Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 10 a.m. Koffi Kôkô: What is behind the Mask That is My Body
Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 10 a.m. Saar Magal: Extinction/I'm Still Here: Performing the Histories of Tomorrow
Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 10 a.m. Jean Graham-Jones: Challenges of Theatrical Translations
Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 10 a.m. Balakrishnan Ananthakrishnan: Locating Modern Theatre as a Subject: The Indian Initiatives
Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 10 a.m. James Harding: Surveillance and Performance Post-Democracy
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 10 a.m. Stephen Wilmer: Performing Statelessness by Subversive Identification
Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: Literature Revivified: A Performative Contribution
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 10 a.m. Jung-Soon Shim: After Leaving a Doll's House: Korean Receptions of Noraism in the 1920s and 1930s
Academic Year 2015/2016
Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 10 a.m. Nora Amin: A Talk about Her Work
Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 10 a.m. Navtej Johar: Deciphering Rasa: Understanding Performance Aesthetics through Linguistics, Poetics and Yoga
Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 10 a.m. Johanna Devi: Presentation of Her Work-in-Progress
Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 10 a.m. Danny Yung: In Conversation with Sin Cha Hong
Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 10 a.m. Paul Carter: Scripting Turbulence: Phonographies of Meeting
Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 10 a.m. Lynette Hunter with Nicole Peisl: Felt Sense as a Lodestone in an Interweaving Conversation
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 10 a.m. Agota Revesz: The Contemporary Context of Traditional Chinese Theatre
Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 10 a.m. Hanne de Bruin: Recycling Performance: Towards an Alternative Historiography of the Rural Stage in North Tamil Nadu, India
Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 10 a.m. Phillip Zarrilli: Beyond Discourses of ‘Pain’ and ‘Torture’ and toward ‘Compassion’ and ‘Exhilaration’ in the Work of the Beckett Actor
Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 10 a.m. Małgorzata Sugiera: Performance, Performative Acts, Performativity: Cultural Mobility of Words and Ideas
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 10 a.m. Guy Cools: The Greek Moiroloi as a Template for Performing Mourning in Contemporary Performance
Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 10 a.m. Hanne de Bruin: RamaRavana: A Critical Interpretation of the Ramayana
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 10 a.m. Jacqueline Shea Murphy: Radical Indigenous Dance: Choreographies of Activation
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 10 a.m. Aparna Dharwadker: Theorizing the Modern in Indian Theatre
Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 10 a.m. Tara McAllister: The Role of ‘Presence’ in Training Actors’ Voices: An intercultural approach using principles and practices of Korean p’ansori and the “natural/free” voice approach
Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 10 a.m. Tadashi Uchino: After the Quake: Some Reflections on Immediate Performative Responses to 3.11.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 10 a.m. Nora Amin: Theatre and Political Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: the Model of "An Enemy of The People"
Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 10 a.m. Peter Boenisch: Institutional Dramaturgy: Analysing the "Gorki"-Situation
Tuesday, 8 December 2015, 10 a.m. Richard Gough: Augenschmaus - A Feast for the Eyes: Remembrance of Tastes Past (In Search of Lost Hospitality)
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 10 a.m. Koffi Kôkô: Presentation of His Artistic Work
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 10 a.m. Janez Janša: NAME READYMADE
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 10 a.m. Jung-Soon Shim: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Korean Theatre
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 10 a.m. Nanako Nakajima: This is (Not) the Aging Body in Dance: Tino Sehgal's Ann Lee and Robotization of Dancing Bodies in/from Japan
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: The Rise of the Intermediary
Academic Year 2014/2015
Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 10 a.m. Aparna Dharwadker: The Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 10 a.m. Magdi Youssef: Egyptian Theatre throughout the Ages
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 10 a.m. Guy Cools: Akram Khan: The creative confusion of the migrating body
Tuesday, 26 May 2015, 10 a.m. David Savran: Celebrating the Great Tralala: Musical Theatre between Art and Entertainment
Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 10 a.m. Claudius Lünstedt: Crossing Boundaries - Notes from a Playwright´s Perspective
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 10 a.m. Susan Foster: Dance and Labor
Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 10 a.m. Cody Poulton: Antigone in Japan: Some Theatrical Responses to Fukushima
Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 10 a.m. Nicola Savarese: Difficulties in Studying Theater and Its History throughout Cultures: Variations and Concordances
Tuesday, 7 April 2015, 10 a.m. Shen Lin: The Great General and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Beijing People’s Art Theatre’s Production of Coriolanus in 2007
Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 10 a.m. Kuan-wu Lin: "An Opera with Olympic Flair" – "Turandot" Performances as Superlatives and Branding of Chineseness by Means of Self-Orientalism
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 10 a.m. Khalid Amine: Performing the Memory of the ‘Years of Lead’ in Morocco
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 10 a.m. Sruti Bala: The Micropolitics of Participatory Art
Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 10 a.m. Narges Hashempour: Contemporary Theatre and Performing Arts in Iran: Realist Illusion ─ Reality without Illusion
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 10 a.m. Azadeh Sharifi: Postmigrant Theatre in Europe? ─ Some Critical Thoughts on Ascription and Self-Definition
Tuesday, 9 December 2014, 10 a.m. David Savran: Is Korean Music Theatre The Next Wave of Hallyu?
