Thursday, 19.11.2015
13:00
Welcome
Stefan Hulfeld (University of Vienna)
13:15
Introduction. Exploring Theatre Activities during the Yugoslav Wars
Jana Dolečki and Senad Halilbasic (University of Vienna)
14:15
Looking a long time back, from far away: war theater’s lessons for a foreign journalist
Erika Munk (former editor of Theater magazine and Professor of Dramaturgy at Yale University)
15:15
Coffee Break
15:45
Experiences and Memories. Panel Discussion.
Host: Adelheid Wölfl (Der Standard, Correspondent South Eastern Europe)
- Milena Dragićević Šešić (Professor of Cultural Policy & Cultural Management at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade)
- Dino Mustafić (Stage director, Director of the International Theater Festival MESS Sarajevo)
- Borut Šeparović (Artistic director of the group Montažstroj since 1989, Zagreb)
- Amela Kreso (Actress at the Narodno Pozoriste Mostar)
Friday, 20.11.2015
Panel: Theatres of Dissent? Individuals and Institutions
09:30
Swinging 90s. Institutional Theatres in Serbia and the Yugoslav Wars
Irena Šentevska (Independent Scholar, Belgrade)
10:45
Dah theater, wars and memories
Ivan Medenica (University of Arts, Belgrade)
12:00
Culture of Dissent, Art of rebellion. Psychiatric hospital as a Theater Stage: Zorica Jevremović, an Artist in Inner Exile
Milena Dragićević Šešić (University of Arts, Belgrade)
13:00
Lunch Break
Panel: Impacts! Destruction and Deconstruction
14:00
Theatre under the Bombs. Destruction of Theatre Buildings during the Croatian War of Independence
Martina Petranović (Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Zagreb)
15:15
Zvornik 1992: Vernacular Imagination and Theater of Atrocities
Branislav Jakovljevic (Stanford University)
16:30
Strategies of Challenging the Official Mythologies in War Trauma Plays
Darko Lukić (Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb)
Saturday, 21.11.2015
Panel: Transition? From “war theatre” to “theatre”
09:30
Croatian Theatre at the Close of the Nineties. From Political Queries to Aesthetic Challenges
Dubravka Vrgoč (Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb)
10:45
On Victims and (Not On) Victimhood. Audience Receptions of the Sarajevo MES Festival Ensemble – 20 Years Later
Ana Dević (Fatih University in Istanbul)
12:00
Importance of Siege Experience in Today’s Sarajevo War Theatre Mission
Nihad Kreševljaković (Direktor SARTR, Sarajevo)
13:00
Open Discussion
14:00
End of conference