Dr. FREDDIE ROKEM: Distinguished Visiting Professor in Ottawa, March 24-29,2013

[Yana Meerzon]

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Dr. Freddie Rokem
Tel Aviv University
is the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa
March 2014



University of Ottawa is proud to host a world expert in theatre theory as its Distinguished Visiting Professor program. Dr. Freddie Rokem is Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art and teaches in the Department of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University. His areas of interest combine theatre and philosophy and his books include Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre, which received the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Prize for best theatre studies book in 2001, and was translated into several languages. He is also author of Strindberg's Secret Codes (2004) and Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance (2010). Rokem is the co-editor of Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (2010) and is also a translator and a dramaturg.


During his stay as a visiting scholar the week of March 24, 2014 Professor Rokem will be meeting with students and faculty and holding a round-table event for graduate students. Professor Rokem will also be delivering a public lecture titled "Possessed by Theatre: 'The Dybbuk' at Habima, 1922". Habima, the first institutionalized Hebrew theatre founded in Moscow during the 1917 Revolution, staged a repertoire of experimental works, of which "The Dybbuk" remains the most renowned. The play presents the story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuk and was authored by folklorist Sh. Ansky based on materials he collected during his expeditions among Eastern European Jews on the eve of World War I. Habima's Hebrew-language seamlessly performance blended Soviet experimental theatre with Jewish folklore to great critical acclaim. Rokem will discuss the inaugural performance that forever changed the history of Jewish theatre.

The schedule is attached

"Publishing-not-Perishing"
(a workshop on publishing for the graduate students)
Thursday, March 27, 10-11:30 am
Department of Theatre, Room 309
(This event will be in English)



"Possessed by Theatre:  'The Dybbuk' at Habima, 1922"

(open lecture)

Thursday, March 27, 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Department of Theatre, Academic Hall

Free of charge. (This event will be in English)



"The Use of Space in Chekhov's Dramaturgy"

(a dialogue with the students of THE 4123,

Practice of Dramaturgy)

Friday, March 28, 1 - 2:30 p.m

Morriset Hall (MRT), Room 251 (This event will be in English)



Information: Dr. Yana Meerzon, Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2243

E-mail: ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca<../../../../privend/Downloads/ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca>

Professor Rokem's visit is sponsored by University of Ottawa's program of Distinguished Visiting
professor, the Faculty of Arts, Department of Theatre, and Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program.



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