3rd  

International Conference

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 

Lincoln,  UK,

16-18 May 

2009

Draft Schedule  (last updated 1 May 2009)

Saturday 16 May

Saturday 16 May 8.30 - 9.30                  

Registration, EMMTEC Building

Saturday 16 May 9.30 – 10.00               

Welcome and introduction to the Conference

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Director

Professor Mike Saks, Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Lincoln

Saturday 16 May 10.00 – 11.30

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Keynote Lecture

Klaus Volkamer, Germany

Subtle matter fields and radiations as key components in theatre performance

Chair: Harriet Gross, UK

Saturday 16 May 11.30 – 12.00             

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer

Saturday 16 May 12.00 – 13.00

Plenary Session, EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Professor Dr Heinz Uwe Haus, Berlin / University of Delaware, USA

Cultural Consciousness and Theatre Work: Personal Reflections

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Saturday 16 May 13.00 – 14.00             

Lunch and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer

Saturday 16 May 14.00 – 16.00             

Parallel sessions

Panel 1: Music

Venue: EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: David I.Clarke, UK

Bennett Hogg, UK

Embodied Consciousness as a Site of Cultural Mediation in Thinking About Musical Free Improvisation.

Dr Bethany Lowe, UK

“In the heard, only the heard”: Music, consciousness, and Buddhism

Rui C. Gonçalves, Portugal

The triumph of individualism in a modern Wagnerian director’s conception to Rhinegold

Panel 2: Art

Venue: EMMTEC, CETL

Chair: Jude James, UK

Avi Rosen, Israel

Time - space compression in cyberspace art

John Danvers, UK

Smoke without fire: some thoughts on Leonardo’s sfumato

Panel 3: Empirical Studies of Theatre

Venue: EMMTEC MT205

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Fred McVittie, UK

Polycentric Prototypical Theatre

Mohammad Aref, Iran

Morphology of Regional Dramatic Rituals of  Komijan of Iran People: from the Perspective of Archetype of  Scapegoat’s in “Qaraiskiurmah”

Eric Hetzler, UK

The Actor’s Awareness

Panel 4: Consciousness in 20th century literature

Venue: MHAC MC0019

Chair: Mike Gaughan, UK

Galina Susloparova, Russia

Consciousness in the novels of Ivan Shmelev

Sonja Gräber-Magocsi, USA

Narrating “Mindstuff” – The Literary Portrayal of Consciousness

Brian Walter, USA

The Anthemion: Patterns of Consciousness in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory

Saturday 16 May 16.00 – 16.30            

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer

Saturday 16 May 16.30 – 18.00             

Poetry Reading: Harry Youtt, UCLA

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Saturday 16 May 18.00 – 20.00             

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Saturday 16 May 20.00                          

Showcase of the Lincoln School of Performing Arts Dance Company

Venue: LPAC Theatre

Sunday 17 May

Sunday 17 May 9.30 – 11.30

Keynote 2

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Harry Youtt, UCLA

THE CREATIVE MIND BEYOND THE BRAIN SCAN: the role of the creative artist in the brain laboratory.

Chair: Ann Gray, UK

Sunday 17 May 11.30-12.00              

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Sunday 17 May  12.00 - 13.00                

Plenary

David Izzo

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: Jade Rosina McCutcheon, USA

Sunday 17 May 13.00 – 14.00             

Lunch and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Sunday 17 May  14.00 – 16.00

Parallel sessions

Panel 5: Architecture and Theatre

Venue: EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: Renée Tobe, UK

Thomas Mical, USA

Of Soluble Spaces

Alla Sosnovskaya, Israel

The Costume and image in Chekhov’s plays.

