Journeys and Anita Ratnam (Arangham Dance Theatre)

Panel GP3-J Political Performances WG sponsored general panel: Political human & more-than-human performances

Chair: Siân Adiseshiah

Remembering Air with Meredith Monk and Cara Berger (University of Pamela Z Manchester) “Well done, old Mole!”: Subterranean thinking Anika Marschall (Aarhus University) and political performances Primitive Icescapes: Performance Analysis of Clara Wilch (UCLA) a UN Special Report on Climate Change

Panel GPK: Theatre History and Historiography Working Group Curated Panel Chair: Claire Cochrane

The Grandmother and the Granddaughter in Ruthie Abeliovich (University of the Yiddish Popular Theatre (1880-1920): On Halfa) the Evolution and Decline of a Theatrical Model Artistic exchanges at the Royal Danish Theatre Ulla Kallenbach (University of Bergen) Polish-Norwegian theatrical encounters as a Ewa Partyga (Institute of Art, Polish methodological challenge Academy of Sciences)

GP3-L: Globalization, Ecology and Depletion: Cartographies of Solidarity, Advocacy and Resistance Panel Chair: Silvija Jestrovic

Paper Dams: Negotiations of precarity and Nicholas Stefan Drofiak authenticity in sturgeon and human cultures of the Enisej river. The Expropriation of Subaltern Worlds and Milija Gluhovic (University of Postcolonial Openings Warwick) Zooesis and Globality: Theatre Ecologies, Ameet Parameswaran (Jawaharlal Globalisation and Surivival Nehru University)

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GP4 – Thursday 19.00 – 20.15

GP4-A – Circus and Carnival The Ecologies of Carnival: Surrogating Disaster Sabine Kim (University of Mainz) in Post-Earthquake Haiti Re-Imagining Animality: The French Circus Ante Ursic (UC Davis) Avantgarde and the Return to the Animal Austria Songsters & Sardines: shifting Anke Charton (University of Vienna) environments of cultural performance

Panel GP4-B – Realism and Remembrance

Theatre and Globalization: Milo Rau and Igor Silva (UFPE, Brazil) Global Realism Transphobia and Pardon: A Performance Allen Baylosis (New York University) Remembering Laude's Death Puerto Rico, You Lovely Island: Theatre, Colleen Rua (University of Florida) Trauma and Healing in Response to (Un)Natural Disaster

Panel GP4-C – POST-

Emptying Out: Constructed Absences in a Ilana Khanin (University of Toronto) Theatre Without Performers ‘Post-theatre’ as a strategy of questioning new Niklas Füllner (Ruhr University political orders in Hungary and Poland Bochum)

Panel GP4-D Communities

On the art of the village, social distance and the Berenika Szymanski-Düll (LMU concern for carefreeness Munich) Loving the Storm: Surviving nature in North- Magnus Thorbergsson (University of American-Icelandic settler performances Iceland) Nationalism Redux: Race and German/U.S. Jessica Adam (CUNY) Interhistories

Panel GP4-E Political Performances WG Curated general panel 2: Decadence, austerity and crisis Chair: Sam Haddow

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Decadent expenditure: Productivism, Adam Alston austerity and what we can learn from the Buttplug Gnome Dramatic Aftershocks: Political Theatre since Rebekah Maggor the Global Financial Crisis

Panel GP4-F Hostile Environments: Performance and Activism in an Unreceptive World

Refugees performing in hostile environments Stephen Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin) “Hostile Environments: Staging Conflict in Victoria Scrimer (University of Activist Performance” Maryland) Artistic Expression Beneath a Blue Shadow: James Harding (University of Performance, Violence and the Policed Maryland) Environment

Panel GP4-G Performance and Solidarity: Shifting sites, stories and scenes

Chair: Selina Busby (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)

Performance and Solidarity: Poetics of Labour Diana Damian Martin (Central and Migration School of Speech and Drama) Creating performance ecologies that host Rebecca Hayes Laughton (Royal sustained campaigning: amplifying the voices Central School of Speech and Drama) of refugee women in the enunciative space through performance poetry. Performance and Solidarity: Shifting sites, Katharine Low (Royal Central School stories and scenes of Speech and Drama)

Panel GP4-H Pre-Modern Media Ecologies: Challenges – Approaches – Perspectives. Roundtable Discussion Peter W. Marx (University of Cologne)

Tracy C. Davis Pavel Drabek (University of Hull)

Erith Jaffe-Berg (University of California, Riverside)

Odai Johnson (University of Washington)

Panel GP4-I Sensing the City: An Embodied Documentation & Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place 17

Natalie Garrett Brown, University of East London

Carolyn Deby, sirenscrossing /independent

Emma Meehan, Coventry University

Michael Pigott, University of Warwick

Nese Ceren Tosun, Uniqorn Academy /independent

This panel will also launch the edited collection that resulted from the project: Urban Sensographies edited by Nicolas Whybrow (Routledge 2020).

Panel GP4-J Populism and Theatre History (Curated Panel) Chair: Mechele Leon

Jane Milling (University of Exeter) Dorota Sosnowska (University of Warsaw)

Meike Wagner (Stockholm) David Wiles (Exeter)

Panel GP4-K – Selfhood, Mental Health, Creativity

Performing Ecologies: Youth, Mental Health, Ananda Breed (University of and Policy Enactment during the time of Lincoln) COVID

Lygia Clark's "Restructuring of the Self" as an Juliana Moraes (State University of environmental method for artistic creation Campinas)

GP4-L-NSF - Professionalisation Workshop I: Post-doctoral opportunities

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GP5 – Thursday 21.00 – 22.15

GP5-A – Applying Theatre, Adapting Theatre

Theatrical Adaptations, Adapting to Climate Lara Aysal (University of British Change through Applied Theatre Columbia) Conflicted spaces: who owns the stories of Gemma Kerr (University of Surrey) performance in communities? Death, Dinner and Performance: Sheila McCormick (University of Commensality, Autobiography and Salford) Conversations on Death and Dying

GP5-B– Measuring, Modelling, and Archiving Theatre-Making

Virtual Theatre Models: Locating Joanne Tompkins (University of Environments and Landscapes in the Digital Queensland) Archive Born Digital: Performance and Media from Barry Houlihan (National University Archive to Live Stream of Ireland Galway) Ecologies of Amateur Theatre in Switzerland. Beate Schappach and Joel Mähne Quantitative Aspects. (University of Bern)

GP5-C – Climate Migrations

Climate Migration and the Prospects for Paul Rae (University of Melbourne) Performance The Dynamics of Refusal and Ecologies of Sarah Harper (Queen Mary Exclusion in Participatory Agri-Cultural University) Projects with Immigrant Populations in the Paris Banlieue. Performing the Refugee Archive: Refugee Paul Dudman (University of East Theatre, Self-Representation and London) Empowerment Through Storytelling.

Panel GP5-D Monstrosity

Frankenstein in (and Beyond?) the Fabiola Camuti (ArtEZ University of Anthropocene: Performing Ecological the Arts) Monstrosity In Your Time, As It Was in Ours: Memory and Jared Strange (University of Material in Nuclear Semiotics Maryland) “All of Savage Nature”: Deconstructing Violent Bess Rowen (Villanova University) Vegetation on American Stages

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Panel GP5-E Ecosystems of Artistic Survival in the Southern Cone

Piel de Lava and Petróleo: Collective ecologies Maria Delgado (Royal Central School of of theatre-making Speech and Drama, University of London) Cartonerxs Ecologies: Buenos Aires’s DIY Jean Graham-Jones (CUNY Graduate Independent Theatre and Film Center) Let’s party: fundraising and social resistance Milena Grass (Pontificia Universidad in times of crisis Católica de Chile)

Panel GP5-F – Creative Processes

Orchestrations by... Ryan Green (University of Plymouth)

History, Memory, Fiction: Documenting Claire Borody (University of Creative Process Winnipeg) LIGNA: On How to Not Forget Irene Lehmann (FAU Erlangen- Nuernberg)xia

GP5-G – Institutional Eco-Systems

The Policy Displacements of Chinese Xiaoxue Sun (Chinese National Academy Theatre Reform from 1979 to 2020 of Arts)

The Ecology of Collaboration: Creating in Eric Dela Cruz (DLS-College of Saint an Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Benilde) Ecosystem

Subsidising a National Theatre Eco- Chris Hay (University of Queensland) System: Australia's ‘Shadow Canon’ I

GP5-H – Fragmented Ecologies, Framing Practices

Surviving an alien invasion: Chilean Andres Kalawski (Pontificia theater maneuvering through new Universidad Católic) Chilean political ecosystem

Playwriting with Personal Testimony: Marina Ni Dhubhain (NUI Galway) Agonism in Action

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Fragmented Ecologies: Translating Aileen Ruane (Université Concordia) Cruelty and Commodification in The Dark Things (2009) through/as Débris (2014)

GP5-I – Tragic Wounds, Ruined Landscapes

Theatre Landscapes in Transformation: Redefining Radka Kunderova (Freie Theatre Systems in Post-Communist Europe Universität Berlin) A tragic wound: some aspects of scene's Vinicius Torres Machado (São materiality . Paulo State University)

Situated Knowing in Naturalculturaltechnological Mateusz Chaberski and Ewa Ruins of Eastern Europe Bal (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)

GP5-J – Communities for Sustainability and Alternative Futures

Suomi Performance, utopia, and Pilvi Porkola (University of Turku) alternative futures

Artists Activating Sustainability: The Barbara Sellers-Young (York University) Oregon Story

Tomorrow without Tomorrow by Daham Jirye Lee Yo: A Site-Specific Performance in Urban Environment in the 21st Century Seoul

GP5-K-NSF - Professionalisation Workshop II: TBD- General Panel

Panel GP5-L – Ecodramaturgies

Ecodramaturgy of the Forest: The Strange Ekin Bodur (Cambridge University) Undoing of DOT Theatre in Istanbul ‘A New Ecodramaturgy: The Cheviot, the Stag Isla Cowan (University of Glasgow) and the Black, Black Oil (1973) by John McGrath Belonging as collective playwriting for a global Helene Grøn (University of Glasgow) crisis: Amelia Earhart Reimagined

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GP6 – Friday 13.15 to 14.30

GP6-A - intercultural flows

What Arises from Distortion: The Perspective Mitsuko Sumida (National Institute of ‘the East viewed from the West’ in The Seven of Technology, Tsuyama College) Streams of the River Ota The Sites of Passage projects: global Tavia La Follette (Towson interchanges for the migration of ideas across University) political/cultural borders Apolitical Ecology: Constructive Spaces and Shalini Attri (B.P.S. Mahila Landscape in Kalidasa's Abhigyan Shakuntalam Vishwavidyalaya)

GP6-B – Policy

Theatre as an agent of change: challenges of Jovana Karaulic (Faculty of Dramatic green concepts in Serbia Arts Belgrade) Towards an Inclusive Theatre Practice: Judith Drake (University of Scottish Disability Arts Utopia Edinburgh) Expanding Art Worlds: Pansori Theatre in Jan Creutzenberg (Ewha Womans Korea’s Contemporary Performing Arts University) Ecosystem

GP6-C: Theatre-Making Futures

Sustainability of Ogano Kabuk Chieko Hiranoi (Hosei University)