Tuesday, 2 December 2014, 10 a.m. Stephen Elliot Wilmer: Biopolitics in the Laundry: Ireland’s Unwed Mothers
Tuesday, 25 November 2014, 10 a.m. Nanako Nakajima: Throwing the Aging Body into the Fight: »An Evening with Judy« in Kyoto by Raimund Hoghe
Tuesday, 16 September 2014, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: Usurpation by the secondary: A Dramaturgical Shift
Academic Year 2013/2014
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 10 a.m. Magdi Youssef: The Aesthetics of Self-Liberation: Performances by North African 'Sans Papiers' in France
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 10 a.m. Richard Gough: Devouring Theatre: After Taste
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 10 a.m. Catherine Diamond: Nature on Stage
Tuesday, 30 April 2014, 10 a.m. Lynette Hunter: Hanging out at the in-breath/the out-breath: Moments of Ar(res)t in performativity as rehearsal moves to performance
Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 10 a.m. Kuan-wu Lin: »Homecoming of a Cruel One« ─ Two Chinese »Turandots,« two Operas and two Concepts of Authenticity
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 11 a.m. Richard Gough: Travelogues
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 10 a.m. Peter Lichtenfels: Broken Words and Silence: Directing Ota Shogo's Plays
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 10 a.m. Ananda Breed: Applied Cultural Forms in Central Asia
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 10 a.m. Hana Worthen: Liberal Rationality and Theatrical Propriety: Thomas Ostermeier's Ein Volksfeind in the U.S.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 10 a.m. Jean Graham-Jones: Buenos Aires Artists and Contemporary International Performance Networks: Lola Arias Remaps the Real
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 10 a.m. Paul Carter: The Dramaturgy of Turbulence
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 10 a.m. Ric Knowles: Indigenous Knowledge, Contemporary Performance: A Dramaturgy of Decolonization
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 10 a.m. Ayat Najafi: Stand-up tragedy
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 10 a.m. Catherine Diamond: Dream in Hanoi
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 10 a.m. Yoshiteru Yamashita: Psycho-cultural Analysis: George Tabori and Hideki Noda
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: University as Performance: A Thai Case Study
Academic Year 2012/2013
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10 a.m. Rabih Mroué: Counter Narratives
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 10 a.m. Christopher Balme: Perspectives on Global Theatre History
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 10 a.m. Navtej Johar: Dance, Yoga, and Urban Activism
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 10 a.m. Maria Shevtsova: Interwoven Processes of Research for Performance: Teatr ZAR's Expeditions and 'Secret Knowledge'
Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 10 a.m. Shinya Takahashi: Modern Japanese theatre and the performativity of 'Silence'
Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 10 a.m. Ivan Medenica: Jozef Nadj and his Kanjiža: Memory and identity, private and political
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 10 a.m. Avanthi Meduri: Dance, Heritage Festivals, and Globalization
Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 10 a.m. Lydia Haustein: Views on Contemporary Art in China: Performances between imagination and social initiative
Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 10 a.m Tian Mansha: Breath and Mindfulness in the Performing
Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 10 a.m. Stephen Barber: Performance, Film, Urban Space: Across/Between
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 10 a.m. David Savran: Branding as Cultural Performance
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 10 a.m. Chengzhou He: The Adaptation and Staging of Western Plays in Contemporary China
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 10 a.m. Hypatia Vourloumis: Bad Athena: Notes on Crisis and Trans-Civic Cross-Cultural Imaginaries
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 10 a.m. Shen Lin: Arrogant Intruder or Aspirant Interweaver: The Director’s Role in the Transformation of a Pre-dramatic Theatre
Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 10 a.m. Cristina Rosa: Democracy of Races
Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara : The »Lean Theatre« and Its Contribution to Contemporary Thai Performance Culture
Academic Year 2011/2012
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10 a.m. Carol Fisher-Sorgenfrei: Guilt, Nostalgia and Victomhood: Korea in the Japanese theatrical imagination
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 10 a.m. Femi Osofisan: But then, what about the interwoven? – Notes from an African Playwright on the Global Circuit
Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 11 a.m. Michael Roes: Kabul City Faces
