Program
This is the final program- there have been some slight changes from the previous posting. (June 13. 2012)
The XIIIth International Ibsen Conference
University of Tromsø, Norway
June 18-23, 2012
Monday June 18
18. 00 Registration begins at Hålogaland Theatre Teaterplassen 1, city centre
19:00 Opening ceremony and reception
Hålogaland Theatre
Official opening by: Iren Reppen, artistic director Hålogaland Theatre
Opening remarks and greetings by: Jarle Aarbakke, rector, University of Tromsø
Anni Skogman, deputy mayor, Tromsø
Chengzhou He, head of The International Ibsen Committee
Frode Helland, head of Centre for Ibsen Studies
Lisbeth P. Wærp, head of the organizing committee
Kristian Figenschow, an actor at Hålogaland Theatre, will be reading from An Enemy of the People
Guided tour of the theatre
Light refreshments will be provided
Conference Details
The conference will take place on the campus of the University of Tromsø at Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (HSL-fakultetet), Teorifag Building, House 1
If you are staying in the city centre:
Buses 20 (Stakkevollan) and 21 (UiT/UNN) go to the University from the city cen- tre. The stops can be found at the NW corner of Fredrik Langes gate and Storgata (the walking street). Buses leave every 10 minutes on weekdays and the journey takes 10-15 minutes. The stop on campus is called UiTøSIV (Bus Price: 28 NOK for adults)
If you are staying at Ørndalen (student accommodations):
It is a lovely 3 km walk to campus through the woods or you can hop aboard Bus 20 which runs every 20 minutes. It is a 10 minute ride to campus. (Bus Price: 28 NOK for adults)
Tuesday June 19
08.30 – 09.00 Registration Teorifag Building, House 1 Coffee and tea will be available
Keynote
09:15 Opening joik by Johan Máhtte Skum
09.20 – 10.15
Martin Puchner (Harvard University, Boston, USA): Henrik Ibsen. World Literature and the Creation of Literary Worlds (Auditorium 1)
Chair: Chengzhou He
Parallel sessions 10.30 – 12.00
1.1 Ibsen – the north (Room 1.343) Chair: Joanne Tompkins
Jon Nygaard (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): The Mystery of the North of the North in Ibsen’s drama
Wenche Torrisen (University College, Volda, Norway): Geographies of superstition, myths and freedom: Ibsen and Northern Norway
Troy Storfjell (Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, USA): Lapland, Bees and the Order of Things: Reading Ibsen through Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale
1.2 Drama aesthetics – theatre aesthetics (Room 1.313)
Chair: Sandra Saari
Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr. (Rochester Institute of Technol- ogy, USA): Aesthetics and the Search for a National Poetic Form: Ib- sen’s Essay “Om Kjæmpevisen og dens Betydning for Kunstpoesien”
Ståle Dingstad (University of Oslo, Norway): Love’s Comedy revis- ited – 150 years after the first publication
Anette Storli Andersen (University of Oslo, Norway): The young Ibsen’s theatre aesthetics – a theatre of the old, free and mountainous North
1.3 Ibsen and world literature – influence (Room 1.333)
Chair: Ruben Moi
Irina Ruppo Malone (National University of Ireland, Galway): Ibsen and the Birth of Irish Modernism
Tore Rem (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen Penguinised
Giuliano D’Amico (University College, Volda, Norway): Between Magic[k] and drama – Henrik Ibsen and Aleister Crowley
1.4 Modern Noras worldwide (Room 1.329) Chair: Liu Minghou
Tapati Gupta (University of Calcutta, India): Performing Modernity: A Bengali Adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
M. Shahinoor Rahman (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh): Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and the Question of Nora’s Freedom in the Context of Bangladesh
Sarah Paula Hoffman (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA): Nora, The White-Boned Demon, Portraits
1.5 Intercultural Ibsen – film and theatre (Room 1.317)
Chair: Kamaluddin Nilu
Krishna Sen (University of Calcutta, India): Reading India through Ibsen: Satyajit Ray’s Ganashatru and K.P. Kumaran’s Aakasha Gopu- ram
Balakrishnan Pillai Anandhakrishnan (University of Hy- derabad, India): From Referential Meaning to the Performative: Appropriations to Ibsen’s texts in a South Indian Context
Nataranjan Bohidar (Gurgaon, India): Differentiating Henrik Ibsen in World Theater
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Keynote (Auditorium 1)
13.15 – 14.15 Nuruddin Farah (Author, Somalia/South Africa): Ibsen, In Other Words
Chair: Helge Rønning
14.15 – 14.45 Coffee and waffles
Excursion: Hurtigruten tour
(for pre-registered participants) Sensible shoes and warm clothing recommended.