Dramaturgy beyond Endings: nonhuman Joanna Gwen Mansbridge (City spectres and lively landscapes in Kris University of Hong Kong) Verdonck’s Conversations (at the end of the world) (2016) and SOMETHING (out of nothing) (2019)

The Brazilian Theatre recent opening to Ana Wegner (Université de Poitiers Amerindian Epistemologies: An Analysis on (France) and CAPES) and Rafealla Vagamundos Project (Sã o Paulo, 2020-2021) Uhiara (Universidade de Sã o Paulo (Brazil) and THALIM France)

GP6-D Mirrors To Nation, Mirrors To Naturalism

Nature in Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill: Salomé Paul (Trinity College, Dublin) Holding a Mirror to Irish Society 23

Members only: echos of an avant-garde Ruth Schor (Tel Aviv University) theatre culture in the Ibsen reception of late nineteenth-century Germany” Individual, Public, Politics, and Media in Yuko Kurahashi (Kent State Theatre and Ecology: Ecological Plays University) including Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People

Panel GP6-E Historical Ecologies

From Subversion to Sentiment: Tracing the Theresa Eisele (MODUL University Legacy of “Fiakermili” in Historical Ecologies Vienna) Theatres in the Era of Mass Extinction: From Asuka Yamazaki (Nihon University, Leibniz’s Concept of Théâtre de la Nature et de College of Commerce) l’Art to The Modern Digital Art Museum Conquest of the Air – Theatricality, Christina Vollmert (University of Technology and Environment at the 1909 Cologne) International Aeronautical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main

Panel GP6-F Curated Panel

Béla Bartók’s »Miraculous Mandarin« and the Sofie Taubert (University of Cologne) soundscape of urbanization

Panel GP6-G – Shakespearean Ecologies

Casting Disability in a Modern Winter Phong (Oklahoma State Adaptation: Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick and University) Shakespeare’s Richard the III.

Sustainability of Shakespeare and Its Keiko Oku (Meiji University) Translation in Japan

The Appearance of Female Hamlet in Modern Japan; The Representation, Makiko Kawano (Meiji University) Objectification and Identity of Actresses

Panel GP6-H: Asymmetries, Ecologies and Environments in the work of Clean Break

Navigating Institutional Ecologies of Prison Sarah Bartley (University of Reading) and Performance in the Work of Clean Break Theatre Company Art Practice and the Asymmetries of Power at Deborah Dean (University of Work Warwick) and Anne-marie Greene (University of Leicester) 24

Architecture, Site and Space in the work of Caoimhe McAvinchey (QMUL) Clean Break.

Panel GP6-I – Theatre’s Local Ecosystems

Re-Wilding Butoh's Ecosystems of Cruel Katherine Mezur (University of Memories: Dancing Land – Sea scapes, California Berkeley) Creatures, and Objects in Contemporary Performance An Irish Theatre for the Anthropocene: Druid Patrick Lonergan (National University Theatre, Beckett and Waiting for Godot of Ireland Galway) Moonyoung Hong (Trinity College Dublin) Ecology and Extinction in Irish Theatre: Tom Murphy’s Naturalism

PANEL GP6-J Curated Panel

Premonitions from the Past, Hauntings from Andrew Eglinton the Future: Performance Experiments in Kyoto What can theatre do for local development? – Barbara Geilhorn (German Institute The Case of the Kinosaki International Art for Japanese Studies) Centre

Panel GP6-K NSF Professionalisation Workshop III

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NEW SCHOLARS FORUM

NSF Professionalisation Workshops to be held during General Panel sessions: • NSF Professionalisation Workshop I: Post-doctoral opportunities- General Panel Session 4- Thursday 15 July- 19.00-20.30 • NSF Professionalisation Workshop II: Keynote Roundtable - General Panel Session 5-Thursday 15 July-21.15-22.30 • NSF Professionalisation Workshop III: General Panel Session 6-Friday 16 13.15- 14.30

NSF1 Tuesday 17.00 – 18.15

NSF1-A Dramaturgy and Dramaturgical processes Chair: Jean Graham-Jones

The Great White [Male Author]: The Rebecca Curran (Florida State Challenges and Ethics of Adapting from the University) Classical Canon Through Dave Malloy’s Moby- Dick Ambiguous modes of fictionality in Nele Solf (Freie Universität Bern) contemporary performance theatre in Switzerland Transformative encounters as a foundation for Camille Khoury (Université a queer and ecological dramaturgy in Barbara Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès) Metais-Chastanier’s play What Will Yesterday be Made of The Traveler’s Woven Path: Ludology, Gabrielle Lennox (University of Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Queensland) Ergodic Theatre

NSF1-B Theatre, COVID-19 and Ecologies of Survival Chair: Elaine Aston

Training of Actors and Actresses to Act in Raquel Júlio Mastey (Universidade Difficult News Communication Scenarios in do Estado de Santa Catarina) Medicine Training in Brazil Ecologies of survival: Theatre at the time of Sofia Polychronidou (Stavros Covid-19 Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC)) Diasporic care for and through theatre with Felicia Cucuta (Harvard University) Covid-19 looming in the background Imagining the Future in the UK City of Culture Emily Dunford (University of 2021 Warwick)

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NSF1-C Food, Performance and Anthropocene Chair: Tim White

Eating with Theatricality, or Everyday Elizabeth Schiffler (UCLA) Alimentary Transmedias Raw Strawberries and Cream: Jennie Youssef (Graduate Center Transculturation in Early Modern Foodways, CUNY) Performance, and Dramatic Representations Garlic Worlds: Performing Earthy Emma Morgan-Thorp (York Responsibilities in Pandemic Times University) Lobster Ecology - Food Performativity in and Jp McMahon (Eat Galway Restaurant outside the Theatre GROUP/NUI Galway)

NSF1-D Applied Theatre/Drama Chair: Fintan Walsh

Applied Theatre Approaches to Relationships and Natasha Richards (University of Sex Education (RSE) Essex) Listening-with: feminine relationalities as a Sarah Hart (University of response to violence California, Davis) Theatre for Development and the Crisis of Chiamaka Igboayaka (University Transformation in Nigeria of Sussex) The art of expressive objects enabling Ruki Laakkonen (University of environments for intra-active theatrical events Tampere)

NSF1-E Ethics of Representation and Gender Discourse Chair: Miriam Haughton

Recognition, Redistribution and the Politics of Albert Méndez Panadés (University Spectatorship in Mouthpiece (2018), by Kieran of Barcelona) Hurley The Death of the Panther: Metamora; or, The Daniel Myers (University of Illinois Last of the Wampanoags as a Melodrama of at Urbana–Champaign) Extinction Subverting Masculinity in Mid-Victorian Alessandra Grossi (University of Classical Burlesques: The Cross-Dressed God Warwick) in Boyish Attire Misophonia and Gender in Performance Kirsten Hawson

NSF1-F. Ecologies of Voice, Sound and Body Chair: Meike Wagner

Creation and affect: What can a body do? David dos Santos (Universidade de Lisboa) 27

Singing the Inbetween: The Bean Sídhe and Susan Birmingham (Universitat the liminal feminine voice in Irish folklore Pompeu Fabra) and Catholic tradition Situated sound ecologies in Eastern Slovakia Elia Moretti (Univerzita Karlova) Cultural Production and Rajasthan’s Ecology: Mukesh Kulriya (UCLA) A reflection on Komal Kothari’s Ecological Framework

NSF1-G Digital Technology and Performance and Archiving Chair: Patrick Lonergan

Performing Un-nostalgic: Remix and Archives of Nazli Akhtari (University of Reza Abdoh Toronto) Dramaturgy of Connections Iva Brdar (Ludwig Maximilian University) Performing an “Authentic Self” Online and Offline Joshua Cannon (Lancaster University) LIVE!: The Recorded Show, a theoretical Cristina Scobee (Independent framework for using VR technologies to capture Scholar) performative art while maintaining aspects of liveness and autonomy

NSF1-H Decolonization, Racism and Race Discourse in Theatre Chair: Marianne Kennedy

Decolonizing Performance in Settler-Colonial Morgan Johnson (York University) Canada Capturing Community: From Safe to Brave-A Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon Model for Interrogating Race, Racism and the (Temple University) Black Lives Matter Movement Using A Devised Theater Ecology Performing Blackness in Contemporary Jade Thomas (Vrije Universiteit African American Metatheatre: Genre and Brussel) Media Innovations on the Axis of Political Comment and American Theatre Aesthetics

NSF1-I (Post)Anthropocentric and Posthuman in Performance Chair: Ian Walsh

Postanthropocentric Intermedia Performance: Nina Vurdelja (Tampere Embodying the Changing Planet University) New Materialism as a perspective in Ida Ślęzak (University of Warsaw) performance research 28

New positions of non-human agents in Miloslav Juráni (Academy of anthropocentric artistic medias like Drama and Performing Arts Bratislava) Theatre Discovering a Posthuman Praxis in Site Specific Meg Kirchoff (University at Dance Buffalo)

NSF1-J Nation, Identity and Trauma* Chair: Milija Gluhovic

“This Was What Happened to Real People”: Weston Twardowski (Northwestern Place Making and Time Breaking in New University) Orleans Flooded House Museum The Role of the National Identity in Plays: The Bettina Sztruhár (Károli Gáspár Case of the Argentinean-Hungarian National University) Theater's Adaptations from 1951 to 1952 The Discursive Construction and Adrián Lips (Károli Gáspár Deconstruction of East Central European University) Actresses’ Identities: The Case of Zita Szeleczky and Katalin Karády from 1936 to 1945 in Hungary Reckoning with National Trauma: Identity, Erin Valentine (University of Texas, Catholicism, and Theatre in Ireland Austin)

NSF1-K Community Performance and Puppetry Chair: Charlotte McIvor

Bodies that slip: Clay puppetry, material Tobi Poster-Su (Queen Mary University of vulnerability, and the violence of London) representation Masters of Attention: Puppeteers as Ana Díaz Barriga Lopez (Northwestern Guides of Audience Engagement in Tom University) Lee & Koryu Nishikawa V’s Shank’s Mare How to practice cultural sustainability – a Lise Sofie Houe (Aarhaus University) question of methodology and dramaturgy Unravelling verbatim theatre Alison Porter (University of Warwick) methodologies in the theatre of social justice – creating the Medaille Monologues for broadcast

NSF1-L Performance: Ways of Knowing Chair: Silvijia Jestrovic

God and Revolution: Bertolt Brecht's Deus ex Yizhou Zhang (University of Machina Toronto) 29

Distance and Connection: Using the Alienation Jacob Buttry (Arizona State Effect and The Drama of Commitment as a Lens University) for Compassion-Oriented Theatre Drama, Iconology and Aesthetic in Socìetas Rafael Percino (Universidade Raffaello Sanzio cia Estadual Paulista) Thinking representativeness in the Brazilian Conrado Dess (University of São contemporary scene: a political experience in Paulo) the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

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NSF2 Wednesday 09.00 – 10.15

