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Intersections: Cross-Cultural Theater in Germany and the U.S.

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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Montgomery Theater, Annenberg Center for Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street!

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5:00p

Introductory remarks Karl Kneidl Scenes from zdamar's Karagz in Alamania and Keloglan in Alamania Staged by Ibrahim Miari, University of Pennsylvania Reception to follow in Montgomery Theater Lobby

Friday, March 21, 2014

Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall, 2nd Floor 3417 Spruce Street!

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Welcome and coffee Opening remarks Exile in Translation: E.S. zdamar Shifts the Greenwich Meridian of Literature Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College Postmigrant Performance at the Ballhaus Naunynstrae Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University

9:45 - 10:55a

10:55a - 12:05p Post-Migration in Performance: A Bridge too Far for Turkey? Pieter Verstraete, Migration Research Center, Bilgi University, ! Istanbul After Diaspora, "Beyond Belonging": Assessing the Future of Citizenship from a Noncitizen Stage Damani Partridge, University of Michigan Lunch break

12:05 - 1:20p

1:30 - 3:05p

Rethinking Desert: Ethnicity, Space, and Latino Theater Jon D. Rossini, University of California at Davis Performing Diaspora: Yiddish Theater in America Michael C. Steinfels, Gratz College! From Samarqand to San Francisco, Nasrudin Hoja's Theatrical Evolution Torange Yeghiazarian, Golden Thread Productions, San Francisco Coffee break Enacted Migration in Emine Sevgi zdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn Ortrud Gutjahr, University of Hamburg Theater Works: The Interplay of Genres in zdamar's Oeuvre Yasemin Dayo"lu-Ycel, University of Pennsylvania Reading by Emine Sevgi zdamar with Q&A, in German

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Annenberg Center for Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street 10:30a - 12p Roundtable Discussion: Cross-Cultural Theater in Germany and the U.S. Nora Haack, Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrae, Berlin Robert Smythe, Temple University Ibrahim Miari, University of Pennsylvania Ortrud Gutjahr, University of Hamburg Moderator: Marcia Ferguson, University of Pennsylvania Montgomery Theater Lunch reception in Studio Lobby Conversation with Emine Sevgi zdamar on Intersections of Theater and Literature Room 511, Annenberg Center for Performing Arts Coffee break Theater Workshop Caroline Weist, University of Pennsylvania

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2:30 - 4p