14.45 Board buses on University of Tromsø campus
We will enjoy a four hour journey via bus and two ferries on our way north. There will be a snack provided on the bus and an opportunity to stretch our legs in Skjervøy for approximately sixty minutes before boarding the ship.
19.45 Board the HurtigRuten Ship in Skjervøy
We will have a chance to explore the ship before gathering for a three-course meal at 21.30. We can toast to the beautiful scenery of the Arctic!
23.45 Sail into Tromsø
The ship docks downtown close to the city centre. It is a quick walk to the conference hotels or to lively nightlife establishments.
Wednesday June 20
Keynote panel (Auditorium 1)
10.15 – 12.00
Translating Ibsen.
Anne Lande Peters (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Sherin Abdel Wahab (Cairo, Egypt) and Barbara Haveland (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Chair: Frode Helland
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13:00 Exhibition Opening, University Library: “I can’t write letters.” Ibsen through his letters
Exhibition by Sigmund Nesset (Librarian, University of Tromsø)
Opening remarks by Helge Salvesen (Director, University Library) and Narve Fulsås (Editor of Ibsen’s letters, University of Tromsø)
13.45 – 15:15 Parallel sessions
2.1 Political influence – cultural reception (Auditorium 2)
Chair: Mark Sandberg
Frode Helland (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): No politics –The first Doll’s House in Communist China
Kamaluddin Nilu (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway/Centre for Asian Theatre, Dhaka, Bangladesh): Democratisation process in interculturalism: Staging Ibsen within a folk theatrical form in Bang- ladesh
Chen Liang (Fudan University, China): Spatial Construction and Cultural Reception. Analysis of The Lady from the Sea – a Chinese Adaptation
2.2 Aesthetic aspects (Room 1.343) Chair: Astrid von Rosen
Wang Yuli (Wuhan University, China): The Polyimage Poetics in Ibsen’s Late Plays
Miriam Lau Leung Che (Hong Kong Community College, China): Effects of Chinese opera on the reproduction of Ibsen’s plays
Sofija Todic (University of Belgrade, Serbia): Dances in the Drawing Room: Ibsen’s Use of Musical Elements in a Larger Cultural Context
2.3 Theatre, reception, influence (Room 1.333) Chair: Martin Humpal
Keld Hyldig (University of Bergen, Norway): Ibsen, Bjørnson and the art of acting in Norwegian Theatre
Jill Wolfe (University of Tromsø, Norway): “Merits and Demerits of Ibsen’s great play”: The reception of the Novelty Theatre Company matinee performance of The Doll’s House, Theatre Royal, Brighton England June 20th 1889
Jens-Morten Hanssen (National Library of Norway, Oslo): Otto Brahm’s Ibsen cycles at Lessing-Theater in Berlin
15.15 Coffee and waffles
15.30 – 17:00 Parallel sessions
3.1 Contrasting conceptions of 19th century modernity – Ibsen and Bjørnson (Room 1.333)
Chair: Ståle Dingstad
Helge Rønning (University of Oslo, Norway): Eros and Politics. A comparative Analysis of Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm (1886) and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg (1898)