NSF2-A Imagining Futures Through Performance Chair: Charlotte McIvor

Creating ‘Utocalypse’: queering COVID and Martin Kenny (National University climate change narratives through the of Ireland, Galway) performance TWENTY FIFTY Ugly Feelings in Happy Days: on the Ecological Yangzi Zhou (University of Possibility of Affective Spectatorship Warwick) Performing ecological crisis. Rethinking Karina Rocktaesche (Free Performance and Theatre University Berlin) Beyond Imagination: Enacting Potential Climate Lydia Borowicz (University of Futures California, Santa Barbara) The in-between time on Brecht’s Der Mariana Bianchi (Universidade Messingkauf: an exile theatrical theory that Estadual Paulista Julio de organizes the past and prepares for the future Mesquita Filho - UNESP)

NSF2-B Festival, Feminist Performance and Pandemic Chair: Joanne Tompkins

Festivals Redux: Exploring the impacts of Hannah Mason (University of COVID-19 on the institutional dramaturgy of Queensland) festivals Theatre Lab or Performing Arts Market? The Hanna Huber (University of Vienna) Fringe Festival OFF d’Avignon Performing feminist activism in the COVID-19 Yingjun Wei (Trinity College, pandemic: the “Anti-domestic Violence, Little Dublin) Vaccine” campaign in China Personas and Popular Feminisms in Indian Nisha Tiwari (Jawaharlal Nehru Women’s Comedy during the Pandemic University)

NSF2-C Creativity and Practice as Research Chair: Marcus Tan

Co-Authorship and Being Vulnerable: Textual Helen Shutt (University of Glasgow) Strategies Towards Audience Participation in Performance Architext: Exploring the dramaturgical Jenny Knotts (University of Glasgow) potential of architectural drawing techniques through playwriting. “Going with the flow”: Exploring ideas of Maria Tivnan (National University of connection and practice with independent Ireland, Galway) theatre artists in Galway, Gaza and Mexico city “Dear Professional wrestling, It’s not me… it’s Lisa Butler (University of Chester) you”: Theatrical frictions between personal and professional performatives in a global pandemic 31

NSF2-D Cultural Ecology and Traditional Theatrical Aesthetics Chair: Marianne Kennedy

The Futile Resistance to Chinese Modernist Chaomei Chen (Trinity College, Reembedding in Three Sisters/Waiting for Godot Dublin) Animal representation in theatre and body Anju Aravind (Hyderabad Central practice University) Mythological Images and Narratives in the Chudamani D (Hyderabad Central Sculptures: A case study of Kakatiya Temples University)

NSF2-E Performing Diaspora, Transnational and Postcolonial theatre Chair: Mark Fleishman

Archives and Performative Irishness: Using the Elizabeth O’Sullivan (The Past to Inform the Present American University of Iraq – Sulaimani) Race, Occidentalism/Orientalism and Sino- Mary Mazzilli (University of centrism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre Essex) Neo-imperialism, nation-building, and Abhimanyu Acharya (The corporeality in Rahul Varma’s Bhopal University of Western Ontario) NEGOTIATING SHIFTING ECOLOGIES – FROM Bernard Adjiracko (University of CHARACTER TO TELLER, FROM ABεASE TO Ghana) TWITTER: Ananse in a Post-Modern Digital Ecology

NSF2-F Political Theatre and Protest Chair: Hayato Kosuge

Agitation as Performance “Pen Down Strike” Sailu Pattepu (University of in Telangana, India Hyderabad) Applied Drama in the Political-Ecological Courtney Grile (Trinity College, Landscape of Liberal Democracy Dublin) Gatos in the 15M Movement: collaborative Daniel Gonzalez (Brunel University urban strategies in Madrid London)

NSF2-G Publishing and Funding in Theatre Chair: Ian Walsh

The Editing Process in the Theatre Publishing Lisa Frederike Seidler (Freie House Verlag der Autoren University Berlin) Towards an emancipated British Theatre ecology Rory Trevethan and and Aiden Ross (Rose Bruford College) Dramaturgies of deprecarization: Creative labour Julia Stina Skoglund (University and structural precarity in the independent of Stockholm) performing arts scene in Sweden

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Chair: Miriam Haughton

Ecocritical Approach to Environmental Justice Martina Omorodion (Federal in Tess Onwueme’s Ban Empty Barns University, Oye Ekiti) Ecology, performance and the disabled body: Kyriaki Demiri (Aristotle University the case of the Greek Ensemble En Dynamei of Thessaloniki) Ran’s Diary: a sexually suggestive protest on Bomi Choi (Royal Holloway, stage University of London) Performing the Vilayati in Punjabi NRI films Navkiran Natt (Independent Scholar)

NSF2-I Modes of Performance – Documentation, Analysis, Understanding Chair: Patrick Lonergan

"Struggling" and "Appealing": An Analysis of Bao Jia (Taiyuan University of Sarah Ruhl's Creative Consciousness in Dead Technology, China) Man's Cell Phone Understanding Culture: Bhand Pather and the Ayushi Koul (Jawaharlal Nehru Politics of Kashmir University) Cursed Divertissement: The Rehearsal Madelyn Coupe (University of Dramaturgy of Queensland Ballet’s The Queensland) Sleeping Beauty Transports and Worldbuilders: How can Hanna Slattne (Queen’s University artistic approaches and devises inform the Belfast) use of immersive experiences as therapy and rehabilitation?

NSF-2J: Embodying Identities, Identifying Bodies Onstage Chair: TBD

‘Are you a spy sent by the Chinese Yingnan Chu (University of Exeter), government?’ Recreating identities through stand-up comedy

Lives Out of Kilter but still Earth Bound”: Clara Mallon (National University of (Re)Constructing Working-Class Identities Ireland, Galway), and Social Space in Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie

“Performing the Corpse: Death as a Queer Hamish McIntosh (University of Alternative in Dance” Melbourne),

“Ecologies of Nationalism. Sikelianos and the Zafiris Nikitas (Aristotle University of Delphic Festivals (1927-1930)” Thessaloniki),

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NSF3 Thursday 13.00 – 14.15

NSF3-A Sensorial and Embodied Performance Aesthetic Chair: Anuradha Kapur

An Introduction to (Skin)Aesthetics: Four Freya Verlander (University of “Fran[skin]steins” Warwick) Let It Burn: Sensing, Solidarity and Emma Welton (Stockholm Sustainability in Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz University) Going with your gut: developing the actor's Micia de Wet (Coventry University) intuition Chemical Entanglements: Co-presence and Devon Baur (UCLA) Odorlessness Online Impact of Nature and Natural Behavior Shrikant Bhalerao (University of Patterns on the Aangikaabhinaya/Movement Hyderabad), Vocabulary of Chau Dance

NSF3-B Ecotheatre and Ecofeminist Theatre Chair: Patrick Lonergan

Ecodrama: A Selected Study of Nigerian Plays Iveren Sambe (Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria) Exploring the Prospect of an Ecofeminist TYA Sage Tokach (University of Central Florida) Polish women in defence of nature. The current Magdalena Zabiegaj (Jagiellonian validity of the ideas of ecofeminism University) Between Solidarity and Hesitation: Implications Ting Zhang (University of for Sustainable Dramaturgy in East Asian Eco- Sydney) Theatre

NSF3-C Architectures, Spatial Relationships and Spectatorship Chair: Vicky Ann Cremona

Forms of migration of contemporary theatre Susanna Clemente (Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza) Beyond Desvallées: the use of the terms Alceu Silva Neto and Priscilla expography and scenography in exhibition Arantes (Universidade Anhembi design studies Morumbi) Kashmir: Landscape, Performance and Saumya Mani Tripathi (Jawaharlal Cultural Resistance Nehru University) The Power of Helplessness: Briony Kimming's Ke Meng (SOAS, University of I'm a Phoenix, Bitch London)

NSF3-D Aesthetics, Performance and Media Studies Chair: Peter Marx

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Thesis concept: Mutation and metamorphosis: Katharina Sturm (Universität Aesthetics of Destructive Plasticity Bayreuth) Stages of participation in theatre and Dorottya Mátravölgyi (Eötvös videogames Loránd University) Exploration of documentation in digital Wanjin Li (University of Warwick) media: Reflections on the Live Theatre Performance in the UK and China Performative film aesthetics Aspects of Oliver Maaßberg (University of emphasized materiality, presence and event Bayreuth) in context of medial phenomena

NSF3-E Dramatic Literature and Criticism Chair: Milena Grass Kleiner

Populism, nativism and political performances: Theo Aiolfi (University of the populist style and its challenges for Warwick) comparative analysis and interdisciplinary methodology Modernity at Tilbury, or the Complicated Currents Stephen Cedars (CUNY Graduate of Lord Kitchener Centre) Intermediality, Waste and Sustainability in Vanesa Cotroneo (University of Samuel Beckett’s Theater Buenos Aires- Friedrich Alexander Universität) Performing histories as a social critique? Arijit Banerjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

NSF3-F Performance Languages Chair: Marianne Kennedy

Republican Nandan, the Discourse of Chinese Guanda Wu (Hangzhou Normal “Aestheticism,” and the Formation of University) Nandan’s “Artistic” Femininity Intermediality in therapy and arts: Mapping Sneha Saskikumar (University of coordinative practices, movement ventilation Hyderabad) in particular Theatre Stylistics: performance, aesthetics, Naz Yeni (Anglia Ruskin University) style “Azadi”: The Free Word and the Anxieties of a Reyazul Haque and Farhana Latief Regime (Humboldt University of Berlin)

NSF3-G Performing Identities Chair: Ameet Parameswaran

Spontaneity in Norwegian stage language Ragnhild Gjefsen (University of Bergen) 36

Alternative Interpretations: Adishakti's Shrinjita Biswas (Independent Engagement with the Ramayana Project Scholar) The limits of your skin: narratives on Katelyn Skelley (Hochschule für pregnancy, birth and early motherhood Musik und Darstellende Kunst) Staging an Archive: The Relationship Between Cara Brophy Browne (National and Documentary Theatre-makers and the Hidden Kapodistrian University of Athens) Histories of Female Oppression in Ireland

NSF3-H History and Historiography Chair: Tracy C. Davis

Communication and Comparison: Knowing the Shiraz Biggie (Graduate Center national theatre in the diaspora CUNY) The Journey of English Ballad-operas from the Klara Skrobankova (Masaryk British Isles to Prussia and the Habsburg University; Theatre Institute Empire Prague) The Govermentality of Theatre Thomas Heskia (Leuphana University Lü neburg) Ecologies of the Dancing Body: The Paris Laura Smith (UCLA) School of Medicine and the Paris Opéra in Early 19th Century France

NSF3- Waste, Remains and Power Chair: Fintan Walsh

The creation in “Air, the other name of the Rafael Lemos Melo (Universidade de mountain”: Candomblé and brazilian afro- Campinas) indigenous ancestral knowledge as support for the creation in dance Throw out from where? Pamella Villanova (UNICAMP)

Ripped Yarns: Working with Waste in Drama Hamish Muir (University College, London) ‘A damn good game’: Hegemonic masculinity Alix Burbridge (University of in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal Reading)

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NSF4 Friday 15.15 – 16.45 CAUCUS

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IFTR Working Groups Schedule