Maya N. Öztürk, Turkey

Theatre: from mental image to corporeal constructions of community

John McClellan, UK

The Theatre & Civilisation

Panel 6: Consciousness in the Arts, Theatre and Literature: Inspiration and Expression

Venue: EMMTEC CETL

Chair: tbc

David Garrett Izzo, USA

The Comet That Changed the World: Mysticism as a Literary Theory

John Downie, New Zealand

SLEEP/WAKE

Vijaya Kumaar Babu, India

Narrative Techniques and Andhra Buddhist Art-A Study

Panel 7: Consciousness, Literature, Theatre and Gender

Venue: EMMTEC MT205

Chair: Sylvia Harvey, UK

Daphne Grace, Bahamas

Fulfilling women’s spiritual quest through experience of expanded consciousness: the post-colonial/post-modern novels of Margaret Atwood.

John Jack G. Wigley, Philippines

Body Language: Interrogating the Female Body as Discourse in Literature and the Media

Arya Madhavan, UK

Playing Gender: Reflections on performative interaction between body and text in Pakarnnattam

Panel 8: Theatre in America

Venue: MHAC MC0019

Chair: Donald Pulford, UK

Eman El Attar, Kuwait         

Bridging latino diaspora through consciousness: Examining The Cultural Canon in José Rivera’s Marisol

Ebtehal Al-Khateeb, Kuwait

Blood And Hair On Stage: A Study of Adrienne Kennedy’s Expressionistic deconstruction of the Dramatic Character

Jungman Park, South Korea

Theatricality of Color Consciousness: Hurston’s 3-Act Autobiography of ‘Colored Me’

Sunday 17 May 16.00 – 16.30             

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Sunday 17 May 16.30 – 18.00

Plenary

John Menaghan

EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: tbc

Sunday 17 May 18.00 - 20.00             

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Sunday 17 May
Performance

Brain Scam

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Monday 18 May

Monday 18 May 9.30-11.30

Parallel sessions 3

Panel 9: Theatre Practice and Training

Venue: EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Deborah Middleton, UK

Altered States of Consciousness in the Actor-Training Dynamics of Nicolás Núñez

Jade Rosina McCutcheon, USA

Dual Mind Consciousness; the Art of the Actor

Sreenath Nair, UK

Anthropology of Breathing and the Actor’s Presence

Bill Hopkinson, UK

Clown Consciousness: a pedagogical intervention in undergraduate actor training.

Panel 10: Consciousness and the Child in Literature

Venue: EMMTEC CETL

Chair: tbc

Riza Öztürk, Turkey

Consciousness and The Child Image in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives

Evangelia Moula, Greece

The shaping of female consciousness in Bildungsromans in contemporary Greece. Motives and narrative techniques

Hassan Shahabi and Nematullah Azadmanesh, Iran

Misogyny through Children’s Literature in Iran

Panel 11: Consciousness and Theatre for Development: Nigeria and Thailand

Venue: EMMTEC MT205

Chair: Ralph Yarrow, UK

Regina Ode, Nigeria

Consciousness, Theatre and the People’s Development: An Appraisal of The Akpa District Theatre Project and a Women’s Empowerment Theatre Project in Idomaland

John Ediri, Nigeria

Creating Theatre Consciousness among Under-privileged groups: An Evaluation of DFID Projects in Two Nigerian Communities

Kittisak Kerdarunsuksri, Thailand

Ngiw Koo Chat: A Radical Theatre in Thailand

Panel 12: Music 2

Venue: MHAC MC0019

Chair: Bethany Lowe, UK

David Clarke, UK

When is Now? What Music Can Tell Us about Time Consciousness

Jekaterina Haritonenko, Lativia

Listening Between the Lines: Principles of Musical Semantics in Fiction-writing

Johannes Seema, South Africa

Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika: Sontonga’s song and his Artistic Sayings

Monday 18 May 11.30 - 12.00              

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Monday 18 May 12.00 – 13.00

Workshop with Robin Graham

LPAC, Studio 1

OR

Workshop with Elena Cologni

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 18 May 13.00 – 14.00 

Lunch and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Monday 18 May 14.00 – 16.00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4

Panel 13 Philosophical Approaches to Consciousness, Literature, Poetry and Theatre

Venue: EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: Sreenath Nair

Pavel Gavrilov, Latvia

Why Man Became God

Zhang Xiangen, China

On the End of Modern Art and Postmodern Aesthetics: A Perspective of Aesthetic Consciousness in Phenomenology

