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DRAFT SCHEDULE 19 June 2021 1 IFTR Draft Schedule This document provides the provisional schedule for IFTR Galway 2021. Please notify us of any errors as soon as possible by emailing [email protected] A finalised schedule will be emailed to all delegates approximately one week before the conference begins, and will also be available on the conference online platform. Given the complexity of the schedule, which features almost 800 speakers in (at least!) 15 different time-zones, we will be trying to keep changes to an absolute minimum. But do please continue to check the online schedule for necessary edits and amendments. The company that is managing the online platform will be emailing all speakers with information from next week onwards (beginning 21 June), so do please check your emails regularly (including junk folders). The online platform is being managed by Abbey Conference and Events. If you have any queries do please feel free to email us on [email protected] Registration must close on 30 June. If you have not already done so please register before that date on https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/iftr/conference 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 2 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) 5 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 6 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) 7 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) 9 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.