WG1 Monday 12 July 09.00 – 10.15 WG2 Monday 12 July 11.00 – 12.30 WG3 Monday 12 July 13.15 – 14.30 WG4 Monday 12 July 15.15 – 16.45 WG5 Tuesday 13 July 19.00 – 20.30 WG6 Tuesday 13 July 21.15 – 22.30 WG7 Wednesday 14 July 12.45 – 14.00 WG8 Wednesday 14 July 14.45 – 16.15 WG9 Thursday 15 July 15.00 – 16.15 WG10 Thursday 15 July 17.00 – 18.15 WG11 Friday 16 July 09.00 – 10.15 WG12 Friday 16 July 11.00 – 12.30

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WG1 Monday 12 July 09.00 – 10.15

WG1-A Asian Theatre Working Group

“Theatre and Trade: A Study of Shanxi Yunjie Hu (Unizofiaversity of Sydney) Merchants’ Sponsorship of Theatrical Performance at Temple Fairs in Late Imperial China” “Approaching immersive theatre in China” Weilue Zhang (Queensland University of Technology)

WG1-B Scenography

Chairs: Nick Hunt and Sofia Pantouvaki

Three Ecologies, or what theatre craftsmen Zofia Smolarska (The Aleksander can tell us about the relations between Zelwerowicz National Academy of environment, work ethics and art Dramatic Art in Warsaw) Ecoscenography in three acts: ‘co-creation – Tanja Beer (Queensland College of celebration – circulation’ as modes of Art) continuous becoming All the World’s a Stage - Preservation of the Sylwia Dobkowska (University of Disappearing Environment Gdańsk)

WG1-C Feminist Research Working Group

Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick

The Sea as a Stage and 'Protagonist' in Rebecca Jennison (Kyoto Seika Tomiyama Taeko's Art University, Retired) Performing Body as a Site for Feminist Indu Jain (Delhi University) Theatrical Ecology: Works of Anuradha Kapur Shifting Ecologies of Feminist Theatre- Minakshi Kaushik (School of Arts and Making in India: From Locality to Globality Aesthetics, JNU)

WG1-D Popular Entertainment

Minnie Cunningham: Artist’s Muse and Jason Price (University of Sussex) Forgotten Music Hall Star From Private to Public: Aspects of Drag Bett Pacey Performance in South Africa 40

WG1-E African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance

Business Meeting

WG1-F Theatre History and Historiography - Panel on asymmetric ignorance Chair: Ruthie Abeliovich

Rebalancing the Environment: Further Claire Cochrane (University of Thoughts on Asymetric Ignorance Worcester) Polish Colonial Histories: Cultural Agata Łuksza (University of Warsaw) Performances and the Genealogy of Colonial Mind in Europe’s Periphery Theatre History - Epistemic System Rashna Darius Nicholson (The University of Hong Kong)

WG1-G Choreography and Corporeality

Fire Dances: ‘what remains burning is hence Rachel Fensham (University of corrosive’ Melbourne) Between the Body and the Environment, Philipa Rothfield (La Trobe Performativity Beyond the Subject University/Univeresity of Southern Denmark) Corporeality: The Politics of an Ageing Body Sonia York-Pryce (Independent Researcher)

WG1-H Arabic theatre Working Group:Egypt and the Gulf: Adapting in Changing Environments PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Samer Al-Saber

From the Cave to the City: A Historiographic Marina Bergenstock (Stanford Investigation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s People of University) the Cave Adaptation to a Harsher Clime: Re-Writing Katherine Hennessey (American Western Plays on the Arabian Peninsula University of Kuwait)

WG1-I The Theatrical Event

Presentation of: Robert Wilson's work with Keren Cohen (Hebrew University of Amateurs. Deafman Glance (1970) + Jerusalem) discussion Analysis and Reflection on Body Drama and Its Jia Xuehong (Yangzhou University) Cross Cultural Communication—Talking About 41

Two Body Dramas Staged in "Qingmai- Workshop" of Yangzhou Five little pieces - Milo Rau and Amateur Rikard Hoogland Theatre (Stockholm University)

WG1-J Queer Futures

Spreading Fertiliser and Cooking up Feral Alyson Campbell (University of Queer Camps Melbourne) and Stephen Farrier (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London) Entangled Drag Queens: Reflections on the Ian Rafael Ramirez (Graduate School Live-streamed Performances of/and the of Humanities and Social Sciences, Metro Manila Drag Community University of Melbourne )

WG1-K Political Performance - Dialogue and listening: ecologies of collaboration Chair: Trish Reid

Ecologies of trans-disciplinary collaboration: Aylwyn Walsh (University of Leeds) Performance as dialogue about Ecosystem Services in Chiapas, Mexico Enacting a Poetics and Politics of Listening Sarah Woodland (University of Melbourne) and Rand Hazou

WG1-L Digital Humanities in Theatre Research

ENTRIB – Iberian “entremezes”, a digital Ariadne Nunes (IELT, FCSH - Nova scholarly edition Univ. Lisbon)

WG1-M: Performance in Public Places- Community Ecologies

“Ephemeral Gardens: Sustaining Culture and Rebecca Free (Goucher Problems of Envisioning in Public-Space College) Performance” “Performing Civic Spheres at the ‘Balfour Protest’” Daphna Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv University)

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WG2 Monday 11.00 – 12.30

WG2-A Asian Theatre Working Group

Staging Ordinary People in Hong Kong Wai Yam Chan (Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education) The New Development of Malaysian Islamic Fazilah Husin (Universiti Putra Theatre Malaysia) and Zulkifli Mohamad “Theatre Ecology, Nature, and Politics in Iris H. Tuan (National Yang Ming Shakespeare’s Plays and Hold On, Love!” Chiao Tung University)

WG2-B Scenography Chair: Nick Hunt

Ecoscenography is Expanded Scenography is Julie Hudson (Theatre Research Ecoscenography is Expanded Scenography International) The (in)disposable utopia of scenography: Rana Esfandiary (University of preserving environment through theatre Kansas) Eco-materiality and Eco-materialism in Sofia Pantouvaki Costume Design (Aalto University)

Zero-Waste Bauprobe: Full-Scale Susanne Thurow (The University of Collaboration in Virtual Space New South Wales) Digital Scenography in a Natural Environment Michael Simon (Zurich University of the Arts)

WG2-C – Feminist Research WG Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick & Indu Jain

Me and the Sky: climate change smashes the Evelyn O’Malley (University of Exeter) glass ceiling in Come From Away The Toxically Masculine Strike Back – Carole Quigley (Mary Immaculate January 6th, 2021, a Feminist Analysis College, University of Limerick) Uneating the apple: Ontroerend Goed and Karen Quigley (University of York) ecologies of the impossible. The un-redemptive ecologies of 4.48 Leah Sidi (University College London) Psychosis

WG2-D Popular Entertainment

Acting, Singing, and Athletics: Physical Kelsey Blair (McGill University) Culture Across Popular Spectacles in the Early Twenty-First Century 43

Circus as a trans-temporal community: Aastha Gandhi (Jawaharlal Nehru Networks, Circuits and Mobile Materials University, New Delhi) Covid-19 as Method: Recovering the Popular Maggie Leung (Hong Kong) in Hong Kong Ballroom Dancing

WG2-E Intermediality Working Group - New Mobilities: Sustainability Through Miniaturisation, Secret Theatres & Mobile Experiences

Miniaturising Australian Intermedial Tessa Rixon (Queensland University Theatre: Towards a Sustainable Model of of Technology) Performance Creation and Touring for Large- scale, Technically Complex Visual Theatre Secret Theatre: The Smartphone Effect in "As Abi Trott (Graduate School of If No One is Watching" Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne) Slow Down (You Move Too Fast): A Case Mairéad Ni Chroinín Study in Deep Ecology, Mechanics and Mobile (NUI Galway) Experiences

WG2-F Theatre History and Historiography - Special Panel on green historiography

Performance Texts and Historiographical Sharon Aronson-Lehavi Research: the Video Archive of Rina (Tel Aviv University) Yerushalmi On felt, mice and moths: ‘Nature’ and its Tancredi Gusman (HSLU - Lucerne conservation in a work by Joseph Beuys University of Applied Sciences and Arts) Studying Theatre in Times of Paper Shortage Lotte Schüßler (Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin)

WG2-G Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Magical and Religious Ritual Performance Filipe Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Performance and Ecology in the Practices of Cormac Power (Northumbria Christian Mysticism University)

WG2-H Arabic theatre Working Group - Politics at Play In Egypt and Syria

PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Sarah Youssef

War of the Troupes Samy Selim (University of Bristol) 44

The manifest absence of religion in Modern Daniela Potenza (Università degli Egyptian Drama Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Censorship and Creativity in Syrian Theater: Samar Zahrawi (Sam Houston State Saʾdallah Wannous’s A Soirée for the Fifth of University) June, The King’s Elephant, and The King is King

WG2-I The Theatrical Event

Web-specific theatre practice. Transmedia Carmen Gonzalez Requiero approaches to connect theatre to young (Strategies for Drama SL) people through their native digital language. Rethinking the Digital Space as Theatrical Caleb Lee (Rose Bruford College) Event for Young Audiences: Practices, Participation and Inclusion TAUkO (2018) – Materialism of the New Janne Tapper Generation A Word In Your Ear: Reimagining Community Kate Valentine (University of York) Drama as Site-Specific Digital Storytelling

WG2-J Queer Futures

Temporalities of Refusal: Queer Ghosts Erdem Rasim Avsar (University of Seeking Redress on the Turkish Stage, Glasgow) In-between Love: Performance of Intimate Sheetala Bhat (University of Western Love as Making of Queer Counterpublics in Ontario) Mandeep Raikhy’s Queen-size An Ecology of Safety: The 66 Year Parade of Jef Hall-Flavin (Royal Central School Tennessee Williams in Provincetown of Speech and Drama) Away with the Faeries: Searching for a Queer Andrew Marks (University of Ecological Praxis amongst the Radical Faeries Edinburgh)

WG2-K Political Performance WG: Theatre and the ecologies of the Left Chair: Nesreen Hussein

Legacy of the Revolution and Imagination of Zheyu Wei (Guangxi Arts University) the Global Community in Chinese ‘New Leftist’ The Ecologies of Political Theatre: An Komita Dhanda (Jawaharlal Nehru Analysis of work of Praja Natya Mandali in University) Telangana “Why you so liddat?”*: Mediatised Natalie Lazaroo (University of performance of race and protest in Singapore Queensland)

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WG2-L Digital Humanities in Theatre Research

Intersectionality in Digital Theatre and Nora Probst Performance Studies Rehearsing Transhumanism: Ethnography of Lea Luka Sikau (Cambridge Michel van der Aa’s mixed-media opera University, Faculty of Music) UPLOAD Experimental Theatre Scholarship: A Miguel Escobar Varela (Social Justice Computational Overview Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto)

WG2-M: Performance in Public Places: Decolonising Space:

Destabilizing the Colonial Space, Ethics and Deniz Basar, Art Babayants Aesthetics: The Dramaturgy and Labour of (Concordia University) Creating Theatre as a Counterpublic Sphere Breaking the Silence: The British Slave Trade Holly Maples (University of Essex) in Performance Common Salt: Colonialism, Capitalism and Lisa Woynarski (University of Ecology Reading)

WG3 Monday 13.15 – 14.30

WG3-A – not running in this session

WG3-B – Embodied Research - Interdisciplinary Connections

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

(Re)performing an eco-documentary practice Nathalie Suck I’m Not Here: Embodied Methods for Michael Henry (Royal Conservatoire Ecological Selfhood of Scotland) Creative bodies: entanglements of Roisin O’Gorman self/subject and other/object in explorations (University College Cork) of what constitutes human remains. Loco.Motion: Case studies on Expressive Shrinkhla Sahai Movement and Sustainable Development Explaining theatre to a Malignant Root: Matt Smith (University of Performing Objects, Shifting Ontologies and Portsmouth) Topsy-Turvy Ecologies. A performance with objects. The Object Dance Project: The Ecologies of Josiah Pearsall (Louisiana State Thingness University) Performance and social justice: Embodying Alba P. Vieira (Federal University of the process of sustainability of Afro and Vicosa) and Denise M. Zenicola indigenous culture and their environments in (Federal University Fluminense) Brazil

WG3-C Feminist Research WG

Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick & Indu Jain

In dialogue with Deevy: Little Theatre of the Una Kealy (Waterford Institute of 1950s Technology) POLITICAL RESISTANCE IN FRANCE: new Stefania Lodi Rizzini (University of strategies of representation Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle) Disabilities in theater education and practice Monika Kwaśniewska-Mikuła (on the relationship between disability, (Jagiellonian University) ecology and feminism)

WG3-D Performance and Disability Working Group Introductions. Working Group business. Plan for the week.