Helge Høibraaten (Norwegian University of Science and Tech- nology, Trondheim): Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean and Bjørnson’s Beyond Powers I and their Reception in Germany at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Fredrik Engelstad (University of Oslo, Norway): The Enigma of Capitalism – Over Ævne II and John Gabriel Borkman
3.2 Intercultural Ibsen performances (Room 1. 313) Chair: Krishna Sen
Mitsuya Mori (Seijo University, Japan): Two Intercultural Ibsen Performances: Double Nora and Resurrection Day
Liu Minghou (Shanghai Theatre Academy, China): Thought-Pro- voking Female Characters in Ibsen’s Plays
Monica Emilie Herstad (Choreographer, Oslo, Norway): Playing Ibsen – A reflection upon counterculture vs mainstream perspectives
3.3 Gender – art – passion (Room 1.317) Chair: Sarah Paula Hoffmann
Michelle Ashley (Tufts University, Boston, USA): Boring the Bourgeoisie to Death: Analyzing Hedda and Middle Class Lifelessness
Maria Golkova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg): Encyclopedia of human passions
3.4 Philosophical aspects - on Brand and The Wild Duck (Room 1.329)
Chair: Jørgen Dines Johansen
Nima Salehian (University of Semnan, Iran): The analysis of sense of sacrifice and faith in Islamic works and Brand
Thor Holt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Ibsen and the cultural imagination of disaster: The death of innocent children and the theodicy in Brand
Gunnar Arrias (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): The tragedy of the impossible sacrifice in The Wild Duck
3.5 Translocation, translation and intercultural performance (Room 1.343)
Chair: Ellen Gjervan
Julie Holledge (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia/ Univer-sity of Oslo): Six Cities in Search of Lady from the Sea
Jonathan Châtel (University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium):How to create an image of Ibsen’s theatre? The French case
Paul Johnson (University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty, Camrose,Canada): Translation and Presentation of Ibsens Barn
Public event: Nuruddin Farah at the public library
Grønnegata 95, city centre (Tromsø bibliotek)
19.00 Author Nuruddin Farah (Somalia/South Africa) in conversation with Helge Rønning on Africa and literature
Thursday June 21 Keynote panel (Auditorium 1)
09.15 – 11.15
Inaugural Artists Keynote Panel: Applied Ibsen on Four Continents: The Artists’ Intentions
Chair: Julie Holledge
Sheema Kermani (Performance Artist, Pakistan) Richard Newton (Artist, USA) Gerrit Timmers (Theatre director and actor, The Netherlands) Melissa Eveleigh (Theatre and Development Practitioner: Writer,
Director, Facilitator, Malawi-Zimbabwe-UK) Anwer Hussain Jafri (Writer and Director, Pakistan)
11.15 Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions
4.1 Biography/writings (Auditorum 2)
Chair: Jens-Morten Hanssen
Mark Sandberg (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Mapping Ibsen’s Mobility
Ralf Rauker (Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia): Ibsen’s Südsucht und Nordlust.
