Fifth International Conference

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts

June 15-17, 2013, Lincoln, UK

Draft Schedule at a Glance

last updated 31 May 2013

Conference Schedule

Last updated 20 April 2013

Saturday 15 June 8.30 - 9.00

Registration, LPAC Foyer

Saturday 15 June 9.00-9.30   

Welcome and introduction to the Conference

LPAC Studio 1

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Director

Dr Mark O’Thomas, Head of the Lincoln School of Performing Arts

Saturday 15 June 9.30-11.00

Keynote

Andy Jordan

University of Lincoln, UK

Science in Theatre

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Saturday 15 June 11.00-11.30           

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 15 June 11.30-12.30

Plenary Session

Bonnie Eckard

Arizona State University, USA

Theatre and Attitudes: Experiments in Personal Transformation

Saturday 15 June 12.30 – 14.00        

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 15 June 14.00 – 16.00        

Parallel sessions

Panel 1

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Susie Mower, UK

Daphne Grace

University of the Bahamas

Encountering Utopia in the Plays of Oscar Wilde

Alla Sosnovskaya

University of Haifa, Israel

Costume in Ibsen's' plays

Sreenath Nair

University of Lincoln, UK

Embodying Rasa: the aesthetics of traceformation in the Natyasastra.

Panel 2

Topic:  Literature and Ideas

Venue: LPAC Studio 3

Chair: TBC

Pavel Gavrilov

University of Latvia

Evolving Sacred Space in Literature

Tamar Mebuke

Georgian Technical University

Aspects of Intentionality.

Krishna Barua 

Indian Institute Of Technology Guwahati 

Space and  Landscape : Deep ecology in Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope  and Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.  

Panel 3

Topic: Theatre and Science

Venue: LPAC Studio X

Chair: TBC

Clayton D. Drinko

USA

Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition

Simon Grennan

Deakin University, USA

Landscape and Consciousness

Martin Curtis

University of Lincoln

Theatre and Conceptual Blending                                                           

Saturday 15 June 16.00 – 16.30        

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 15 June 16.30 – 18.00        

LPAC Studio 1

KEYNOTE Harry Youtt

GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS: Protecting the Arts Against Interference by Science

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Saturday 15 June 18.00 – 20.00        

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Saturday 15 June 20.00                                 

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Dance Alison Grace Clissold, Performance

Karla Shacklock, Performance

Sunday 16 June 9.00 – 10.30

Keynote

Nicole Panizza, Coventry University

“Reading in the Dark:” A performer’s encounter with Emily Dickinson and her American musical interpreters

LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräf

Sunday 16 June 10.30-11.00 

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 16 June 11.00-13.00 

Parallel sessions

Panel 4

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Diane Dubois, UK

Smriti Srivastava

IIT Kanpur (India)

Theatre of “Roots”: Precedents in Sanskrit Theatre

Arya Madhavan

University of Lincoln, UK

Embodied Mirror: Guru as mirror in Indian performance training

Susie Mower

Loughborough University and University of Lincoln, UK

“Raising Up All That Fall: Samuel Beckett and the (Un)holy Theatre of Phantoms”

Panel 5

Topic: Dance and Poetry

Venue: LPAC Studio X

Chair: Kayla Bowtell, UK

Karla Shacklock

Bristol, UK 

Further Beyond: Seeking truth, seeking self and simply being in performance

Jane Carr

Bedfordshire University, UK

Dance as a Site of Intertwining: Re-considering the embodied interrelationships between dancer, choreographer and audience for the Twenty-First Century

Rosy Saikia

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

The Creative Process: A study of Aesthetics in Rainer Maria Rilke

Sunday 16 June 13.00 – 14.00           

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 16 June 14.00 – 16.00 

Plenary Session

Music  

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: David Clarke

Pema Clark

University of East Anglia

The End and the Places in Between

Jekaterina Haritonenko

University of Latvia

Words Multiplied by Music: Musicalised Fiction in the 21^st Century

Kevin O’Regan

Norwich, UK

Bridging the inanimate: music and “implied consciousness”

Sunday 16 June 16.00 – 16.30           

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 16 June 16.30 – 18.30

Parallel Sessions

Panel 6

Topic: Theatre for Development 

Chair: Aylwyn Walsh, UK

LPAC Studio 1

Sanjay Kumar

University of Delhi and pandies theatre, New Delhi, India

Diabling Theatre, enabling consciousness: workshop theare with the platform young.

Keneth Bamuturaki

University of Exeter

Empowering Disenfranchised Communities in Karamoja (Uganda): Revisiting the practice of Development Communication through Theatre for Development

Panel 7

Topic: Spaces across media

Venue: LPAC Studio X

Chair: Nigel Morris, UK

Christopher R. Wood

University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

What Can Realist Phenomenology Teach Us About the Architectural Work of Art?

Martin Julien

University of Toronto

Being with Silence: The withdrawal of speech in Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of

Cherry

Joe Graham,

Loughborough University

Drawing and the Phenomenological Reduction discussed as a shared practice of seeing

Sunday 16 June 18.30 - 20.00           

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Sunday 16 June
Performance

Venue: LPAC Theatre

Monday 17 June

Monday 17 June 9.00-10.30

LPAC Studio 1

Keynote Lecture

David Clarke, Newcastle University

Music and consciousness – high and low

Chair:Jirina Smejkalova, UK

Monday 17 June 10.30 – 11.00         

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 17 June 11.00-12.00

LPAC Studio 1

Performance Linda Palmer

Monday 17 June 12.00-13.00

LPAC Studio 1

Elena Cologni

University of Cambridge, UK

Spa(e)cious

Monday 17 June 13.00 – 14.00         

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 17 June 14.00 – 16.00

LPAC Studio 3

Workshop Philip Shepherd

16.00-16.30

Break and Book Stalls