PROGRAMME *
DAY 1 FRIDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Registration and coffee/tea
15:00 - 15:30
Opening remarks and welcome by symposium curators Mariza Bargilly, Dr Marina Hadjilouca and Eleni Ioannou
15:30 - 15:50
Inaugural talk by Andy Bargilly, Honorary CYCSTAT President
15:50 - 16:10
Views and outcomes of Performance Design Futures 2022
by guest speaker Marina Maleni
16:10 - 16:30
Coffee/ tea break
16:30 - 17:30
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Theatre or Life :The Art of Charlotte Salomon (1917 - 1943)
Professor Pamela Howard OBE (UK)
chair: Dr Dorita Hannah
17:30 Drinks reception
DAY 2 SATURDAY 22nd FEBRUARY 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Registration and coffee/ tea
11:00- 12:00
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Resisting Extinction Theatre Has Left the Building: Pursuing the Scenographic ‘Real’
chair: Eleni Ioannou
12:00 - 12:15
Coffee break
12:15 - 13:00
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
chair: Dr Popi Iacovou
Nihal Soganci (CY) + Ellada Evangelou (CY)
Nicosia as a stage: Crossing external and internal boundaries through theatre.
Elena Katsouri (CY) + Magdalena Zira (CY)
Q&A
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
chair: Dr Ellada Evangelou
From Dust to Dust: Performing in wounded landscapes.
Graces Kneading: No one is a stranger: Performative Sculpture of Memory, Hospitality, and Community
Q&A
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee / tea break
15:30 - 17:05
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
chair: Mariza Bargilly
Spacing Thawra: Performative Inversions of the Public Realm during Lebanon’s 2019 October Revolution
Protest Scenographics: Analysing post-conflict urban environments
Play-grounds as Commons: Towards a Performative Design-studio Pedagogy
Dr Popi Iacovou (CY) & Christiana Ioannou (CY)
Bury Our Weapons: The many controversies of rallying for peace in performance practices
Q&A
20:00 Dinner
DAY 3 SUNDAY 23rd FEBRUARY 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Registration and coffee / tea
11:00 - 12:00
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Scenographic Metaphors of Resistance: The Case of Brundibár in Theresienstadt
chair: Professor Pamela Howard OBE
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
PLENARY
Scenography as a Form of Activism
Professor Pamela Howard OBE (UK), Dr Dorita Hannah (NZ) and
chair: Dr Marina Hadjilouca
End of Symposium
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** This is a working programme, subject to change. More information TBA.