Presenters

Keynote Speaker:

Brandstetter, Gabriele
(Professor of Theatre Studies, FU Berlin)
Political Body Spaces in Performances of William Forsythe

International Guest Speakers:

Fisher Sorgenfrei, Carol
(Professor of Theatre, UCLA)
Health, Wealth and Stealth: Exploring the Intercultural Body through Kyogen and Commedia dell'Arte

Hirata, Eiichiro
(Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Keio University)
Performative Aspect of Voices in Ku Nauka’s “Medea”

Ikeuchi, Yusuko
(Professor in Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
Feminist Aesthetics in Kishida Rio's Theatre Texts: On Shintokumaru (Poison Boy) and Ito Jigoku (Thread Hell)

Rumold, Rainer
(Professor of German, Northwestern University)
Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Fin-de-Siècle Vienna to Surrealist Paris

Wilke, Sabine
(Professor in Germanic Studies, University of Washington)
Staging Primitive Bodies: A Critical Reflection on Polynesian Performance

Further Speakers and Performers:

Baer, Usula
(Ph.D. Student in German Studies, UBC)
The Family-less Body and its Performative Character

Boyd, Jade
(Ph.D. Student in Women's Studies, UBC)
Dancing the Hetero(normative) Cityscape

Brown, Kathryn
(Post-Doctoral Fellow in Art History, Visual Art and Theory, UBC)
Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century French Painting

Burnett, Cathy
(Associate Professor of Theatre Studies, UBC)
Viewpoints: Movement Technique for the Stage

Daniel, Henry
(Associate Professor in Dance/Performance Studies, SFU)
Touched

Eming, Jutta
(Assistant Professor in German Studies, UBC)
Chopped up, Grilled and Shrunken to the Size of a Hedgehog: The Bodies of Saints Between Materiality and Transcendence

Godfrey, Sima
(Associate Professor in FIHS, UBC)
Moving through Fashion in 19th-Century France

Hallensleben, Markus
(Assistant Professor in German Studies, UBC)
Performative Body Spaces

Karwowska, Bozena
(Assistant Professor in Slavic Studies, UBC)
The Metaphor of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps

Kirkpatrick, Arthur (Ted)
(Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences, SFU)
Touched

Lanki, Colleen
(Adjunct Professor in Asian Studies, UBC)
Layers of Male and Female: Liminal Space for Gender in Nihon Buyô

Orbaugh, Sharalyn
(Associate Professor in Asian Studies, UBC)
Blue Collar Performance Art and the Creation of New Urban
Spaces in Japan, 1930-1960

Pailer, Gaby
(Associate Professor in German Studies, 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)

Pentney, Beth
(Ph.D. Student in Gender Studies, SFU)
Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Viewer and Participant in Somatechnic Symbiosis

Pritchard, Bob
(Senior Instructor, Music, UBC)
Strength (Performance) and 'The Virtual Body' in Real Time Performance (Presentation)

Redlich, Jeremy
(Ph.D. Student in German Studies, UBC)
Body Optics and Skin Signs: Technology and the Body in Transformation in Mann, Kafka and Tawada

Roy, Karen
(Ph.D. Student in German Studies, UBC)
Anatomy of Memory in Vera Wollenberger’s Virus der Heuchler

Schade, Silke
(Assistant Professor in German Studies, UBC)
The Body as Geography: Özdamar and Veteranyi on Migration

Schenkel, Guido
(Ph.D. Student in German Studies, UBC)
Corpus Illocutus: Body Language and Gestures as Speech Acts

Smith, Evan
(Ph.D. Student in English, UBC)
The Gestures of Existence: Milan Kundera’s Phenomenological Existentialism

Vaughan, Richard
(Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences, SFU)
Touched

Vertinsky, Patricia
(Professor of Human Kinetics, UBC)
From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture

Non-Presenting Participants