Performance by Paul Johnson (University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty, Camrose, Canada): “Henrik Ibsen on the Necessity of Pro- ducing Norwegian Drama” (a play by John Palmer, 20 min. + Q&A)
4.2 Socio-political aspects (Room 1.325)
Chair: Victor Castellani
Olivia Gunn (University of California, Irvine, USA): The Drama of Decadence: Georg Lukács’s Ibsen
Azadeh Mazloumsaki (University of Oslo, Norway): Henrik Ib- sen’s political outlook in Brand
Mohammed Ali Rahmani (University of Tromsø, Norway): “Truth” in tragedy: A glocal concept in Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken
4.3 Ibsen – film (Room 1.343) Chair: Ellen Rees
Astrid Sæther (University of Oslo, Norway): Hedda and her sis- ters: On Woody Allen and Ibsen
Richard Back (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia): Cinema- tography of landscapes and waterscapes in Ibsen films
Melvin Chen (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): The (Im)possibility of Filming Ibsen
4.4 Reception/influence (Room 1.333) Chair: Henning Gärtner
Kakhaber Loria (Tbilisi State University, Georgia): Ibsen in Georgia
Kamilla Aslaksen (Ka Press, Oslo, Norway): Brand’s Readers
Giorgio Capecchi (University of Greifswald, Germany): Northern Brand. Ibsen’s Influence on Hamsun
4.5 Scenography/spatiality (Room 1.317)
Chair: Gunnar Arrias
Astrid von Rosen (Gothenburg University, Sweden): “Peer Gynt runs his hand over the inflatable dream.” Notes on scenography, invisibility and historical research
Ellen Karoline Gjervan (Queen Maud University College, Trond- heim, Norway): Ibsen’s theatrical space – on the page
Cecilia Elsen (University of Oslo, Norway): Exiled within Homes
4.6 Myths and the dramatic tradition – Little Eyolf (Room 1.329)
Chair: Richard Back
Roland Lysell (Stockholm University, Sweden): Little Eyolf and Dramatic Tradition
Rakesh Mohan Sharma (GND University College, Pathankot, India): Symbiotic Relatedness to Sub Specie Aeternitais: Little Eyolf ’s Spiritual Rebirth
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.15 – 15.45 Parallel sessions
5.1 Gender/role patterns (Room 1.333)
Chair: Wenche Torrisen
Jørgen Dines Johansen (University of Southern Denmark): Male and Female Discourses in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
Paulo Ricardo Berton (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil): On Role Patterns and Configurations
Beret Wicklund (University College, Trondheim, Norway): The friendship-based gender relations in Ibsen’s dramas
5.2 Intercultural Ibsen – film and theatre (Room 1.343)
Chair: Tapati Gupta
Kwok-Kan Tam (Open University of Hong Kong, China): Motherhood: a Hong Kong Film Adaptation of Ghosts
Xujia Zhou (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): From Ghosts to Curse of the Golden Flower: Ibsen in Chinese Popular Movie Industry
Laleh Benham (Independent Scholar, Tehran, Iran): Looking for Enlightenment through Dramatic Arts: A comparative study of Ghosts (1881) and Santuri (2007)
5.3 World Literature – reception and influence (Room 1.313)
Chair: Ralf Rauker
Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia):Ibsen Down Under: Ghosts
Janke Klok (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler and An Enemy of the People and the Dutch cities
Maija Burima (Daugavpils University, Latvia): Stagings of Ibsen’s Plays in Latvia in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
5.4 Socio-cultural aspects (Room 1.325)
Chair: Olivia Gunn
Sandra Saari (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA): Ibsen and the World of Nature
Trond Woxen (Actor-Writer-Translator, Oslo, Norway): Ibsen as an Environmentalist
Zhen-guo Yang (Nanchang, China): Ibsen and the Nordic Spirit
5.5 Peer Gynt world wide (Room 1.317)
Chair: Shafi Ahmed
Sabiha Huq (University of Oslo, Norway): Stage Performance of Peer Gynt in Mysore: Is “Global Ibsen” against globalization?
Victor Grovas (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico): Staging Peer Gynt in Mexico
Seyed Mahdi Samiei (University of Oslo, Norway): Peer Gynt in Persia: a comparative mythology analysis
Exibition and excursion
18.00
Exhibition at Perspektivet Museum (city centre, Storgata 95) Works by Olga Tobreluts (Russia): Emperor and Galilean
Using a blend of postmodern and classical pastiche, Olga Tobreluts sees the “universal drama” of Henrik Ibsen not only as a drama of ideas, as a collision of ideologies, but also wants to show those historical and cultural circumstances which influenced or could influence the writer when he was creating his drama. (www.rusmuseum.ru)
Excursion: Bus from Perspektivet Museum to Mountain Lift (18.40, 19.00, 19.20)
There will be an opportunity to walk around on the top of the moun- tain and enjoy the gorgeous scenery from the restaurant at the top of Mount Storsteinen with a complimentary glass of wine (or soda) in hand. Sensible shoes and warm clothes are recommended. The lift takes people back down the mountain every 30 minutes until 1.00 in the morning if you would like to remain at the top for the midnight sun. To return to the city centre, public bus #26 runs on regular in- tervals. If you would prefer to walk, it is a short and scenic 20 minute trip from the mountain lift into the city centre.