WG3-E Intermediality Working Group - Artificial Agents & Mixed Reality Spaces: Intelligent Algorithms & Sustainable Scenographies in Performance

Theatre, Drama and Artificial Intelligence Antonio Pizzo (Università degli Studi di Torino) The Song of Matter: 3D Printing, Video and Vincenzo del Gaudio (University of Intermediality Performance Sustainability Salerno)

WG3-F Musical Theatre

A politics of marginalization: Theatre music in David Roesner (LMU Munich) contemporary theatre A consumer ecology of the musical theatre Ben Macpherson (University of cast recording: Energy, matter, residue and Portsmouth) waste

WG3-G – Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Breakout room 1 Body as Land, Land as Body; A Material- Laura Burns (Goldsmiths, University spiritual Encounter with Nonhuman and of London) Mythic Ancestors Now the River Knows Your Name: Christopher Danowski (University of Performing the Eco-centric for the Invisible Portsmouth) How to Raise a Ghost: A Memento Mori Mia van Leeuwen (University of Practice Lethbridge) Dreaming of Uncanny Houses: Seeing Charles Gillespie (Sacred Heart Kirkwood’s The Children with John Moriarty University)

Breakout room 2 The Human Quest for Meaning Tyrone Grima (MCAST) Wisdom Exists in the Stories of Wounds Silvia Battista (Liverpool Hope University)

WG3-H Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Remote dramaturgy in practice - Krystina Dolezalova (University of dramaturgical schemes in times of pandemic Amsterdam) Defining Post-Verbatim Dramaturgy Duška Radosavljević (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) Ecocritical Dystopia in Performance: The Graca Correa Unempathetic Superspace of Home in Automata

WG3-I Theatre Architecture - Politics: Performative Interventions in the Neoliberal City Chair: Andrew Filmer

Theatrical activism in the neoliberal city: the Rogerio Machado Legislative Theater of Augusto Boal and the stagings of Os Sertões by José Celso at Teatro Oficina A Pandemic Perspective on Scenographic Shauna Janssen (Concordia, Ecologies of Performing Urban Place in University) Montreal The role of the Performance Designer in the Marina Hadjilouca (Royal College of Contested Urban Realm Art) Theatre Architecture as a Performing Ecology Dorita Hannah in the City

WG3-J – Choreography and Corporeality

Generational experiences of gender and Shonagh Hill (Queen's University of feminisms in Northern Ireland Belfast) Solo dancing and ecologies of plurality Daniela Perazzo Domm (Kingston University London) Moving With(in) Language: kinetic Rosa Lambert (University of Antwerp) textuality in contemporary performing arts reconsidered through modernist poetry

WG3-K Political Performance: Performance and the borders of democracy Chair: David Rodriguez-Solas

Exiled Lives on the Stage: Turkey’s Artists at Pieter Verstraete (Free University of the Crossroads of New Aesthetic Practices and Berlin) Political Subjectivities Performing Democracy in the Graveyard: Hayana Kim (Northwestern Military Dictatorship and Commemorative University) Activism in South Korea

WG3-L Performance as Research Meeting for all members of the group

WG3-M: Performance in Public Places = Performative Protest:

Disrupting Performances of Power through Sian Rees (University for the Creative Performative Objects Arts)

Playful disobedience in a contested space: Reka Polonyi (University of activist methods in The Model: a model for a Manchester) qualitative society Re-framing the Power: A New Methodological Goran Duric (University of Approach to the Study of Theatrical Protest Melbourne) Tactics

WG4 Monday 15.15 – 16.45

WG4-A Samuel Beckett At me too someone is looking, of me too Teresa Rosell Nicolás (University of someone is saying”: Waiting for Godot in Sala Barcelona) Beckett

Towards an Ecology of Beckettian Acting Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College, Dublin)

WG4-B Embodied Research Institutional Frameworks & Multimedia Publications

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

A video article on how silence is an embodied Elizabeth de Roza politicised and decolonised action. Intercultural Roots & Embodied Creative Alexander Boyd and Andrea Maciel Practices: how the micro and macro walk in a Garcia (UC Davis Theatre & Dance) resonant continuum Embodied Research Lab, Bangalore: desires, Shabari Rao questions and constraints that shape practice Theoretical Ecologies and the Crises of Raimund Rosarius (LMU) (Dis)embodied Practice Theatrical Ecology of the Working Group: Ben Spatz (University of Encounter and Archival Contribution. Huddersfield) Childable Research Melissa da Silva Ferreira (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Somatic Ergonomics: Sustaining embodied Peilin Liang (National University of performance practices as social critique Singapore)

WG4-C – Asian Theatre Working Group

Sentience of Rhythm: Precondition to a Rajdeep Konar (Theatre Research Sustainable Society International Iraqi Theatre: A Niche in an Ecologically Majeed Midhin (University of Anbar) Political Sane Milieu The role of digital documentation in the Wanjin Li (University of Warwick) creation, promotion and preservation of UK and Chinese performance

WG4-D Performance and Disability Working Group Chair: Jessica Watkins

Caught in the Echo Chamber, or Reopening Joseph Paul Hill (The Graduate Sports Stadiums and Locking Theatre Doors Center, CUNY) Deaf Diplomacy: international touring Patrick McKelvey practices of the National Theatre of the Deaf (University of Pittsburgh) Reality Shows and Disabled Identity: Akhila Vimal (Jawaharlal Nehru Dynamics of Representation and Mass Media University)

WG4-E Queer Futures

Splinters: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen on Jacob Bloomfield (University of the Interwar Stage Konstanz) The Queer Potential of Single-Sex Theatre Dominic Janes (Keele University) Performance at the University of Cambridge in the Early Twentieth Century Drag and the Maintenance of Gender Norms: Emily Rutherford (Merton College, A Case from Early Twentieth-Century British Oxford) Universities

WG4-F Musical Theatre

(Re)staging the Past: Cultural Memory and Tereza Havelkova (Charles National Identity in Czech Opera after 1989 University in Prague) The Cunning Little Vixen, nationalism and Daniel Somerville (University of ecopolitics Worcester) Haunting, History, and the Politics of Colleen Lenihan (Queen's Performance in Clement and Current's Missing University, Ontario)

WG4-G Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Whirling in the Middle of a Chaos Esra Çizmeci, (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University) Staging the gift and loss of religion: Anna Dulba-Barnett (University of development of a new play about creation of Oregon) Poland Symbolic Protest, Performing Silences and Clara Molina Blanco (University of Tradition in Mormon Feminism Extremadura)

WG4-H Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

“Words Don’t Come Easily“* - Reflections on Ann-Christine Simke (University of Monster Truck’s Sorry, the discourse on race Glasgow) in German theatre and a commitment to an intersectional dramaturgical practice "The Wild Girls” Kristin Leahey (Boston University) Verse Dramaturgies and New Theatre Forms Kasia Lech (Canterbury Christ Church University)

WG4-I Theatre Architecture - Environment: Ecological Entanglements Chair: Andrew Filmer

Erratic Drift: human-lithic performance Minty Donald (University of Glasgow) Performing Elements: Air. Tómas Saraceno’s Nadine Civilotti (University of Mainz) In Orbit as aesthetic ecology Lineage as Artistic Ecosystem Sidsel Graffer (Norwegian Theatre Academy) Ecological thinking as a creative expansion - Anna Zoulia opening a dialogue between architecture theatres with their environments

WG4-J – Choreography and Corporeality

Pathways: The Futurity of Pedestrian Paula Guzzanti (L-Università ta' Movement in the Maltese Islands Malta) Improvising affectivity – the case of Kitt Susanne Ravn (University of Southern Johnson’s site-specific work Denmark) Turning the World back to Earth: an example Gustavo Vicente (University of Lisbon) from Alessandro Sciarroni's artistic practice

WG4-K – this session is not filled

WG4-L Performance as Research Meeting for all members of the group

WG5 Tuesday 19.00 – 20.30

WG5-A Groupe de travail Processus de création/ Working Group Creative Processes

Introduction Luk Van den Dries Stratégies d’écritures plurielles de la Robert Faguy, Natalia complexité en arts vivants : ouvrir les Soldera (LANTISS-Universite laval) potentiels créatifs Mouvements de la mer intérieure : les enjeux George Mascarenhas (Federal d’un processus de création contemporain University of Bahia) basé sur la pratique du mime corporel d’Étienne Entre transmission pratique et traces écrites : Erica Letailleur (Université Nice Côte étudier les travaux du Workcenter of Jerzy d'Azur, CTEL) Grotowski and Thomas Richards

WG5-B – Scenography Chair: Sofia Pantouvaki

A Discourse on Theatre/Studio Installations Alphonsus Orisaremi (University of and Climactic Factors in Parts of Nigerian Ibadan) Negotiating Societal ‘Political Correctness’ and Aisling Smith the Playwright’s Intent in the Representation of Race and Identity through Production Scenography in changing cultural environments Lungs – Learning to Breath More Freely Nick Wood (Royal Central School Of Speech and Drama) Landscape and Habitation: A scenographic Nick Hunt (Rose Bruford College) perspective The U.A.P. experience: a transdisciplinary art Renato Bolelli Rebouças (University platform in the peripheric context of Sao Paulo)

WG5-C – Choreography and Corporeality

Extracting-with Algae Sarah Blissett (University of Roehampton) “Nature Moves”: Connecting Butoh and Anna Rosemary Candelario (Texas Halprin Woman's University) Thinking with Water. Choreographing Annalisa Piccirillo (Theatre Research Ecological Relationalities International)

WG5-D Feminist Research WG

Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick & Indu Jain

Two Tamings: cross-gender Shakespeare and Amanda Finch (Ulster) the subversion or reinscription of power. ALTAMIRA 2042: Feminist Performance and Ana Bernstein and Rebecca Benzie the question concerning technology (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

WG5-E Intermediality Working Group - Traversing Transient Spaces: Online Virtual Foyers & Game Engines in Theatre Practice

