Program
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Thursday, 21 June
Pariser Platz, Plenarsaal
18.00
Welcome
SABINE EILERS, Federal Ministry of Education and Research
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, Director of the International Research Center
18.30
HOMI K. BHABHA
Dignity in Extremis
The Ethics and Epistemology of Displacement
(keynote)
Friday, 22 June
Hanseatenweg, Studiofoyer
10.00
Welcome
PETER-ANDRÉ ALT, President of Freie Universität Berlin
10.15
WALTER MIGNOLO
3-Colonial/Imperial Differences, Cultural Entanglements and Storytelling (keynote)
11.15
Coffee break
11.30
Panel 1: Forgotten Futures: Neglected Histories of Interweaving
Chair: Matthias Warstat
HELEN GILBERT
Indigenous Theatres of War and Remembrance
NICHOLAS RIDOUT
Complex Smoking
13.00
Lunch
14:30
Chair: Jean Graham-Jones
STEPHEN BARBER
Tatsumi Hijikata's ‘Lost’ Performance at the 1970 Osaka World Expo
SHEN LIN
Cold Cases, New Sights
16.00
Coffee break
16.15
Panel 2: Generating Knowledge through Interweaving
Chair: Gabriele Brandstetter
CHRISTOPHER BALME
Theatrical Epistemic Communities: Expert Networks and Postcolonial Theatre 1945-1975
HANNE M. DE BRUIN
Kattaikkuttu Performances as a Source of Knowledge
17.45
Break
20.00
Studio
RABIH MROUÉ
Sand In The Eyes
Non-academic Lecture
(performance)
Saturday, 23 June
Hanseatenweg, Studiofoyer
10.00
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O
The Language of Performance (keynote)
11.00
Coffee break
11.15
Panel 3: The Fear of Interweaving: Threat Scenarios and Traditions of Caution
Chair: Sruti Bala
KHALID AMINE
The Interweaving Debate within Arabo-Islamic Contexts. Zones of Contact & Friction
ANANDA BREED
Interweaving Trauma and Aesthetics in Post-Genocide Rwanda
13.00
Lunch
15.00
Studio
Workshop 1: ‘Probing’ Interweaving: Performance-making as Experimenting
Chair: Phillip Zarrilli
SUSAN FOSTER
The Politics in/of Experimentation
CATHERINE DIAMOND
The Interweaving of Local Tradition and International Contemporaneity in the 21stCentury Flamenco Avant-Garde
16.00
Coffee break
16.15
GUY COOLS
Performing Mourning, Laments in Contemporary Art
ONG KENG SEN
Experiments with the Art of the Shite
15.00
Studiofoyer
Workshop 2: Frames of Interweaving: Institutional Politics, Ethics, and Knowledge
Chair: Christel Weiler
HANS-GEORG KNOPP
Institutional Politics and Knowledge-practices in Germany and China
ANURADHA KAPUR
Institutional Histories, Body Memories
16.00
Coffee break
16.15
DANNY YUNG
In Search of…
MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL
The Potential of Internationalizing German Speaking Theatre
17.45
Break
18.30
Studiofoyer
Podium discussion
The Art of Directing Today: Chinese and German Voices
Chair: Christel Weiler & Torsten Jost
With Chen Ping, Gong Baorong, Tian Mansha, and Herbert Fritsch
Sunday, 24 June
Hanseatenweg
9.00
Panel 4: Epistemologies of Performance Cultures
Chair: Torsten Jost
MAŁGORZATA SUGIERA
Performance as Method: Critical Approaches to Western Episteme
SUNDAR SARUKKAI
Interweaving Epistemologies: Lessons from Scientific Epistemology
10.30
Coffee break
10:45
RUSTOM BHARUCHA
Transmission of Knowledge Traditions
BIODUN JEYIFO
Epistemologies of ‘stage English’ in World Anglophone Drama
12.15
Break
12.30
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
Performance-related Concepts as Epistemological Orientations
13.30
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