Dec. 8th, Thursday
09: 00 AM – 09: 05 AM CET, Welcome Speech, Introduction to the Symposium
09: 05 AM – 09: 50 AM CET, Keynote Speech 1: Nick Rongjun Yu ⇨
09: 50 AM – 10: 10 AM CET, Coffee Break
10: 10 AM – 11: 50 AM CET, Thematic Session 1: “Global Recognition,” Prof. Octavian Saiu (Moderator), Amelie Deuflhard, Nurkan Erpulat, Ming Poon, Aine Nakamura, ZHAO Miao ⇨
12: 00 PM – 13: 30 PM CET, Lunch Break
13: 30 PM – 15: 00 PM CET, Online Artist Forum: “a ‘Common Room’ for Europe-based Asian Artists: Contemporary, Collaboration, Community,” coordinated by Wei Arianne Wang and Yinfu Gao, not open to the public ⇨
15: 00 AM – 15: 30 AM CET, Coffee Break
15: 30 PM – 16: 30 PM CET, Workshop 1: “Virtual Reality and Theatre Workshop on the Play Copenhagen,” coordinated by Jing Wang Thomas with participants from the Uni. of Cambridge and the Uni. of Göttingen. Casts: Zhengkang QU (Cambridge), Yunxiao ZHANG (Göttingen), Yueran YANG (Cambridge), Yihong SHI (Göttingen), Heisenberg: Zihan YAN (Cambridge), Jin Qin (Cambridge), Zucheng GAO (Cambridge), Bo PENG (Cambridge), Xia LI (Göttingen) ⇨
16: 30 AM – 17: 30 AM CET, Workshop 2, Theatre Archive and the Materiality: Digital Restoration and The Visual Rebirth of the 1980s Chinese Theatrical Art; coordinated by Xiaoxin Wang-Erb ⇨
18: 00 PM – 20: 00 PM CET, Dinner
Dec. 9th, Friday
09: 05 AM – 09: 50 AM CET, Keynote Speech 2: “Theatre of Hybrid: Bridging Cultures, Aesthetics and Disciplines” by Assoc. Prof. Deepan Sivaraman ⇨
09: 50 AM – 10: 10 AM CET, Coffee Break
10: 10 AM – 11: 50 AM CET, Thematic Session 2: “Local Specificity,” Prof. Xavier Le Roy (Moderator), Kyoko Iwaki, Xiaoyi Liu, Dan Thy Nguyen, Scarlet Yu, WANG Chong ⇨
11: 50 AM – 13: 30 PM CET, Lunch Break
13: 30 PM – 14: 30 PM CET, Roundtable Discussion: Yumin Ao (Moderator), Amelie Deuflhard, Nurkan Erpulat, Kyoko Iwaki, Xiaoyi Liu, Ming Poon, Aine Nakamura, Dan Thy Nguyen, Xavier Le Roy, Octavian Saiu, Deepan Sivaraman, WANG Chong, Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel, Nick Rongjun Yu, Scarlet Yu, ZHAO Miao. Not open to the public.
14: 30 PM – 15: 00 PM CET, Drama Reading: The Will written by GUO Shixing. Casts: Svenja Isabel Hudson, Zixuan Ni, Carlos Franke, and Michelle Koprow ⇨
15: 00 PM – 15: 30 PM CET, Coffee Break
15: 30 PM – 16: 30 PM CET, Workshop 3: “Finding the Communal through Transborder Art – Voice, Bodies, Stories; coordinated by Aine Nakamura” ⇨
16: 30 PM – 17: 15 PM CET, Keynote Speech 3, “From the Silk Road to the Bridges of Culture and Back: Theatre Festivals, Artistic Exchanges, and Cultural Diplomacy in Post-Pandemic Times” by Prof. Octavian Saiu ⇨
17: 15 PM – 17: 20 PM CET, Ending Remarks, Yumin Ao
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