Online Entrances, Virtual Exits, and the Rosie Klich (University of Essex) Function of the Foyer From Argos to Eros Tim White (University of Warwick)

WG5-F Musical Theatre

The Color Purple: Creative figures, racial Phoebe Rumsey (University of politics, and divergent aesthetics in musical Portsmouth) theatre processes Changes in Swedish operetta dancing at the Lotty Harryson (Stockholm Storan Theatre in Gothenburg by the mid University) 1930s Does Hamilton Bring Walls Down? American Francesco Saverio Sani (De Montfort Musical Drama and the Rise of Fascism University)

WG5- G Popular Entertainment

Immersive Performance and Sensory Rick DesRochers (Lehman College) Stimulation: the Intimacy of Participation and the Attractions of Madness in Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell ‘The Peepshow Vampire' - horror and Tony Lidington accessibility for a twenty-first century audience Incubator Baby Shows: Performance Without Susan Kattwinkel (College of Texts, Actors, or Archive. Charleston)

WG5-H – Theatre architecture - Place: Performance Spaces in Context Chair: Dorita Hannah

Il Teatro del Mondo and its environment: the Marc Fernández Cuyàs (Universitat defence of collective memory through theatre de Barcelona)

Mapping Maynard: Exploring possibilities for Andrew Filmer (Aberystwyth rural performance space University) Resilience and transience in the Evelyn Furquim Werneck Lima (The historiography of modern and contemporary Federal University of the State of Rio theatre architecture de Janeiro) Hollow (2016): reconfiguring participation as Jenny Hall (Crafted Space) an eco-spatial practice

WG5-I Theatre History and Historiography: Special Panel on embodiment and historiographical research Chair: Dorota Sosnowska

The Jew's Daughter and Her Mother's Sarit Cofman-Simhon (Kibbutzim Discontents: La Belle Juive as a Site of College, Tel-Aviv) Acculturation in Yiddish Drama Postist challenges, female migration and Laura Peja (Università Cattolica del performing memories as a historiographical Sacro Cuore, Milano) method. Meyerhold's Castings of Actresses for Male Janne Risum (Aarhus University) Parts Yasmine

WG5-J Arabic theatre - Globalization's Aftermaths: Kuwait, Germany, and the Levant PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Samer Al-Saber

Globalization LIVE!: Theatrical tradition meets Yasmine Jahanmir (University of corporate strategy in Kuwait’s Zain musicals Nevada, Reno) Arab Voices on the European Stage: Between Sarah Yousssef (University of Fact and Fiction, Memory and Imagination Cologne, Germany) Narratives of Regret: Syrian Children Bart Pitchford (University of Performing Psychosocial Theatre to Promote a Montevallo) Politics of Reconciliation in Za’atari Refugee Camp

WG5-K Political Performance: Session 4 Staging Land and Environment Chair: Cristina Delgado-García

Black Men Walking: Exploring Race, Region Gemma Edwards (University of and the Rural Nottingham) Greenwood Spaces: Outlaw Figures as Limit Julia Boll (University of Hamburg) Concepts The solace of planting trees Sam Haddow (University of St Andrews)

WG5-L Performance as Research Meeting for all members of the group

WG6 Tuesday, 21.15 – 22.30

WG6-A Groupe de travail Processus de création/ Working Group Creative Processes

Tactics of Guidance: Negotiating a Dissensing Elvira Crois (University of Antwerp) Aesthetic of Audience Participation | Tactiques de guidage : négociation d'une esthétique de dissensus de la participation du public A new theatre dimension? Reflections on the Proshot Kalami (BHCC) dramaturgy of online theatre during the pandemic. Continuous becoming. Collecting traces of a Luk Van den Dries (University of creative process within the ARGOS research Antwerp) project. Conclusion(s) : Discussions et perspectives / Conclusion(s): discussion and perspectives: open discussion

WG6-B – Scenography Chair: Nick Hunt

Costume as site for Ecoscenography: the Donatella Barbieri (LCF) Material Interactions workshops in Prague, London and Galway (2019-2020) Occupying the periphery: Backstage spaces Cath Badham and Kelli Zezulka and the ecologies of practice (University of Derby) Costume Shop Ecology Christin Essin (Vanderbilt University)

WG6C – Embodied Research WG - Core Embodied Research

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

Challenging dramaturgical practices through Melina Scialom (Federal University embodied research of Bahia, Brazil) Queer Corporealities: The (Un)Making of Joseph Appleton (University of Queer Ecologies Sydney) Postdramatic Theatre: Authenticity and/or Silvia Dumitriu Deconstruction?

BUG: Metamorphosis in the time of Covid-19 Nazlıhan Eda Erçin (Louisiana State University) Being Lost and Becoming: Exploring the Raman Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru Performance of Pain in Maya Rao’s Khol Do University) Somatic practices in the historical research. Fabiana Mercadante (Universidade The body as archive in dialogue with de Lisboa) singularity Bernadette Sweeney Embodying eco-revelations: the “more- than- Florence Figols (Concordia human” as collaborators University)

WG6-D Feminist Research WG Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick

"An Explosion of Feminism:" Dramaturgies of Jennifer Thompson (University of Excess and Revolution in Chile's New Pennsylvania) Feminist Vanguard Ghostly Studies of the House: The Spectral Kelly Richmond (Cornell University) Feminist Ecologies of Killjoy’s Kastle The human species outside the center: Lucia Romano (Paulista State theatre, struggle for land and ecofeminism in University SP) the Brazilian adaptation of “The Horatians and the Curiatians"

WG6-E Intermediality Working Group - Technological Tensions: Automation/Environmentalism & Decentred Humans/Agentic Bodies of Personal Data

Personal Data as Expanded Human Sarah Lucie (The Graduate Center, Materiality: Herzog, de Meuron and Ai CUNY) Weiwei’s "Hansel and Gretel" Throwaway Expansion: Automation, Douglas Eacho (University of Toronto) Environmental Performance, and the Inflatable Dome

WG6-F Musical Theatre WG Members’ meeting

WG6- G Popular Entertainment

The Comedy Propaganda Machine: The Tara Demmy (University of Maryland Soldier Sketch Writing Contest of World War College Park) II

I am Don Quixote the Trio Likay: A Soul- Sukanya Sompiboon (Chulalongkorn Searching Content within Thai popular University) performance

WG6-H – Theatre architecture Business meeting

WG6-I Theatre History and Historiography: Panel on actors and acting Chair: Meike Wagner

Systemic Bodies? Writing a History of Actor Anja Klöck (Hochschule für Musik Training in Germany between 1945 and 1989 und Theater Leipzig) Aliens and Stars: Labor Disputes and Aligning Ann White (Michigan State Actor/Character Identities University)

An Erotic Environment: The Nineteenth- Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) century Actress’s Dressing-Room

WG6-J Arabic theatre Siege, home, and the Self in Iraq and Palestine PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Sarah Youssef

The Iraqi Home/land under Siege: House as James Al Shamma (Belmont Metaphor in Abdul Razaq Al-Rubai’s A Strange University); Amir Al-Azraki Bird on Our Roof (Renison University College, University of Waterloo) Palestinian Theatre: Alienation, Mediation and Gary English (Univeristy of Assimilation in Cross Cultural Research and Conneticut) Practice

WG6-K – not running in this session

WG6-L Performance as Research Meeting for all members of the group

WG7 Wednesday 12.45 – 14.00

WG7A Embodied Research - Interdisciplinary Connections

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

(Re)performing an eco-documentary practice Nathalie Suck I’m Not Here: Embodied Methods for Michael Henry (Royal Conservatoire Ecological Selfhood of Scotland) Creative bodies: entanglements of Roisin O’Gorman (University College self/subject and other/object in explorations Cork) of what constitutes human remains. Loco.Motion: Case studies on Expressive Shrinkhla Sahai Movement and Sustainable Development Explaining theatre to a Malignant Root: Matt Smith (University of Performing Objects, Shifting Ontologies and Portsmouth) Topsy-Turvy Ecologies. A performance with objects. The Object Dance Project: The Ecologies of Josiah Pearsall (Louisiana State Thingness University) Performance and social justice: Embodying Alba P. Vieira (Federal University of the process of sustainability of Afro and Vicosa) and Denise M. Zenicola indigenous culture and their environments in (Federal University Fluminense) Brazil

WG7-B Scenography Working Group Chairs: Sofia Pantouvaki and Nick Hunt Business meeting

WG7-C Popular Entertainment

Variety Theatre History and Film: Fictions as Larraine Nicholas (University of Sources Roehampton) ‘A simulacrum of the cultural and historical Gillian Arrighi (University of process itself’: popular entertainments at Newcastle (Australia)) Newcastle’s heritage-listed Victoria Theatre The weight of the set designs as a way to Eduard Molner (Escola Universitària identify audiences in the popular theatre of ERAM - Universitat de Girona) Barcelona at the beginning of the XX century

WG7-D Performance and Disability Working Group

Place of Safety: intellectual disability and Riika Papunen (Tampere theatre University)

Zoom-zoom: online creative collaborations Suzanne Ingelbrecht/Dan Graham Mapping Pre-show information as an Access Kelsie Acton Tool

WG7-E Intermediality Working Group - Reconfiguring Trust in Machines: Bodies- as-data, Malfunctioning Humanoids & Platforms for Transgressive Participation

The Body as Data: Reimagining a reality for Sidonie Carey Green (Royal Holloway migrating bodies beyond the limits of University of London) Europe’s digital borders through performance I am Going to Turn Into Peter: Glitching Yaron Shyldkrot (University of Human-Robot interactions Sheffield)

Becoming Wolf via WhatsApp: The Caroline Mueller Transgressive Potential of Instant Messaging Services in Participatory Performance and Activism

WG7-F Musical Theatre

Wiener Musicals and their Developments: Rina Tanaka (Meiji University) Glocalization History of Musicals between Vienna and Japan Indeterminate Ecologies: Sonification, Marcus Tan (Nanyang Technological Sonicity and Vibration in Dear John University)

WG-G Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Breakout room 1 Worship and the plague: Crafting ritual Joshua Edelman (Manchester experiences in COVID-19 Britain Metropolitan University) Ritual Celebration of Advent in the times of Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen (Stockholm Covid-19: Experience Between the Archive University) and the Repertoire Breakout room 2 Invent Your Own Religion Michael Dudeck (Edinburgh College of Art) Posthuman Spiritualities: Trance, Virtual Kyueun Kim (CUNY Graduate Center) Reality, and Supernatural Dance in Choy Ka Fai’s CosmicWonder

WG7-H Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Recognizing Unexpected Adaptations, John Severn (Macquarie University) Destabilizing Identities Aboriginalizing Mother Courage: Brecht in Prateek Prateek (BITS Pilani) Australia Simon Stephens’s Collaborative Practices in Nabi Ito (University of Birmingham) an Intercultural Context: The Uniqueness of the Production of Fortune in Tokyo, 2020

WG7-I The Theatrical Event

Performing Iraqi-Jewish History in the Orna Naphtaly Shem-Tov (The Open Port Children and Youth Theatre University of Israel) Yiddish Theatre - A Surviving Amateur Wlllmar Sauter (Stockholm Culture University) A Word In Your Ear: Reimagining Kate Valentine (University of York) Community Drama as Site-Specific Digital Storytelling

