The 19th International Strindberg Conference, Rome, June 5-7, 2014 Strindberg över gränserna / Strindberg Across Borders Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Villa Sciarra Wurts sul Gianicolo Via Calandrelli 25 00153 Roma Tel. +39 06 5888121 / +39 06 5888126 Scientific director: Massimo Ciaravolo massimo.ciaravolo@unifi.it Conference administrator: Sara Culeddu sara.culeddu@email.it Programme Thursday 5 June 2014 13.00-14.00 Registration 14.00-14.30 Opening 14.30-15.45 Session 1 (Plenary, Lecture Hall 1): INTERNATIONAL STAGINGS (I) Moderator Björn Meidal Franco Perrelli: Strindberg on the Italian Stages of the 20th Century 15.45-16.15 coffee break 16.15-18.15 Session 2 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 1): DRAMA AND STAGE (I) Moderator Franco Perrelli 16.15 Jørgen Stender Clausen: Spӧksonaten og Strindbergs æstetiske eksperimenter 16.45 Roland Lysell: Stora landsvägen som metadrama 17.15 Richard Bark: Strindberg Back Stage: Vad sker utanför scenrummet i några Strindbergsdramer? 17.45 Göran Söderström: Växelverkan mellan text och bild i Strindbergs dramer 16.15-18.15 Session 3 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 2): POLITICS, MODERNITY AND SPATIAL RELATIONS Moderator Annie Bourguignon 16.15 Massimo Ciaravolo: Strindberg and the Scandinavian political radicalism of the 1880s seen through his relationship with Branting, E. Brandes and Bjørnson 16.45 Eszter Szalczer (Harry G. Carlson, 1930-2012): Blood-stained landscape: forest imagery and modernity s pangs of conscience in Samvetskval 17.15 Erik Svendsen: Strindberg som tidstypisk og særegen modernitetskritiker 17.45 Irina Hron-Öberg: Dangerous Vicinity. Theorizing the Neighbor in August Strindberg s Prose
Friday 6 June 9.00-10.30 Session 4 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 1): DRAMA AND STAGE (II). A DREAMPLAY PANEL Moderator Eszter Szalczer 9.00 Per Magnus Johansson: Freud, Strindberg and the Dream 9.30 Ylva Sommerland: Ellen Widmann (1894-1985) Playing Indra s Daughter diverging patterns of the female body 10.00 Astrid von Rosen: Scenographic shimmers in Düsseldorf 1915 18. Staging Knut Ström s (1887 1971) sketches for Strindberg s A Dream Play through a Dancerly approach 9.00-10.30 Session 5 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 2): RECEPTION OF STRINDBERG: CANON, INTERTEXTUALITY AND ADAPTATION (I) Moderator David Gedin 9.00 Tobias Dahlkvist: Strindberg och Lombroso. Eller Strindberg som vansinnigt geni 9.30 Jan Balbierz: Vid kanons gränser. Strindberg och Ekelöf om litterära föregångare 10.00 Martin Hellström: Barnens Strindberg - en undersökning av Drömspelets och Ensams allålderstilltalande innehåll via barnpjäserna Lilla drömspelet och Ensam av Staffan Westerberg och Börje Lindström 10.30-11.00 coffee break 11.00-12.00 Session 6 (Plenary, Lecture Hall 1): MASCULINE AND FEMININE Moderator Lotta Gavel Adams Elena Balzamo: Jag är arg som en broms Strindberg och passionerna Cecilia Carlander: Strindberg och det androgyna Anna Cavallin: Politics of the home: power relations, gender and consumerism in Giftas / Getting Married 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Session 7 (Plenary, Lecture Hall 1) RECEPTION OF STRINDBERG: CANON,INTERTEXTUALITY AND ADAPTATION (II) Moderator Anna Maria Segala Björn Meidal: Fröken Julie och Fröken Julle. Ibsen och Strindberg i dialog Lotta Gavel Adams: Constructing Strindberg s Life Across Borders and Times David Gedin: Strippad August! 15.00-15.30 self-service coffee break 15.30-17.00 Session 8 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 1): TRANSLATION, TRANSNATIONALITY AND GENRE
Moderator Elena Balzamo 15.30 Gunnel Engwall & Alexander Künzli: Strindberg and transnationality: the case of Le Plaidoyer d un fou 16.00 Elisabeth Tegelberg: En Strindbergessä i komparativ belysning 16.30 Per Stam: Strindberg inom genrens gränser 15.30-17.00 Session 9 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 2): INTERNATIONAL STAGINGS (II) Moderator Roland Lysell 15.30 Victor Grovas Hajj: Gurrola and Jodorowsky: Two modernizers of Mexican theater stage Strindberg 16.00 Elvyra Markevičiūtė: The unique experience of Strindberg s drama interpretation in a production of Creditors 16.30 Gytis Padegimas: Y. Vakhtangov and M. Chekhov's Work on Strindberg s EriK XIV as a borderline between the Stanislavsky system and their own discoveries 20.00 Social dinner Saturday 7 June 9.00-10.30 Session 10 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 1): OCCULTISM AND THE ESOTERIC Moderator Per Stam 9.00 Annie Bourguignon: Den Okände och det okända. Var går gränsen mellan Strindberg och makterna? 9.30 Henrik Johnsson: Strindberg, Nerval and the esoteric novel 10.00 Astrid Regnell: Konstens verklighet i En blå bok 9.00-10.30 Session 11 (Parallel, Lecture Hall 2): DRAMA AND LEGACY Moderator Maria Cristina Lombardi 9.00 Deimante Dementaviciute-Stankuviene: Across dream: archetypical images in Strindberg s dream plays 9.30 Bahar Inal: The Spirit of an age: Strindberg and the crisis of modernism 10.00 Vera Gancheva: August Strindberg The Phoenix 10.30-11.00 coffee break 11.00-12.15 Session 12 (Plenary, Lecture Hall 1): FIGURATIVE ARTS Moderator Massimo Ciaravolo Keynote Speaker Martin Olin: The nineties and Italy. Southern themes in Nordic art 12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session 13 (Plenary, Lecture Hall 1) RECEPTION BY STRINDBERG: INTERTEXTUALITY, HISTORY, ADAPTATION Moderator Gunnel Engwall Maria Cristina Lombardi: Grotti and Loki: two mythological beings in August Strindberg s re-elaborations of Old Norse literature Agneta Ney: August Strindberg som historieskrivare i gränstrakterna mellan fakta och fiktion Andreas Wahlberg: Början i moll och finalen i dur. Om överträdandet av den osynliga gränsen i Strindbergs Ensam och Goethes Faust Polina Lisovskaya: Christmas Eve Topsy-turvy in three post-inferno works by Strindberg 15.30-16.00 Conclusions (Lecture Hall 1) 16.00-16.30 self-service coffee break 17.20-18.00 bus transfer from Villa Sciarra to Svenska Institutet 18.30-20.00 La prova di Cristina 20.00-22.00 buffet dinner 22.30 bus transfer from Svenska Institutet to the three hotels near Villa Sciarra