Conference: Theatre and Exile

[lisa fitzpatrick]

Apologies for cross-listings; please distribute.

We are still accepting registrations; registration information is
available on the web at
http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/exile/exile.htm
For further information, please email exile_conference at yahoo.com

PROGRAM:

THURSDAY, March 21st

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
REGISTRATION

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
WELCOMING REMARKS: Stephen Johnson, Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama,
University of Toronto

INTRODUCTION: Silvija Jestrovic

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Professor Breyten Breytenbach, New York University
and
University of Cape Town.

2:00 pm -2:10 pm
BREAK

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
PANEL: Theorizing Exile (MODERATOR: Ric Knowles)
Goran Stefanovski, University of Kent, Canterbury: Tales from The
Wild
East;
Una Chaudhuri, New York University: Exile, Extremity and Animality:
Living on the Edge with Tennessee Williams' "Fraulein";

3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
BREAK

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Is There Theatre in Exile (MODERATOR: Bruce Barton)
Daniel David Moses, Djanet Sears, Rahul Varma, Dragana Varagic,
Guillermo Verdecchia

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
BREAK

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
PANEL: Writing Exile (MODERATOR: Danièle Issa-Sayegh)
Eileen Denn Jackson, Trinity College, Dublin: Excavating Exile
Paul Malone, University of Waterloo: Odon von Horvath's Back and
Forth:
Teetering Between Exile and Return
Liam Rodrigues, York University: Shaping Grusha: Brecht's American
Years
and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

6:15 pm
RECEPTION

FRIDAY, March 22nd

10:00 am - 11:30 am
PANEL: Border Crossings (MODERATOR: Domenico Pietropaolo) Tamara
Trojanowska, University of Toronto: Making it in America: Janusz
Glowacki in New York.
Christine Jones, University of British Columbia: Nationalism and
Globalization: John B.Keane's "The Field" and the Reconfiguration of
Borders.
Jan B. Gross: Algerian Playwrights in France: From Crisis to
Creation;

11:30 am -11:40 am
BREAK

11:45 am - 1:15 pm
PANEL: Staging Exile (MODERATOR: Lary Zappia) Dragan Klaic,
University
of Amsterdam: Staging Exile for Children.Susan Haedicke, George
Washington University: Documenting Exile: "Un voyage pas comme les
autres sur les chemins de l'exil";Louise Forsyth, University of
Saskatchewan: Confronting the Condition of Exile in Abla Farhoud's
Theatre;

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
LUNCH

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
PRESENTATION: Theatre An der Ruhr (INTRODUCTION: Veronika Ambros)
Annette Heilmann, Helmut Schäfer

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
BREAK

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
PANEL: Acting in Exile (MODERATOR: Yana Meerzon) Liisa Byckling,
University of Helsinki: Michael Chekhov in Western Theatre
Rachel Perlmeter: Polyphonic Performances: Soviet Emigrés in the
United
States

6:45 pm
PLAY READING at The Idler Pub, 255 Davenport Rd.: (MODERATOR:
Danielle
Couture) Goran Stefanovski, Woon-Ping Chin, Mario Fratti, Daniel
David
Moses, Rahul Varma

SATURDAY, March 23rd

10:00 am - 11:30 am
PANEL: Performing Otherness: The Body and Exile (MODERATOR: Josette
Féral)
Woon-Ping Chin, Dartmouth College: Sycorax Revisited: Exile and
Absence
in Performance
George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto: Gynocentric Darwinism
in
the African-Canadian Drama of George Boyd and Djanet Sears
Donia Mounsef, Yale University: Corporeal Exiles in Post-modern and
Post-postmodern French Theatre.

11:30 am -11:40 am
BREAK

11:45 am - 12:30 pm
FILM: Crucero/Crossroads, By Guillermo Verdecchia and Ramiro
Puerta.(INTRODUCTION: Stephen Farrow)

12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm
LUNCH

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
PANEL: Place and Displacement (MODERATOR: Lisa Fitzpatrick)
Marcia Blumberg, York University: The Problematics of Home-Coming and
Exile in Athol Fugard's "Oeuvre"
Mary Trotter, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis: New
Images of the Diaspora in Contemporary Irish Drama
Don Rubin, York University: The Americans Are Coming, The Americans
Are
Coming: Canadian Theatre and the Viet Nam War.

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm
BREAK

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: PEN Canada: Politics, Nostalgia and the Future of Exile
Reza Baraheni, Breyten Breytenbach, Gail Nyoka, (INTRODUCTION: Joanne
Mackay-Bennett; MODERATOR: Erna Paris)

4:15 pm
CLOSING REMARKS: Veronika Ambros

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