WG7-J Queer Futures

Resisting resilience: Live Art approaches to Stephen Greer (University of developing queer performance Glasgow) Like Tears in the Ocean: The Wild Search for Annalaura Alifuoco (Liverpool Hope the Miraculous University)

WG7-K Political Performance WG: Politics and identity Chair: Aylwyn Walsh

The Toxic Whiteness of Contemporary British Tom Cornford (The Royal Central Theatre School of Speech and Drama) The Slippery Nature of Identity: The Problem Sarah Gorman (Roehampton of Queer Agency in the work of Rachael University) Young, Lucy Hutson and Project O. Bussy Project: Storytelling, Visibility, and Nesreen Hussein (Middlesex Negotiating Public and Private Spheres University)

WG7-L Performance in Public Places - Landscape and power

Performing the Covert Landscape Fraser Stevens (University of Maryland, College Park) Paradoxical Partition: Exploring Performative Mary Caulfield (Theatre Research Protests at the US-Mexico Border Wall International) Performance-based Arts, Activism and Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway, Environmental Justice University of London)

WG7-M Choreography and Corporeality

Performances of disobedience in Catalonia’s Eve Aymami Rene (Anglia Ruskin race for independence University) Dance, activism and surveillance in the age of Stacey Prickett (University of Brexit and Covid-19 Roehampton) Dance and Borders in Northern Ireland Aoife McGrath (Queen's University Belfast)

WG8 Wednesday 14.45 – 16.15

WG8-A Embodied Research: Institutional Frameworks & Multimedia Publications

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

A video article on how silence is an embodied Elizabeth de Roza politicised and decolonised action. Intercultural Roots & Embodied Creative Alexander Boyd and Andrea Maciel Practices: how the micro and macro walk in a Garcia (UC Davis Theatre & Dance) resonant continuum Embodied Research Lab, Bangalore: desires, Shabari Rao questions and constraints that shape practice Theoretical Ecologies and the Crises of Raimund Rosarius (LMU) (Dis)embodied Practice Theatrical Ecology of the Working Group: Ben Spatz (University of Encounter and Archival Contribution. Huddersfield) Childable Research Melissa da Silva Ferreira (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Somatic Ergonomics: Sustaining embodied Peilin Liang (National University of performance practices as social critique Singapore)

WG8-B Sceneography Chair: Sofia Pantouvaki

Staged Animality Pipsa Keski-Hakuni (Aalto University) Terrapolis: erotic nonsense and multi- Meg Rollandi (Massey University, species entanglements College of Creative Arts)

Ecological modes of researching and Henny Dörr (HKU) spectating Outdoor theater in park location Jari Aaltonen (Aalto University)

WG8-C Feminist Research WG Chair: Indu Jain and Lisa Fitzpatrick ARTISTS PANEL Emma O'Grady (Galway) and Lara Hickey (Dublin) Pre-watch: interview with Margaretta D'Arcy and Lelia Doolan

WG8-D Performance and Disability Working Group

Embracing the Distance: Accessing Dances of Jose Miguel Esteban Connection (OISE/University of Toronto) Re-imagining support in a digital world Becky Gold (York University) Sensory theatre for neurodiverse audiences Alison Mahoney (University of during the pandemic Pittsburgh)

WG8-E Intermediality Working Group - New Natural Histories, Ambivalent Futures & Technologically Altered Bodily Ecologies

Posthumanist Optimism in Von Krahl Riina Oruaas (University of Tartu) Theatre’s Epic JAIK Eco-Dramaturgies: Robert Zhao and the Katia Arfara (New York University Institute of Critical Zoologists Abu Dhabi) Performer Biosystem with respect to Emmanouela Vogiatzaki (University performance art ecosystem: An interaction of Peloponnese) between biology and technology in performance art

WG8-F Theatre Architecture Politics: Protest, Decolonisation and Democracy Chair: Shauna Janssen

Protest Architecture and Performance Julian Maynard-Smith Performing Rage: ‘The rapist is you’ feminist Marcela Oteiza (Wesleyan flash mob by Las Tesis collective, 2019 and University) ongoing Three Convicts: The Dam, The War, The Oil: Sepideh Karami (Edinburgh School of An Ecological Stage of Disaster in Architecture & Landscape Mesopotamian Marshes Architecture) The theatre building as cultural machine: Karl Falconer (Canterbury Christ Materiality and cultural democracy at Church University), Steven Hadley, Liverpool’s The Purple Door Jon Moorhouse (Architect)

WG8- G Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Acting the Essence The Performer’s Work on Giuliano Campo (Ulster University) The Self The spiritual experience of acting in connection Elien Hanselaer (Queen's to co-actors University Belfast) Staging Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances and the Maria Litvan (The Graduate Center, Performer/Spectator Relationship CUNY)

WG8-H Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

“A ghetto street. A lamppost. Night”: Adapting Nelson Barre (Roanoke College) Beckett to the Black Urban Experience ‘…bouche en feu…’: Analysing Beckett’s Self- Shane O’Neill (Mary Immaculate Translation Process College, University of Limerick) The Pigeon in A Pigeon and a Boy: A Gad Kaynar (Tel Aviv University) Paradigm of a Subversive Dramaturgical Adaptation Process

WG8-I The Theatrical Event

University Student Practice: A unique David Hockham (University of performance method in a nexus of practices Greenwich) The Ethics of Theatrical Event: Performing Vessila Warner Local Ecologies in Theatre Courses Negotiating practice: working with University Vicki Ann Cremona (Theatre Students in changing COVID circumstances Research International)

WG8-J Queer Futures Friendship as Ritual in the Underground Rodrigo Canete (University of Scene of 1980s Buenos Aires: The Drag- Warwick) Queen Clown, Walter ‘Batato’ Barea Besides Drag: queer nightlife performances Joe Parslow (Royal Central School of and networks of support Speech and Drama) Turing’s Ghost and the Grief Machine Fintan Walsh (Theatre Research International)

WG8-K Political Performance: Fear and anxiety in dystopian landscapes Chair: Julia Boll

All Without the Family: Theatres of Eco- Jon Venn (University of Birmingham) Anxiety and Possible (Apocalyptic) Futures Ecologies of Fear: Breach Theatre’s The Drill Andrew Lennon (University of (2018) Birmingham)

WG8-L Performance in Public Places - Women and Care

“An Ecosystem of Care: The Dalit Women's Vivek V. Narayan (Ashoka Society and the embodied politics of kinship in University) Kerala, south India, 1992-2018” “Performing (dis)respectable femininity Ciara L Murphy (NUI Galway) during the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum Campaign.”

WG8-M Choreography and Corporeality

Authority and Nothing: Subscendence in Nik Wakefield (University of Harrell, Hassabi and Spangberg Portsmouth) Between Flesh and Stone: Revisiting Archives Susanne Foellmer (Coventry in Dance University) Holding Dance Prarthana Purkayastha (Royal Holloway, University of London)

WG9 Thursday 15.00 – 16.15

WG9-A Feminist Research WG Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick & Indu Jain

“Pornography of the Soul:” The Body as Site of Mara Valderrama (The Graduate Contestation of Gender Boundaries in Angélica Center, CUNY) Liddell’s Theatre Politics of procreation and parenthood in the Ewa Bal (Jagiellonian University) contemporary TV series dramaturgy. Utopian and dystopian scenarios of post-Anthropocene ecologies in the techno-nature-cultural entanglement Performance and Institutionalisation: Miriam Haughton (NUI Galway) Embodying 'Historical' Injustice

WG9-B – Scenography Chair: Nick Hunt

Teaching Scenography in Greece; the ecology Dimitra Giovani, Evangelia of stage design education Karakosta, Panayiota Konstantinakou, Ioulia Pipinia (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) The old-new spaces for culture and life Vě ra Velemanová (Arts and Theatre Institute Prague) Perpetual presence, permanent absence: Olga Nikolaeva (Musikverket) Scenographic Ecology and Representation of Trauma in Contemporary Russian Theatre

WG9-C Queer Futures

“We’ll meet you underground” Transcultural Jeremy Neideck and Nathan performance practices in queer space and Stoneham (Queensland University of time Technology) Cultivating LGBTQ+ Solidarity through Jeffrey Pufahl (Center for Arts in Community-Based Theatre Intervention in Medicine, University of Florida) India The Ecologies of Affective Leather Intimacies Heath Pennington (University of California Santa Barbara)

WG9-D Performance as Research Meeting for all members of the group

WG9-E Intermediality Working Group – Postmedia: Internet Theatres, Place- mixing in Urban Wildscapes & Homologies in Intermediality

Internet Theatre: A Postmedia Analysis of To Joseph Dunne Howrie (City, Be A Machine and Rich Kids: A History of University of London) Shopping Malls in Tehran Intermediality, Ecological Homologies and Stella Keramida (University of Theatrical aesthetics: The Ecologies of Reading) Intermedial Theatre Practices Place-mixing in the Wild City: Crossing the Jo Scott (University of Salford) Processes of Computation, Organic Growth and Urban Redevelopment

WG9-F Musical Theatre To sing or to speak? Pause and fast forward in Hélène Bouvier (THALIM-CNRS) Madurese loddrok musical theatre Meredith Monk and the Archaeological David Gutkin (Peabody Institute of Imagination Johns Hopkins University)

WG9-G Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Translating Henrik Ibsen’s plays for the Gianina Druta (Centre for Ibsen Romanian audience Studies, University of Oslo) Ways Through the Maze of Caves. An Yvette Jankó Szép (Babeș-Bolyai Ecological Approach to Theatre Translation University)

The Translation of Protest: from Belarus to Bryan Brown (University of Exeter) the world

WG9-H Theatre Architecture Place: The City, Music and Voice Chair: Shauna Janssen

‘Dove ci troviamo?’: Silent City and the Milo Harries (University of Architecture of Interconnection Cambridge) City: performance’s muse and matrix - Or, Edvard Passos (UFBA) from Largo do Pelourinho to Terreiro de Jesus, alternating theatre and carnival, theatre and carnival, theatre and carnival The meaning of artistic interventions in urban Hari Marini (Queen Mary University space: The case of Spirals project and the of London) impact of current challenges on cityscapes

WG9-I Theatre History and Historiography: Panel on theatres and companies Chair: Tancredi Gusman

Patents of performance: historical knowledge Ulf Otto (Ludwig Maximilian and its digital environment University of Munich)

Rewriting Haifa Theater Histories: Theater Dorit Yersuhalmi (Theatre Research Locations as Events in a ‘Wounded City’ International)

WG9-J Digital Humanities in Theatre Research

Performances distant viewing: The promises Clarisse Bardiot (Université of large image data sets analysis for Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) performing arts studies Tea with the Queen: Audience in a Virtual Anna Lawaetz & Jeppe Lawaetz Reality Theatre Experience (Royal Danish Library)

WG9-K – not running

WG9-L Choreography and Corporeality

The Dancing Horses: The Critique of Dressage Lisa Moravec (Royal Holloway, University of London Haptic animality. Interconnections between Sofia Munoz Carneiro (Ludwig dance, touching and the animal. Maximilian University of Munich) Burong Zeng