Wednesday, 6 June 2012, 3 p.m. Mansha Tian: Breath and Mindfulness in Performance
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10 a.m. Lynette Hunter: Risking Breath in Western Theatre: Performative analogues for self and agency
Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 10 a.m. Maria Shevtsova: This Step before the Next One – Towards Teatr ZAR
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 10 a.m. Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak: Translating for Performance – Working with Jingju (Beijing “Opera”)
Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 10 a.m. Natascha Siouzouli: Placing Precarious Presence in Contemporary Theatre Practice
Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 10 a.m. Marta Elena Savigliano: Cartographies of Sensuality: Dance and Postexoticism in the Era of Globalization
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 10 a.m. Peter Lichtenfels: Being the Text: Presence in the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor and Shogo Ohta
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 10 a.m. Ivan Medenica: The work of Joszef Nagy
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 10 a.m. Kimho Ip: A Movement in between the Centre and the Peripheral
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 10 a.m. Nikhil Chopra: Grüntaler 9: Black and White, Grüntaler 9 Art-space, Berlin
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 10 a.m. Sudipto Chatterjee and Proshot Kalami: Meeting the Man of the Heart
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 10 a.m Sabine Sörgel: Transnationalism and Performance
Academic Year 2010/2011
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 10 a.m. William B. Worthen: The written troubles of the brain: Writing Character, The Cognition of Performance and Sleep No More
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 10 a.m. Nikolaus Wolcz: Looking into an actor’s notebook – or The Actor’s Zibaldone
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 10 a.m. Aparna Dharwadker: Theatrical Modernity and the ‘Problem’ of Performance in India
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 10 a.m. Peter Eckersall: Performativity and Event: City Body, memory in 1960’s Japan
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: From Mutual Illumination of the Arts to Mutual Illumination of Criticism
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 3 p.m. Katherine Mezur and Peter Eckersall: Déjà vu and Affect in Japan-land: Robots, Butoh-media, dumb type, and Anime Fairy-tales (visual presentation)
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 10 a.m. Katherine Mezur: Mobile Nationalisms and 'Stranger' Communities: Performing Japan, Berlin, and Places Between
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 10 a.m. Natascha Siouzouli: Un/familiar landscapes – tragedy and festivals
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 10 a.m. Helen Gilbert: Indigeneity: Performance, Politics, Belonging
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 10 a.m. Gastón A. Alzate: Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 1 p.m. Hasibe Kalkan Kocabay: Turkish theatre as a field for construction of identity
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 1 p.m. Michael Gissenwehrer: The Olympic Ceremonies as a Century-Old Key Discipline of Theatrical Interweaving
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 10 a.m. Margaret Werry: Nintendo Museum: Intercultural pedagogy, neoliberal politics, and a theatre without actors
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 10 a.m. Friederike Felbeck: If, As, So – The Many Metamorphoses of Constantin Stanislavski
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10 a.m. Katherine Mezur: »Bodies in Translation and Transformation.« Cute Mutant Girls: Live Performance and New Media Art by Japanese Women Artists.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10 a.m. Helen Gilbert: Indigeneity in the Contemporary World
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10 a.m. Dennis Kennedy: The Woven and the Unwoven: The Politics of the Intercultural in Contemporary Performance
Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 10 a.m. Klaus-Peter Köpping: Subversive performances as ludic forms of cultural criticism in ritual and theatrical frames
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 3 p.m. Farah Yeganeh: The Performance of the Green and the Iranian Recent Movement
Academic Year 2009/2010
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 10 a.m. Hana Worthen: Rehabilitating Europe: Postwar Stages and Discourses of HUMANisms
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 10 a.m. William B. Worthen: Shakespeare: The Textures of Performance Culture
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 10 a.m. Zvika Serper: Interweaving of techniques and aesthetics of Japanese classical theatre into productions of classical Western plays
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 10 a.m. Carol Fisher-Sorgenfrei: The Brothers Itō: Interweaving Art and Politics in Twentieth Century Japanese-Western Performance
