Programme
Warwick—JNU conference
Research and Documentation in Theatre and Performance Studies: Strategic locations, disciplinary challenges, and critical dialogue
31 March 2010 - Theme 1: Rethinking the Political
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10.00 - 10.30
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Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics Welcome Address and Framing the Agenda |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Chair: Rustom Bharucha Janelle Reinelt: Re-thinking the Public Sphere for a Global Age
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Nadine Holdsworth: Beyond Cosmopolitanism: The Nation, Citizenship and Convivial Culture
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11.30 – 11.45
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Coffee |
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11.45-12.15
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Soumyabrat Chowdhury: 'Emerging political sociabilities in the sub-continent:End of commonwealth or a new theatrum mundi?'-?
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12.15 – 1.00
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Open session and discussion |
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1.00 – 2.00
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Lunch
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2.00 – 2.30
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Chair: James Davis Silvia Jestrovic: Seeing Better: Modernist Legacy and it Modifications.
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2.30 – 3.00
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Milijia Gluhovic: Modernity Disavowed: Memory of a Revolution in Heiner Müller’s The Task
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3.00 – 3.30
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Samik Bandopadhyay: A New Left Intervention in Bengali Theatre with Brecht and Müller |
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3.30 – 4.00
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Open session discussion
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4.00 - 5.00
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Closed door discussion and interaction
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1 April 2010 - Theme 2: Documenting Performance : Problematizing Methodology
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10.00 – 10.30 |
Chairperson: Anuradha Kapur, Tim White: Show the (w)hole - experience and evidence
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Anuradha Kapur (Title to be confirmed)
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Ananthakrishnan: Practice as Research in the Indian Context
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11.30 - 11.45 |
Coffee
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11.45 –12.45 |
Urmimala Sarkar and 3 students: Documentation as research:Documenting the "REAL"
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12.45 – 1.15 |
Discussion of morning session
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1.15 – 2.00 |
Lunch
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2.00--2.30 |
Theme 3: Multiple Modernities and Historiography: Chairperson: Saumyabrat Chowdhury Jim Davis: In the city of Calcutta there are no cobras: Representations of India in Victorian theatrical and visual culture
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2.30—3.00 |
Anita Cherian: Re –examining Theatrical modernity: The Parsi Theatre, Shanta Gandhi and Ebrahim Alkazi
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3.00—3.15 |
Coffee
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3.15—4.00 |
Shiv Prakash: Rethinking Modernities and modernisms from a regional perspective / Discussion and reflections on alternative modernities in the traditional sector
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Production in the evening
2 April 2010 - Day three: Multiple Modernities and Historiography (continued)
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10.00 – 10.45 |
Chairperson : Prof Shivaprakash Mohinder Singh: Representations of Contemporaenity in Bharatendu Harishchanra’s dramatic works.
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10.45 – 11.15 |
Veena Naregal: Regional Theatre Histories : A Research and Translation Project
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11.15 – 11.30 |
Coffee
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11.30 – 12.00 |
Urmila Bhirdirkar: Traditions and Modernities: The Case of Sangit Natak in Maharashtra
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12.00 – 1.00 |
Discussion
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1.00—2.00 |
Lunch
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2.00 – 2.30
2.30—3.00
3.00—3.15 3.15-4.15
4.15-5.00 |
Chairperson: Janelle Reinelt Bishnupriya Dutt: Rewriting the ‘revolution’ through popular forms . Urmimala Sarkar:, Imagining the nation: Uday Shankar's 'Kalpana' Coffee Nobuko Anan: Takarazuka’s Gone With the Wind: Performing America and the (De)nationalization of Japanese Women's Bodies Chairperson: Samik Bandopadhyay, Baz Kershaw: Taking stock of artistic research in the academy, circa 2010. Or: How to undo things with actions Lecture with slides/video
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5.00 – 6.00 |
Discussion leading to wrap up session
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