THURSDAY, 19 June
2 – 2:30 pm: Reception and Welcome
2:30 – 3 pm: Introduction
3 – 4:30 pm: MEDIA MANOEUVRES I
Volker Barth (University of Cologne, Germany):
"Exclusive Territories: News Agencies and Global Cooperation, ca. 1870-1934"
Rashna Nicholson (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Public Spectacle and Private Reading: The Parsi Theatre, its Press and the Development of a Pan-Asian Theatre Vocabulary"
Jan van der Putten (University of Hamburg, Germany):
"Ways to Capture New Audiences: Charity, Zenana and Football"
4:30 – 5 pm Coffee Break
5 – 6:30 pm (TRANS-)LOCAL PUBLICS & GEOGRAPHIC IMAGINARIES I
Berenika Szymanski-Düll (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Touring Migrants and Translocal Publics"
Gordon Winder and Lea Weiß (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Geographical Code in Media Representations of Transnational Theatre: How Buffalo Bill Traveled in the Modern Newspaper"
Zoltán Imre (Eötvös University, Hungary):
"Mediatization, Surrogation and Theatre : Ira Aldridge’s Visit in Pest-Buda in 1853"
6:30 – 7 pm Coffee Break
7 – 8 pm KEYNOTE:
Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig):
"How Global Was the 19th Century?"
Starting at 8 pm: Get-together
FRIDAY, 20 June
9:30 – 10:30 am KEYNOTE:
Christopher Balme (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Theatre, Religion and Transnational Public Spheres in the Age of Empire"
10:30 – 11 am: Coffee Break
11 am – 12:30 pm: (TRANS-)LOCAL PUBLICS & GEOGRAPHIC IMAGINARIES II
Jim Davis and Patricia Smyth (University of Warwick, UK):
"Visual Theatrescapes: The Impact of Stage Spectacle and Illustrated Global Media on Trans-local Publics 1880 – 1920"
Lisa Warrington (University of Otago, New Zealand):
"Herr Daniel Bandmann and Shakespeare vs. the World"
Maria Joao Brilhante (Lisbon University, Portugal):
"BRASIL-PORTUGAL Theatrical Reading for Migrant Communities"
12:30 pm – 2 pm: Lunch Break
2 – 3:30 pm: MEDIA MANOEUVRES II
Nic Leonhardt (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Allied Agencies: Media Manoeuvres of Theatrical Brokers"
Christine Junqueira Leite de Medeiros (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro & Carlos Chargas Filho Foundation, Brazil):
"Media Strategies of the Portuguese Theatre in Brazil"
Stanca Scholz-Cionca (University of Trier, Germany):
"New Patterns of Interaction: Tokyo Theatrescapes and the Foreign Press after 1900"
3:30 – 4 pm: Coffee Break
4 – 5:30 pm: TRANSREGIONAL BRIDGES I
Tobias Becker and Len Platt (FU Berlin, Germany and Goldmiths University of London, UK):
"London, Berlin and Beyond. Global Networks in Popular Musical Theatre, 1890-1939"
Maria Helena Werneck (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
"Dynamics of Portuguese Theatre’s Circulation in Brazil: Friendship, Media and Immigrant Networks"
Monize Moura (University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France and Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
"Sarah Bernhardt in Brazil (1886, 1893 and 1905)"
5:30 – 6 pm: Coffee Break
6 – 7 pm: URBAN CONTACT ZONES
Fernando Mencarelli (University of Mina Gerais, Brazil):
"Brazilian Musical Theatre in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Crossing of Bodies and Sonorities"
Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland, Australia):
"Civilian and Military Urban Audiences in Australia 1942-45: the Migrant Landscapes of Wartime Popular Entertainment"
Starting at 7 pm: Eat and Meet
SATURDAY, 21 June
9.30-11 am: TRANSREGIONAL BRIDGES II
Annegret Bergmann (FU Berlin, Germany):
"Shifting Paradigms for Visual Media in Japan. Ichikawa Sadanji II between Modern West and Traditional East"
Takashi Hoshino (Waseda University, Japan):
"Reconsideration of Typhoon"
Johanna Dupré (LMU Munich, Germany):
"Die erste Jockey-Reiterin der Welt, aus Süd-Amerika": Rosita de la Plata, Global Imagination and the Media"
11-11:30 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am - 1 pm: MODERNISM AND MODERNIZATION
Catherine Vance Yeh (Boston University, USA):
"Experimenting with Apsara 飛天: Peking Opera Modernism and the Denishawn’s Tour of the Far East"
Saiful Islam (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh):
"The Emergence of Modern Bengali Theatre: An Assessment of European Influence"
Francisco Leocádio (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
"The Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro and the Modernized Downtown of the Federal Capital in the Beginning of the 20th Century"
1 - 1:30 pm: Coffee Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm: Final Discussion