Friday June 22 Keynote (Auditorium 1)
09.15 – 10.15
Sun Jian, Shanghai (Fudan University, China): Ibsen and Peking Women’s Normal University
Chair: Chen Liang
Professor Sun Jian was the head of the organizing committee for the
XIIth International Ibsen Conference in Shanghai, China in 2009
10.15 Coffee
10.30 – 12.00 Parallel sessions
6.1 Ibsen – film (Room 1.343) Chair: Troy Storfjell
Tanya Thresher (Independent Scholar, Dubai, United Arab Emir- ates): Boats in Fields. Uwe Janson’s Peer Gynt (2006)
Ellen Rees (University of Oslo, Norway): Postsecular Salvation: Hallvard Bræin’s Gatas Gynt (2008)
Lisbeth P. Wærp (University of Tromsø, Norway): The play within the film: Peer Gynt in Skjoldbjærg’s En folkefiende (2004)
6.2 Heroism/Ibsen’s characters (Room 1.313)
Chair: Helge Høibraaten
Victor Castellani (University of Denver, USA): Ibsen’s Cata- strophic “Heroes”
Maya Vukovska (South-West University Neofit Rilsky-Blago- evgrad, Bulgaria): Ibsen’s Characters: Reformers, Messiahs, Socio- paths. Reflections of Their Own Author
6.3 Ibsen – modern China (Room 1.333)
Chair: Kwok-kan Tam
Aimin Chen (Nanjing Normal University, China): Ibsen’s Plays and the Construction of Chinese Culture
Yung-chen Chiang (DePauw University, Greencastle, USA): A Re- visionist Interpretation of Ibsenism in Modern China
Terry Sui-han Yip (Hong Kong Baptist University, China): Staging Ibsen’s Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre
6.4 Modern Noras worldwide (Room 1.317)
Chair: Keld Hyldig
Rustem Ertug Altinay (New York University, USA): Staging A Doll’s House in Kurdish: The Theatre Painted Bird’s Nora/Nure in its Performance Context
Solace Sefakor Anku (University of Oslo, Norway): Beyond the slammed door
Henning Gärtner (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA): Nora the Doll: Why Liberalism’s New Woman is Not Free
6.5 Social aspects (Room 1.325) Chair: Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
Benedikte Berntzen (National Library of Norway, Oslo): Ibsen’s social laboratory. News and contemporary events as foundation for Pillars of Society
Clare Glenister (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen’s workers. Representations of work and workplaces in the contemporary dramas
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Keynote (Auditorium 1)
13.15 – 14.15 Stine Brenna Taugbøl (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen goes digital - a presentation of the new electronic version of Henrik Ib- sen’s writings
Chair: Astrid Sæther
14.15 – 14.45 General Assembly This meeting will consist of election of the new members of the International Ibsen committee, proposals for the next conference venue in 2015, and general information.
Museum afternoon The following are free to conference participants for the duration of the conference:
Please show your conference name tag for museum entrance
The University Museum of Tromsø (Lars Thørings veg 10): Open 9.00-18.00. This museum features North Norwegian nature and culture, including a focus on the indigenous Sami.
The Art Museum of Northern Norway (Sjøgata 1) Open 11.00-18.00. Features Northern Norwegian art ranging from 19th century to contemporary works.
The Perspektivet Museum (Storgata 95) Open 11.00-17.00. Offers exhibits on the history of Tromsø, as well as temporary exhibits.
The Polar Museum, (Søndre Tollbodgate 11) Open 10.00-19.00. Exhibits on the his- tory of arctic exploration and economic activity housed in a traditional wharf house from 1830.