WG10 Thursday 17.00 – 18.15

WG10-A Feminist Research WG Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick & Indu Jain

The Posttraumatic Subject of the Feminist Stefka Mihaylova (University of Fourth Wave Washington, Seattle) Vanishing for the Vote: Performing Absence Elise Robinson (University of in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement Georgia) Precarity, environmental risk and feminist Marissia Fragkou (Canterbury Christ politics in the work of Katie Mitchell Church University)

WG10-B Scenography Chairs: Nick Hunt and Sofia Pantouvaki

Virtual Field Trips: Towards a Therapeutic Néill O'Dwyer (Trinity College, Ecology of Care and Reconciliation through Dublin) Contributive Virtual Reality Scenographies Shapeshifting: Light as an elemental Katherine Graham (University of performance material York ) Ecology of the Ludic Space: designing for Sarah Hoover (National University of agentive participation in 'Two Truths' Ireland, Galway)

WG10-C IFTR Performance and Disability Working Group Chair: Jessica Watkins

Creating an «eco-system». Experience of the Alexandra Dunaeva (SASH RANEPA) inclusive theatrical project The Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia Dis-locating autism or ‘I can’t breathe’ either: Ciane Fernandes (Federal University a (dys)functional manifesto of Bahia (UFBA) Building new forms of online collaboration Ildiko Sirato (Hungarian National Széchényi Library)

WG10-D Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Breakout room 1 Finding Silence Argyro Tsampazi (Queen's University Belfast) Invocation for Rain: Understanding the Maheshwar Kumar (National Performative Rituals of Purulia Chhau in West Institute of Science Education and Bengal Research) Yoga Trance Dance: a Contemporary Alessandra Zanobi Technique of the Sacred Breakout room 2

Life, the Universe, and Everything: Elisabeth Fairchild (University of Performing Scientific Spirituality and Oregon) Spiritual Science

WG10-E Intermediality Working Group: Phantom Intermedialities: Sonic Worlds & Ecologies of Listening

Unmute: ‘You have to hear me talk, so you Lynne Kendrick (RCSSD) know that I’m here' (Darkfield 2019) Ecologies of Listening: Responding to John Harry Wilson (University of Glasgow) Berger Through Intimate Audio Primitive Icescapes: Performance Analysis of Clara Wilch (UCLA) a UN Special Report on Climate Change

WG10-F Musical Theatre

Character construction and social isolation in Eva Van Daele (Ghent University) The Second Violinist (2017) Business Meeting

WG10-G Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Into the woods, into the sea—negotiations Henriette Rietveld (Yale School of with the landscape Drama) The Ecology of a Theatre of Care in Stephanie Sandberg (Washington and Community Based Theatre: A Case Study Lee University) with L’Arche Daybreak Café Delay: Spaces of Translation on Zoom Richard Talbot (University of Salford) with Older Amateur Performers

WG10-H Theatre Architecture: Place and Environment: Spatial configurations and relations Chair: Andrew Filmer

Heterotopic Theatrical Experiences of Human Alex Halligey (Johannesburg Institute Spatial Practice in Natural Ecology in The for Advanced Study, University of Encounter and Swimming Home Johannesburg) Performing the Self: The Construction of Casa Popi Iacovou (University of Cyprus) Malaparte as Living Images A room of commons' own. Perception of Adela Bravo Sauras (NoFourthWall / space, relationality, participation and safe Institut fü Angewandte shelter through material-built structures in Theaterwissenschaft Giessen / contemporary theatre’s examples Universitaet der Künste, Berlin)

WG10-1 Theatre History and Historiography: Panel on theatres and companies Chair: Kate Newy

New Definitions of Indigenous Asomiya Maitri Baruah (Hansraj College, Theatre: Mixed Theatricals in Late University of Delhi) Nineteenth Century Assam Play with a Message: Theatre and Public Matthew Franks (University of Information Messaging in Post-war Britain Warwick)

WG10-J Digital Humanities in Theatre Research

Neurocomputing of Performance and the Gustavo Sol (Centro Universitário Belas Digital Dramaturgy Against the Deniers Artes)

WG10-K Political Performances: New Political Orders Chair: Paola Botham

News from Somewhere: Populism, Place, and Benjamin Poore (University of York) Playwriting Dramaturgies of Hope Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University) Book launch: World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices.

WG10-L Choreography and Corporeality

Staging a 'Children’s Classic', Teaching Hanna Järvinen (Theatre Academy of Racism: Pippi Longstocking (2005/2019) the University of the Arts Helsinki) Dance, Korean and Intercultural: Korean Dahye Lee (The Graduate Center, Creative Dance as Embodied Practice of New CUNY) Interculturalism Between exiles, imaginaries and travels. Andrés Grumann Sölter (Theatre Intertwining of free dance, exoticism in dance Research International) and Ausdruckstanz in the Latin American Southern Cone

WG11 Friday 09.00 – 10.15

WG11-A – Embodied Research WG: Core Embodied Research

The Embodied Research Working Group uses its scheduled sessions to explore methods of embodied and multimedial exchange. Each session will feature the work of some WG members, but they do not usually involve the reading of papers. Sessions are closed by default, but IFTR attendees who wish to join please send an email request to [email protected] to receive the link.

Challenging dramaturgical practices through Melina Scialom (Federal University embodied research of Bahia, Brazil) Queer Corporealities: The (Un)Making of Joseph Appleton (University of Queer Ecologies Sydney) Postdramatic Theatre: Authenticity and/or Silvia Dumitriu Deconstruction? BUG: Metamorphosis in the time of Covid-19 Nazlıhan Eda Erçin (Louisiana State University) Being Lost and Becoming: Exploring the Raman Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru Performance of Pain in Maya Rao’s Khol Do University) Somatic practices in the historical research. Fabiana Mercadante (Universidade The body as archive in dialogue with de Lisboa) singularity Bernadette Sweeney Embodying eco-revelations: the “more- than- Florence Figols (Concordia human” as collaborators University)

WG11-B Performance and Disability Working Group Chair: Kate Maguire-Rosier

Disability and object ontologies: Covid 19 and Laura Purcell-Gates (Bath Spa Corina Duyn’s practice of re-enabling University) Beyond the self: towards ecologies of Tony McCaffrey (Ara Institute of learning disabled theatre? Canterbury) The performance of anger and radical Vibeke Glørstad (IFTR) and Inge- egalitarian citizenship Marie Lid

WG11-C Performance, Religion and Spirituality Business Meeting

WG11- D Popular Entertainment

Ghost Clari: Interpreting the past through Jane Woollard (University of practice Tasmania) Losing Cinderella in Constantinople: Nazli Mirac Umit (Istanbul Kültür European Spectacle, Entertainment and University)

Popular Performances in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire Entertainment as infrastructure Mikael Strömberg (University of Gothenburg)

WG11-E Beckett ‘A Tree and a Stone in Waiting for Godot: Mariko Tanaka Precarity in Beckett’ (Aoyama Gakuin University)

‘Beckett’s theatrical “invironment”: Céline Thobois (Trinity College Conditioned to survival in the Anthropocene’ Dublin)

WG11-F Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Employing theatre to translate the Shane Pike (Queensland University of indescribable as an intervention in a Technology) healthcare scenario: the Covid edition Institutional Ecologies: the dramaturgy of the Bernadette Cochrane (Queensland) live-to-digital and the staging of the institution

WG11-G Theatre History and Historiography Panel on significant productions Chair: Ewa Partyga

Why Was Fortinbras’ Entrance Expunged by Anna Sica (University of Palermo) Tommaso Salvini ? Playing Woyzeck Hanna Korsberg (Helsinki) Ha-Matateh – Eretz-Israeli Satirical Theatre Shelly Zer-Zion (The University of in 1939: History of Emotions and Social Haifa) Sustainability in Performance

WG11-H – not taking place in this session

WG11-I The Theatrical Event

Watching Children Watch Peter Eversmann (University of Amsterdam) Qualitative Research Methods among young Smadar Mor (Tel Aviv University) Audiences: Reception in Kindergarten Deepening the Theatre Experience for Young Heidi Schoenenberger (National Audiences: Mapping the Aims and Impact of University of Ireland Galway) Extended Performance Engagement

WG11-J Queer Futures

Flaunting fatness: Queering ‘obesity’ Jonathan Graffam (University of discourse and diet culture in Cake Daddy Melbourne) The Constant Neologiser: Queering Language Peta Murray (RMIT University) as Performance for a Pa(i)ndemic

WG11-K Political Performance: Testing limits Chair: Pieter Verstraete

Testing Audience’s Judgement: Please, David Rodriguez-Solas (University of Continue (Hamlet), by Roger Bernat and Yan Massachusetts Amherst) Duyvendak Beating Around the Bush: Post-human Camila González Ortiz (University of Theatre in Manuela Infante’s Vegetative State Reading) “This is my home, this thin edge of Azadeh Sharifi (Ludwig Maximilian barbwire”-Borderlands and Liminality in the University of Munich) performance Frontera by Animals of Distinctions

WG11-L Public Places Business Meeting

WG12 Friday 11.00 – 12.30

WG12-A – Embodied Research WG final meeting (closing session)

WG12-B Performance and Disability Working Group Chairs: Co-convenors

How do we perform in, through, and beyond Bree Hadley crisis? Leading to general discussion: future projects, All WG participants. publications and collaborations.

WG12-C Performance, Religion and Spirituality

Here Now/Yma Nawr: from personality to Tracy Breathnach (Swansea presence through a performance encounter University) with the river Ogmore Rasa and Intersectional Selfhood David Mason (Ecumenica Journal) Zero Zone Praxis Tamur Tohver (Manchester Metropolitan University)

WG12- D Popular Entertainment Business meeting

WG12-E Beckett

‘The Environmental Effect of Subtitles for Yoshiko Takebe (Shujitsu University) Film Translation in Beckett’s Happy Days’ ‘Beckett in the Vast Wasteland’ Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading) ‘“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to Rosaleen Maprayil (University of drink”: Mitchell, Frankcom and Happy Days in Reading) the age of emergency’ BOOK LAUNCH Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing, ed. by Anita Rákóczy, Mariko Hori Tanaka & Nicolas E. Johnson (L’Harmattan, 2020)

WG11-F Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy Business meeting

WG12-G Theatre History and Historiography Business meeting

WG12-H Arabic Theatre - Lasting Colonialisms and Present Nationalisms in Jordan and North Africa PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Samer Al-Saber

The Maghreb on the American Stage: The Jeff Casey (Norwich University) ‘Barbary Wars’ in Post-Independence US Theatre “A valley has a soul”: Environmentalism and George Potter (Columbia Locality in Mountain Days, the John Muir University) Musical

WG12-I The Theatrical Event

The King, the Sheep, and Censorship: "David" Yair Lipshitz (Tel Aviv University) and the Boundaries of Biblical Children Theatre in Israel The Ecology of Theatre for Young People - Shifra Schonmann (University of When ethics and aesthetics debate taboos Haifa) Does it feel like home? A role of cultural Daria Skjoldager-Nielsen (Stockholm context in theatre (in) education in Poland University)

WG12-J – not running in this session

WG12-K Political Performance Round table discussion & members’ discussion on PPWG matters

WG12-L Public Places Business Meeting