Workshops "Stages of performing in Pahlavi Iran 1925–1979"
April 11-12 2024 - Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect in Munich
Please register here by 8 April 2024.
Thursday, 11 April 2024
10:00 Registration & coffee
11:00 Welcome and introduction Nic Leonhardt & Anna Heller
• 11:30 DRAMATIC ARTS IN THE EARLY PAHLAVI ERA Chair: Emil Madsen Brandt
Fahimeh Najmi (Paris 8 University), Theatre as a propaganda tool in the early Pahlavi era [1925-1941]: a study on the effect of censorship and the establishment of thoughts training organisation on Iran‘s performing arts
Anna Heller (University of Marburg), Addressing the female pioneers of the theatre: Loreta Hayrapetian‘s biography in the context of a feminist theatre history
13:00 Lunch break @ global dis:connect
• 14:00 DANCE AND OPERA Chair: Babak Rahimi
Elaheh Hatami (Berlin), Emerging ambiguity: Western modernity and Iranian stage dance
Nic Leonhardt (global dis:connect, Munich), ‘Write a dance’ – Nilla Cook’s theatrical mission in Tehran in the 1940s
Sahereh Astaneh (University of Salzburg), The first Iranian opera productions at Rudaki Hall, 1967-1979
15:30 Coffee break
• 16:00 OPEN FORUM – THEATRE PRACTICE IN IRAN – IRANIAN THEATRE ABROAD
Chairs: Nic Leonhardt, Behzad Zerehdaran
Guests: Mirella Oestreicher & Pooyan Bagherzadeh
18:00 Dinner @ ChuChin Vietnamese Restaurant (https://chuchin.de)
Friday, 12 April 2024
• 10:00 SITES OF SPECTACLE Chair: Elaheh Hatami
Tea Pitiurishvili (Tbilisi State University), Shiraz arts festivals: practicing universalism in neo-Achaemenid style
Azadeh Ganjeh (University of Hildesheim), Unconventional stages: exploring the aesthetics of site-based theatre in late Pahlavi Iran
11:30 Co ee break
• 12:00 DRAMA AS CRITIQUE Chair: Sahereh Astaneh
Behzad Zerehdaran (University of Marburg), Tales of a trembling throne: theatrical representations of mad kings and regicides in the age of Aryamehr
Babak Rahimi (University of California, San Diego), The absurdist theatre of Abbas Nalbandian: experimental theatre
Emil Madsen Brandt (University of Copenhagen), Drama as a locus of ideology in late Pahlavi Iran: the case of Bijan Mofid‘s Shahr-e Qesse
13:30 Lunch break @ Café Mona (www.cafebar-mona.de) 15:00 ROUNDTABLE
• 15:00 ROUNDTABLE
Workshop results and publication planning