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 10 a.m. Ramona Mosse: Politics of rap music
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 10 a.m. Holger Hartung and Gerko Egert: De-Scribing Site-specifiCity: Emily Jacir and Jacques Villeglé
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 1 p.m. Farah Yeganeh: A Historiographical Study of the Permeation of Western Drama into Iranian Theatre
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 10 a.m. Lina Saneh: Community vs. the Individual: Limits and Constraints of Performance Art
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 10 a.m. Nikolaus Wolcz: The »as if« of »ur-scenes«
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 10 a.m. Kaite O’Reilly: »Crip« Culture and »Alternative Dramaturgies Informed by a Deaf and Disability Perspective«
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: When the Arts Come to the Humanities’ Rescue: A Thai Experience
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 10 a.m. Phillip Zarrilli: Told by the Wind: A Practice-Led Interrogation of ‘Quiet Theatre’ as a Site for Making and Reflecting upon Post-Dramatic Intercultural Theatre
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 10 a.m. Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento: Brazilian Group Theatre Through the Dictatorship and After: Rehearsing Community, Performing Resistance
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 10 a.m. Gitta Honegger: Translating Culture
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 10 a.m. Lina Saneh: Performance Art in Lebanon and the Arab World
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 10 a.m. Daryl Chin: The Post-Modern Pastiche in Current Cultural Discourse: Journey to the East
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 10 a.m. Esiaba Irobi: There is a Thief in All of Us: The Politics and Aesthetics of International Performance in the Age of Globalization
Thursday, 3 and 10 December 2009, 10 a.m. Discussion about: Postcolonialism – Globalisation – Migration – challenges for theatre productions
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 10 a.m. Daryl Chin: Three piches (lunch lecture)
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 10 a.m. Weijie Yu: From Kuo Pao Kun’s initial practice to Ong Keng Sen’s interweaving
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 10 a.m. Theoretical Debate: Crucial notions to our research
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 10 a.m. Discussion about Rimini Protokoll’s »Radio Muezzin«
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 11 a.m. David Moss: Seeding the performative: The power of expectation
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 10 a.m. Stanca Scholz-Cionca: Invisible threads
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 10 a.m. Carol Fisher-Sorgenfrei: Twentieth century Japanese-Western performance
Academic Year 2008/2009
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 10 a.m. Reading texts of Dipesh Chakrabarty, Carola Dietze, Klaus-Peter Köpping
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 10 a.m. Shen Lin: Use of the Old and the Western in the Quest for a New and Chinese Theatre
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 10 a.m. William B. Worthen: The Textures of Performance Culture
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 10 a.m. Nikolaus Wolcz: Interweaving experience in Romania, Germany and the US
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 10 a.m. Jacqueline Lo: Beyond happy hybridity: Contemporary Asian Australian cultural production
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 10 a.m. Stanca Scholz-Cionca: Japanese experiences
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 10 a.m. Weijie Yu: Instant-noodle-writing in Singapore
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 11 a.m. André Lepecki: Intransit
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 10 a.m. Femi Osofisan: Performance in an/Other Space: Recreating the Genre of European Crime Fiction in an African Context
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 10 a.m. Ramona Mosse: American hip hop culture’s and theatre
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 11 a.m. Weijie Yu: Lust – Caution: Acting between Reality & Illusion
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 9 a.m. Stanca Scholz-Cionca: Japanese Performance
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 10 a.m. Khalid Amine: Fields of Silence in Arabic Performance Studies – Emerging Sites of Research
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 10 a.m. Chetana Nagavajara: Staging prehistory: A Thai case study
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 10 a.m. Evelyn Schuler Zea: Translation Rituals: Detours in Northern Amazonia David Moss: Seeding the performative: The power of expectation Stanca Scholz-Cionca: Intertwined theatre cultures in contemporary Japan and the appropriation of native traditions Ramona Mosse: Hip hop, opera, and the politics of music
