Program

Times

Welcome speeches:

Muitinės st. 7,

room 207

9:30 – 11:00

Key-note presentation 1

Gintautas Mažeikis, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

“Opera in the First Circle of Hell”: Comparison of Gulag and Ghetto Theaters

Moderator: Edgaras Klivis

Muitinės st. 7,

room 207

11:30 – 13:00

Presentations: Strategies of Staging War

Darija Davidovic (University of Vienna, Austria):

Staging the testimony of war, staging the trauma of war- Oliver Frljics`s theatre of

fragmented time

Ida Krøgholt (Aarhus University, Denmark):

Reality-theatre of war. Negotiating the role of the theatre while examining consequences of war

Zane Radzobe (University of Latvia, Latvia):

Memory as form of resistance: reflection on history of war by Latvian directors of postsoviet generation

Moderator: Annelis Kuhlmann

Presentations: Dealing with politics of memory

Mischa Twitchin (University of London, United Kingdom):

Between Truth and the Inexplicable

Niklas Füllner  (Ruhr University,
Bochum, Germany):

Making your own story of it: Oliver Frljić’s Klątwa (Engl.: ‘The Curse’) in Warsaw as a theatre of emancipation

Kurt Taroff (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom):

Loyal to a Fault:

Commemorating the UVF Centenary

Moderator: Knut Ove Arntzen

Muitinės st. 7,

rooms 207, 210

Piano piano,

Rotušės s. 4

14:30 – 16:00

Presentations: Performing Soviet Histories

Janne Risum (Aarhus University, Denmark):

The foreign-policy aspect of Mei Lanfang’s Soviet tour in 1935

Varvara Sklez (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia):

Performing history? World War II In Russian documentary theatre

Elena Gordienko (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia):

“The Red Wheel”: a theatre series about the Russian Revolution

Moderator: Meike Wagner

Presentations: Theatrical technologies of memory

Ruth Schor (University of Oslo, Norway):

Just say it! The rhetoric of revealing the truth in Ibsen’s Rosmersholm

Irma Erlingsdόttir (University of Iceland, Iceland):

Politics, History, and Memory in Hélène Cixous´s The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia.

Lina Klusaitė (Lithuania culture research institute, Lithuania):

Nostalgia and a Sense of the Soviet Past in the Performances „Green Meadow“ and „Zinc(Zn)“

Moderator: Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

Muitinės st. 7,

rooms 207, 210

16:30 – 18:00

Presentations: Representing War

Sarit Cofman-Simhon (Kibbutzim College and Emunah College, Israel):

Shooting and Crying:

Representing War Memories in Israeli Theatre

Stephen Elliot Wilmer (Trinity College, Ireland):

Dissensus and Counter-memories in the work of Yael Ronen

Maja Milatovic-Ovadia (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, United Kingdom):

Silent soldier will smile: performing comedy for reconciliation

Moderator: Rikard Hoogland

Presentations: Staging contested memories

Pentti Paavolainen (University of Helsinki, Finland):

Cultural Trauma of Civil War 1918 in Finnish Theatres: from silence to spectacles.

Samantha Mitschke (Independent Scholar, United Kingdom):

Channelling History, Contesting Memory: Theatre and National Narratives of 1939-45 in Britain and Poland

Karen Arnfred Vedel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):

The performance of contested memories in museum exhibitions

Moderator: Magnus Thor Thorbergsson

Muitinės st. 7,

rooms 207, 210

Conference club

Kaunas City Chamber

Theatre Café

Kęstučio st. 74 A

Key-note presentation 2

Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel

What is Niobe to Her? How Antigone Becomes Her Own Historian/From Sophocles to Bertolt Brecht

Moderator: Rūta Mažeikienė

National Kaunas Drama Theatre,

Laisvės al. 71

The Small Stage

ANTS Board Meeting

Lunch

Muitinės st. 7,

room 307

Presentations: Trauma and detraumatization in theatre

Meike Wagner (Stockholm University, Sweden):

Theatrical De-Traumatization after the Napoleonic Wars

Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University, Denmark):

Performing Amnesia. Performing Oblivion. Performing Memory Wars.

Cariad Astles (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, United Kingdom):

Dissent, protest and dialogism in puppet theatre as a response to dictatorship in Chile

Moderator: Stephen Elliot Wilmer

Presentations: Personal testimonies, autobiographic memories

Jurgita Staniškytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):

This is (not) how it happened:

autobiographic narratives and fictional memories in post-Soviet Baltic theatre

Jakob J. Podber (Southern Illinois University, United States of America):

Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland:

Struggling with the Memory of the Holocaust

Mihai Florea (University of Bristol, United Kingdom):

BANDIT – I’ve Come to Make Your (Hi)story Ugly

Moderator: Karen Arnfred Vedel

Muitinės st. 7,

rooms 207, 210

Presentations: Performing (post)colonial subjectivities

Grit Köppen (University of the Arts, Germany):

Colonial Pasts and Anti-Colonial Acts in Contemporary Theatre

Knut Ove Arntzen (University of Bergen, Norway):

Clashes of Memory in Arctic Drama and Sàmi Theatre -in-between an asthetic or postcolonial perspective

Birgit Kleist Pedersen (University of Greenland, Greenland):

Cultural and Political Implications of the Three General Waves of Greenlandic Theater

Moderator: Janne Risum

Presentations: (Ant)agonisms in theatrical public sphere

Thomas Rosendal Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark):

“War – You should have been there”: dramaturgy of irony and pathos in virtual war memories

Veronika Zangl (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands):

Scrutinizing memories. Theatre as a space of producing antagonisms

Edgaras Klivis (Vytautas Magnus University,  Lithuania):

Agonist stage: (radical) democratization of memory in Legionnaires of Ģertrūdes ielas teātris

Moderator: Ida Krøgholt

Muitinės st. 7,

rooms 207, 210

National Kaunas Drama Theatre, Laisvės al. 71

The Main Stage

Vytautas Magnus University Theatre,

S. Daukanto st. 27

Conference club

Kaunas City Chamber

Theatre Café

Kęstučio st. 74 A

Key-note presentation 3

Milija Gluhovic, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Searching for Common Ground: Performance, Testimony, and Small Acts of Repair

Moderator: Jurgita Staniškytė

V. Putvinskio st. 23,

room 103

V. Putvinskio st. 23,

terrace

Presentations: History along gender lines

Josefine Brink Siem (Aarhus University, Denmark):

When Reality Trumps Fiction: Hauntologies of the New Cold War

Raz Weiner (Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom):

Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death in the IDF Disabled Veterans’ Club

Gintarė Narauskaitė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):

A play on memory in the Lithuanian drama theatre: the image of man and manliness in the context of  historic memory

Moderator: Irma Erlingsdόttir

Presentations: Conflicting theatre historiographies

Jana Dolečki (University of Vienna, Austria):

Performing Remembrance and the Politics of Theatre Memory: The Case of “Croatian Theatre”

Ina Pukelytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania):

Jewish theatre in Lithuania: Between Collective and Cultural Memory

Rikard Hoogland (Stockholm University, Sweden):

Swedish theatre repertoire in time of threat of war.

Moderator: Wilmar Sauter

V. Putvinskio st. 23

rooms 103, 106

Closing discussions + coffee

V. Putvinskio st. 23

room  103, terrase

Nordic-Baltic Network Meeting

V. Putvinskio st. 23

room 103

Conference club

Kaunas City Chamber

Theatre Café

Kęstučio st. 74 A