Programme

Transnational influences

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Thursday 21.3.2019

KAISA-LIBRARY, hall 7067, 7th floor

  
13:00 - 14:00 Registration at the 3rd floor entrance hall  
14:00 - 15:15 Keynote: Berenika Szymanski-Düll

On the Move:

Migration and Transnational Theatre Histories		  
15:15 - 15:45 Break  
15:45 - 17:30 Panel 1: National, Transnational, Hybrid

Chair: Mikko-Olavi Seppälä		  
 

Wilmer, Steve:

Transnational Nationalism

  
 

Staniskyte, Jurgita:

Between (In)visible Influences and (In)pure Traditions

  
 

Jonite, Dita:

Dance across borders:

Contemporary circus and tango in theatre

  
19:00 Theatre performance:

Toinen Luonto / Den Andra Naturen /

The Other Nature at Teater Viirus (optional, tickets 12 €)		  
     
Friday 22.3.2019 THE HOUSE OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS  
  Hall 404 Hall 405
9:00 - 9:30 Registration at the entrance hall  
9:30 - 11:30 Panel 2: Russian Influence

Chair: Steve Wilmer		 Panel 3: Memories on Stage

Chair: Magnus Thorbergsson
 

von Rosen, Astrid & Nikolaeva, Olga:

Russian Relations: Radical Empathy

in the Nordic-Russian Dance Archive

Lehtoruusu, Petra:

Nordic networks of cultural memory:

Zacharias Topelius’ The Surgeon’s Tales (1853–67),

its stage adaptations and illustrations
 

Byckling, Liisa:

A Finnish Nora in St. Petersburg.

Ida Aalberg in Ibsen's a Dolls' House (1882-1902)

Kruuspere, Piret:

Travelling of dramatic texts and memory patterns
 

Rodina, Ieva:

Latvian theatre director Eduards Smiļģis

in the context of European modernist theatre:

influences of the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold

Koski, Pirkko:

National Trauma on a Foreign Stage
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch break  
13:00 - 14:30 Panel 4: Postsoviet Performance

Chair: Jurgita Staniskyte		 Panel 5: Playing Ugric

Chair: Hanna Korsberg
 

Klivis, Edgaras:

Taking Sides: Baltic-Russian Theatre

Exchanges and Antagonism after 2014

Sirato, Ildiko:

Our Identities or Others’? Portraits and

Self-Portraits of Finno-Ugric Language

Cultures on Stages
 

Watson, Alex:

Violence and Performativity in

Public/Private Interrelation:

Collaborations between Baltic and

British Theatre in the 2010s

 Saro, Anneli & Epner, Luule:

Constructing Finno-Ugric identity

through theatre
 

Füllner, Niklas:

Between Dissensus and Consensus:

Political Theatre Makers Working in

Exile in Today’s Europe

Korppi-Tommola, Riikka:

Soviet-Estonian-Finnihs Reading of

Sibelius Ballets (1970)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break Coffee break
15:00 - 16:30 Panel 6: International Fame

Chair: Steve Wilmer		 Panel 7: Bilateral Exchange

Chair: Pirkko Koski
 

Petrikiene, Asta & Petrikas, Martynas:

Light Shines from the East:

Communication of Avantgarde Ideas

in Theatre of Interwar Europe

Hoogland, Rikard:

Swedish actors on stage in Helsinki

during a turbulent and uncertain period
 

Korsberg, Hanna:

Finnish National Theatre travels abroad:

two productions in Estonia in the 1930s.

Seppälä, Mikko-Olavi:

Theatre exchange between Estonia and

Finland as East/West interaction, 1960–1990
   

Pajunen, Julia:

Theatre Connections between Finland and

Estonia 1991 - 2017 - From Festivals to Co-productions
17:00 - 18:30 ANTS General Assembly  
19:00 Conference Dinner at Block by Dylan (Eteläranta 18)  
     
Saturday 23.3.2019 UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING  
  Auditorium IV  
9:30 - 11:30 Panel 8: Acting gender

Chair: Anneli Saro		  
 

Ohlsson, Héléne:

Swedishness as a Strategy of Conquering the

Diva Crown: Influence of Nineteenth-Century Swedish Divas in the USA

  
 

Rosenberg, Tiina:

Feminist testimony as transnational performance

  
 

 

  
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch Break  
12:30 - 13:30 Panel 9: Creating Networks

Chair: Tiina Rosenberg		  
 

Thorbergsson, Magnus:

Nordic Exchange on the North American Prairies

  
 

Sigurjonsdottir, Sigridur:

Nordic co-operation in amateur theatre

  
13:30 - 14:00 Coffee and goodbyes  
     
  The programme is still subject to changes