Wednesday 10 June 8.30 - 9.30

Registration, Callahan Center

 

Wednesday 10 June 9.30-10.00 

Founders Hall

Welcome and introduction to the Conference

Timothy Houlihan, Ph.D., Provost of St. Francis College

Gregory Tague, Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Directors

 

Wednesday 10 June 10.00-11.30

Founders Hall

Keynote

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

University of Lincoln, UK

Theatre without Conflict?

Chair: Gregory Tague

 

Wednesday 10 June 11.30-12.00           

Callahan Center

Break and Book Stalls

 

Wednesday 10 June 12.00-13.00

Founders Hall

Plenary Session

Karen Lauria Saillant,

International Opera Theater, Philadelphia

Operatic Photosynthesis: light transference in the operatic idiom in harmony with nature 

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

 

Wednesday 10 June 13.00 – 14.00         

Callahan Center

Lunch and Book Stalls

 

 

Wednesday 10 June 14.00 – 16.00               Parallel Sessions  1

 

Panel 1

Topic: Film (1)         Venue: 6214      Chair: Michele Montecalvo

Cedric van Eenoo, USA

Experimental Narratives

Deniz Gürgen, Turkey

Interpreting Chronotype as a Historical Tool in Film

Nilay Ulusoy, Turkey

Are Turkish Film Stars far from Turkish Democracy?

Derek Kanowsky, USA

Cinematic Being: The Ontological Kinship of Film and Consciousness

 

Panel 2

Topic: Contemporary Novel      Venue: 6403      Chair: Gregory F. Tague

Michael A. Winkelman, USA

Recording the Atoms as They Fall upon the Mind: Thinks… by David Lodge

Hillel Broder, USA

Wandering Bodies, Wandering Minds: The Consciousness of Walking Selves in Contemporary Fiction

Priyanka Tripathi, India

Reinventing the Intimate Voices: A Close Reading of Indian Women’s Autobiography in English

 

Panel 3

Topic: Avant-Gardes     Venue: 6402      Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Stacy Stingle, USA

Surrealism and Subjectivity in the Space of the Modern City in André Breton's Nadja

Sevgi Tosuner, Turkey

The Shift of Theatrical Consciousness: From Conventional to Avant-garde

Bahar Inal, Turkey

Rebellious Consciousness in Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty and Jean Genet’s Ritual Theater

 

Panel 4

Topic: Art, Music and Poetry     Venue: 5403      Chair: Benjamin Wood

Kris Falk, USA

Tibetan Buddhist Theories of Consciousness as a Model for Music Analysis

Bahadir Gülmez, Turkey

Composer, Writer, Painter: Pursuit of an unattainable knowledge or a passionate conception of life

Jason Lee, UK

Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Epiphany, the hearing of voices in literature and science, and the road to transcendent originality.
David Izzo, USA

Bruce Springsteen Live:  Transcendental Celebration—a Vehicle for Mystical Transcendence.

 

Wednesday 10 June 14.00-16.00

Room 4403

Delegate video presentations.

 

Tamar Mebuke (via video)

Georgian State Technical University, Georgia

Archetype Development in Narrative (Diachronic Study)                  

 

Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira (via video)

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Brazilian differentiated bodies in performance

 

Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira (via video)

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Cruor arte contemporanea: counter-culturalist reverberations in the post-dramatic Brazilian scene

 

These are also available via St Francis College Youtube Channel.

 

 

Wednesday 10 June 16.00-16.30

Callahan Center

Break and Book Stalls

 

Wednesday 10 June 16.30 – 18.00         

Parallel Sessions 2

 

Panel 5

Topic: Poetry     Venue: 6214     Chair: David Izzo

Iris Cushing, USA

Inhabited Text: Meaning, Materiality and Possibility in Alison Knowles’ “A House of Dust”

Abdullahi  S. Abubakar, Nigeria

Myth and Gender Consciousness in the Works of Selected Nigerian Poets

 

Panel 6  

Topic: Beckett     Venue: 6403     Chair: Timothy Dugan

Aleksandra Wachacz, Poland,

Various presences in theatre – the case of Samuel Beckett

Saiful Saleem, USA

Automatism, Consciousness and Death in Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot

 

Panel 7

Topic: USA     Venue: 6402     Chair: Dustin Hellberg

Ki Dae Kwon, South Korea

The Angels in Angels: A Study of the Sacralization of the Other in Kushner’s Angels in America

Dustin Hellberg, South Korea

We Are Not Alone: Literal and Literary Altruism

 

Panel 8

Topic: Space     Venue: 5403     Chair: Alison Dell

Christine Farina and Ian Angotti , USA

The Chaos of Order: The Intuitive Space beyond the Frame of the Film: An Experimental Video Told Through an Experimental Presentational Medium

Park Soon, South Korea

Space Consciousness of Park Ji Won― Focused on his literary works, kimoon(記文, record)

 

Panel 9

Topic: Medieval and Early Modern Texts   Venue: 4403  Chair: Elizabeth Albrecht

Nelya Babynets, Mexico

Corpse as Protagonist in The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd: Visualizing the Invisible

Shahab Entezareghaem, France

Consciousness and Jacobean Drama: The Case of Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy

Elizabeth Albrecht, USA

The Wife of Bath and the Loathely Hag

 

Panel 10

Topic: Consciousness   Venue: 4202   Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Karolina Dobrosz-Michiewicz, Poland

It's a good idea to look out for number one. Who else will?:  about the impact of SELF-system activation on social influence techniques effectiveness.