Eve Katsouraki, UK

An Artist’s Aesthetic

Jude James, UK

The Porous Body & The Autonomous Space of Representation where ‘no line separates earth from sky, which are of the same substance’

Panel 14 Consciousness in Contemporary Literature and Film

Venue: EMMTEC CETL

Chair: Nigel Morris, UK

Farzaneh Haratyan, Iran

Identity Consciousness

Barine Saana Ngaage, Nigeria

Consciousness, Criminality and Responses to Kuru (tortoise) in Ogoni Tales

Panel 15 Consciousness, Literature, Theatre and Gender

Venue: EMMTEC MT205

Chair: Arya Madhavan

Osita C. Ezenwanebe, Nigeria

Male Ego and the Crisis of  Gender in Modern African Drama and Theatre

Manolya Harnuboğlu, Turkey

Consciousness and the Female Character As Victim of Drives and Prejudice: A Study of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

John Downie, New Zealand

WALL OF FURIES

Mònica Miravet, Spain

Representing Trauma on the Stage: The Theatre of Sarah Kane

Panel 16 Consciousness in 19th and 20th century literature

Venue: MHAC MC0019

Chair: tbc

Effiong Johnson, Nigeria

The Tale of the Hawk and the Chicken: Leadership Paintings on the Canvas of Literature

Sinem Bezircilioglu, Turkey

A Voyage to Consciousness in Mrs Dalloway

Riza Öztürk, Turkey  

Dasein, Henchard and Absorption in the World of Temporality from the Perspective of Consciousness

Monday 18 May

16.00-16.30

Break and Book Stalls

EMMTEC Foyer 

Monday 18 May

16.30 – 18.30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4

Panel 17 Philosophical Approaches to Consciousness, Music and Art 

Venue: EMMTEC Lecture Theatre

Chair: Jade Rosina McCutcheon, USA

Bruno de Florence, UK

Music, Semiotics and the drive
 

HP Lambert, France

The literary recognition of the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia

Johan Veldeman, Belgium

Restoring the role of aesthetic experience in the theory of art

John Vignaux Smyth, USA 

Double Consciousness in Art and Life

Panel 18: Poetry

Venue: EMMTEC CETL

Chair: tbc.

Cecilia Nuria Gil Mariño, Argentina

Artistic vanguards, politics and the press: the figure of Raúl González Tuñón as a novel synthesis of testimonial poetry and aesthetic rupture

Behjat al-saddat Hejazi, Iran

Conscious Unconsciousness of Molavi in the Divan of shams

Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos

Maturity

Pooran (Sedighe) Alipoor, Iran

Morphologic Analysis of Rhythm on Prosody of Poem

Panel 19: The Aesthetics of Theatre, Literature and Athletics

Venue: EMMTEC MT205

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Tamar Mebuke, Georgia

Heroes of Humanity in Literature 

Christophe Collard, Belgium

Strange loops as Cognitive Refuge for Analogical Thought In the Theatre and Beyond.

Yukihide Endo, Japan

The Legitimacy of the Athletic Body: The Dispute over Participation Eligibility of Physically Disabled Athletes with Symbiotic Prosthetics

Panel 20: Consciousness, Literature and Theatre in Contexts of Pedagogy

Venue:MHAC MC0019

Chair: Mike Neary, UK

Aondowase Boh, Nigeria

Conflict Management in Primary Schools in Benue State, Nigeria: The Theatre Alternative

Özge Gül Zerey, Turkey

Consciousness and Theatrical Performance in Literature Courses

Kriben Pillay, South Africa

The Use of Illusion in the Pedagogy of Leadership Studies

Monday 18 May 18.30 – 20.00             

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Monday 18 May

20.00 Performance

Beckett and Theatre Degree Zero: (or: Bananas on the Beach)

Text and Performance as Research in Practice: An evening with Krapp, Henry, Tom and Ralph

Venue: LPAC Studio 1