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All times are Central European Time (CET, UTC+1). With the exception of the opening session, every panel comprises three papers of 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Online participation is marked explicitly.
The languages of the conference are English and Italian. All presentations in Italian will be accompanied by a simultaneous English translation, projected on screen.
Conference venues
Co-working: Polo Zanotto, via S. Francesco 22, Verona
SMT01: Polo Santa Marta, via Cantarane 24, Verona
SMT08: Polo Santa Marta, via Cantarane 24, Verona
Auletta Maffei: Chiostro di S. Maria della Vittoria, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 41, Verona
Thursday 19 November
| Time | Room | Event |
| 09:45–10:00 | Co-working | Welcome and opening remarks Gherardo Ugolini (Università di Verona) Deputy Director, Skenè Research Centre |
| 10:00–10:45 | Co-working | Keynote Lecture: Eva Marinai (Università di Pisa) Il sapere corporeo come cultural performance. Baratto e restituzione in Barba e Fo: il Nuovo Teatro e le sue radici popolari [Embodied Knowledge as Cultural Performance: Barter and Restitution in Barba and Fo—the New Theatre and Its Popular Roots] Introduced by Alessandro Grilli (Università di Pisa) |
| 10:45–11:00 | — | Coffee break |
| 11:00–12:40 | Co-working | Opening session: Theatre and anthropology across disciplines Anton Bierl; Fabrizio Deriu; Rajesh Komath; Marta Lietti and Giulia Sissa |
| 14:45–16:00 | Co-working | Tragic bodies: Emotions and spectatorship Giulia Fiore; Nicola Ucciero; Beatrice Veidenberg |
| 14:45–16:00 | SMT08 | Rehearsal, acting, and performance ethnography Jonas Tinius; Gaia Burgio; James Critchley |
| 16:00–16:20 | — | Coffee break |
| 16:20–17:35 | Co-working | Comedy, citizenship, and the ancient polis Maximilian Allanby-Bassett; Michael Castellino; Shreya Dua |
| 16:20–17:35 | SMT08 | Ritual matrices: Ancient performance and artificial agency Ester Fuoco; Laura Muncaciu; Bartek Bednarek |
| 21:00 | Il Bersagliere | Conference dinner Il Bersagliere via Dietro Pallone 1, 37121 Verona |
Friday 20 November
| Time | Room | Event |
| 09:30–10:15 | Co-working | Keynote Lecture: Simone Beta (Università di Siena) — “Gli altari, i templi degli dei non esistono più; scomparso è il seme di tutta la terra”: Guerra, morte e distruzione nell’Orestea di Eschilo e nelle riscritture moderne” [“The altars, the temples of the gods no longer exist; the seed of the whole earth has vanished”— War, death and destruction in Aeschylus’s Oresteia and in modern adaptations] Introduced by Andrea Taddei (Università di Pisa) |
| 10:15–10:30 | — | Coffee break |
| 10:30–11:45 | Co-working | Character, myth, and performative memory Z. I. Mahmud; Stergiani Ralli; Zeki Cem Kaçar |
| 10:30–11:45 | SMT01 | Ritual exchange, memory, and belonging Farima Rezaeianpour; Mahdi Keshavarz Afshar and Tuba (Tara) Mozafari; Shijia Du |
| 10:30–11:45 | Auletta Maffei | Communities, spectatorship, and cultural performance Anna Novokhatko; Maria Grosso; Magda Nabiałek-Przytuła |
| 11:45–12:00 | — | Coffee break |
| 12:00–13:15 | SMT01 | Caste, heritage, and intercultural transformation Ashutosh Potdar; B. Jeyashree; Arundhati B |
| 12:00–13:15 | Co-working | Race, colonialism, and Black performance Gamze Ar; Mariana França Soutto Mayor; Melisa Bayraktar and Mehmet Salih Yoğun |
| 14:30–15:45 | Co-working | Audience, ritual, and theatrical transformation Abigail Fixel; Maria Cristina Silvani; Vincenzo De Masi |
| 14:30–15:45 | Auletta Maffei | Tragedy, grief, and redemption Gabriela de Souza, Sergio Maciel Junior and Jaqueline Bohn Donada; Angela Mendoza; Marsha McCoy |
| 15:45–16:05 | — | Coffee break |
| 16:05–17:20 | Co-working | Bodies, memory, and performative limits Flavia Collyer-Powell; Arianna Frattali; Annamaria Ferrentino |
| 16:05–17:20 | Auletta Maffei | Dramaturgy, heritage, and transformative performance Anoop VR; Pietro Balzarini; Maria Rita Chierchia |
| 17:40–18:40 | Co-working | Book presentation Sophokles, Die Trachinierinnen. With Anton Bierl and Gherardo Ugolini |
| 21:15 | Fucina Culturale Machiavelli | Performance Cassandra, at the End, by Dijana Mitrović, followed by a Q&A with Dijana Mitrović and the company Fucina Culturale Machiavelli, via Madonna del Terraglio 10, Verona |
Saturday 21 November
| Time | Room | Event |
| 09:30–10:45 | Co-working | Bodies, space, and ritual participation Massimo Roberto Beato; Karolina Lambrou; Manlio Marinelli |
| 10:45–11:05 | — | Coffee break |
| 11:05–12:20 | Co-working | Performance, protest, and collective identity Antara Bhattacharya; Shruti Mangla; Anthi Chotzakoglou |
| 12:20–12:35 | Co-working | Closing remarks: Silvia Bigliazzi (Università di Verona); Alessandro Grilli (Università di Pisa) |
