‘Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?’
National University of Ireland, Galway
10-11 April 2015
Friday April 10th:
9:30 –10:15am. Welcome and opening address, Jason King and Charlotte McIvor
(National University of Ireland, Galway).
10:15 – 11:45am. Panel 1:
Brian Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Censorship and Sensitivities: The Representation of Otherness on and off the British Stage'
Emine Fişek (Boğaziçi University), ‘Interculturalism, Humanitarianism, Intervention: Théâtre du Soleil in Kabul’
11:45am –12:00pm. Coffee and biscuits.
12:00pm – 1:30pm. Panel 2:
Julie Holledge (University of Oslo) and Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland),
‘Rethinking Interculturalism using Digital Tools’
1:30– 2:30 pm. Lunch.
2:30pm—4pm. Panel 3:
Ric Knowles (University of Guelph), ‘New Modernist Mediations and the Intercultural Theatre of Modern Times Stage Company’
Lizzie Stewart (University of St. Andrews), ‘“The Future Market and the Current Reality”: Zaimoglu/Senkel’s Black Virgins and Interculturalism in the German Context’
4 – 4:30pm. Coffee and biscuits
4:30-6:30pm. The Gombeens present Stories of a Yellow Town (Jonathan Gunning and Miquel Barcelo) and talkback session moderated by Jason King and Charlotte McIvor.
Saturday April 11th:
9–10:30am. Panel 4:
Prarthana Purkayastha (Plymouth University), ‘What’s with the Red Dot on the Forehead? Intercultural Marking in Hetain Patel’s TEN’
Victor Ramirez Ladron De Guevara (Plymouth University), ‘Traduttore, Traditore: The “Thorny” Issue of Translation in the Creation of Autoethnographic Intercultural Performances’
10:30-10:45am. Coffee and Biscuits.
10:45am – 12:15pm. Panel 5:
Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), ‘Accessing the “zone of occult instability where the people dwell” – South African engagement with colonialism and ethnography in the intercultural/ postcolonial/ global context’
Daphne Lei (University of California, Irvine), ‘Can You See Yellow?: Rescuing Interculturalism in Post-racial Orientalism’
12:15pm – 1:15pm. Lunch
1:15pm – 3:45pm. Panel 6:
Rustom Bharucha (Jawaharlal Nehru University), ‘Interculturalism and Its Discontents: New Directions in Rethinking Intercultural Performance Practice Today’
Leo Cabranes-Grant (University of California, Santa Barbara), ‘Towards a New Historiography of the Intercultural Experience’
3:45-4:45pm. Closing remarks and discussion.
4:45PM. Launch of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (co-edited by Charlotte McIvor and Matthew Spangler)
Sponsored by the Irish Research Council, the Moore Institute, the School for Humanities, and Drama and Theatre Studies.
National University of Ireland, Galway
10-11 April 2015
Friday April 10th:
9:30 –10:15am. Welcome and opening address, Jason King and Charlotte McIvor
(National University of Ireland, Galway).
10:15 – 11:45am. Panel 1:
Brian Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Censorship and Sensitivities: The Representation of Otherness on and off the British Stage'
Emine Fişek (Boğaziçi University), ‘Interculturalism, Humanitarianism, Intervention: Théâtre du Soleil in Kabul’
11:45am –12:00pm. Coffee and biscuits.
12:00pm – 1:30pm. Panel 2:
Julie Holledge (University of Oslo) and Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland),
‘Rethinking Interculturalism using Digital Tools’
1:30– 2:30 pm. Lunch.
2:30pm—4pm. Panel 3:
Ric Knowles (University of Guelph), ‘New Modernist Mediations and the Intercultural Theatre of Modern Times Stage Company’
Lizzie Stewart (University of St. Andrews), ‘“The Future Market and the Current Reality”: Zaimoglu/Senkel’s Black Virgins and Interculturalism in the German Context’
4 – 4:30pm. Coffee and biscuits
4:30-6:30pm. The Gombeens present Stories of a Yellow Town (Jonathan Gunning and Miquel Barcelo) and talkback session moderated by Jason King and Charlotte McIvor.
Saturday April 11th:
9–10:30am. Panel 4:
Prarthana Purkayastha (Plymouth University), ‘What’s with the Red Dot on the Forehead? Intercultural Marking in Hetain Patel’s TEN’
Victor Ramirez Ladron De Guevara (Plymouth University), ‘Traduttore, Traditore: The “Thorny” Issue of Translation in the Creation of Autoethnographic Intercultural Performances’
10:30-10:45am. Coffee and Biscuits.
10:45am – 12:15pm. Panel 5:
Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), ‘Accessing the “zone of occult instability where the people dwell” – South African engagement with colonialism and ethnography in the intercultural/ postcolonial/ global context’
Daphne Lei (University of California, Irvine), ‘Can You See Yellow?: Rescuing Interculturalism in Post-racial Orientalism’
12:15pm – 1:15pm. Lunch
1:15pm – 3:45pm. Panel 6:
Rustom Bharucha (Jawaharlal Nehru University), ‘Interculturalism and Its Discontents: New Directions in Rethinking Intercultural Performance Practice Today’
Leo Cabranes-Grant (University of California, Santa Barbara), ‘Towards a New Historiography of the Intercultural Experience’
3:45-4:45pm. Closing remarks and discussion.
4:45PM. Launch of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (co-edited by Charlotte McIvor and Matthew Spangler)
Sponsored by the Irish Research Council, the Moore Institute, the School for Humanities, and Drama and Theatre Studies.