Program

Program
last updated on March 13

Friday, March 14 LIU Institute Multipurpose Area KEYNOTE ADDRESS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
1:00	Coffee Served / Registration
2:00	Welcome Address: Thomas Salumets (Dept. Head, CENES, UBC) Introduction: Markus Hallensleben (CENES, UBC): Performative Body Spaces
	Keynote:* Gabriele Brandstetter (Dance and Theatre Studies, FU Berlin, Germany): Political Body Spaces in Performances of William Forsythe
3:30	Coffee Break
URBAN BODY SPACES
4:00-5:30	Sima Godfrey (FIHS, UBC): Moving through Fashion in 19th-Century France Sharalyn Orbaugh (Asian & Gender Studies, UBC): Blue Collar Performance Art and the Creation of New Urban Spaces in Japan, 1930-1960 Jade Boyd (Gender Studies, UBC): Dancing the Hetero(normative) Cityscape Moderator: Patricia Vertinsky (Human Kinetics, UBC)
6:00-8:00	Cash Bar Reception at the Sage Bistro, University Centre
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Saturday, March 15 LIU Institute
9:00	Case Room Roundtable 1: VISUALITY & EMBODIMENT	Board Room Roundtable 2: GENDER & PERFORMATIVITY
	Jutta Eming (CENES, UBC): Chopped up, Grilled and Shrunken to the Size of a Hedgehog: The Bodies of Saints between Materiality and Transcendence Rainer Rumold (German Studies, Northwestern U): Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Fin-de-Siecle Vienna to Surrealist Paris Jeremy Redlich (CENES, UBC): Body Optics and Skin Signs: Technology and the Body in Transformation in Mann, Kafka and Tawada Evan Smith (English, UBC): The Gestures of Existence: Milan Kundera’s Phenomenological Existentialism Moderator: Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (CENES, UBC)	Kathryn Brown (Art, UBC): Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century French Painting Gaby Pailer (CENES, UBC): Citing the Heterosexual Norm Differently? Applying Butler’s Theory on Gender, Body, and Space to a Novel of German Realism (Louise von Francois, “Die letzte Reckenburgerin”, 1871) Ursula Baer (CENES, UBC): The Family-less Body and its Performative Character Guido Schenkel (CENES, UBC): Corpus Illocutus: Body Language and Gestures as Speech Acts Moderator: Sabine Wilke (German Studies, U of Washington)
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Case Room Roundtable 3: INTERCULTURAL BODIES	Board Room Roundtable 4: HISTORY & MEMORY
	Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (Theatre, UCLA): Health, Wealth and Stealth: Exploring The Intercultural Body through Kyogen and Commedia dell'Arte Silke Schade (CENES, UBC): The Body as Geography: Özdamar and Veteranyi on Migration Sabine Wilke (German Studies, U of Washington): Staging Primitive Bodies: A Critical Reflection on Polynesian Performance Moderator: Sneja Gunjew (English, UBC)	Bożena Karwowska (CENES, UBC): The Metaphor of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps Patricia Vertinsky (Human Kinetics, UBC): From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture Karen Roy (CENES, UBC): Anatomy of Memory in Vera Wollenberger's “Virus der Heuchler” Moderator: Doug Brown (Human Kinetics, U of Calgary)
1:00	Lunch Break

Multipurpose Area CORPOREAL TOPOGRAPHIES
2:30	Yasuko Ikeuchi (Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan U, Japan): Feminist Aesthetics in Kishida Rio's Theatre Texts: On Shintokumaru (Poison Boy) and Ito Jigoku (Thread Hell) Colleen Lanki (Theatre Studies, UBC): Layers of Male and Female: Liminal Space for Gender in Nihon Buyo (Presentation with Performance) Moderator: Sharalyn Orbaugh (Asian Studies, UBC)
3:30	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	Plenum: Corporeal Topographies Discussion of Roundtable Results Moderation: Sharalyn Orbaugh (Asian Studies, UBC)
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Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre PERFORMANCES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
6:00	Touched by Henry Daniel (Contemporary Arts, SFU) / Richard Vaughan, Ted Kirkpatrick (Computing Sciences, SFU) / Dawn Stoppiello, Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch) Strength by Bob Pritchard / Julia Nolan (Music, UBC)

8:00	Dinner for Registered Participants (place t.b.a.; R.S.V.P. by Wed, March 12)
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Sunday, March 16 Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre
TECHNOLOGY & MEDIALITY Panel Presentations with Discussions of Saturday Performances
9:00	Henry Daniel (Dance and Performance Studies, SFU): Touched Ted Kirkpatrick (Computing Science, SFU) Richard Vaugham (Computing Science, SFU) Dawn Stoppiello, Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch) Moderator: Gaby Pailer (CENES, UBC)
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Beth Pentney (Gender Studies, SFU): Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Viewer and Participant in Somatechnic Symbiosis Eiichiro Hirata (Humanities and Social Sciences, Keio U., Japan): The Performative Aspect of Voices in Ku Nauka's "Medea" Bob Pritchard (Music, UBC): Strength Moderator: Ingrid Petro (CENES, UBC)
1:00	Lunch Break

MERGING BODY PRACTICES & THEORIES
2:30-5:00	Workshop Laboratory: Performing Body Spaces & ... Cathy Burnett (Theatre Studies, UBC): Viewpoints: Movement Technique for the Stage (Presentation and improvised performance with the possibility of enacting theoretical concepts on request.)
	Coffee Break
	... Final Plenum: Body Spaces Discussion of Workshop Results Moderator: Markus Hallensleben (CENES, UBC)

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Two public lectures by keynote speaker Gabriele Brandstetter and participant Gerhard Neumann will take place after the workshop as part of the Department of CENES ZIEGLER VISITING SPEAKER SERIES*

Green College Coach House

Monday, March 17, 4-5pm

Gabriele Brandstetter: “Posa, Pose, Posing.
Between Image and Movement: Modes of Posing in Dance, Literature, Media and Popular Culture.”

Wednesday, March 19, 4-5pm

Gerhard Neumann (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany): “Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. A Cultural Theory of Love and Media.”

*with support by the UBC President's Advisory Committee on Lectures

Program last updated on March 13

Program
last updated on March 13