Faye Ran, USA

The Autobiographical Self: Self-Consciousness as a Transformative Mirror

Yoon Ha Kim, South Korea

Holy Disappointment and Biological Reconditioning in the Biblical Flood Narrative

 

 

Wednesday 10 June 18.00 – 20.00         

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

 

 

Wednesday 10 June 20.00                                 

Venue: Maroney Theatre

Aurelia Baumgartner, Performance, Catch me if you can! - Eurydice 2012 reloaded

 

 

Thursday 11 June

 

Thursday 11 June 9.30 – 11.30

Founders Hall

Keynote

Aurelia Baumgartner, Germany

Catch me if you can! - Eurydice 2012 reloaded

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

 

Thursday 11 June 12.00-13.00

Founders Hall

Plenary Session

Thomas Phillips and Ken Kirschner

“Constant Craving Has Always Been:” Liminal Love and Germinal Consciousness in Sarah Kane’s Crave

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

 

Thursday 11 June 13.00 – 14.00

Callahan Center

Lunch and Book Stalls

 

Thursday 11 June 14.00 – 16.00

Parallel sessions  3

 

Panel 11

Topic: Identities    Venue: 6214    Chair: Benjamin Wood

Gerard Woodward, UK

The Remembered Self and the Imagined Self: Fiction and the Unreliable Consciousness

Doaa Sayed Abdel Azim, Egypt

Nostalgia in Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in The White Sharkskin Suit

Benjamin Wood, USA

Reading Between the Lines: The Functions of Poetry in a 19th-Century Tibetan Autobiography

Ranjan Kumar Sinha, India

Female Consciousness in the poems of Kamla Das

 

Panel 12

Topic: Genres across the World     Venue: 6403     Chair: Timothy Dugan

Bode Ojoniyi, Nigeria

Consciousness and the Simulation of Patterns of African Communal Conflicts in King Emene and Ameh Oboni the Great

Phil Ndlela, South Africa

Untutored, Unlettered, and Insurgent: The Case of Sojourner Truth

David Lipton, USA

Ageism, Spirals of Silence, and the Publication of Consciousness-Induced Ideas  by Mid-Nineteenth Century Transcendentalists

Holly Berkowitz, USA

 “I know you’re watching me”: Meta-theater and Identity in M. Butterfly and Good Person in Szechwan

 

 

Panel 13

Topic: Film (2)    Venue: 6402   Chair: Athena Devlin

Sven Weidner, Austria

Male Consciousness – Male Identities: Ambivalent male characters in the US-American Independent Cinema of the 1990s/2000s years

Sonia Front, Poland

“All boundaries are conventions” – Transmigrating Consciousness in Tykwer’s and Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas

Thomas Wardak, UK

Reading Authority: Integrating Authorial Considerations into a Strategy of Narrative Response”

Yetunde Akorede, Nigeria

Gendered Consciousness: the assumed and the realistic Igbo and Yoruba woman in Nigerian selected drama texts and popular home videos.

 

Panel 14

Topic: Acting     Venue: 5403     Chair: Suzanne Forsberg

Jerri Daboo, UK

‘The Mindful Actor: examining Buddhist practice as a training for actors’

Jimmy Patrick Groce, USA

Lost in Translation

Anna Renée Winget, USA

Uni(versi)ty in Diversity: Performing Utopia in Higher Educational Institutions

 

Thursday 11 June 16.00 – 16.30            

Callahan Center

Break and Book Stalls

 

Thursday 11 June 16.30 – 18.00

Parallel Sessions 3

 

Panel 15

Topic: Joyce and Woolf   Venue: 6214   Chair: Gregory F. Tague

Shigeo Kikuchi, Japan

James Joyce’s Creation of Free Flowing Thoughts across Characters’ and Reader’s Boundaries of Consciousness

Vittoria Rubino, USA

The Representation of Subjective Reality in Modern British Literature

 

Panel 16

Topic: Shamans     Venue: 6403     Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Gloria Dyc, USA

The Darkness Between the Four Sacred Mountains

Sopelekae Maithufi, South Africa

The shamanic dimensions of Pitika Ntuli’s art

 

Panel 17

Topic: Landscapes    Venue: 6402     Chair: Stefan Spezio

T. Mera Moore Lafferty, USA

Adele Ne Jame: The Female Subject, Consciousness, and the Wild Spirituality of Nature

Simon Grennan, Australia

Antisubjectivism and the (spectral) return of consciousness in Landscape research

Kate Hunter, Australia

All My Voices: Remembering and Imagining Through the Devising Process

 

Panel 18

Topic: Japan     Venue: 5403     Chair: Dustin Hellberg

Liala Khronopulo, Russia

Imagination as an Artistic Method and a Source of the Plots in Short Stories of Contemporary Japanese Writers Akagawa Jirō and Atōda Takashi

Lu Chen, China

A study on "hometown" consciousness in the dramatic poem of Tokoku Kitamura

 

Thursday 11 June 18.30 – 20.00

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

 

Thursday 11 June 20.00                        

Venue: Founders Theatre

Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Performance: Legacy: Lessons from the Other Side of Love