For a fee (80 NOK for conference participants), Polaria (Hjalmar Johansensgate 12) is worth a visit both for the unique architecture of the building and the exhibits on arctic nature, including a film about Svalbard and an aquarium with seals. The museum also features an excellent gift shop. Open 10.00-19.00
For members of the International Ibsen Committee: Business Meeting 15.00-16.15 at campus, Room A3021, followed by dinner in the city centre at Emmas Drømme- kjøkken 17.30 (Kirkegata 8)
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Saturday June 23 Keynote (Auditorium 1)
10.15 – 11.15 Narve Fulsås (University of Tromsø, Norway): The de-dramatiza- tion of history and the prose of bourgeois life
Chair: Tore Rem
11.15 Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions
7.1 Translation (Room 1.343)
Chair: Giuliano d‘Amico
Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): Trans- lation as Intervention: Sambhu Mitra’s Putul Khela (A Doll’s House)
May-Brit Akerholt (University of Sydney, Australia): “Write what I’m trying to say, not what I’m saying” (Jorge Luis Borges)
Anna W.B. Tso (Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China): Critical Discourse Analysis and Translation: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Ideology in the English and Chinese versions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
7.2 Gender (Room 1.333) Chair: Beret Wicklund
Jialing Qiu (Tianjin Normal University, China): Pioneering Voice of the Feminism: Women in the Early Plays Written By Ibsen
Maryam Balazadeh (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen’s (Un)Educated Women: The Impact of Religion on Women Educa- tion in A Doll’s House and Rosmersholm
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh): Taslima Nasrin as Hedda: Perceptions of an Islamic Society
7.3 Language, mentality (Room 1.313)
Chair: Terry Sui-han Yip
Jieqi Huang (University of Oslo, Norway): Women’s Lies in Ibsen’s Dramas
Zimin Gao (Northwest University, Xi’an, China): Waiting For My Beloved: Solveig and Wang Baochuan
Madhuri Sharma (Punjab University, Chandigarh, India): Helm- er’s Dispensation: A Travesty of Natural Justice
7.4 Money, mind and body (Room 1.317)
Chair: Jon Nygaard
Christine Korte (York University, Toronto, Canada): Capitalism in Crisis: Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman
Marcus Björkqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden): Ibsen’s Doc- tor’s: A Study of Ibsen’s Men of Science
Thomas Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Money, memo- ry and the body
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.15 – 15.45 Parallel sessions
8.1 Reception (Room 1.343)
Chair: Mitsuya Mori
Chengzhou He (Nanjing University, China): Playing Ibsen on Campus: Ibsen and Contemporary Chinese Youth Culture
Jingge Li (Boston College, USA): Gendered Reception of A Doll’s House in Japan and China (1910s – 1920s)
Andrey Yuriev (St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre and Art, Rus- sia): Henrik Ibsen and Yevgeny Vakhtangov: Rosmersholm at the First Studio of the Moscov Art Theatre
8.2 Translation (Room 1.333)
Chair: May-Brit Akerholt
Martin Humpal (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): Peer Gynt in Czech Translation: A Peculiar Reception History
Hu Mu (Nanjing Normal University, China): Translation of Henrik Ibsen’s Dramas in China – A perspective of (on) translation sociology
Nino Bardzimashvili (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen in Georgian Translations
8.3 Scenography/design (Room 1.313)
Chair: Anette Storli Andersen
Shafi Ahmed (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh): Ibsen’s Plays: Spatial Appropriation
Sahar Ajami (Artist, University of Oslo, Norway): Illustrating Women in Ibsen’s Dramas
Philip Larson (Zhejiang University, China): The Geography of Consciousness in Ibsen’s Theatrical Practice
Banquet
20.00 Banquet at Rica Ishavshotel, Panorama room (city centre, Fr. Langes- gate 2)
Nils Magne Knutsen, University of Tromsø: On the image of Northerners and Northern Norway in Literature
Exhibitions
Sarah Paula Hoffman (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA): Nora, The White-Boned Demon, portraits of a woman with many names and many roles: Lan Ping, Jiang Ching, Madame Zedong (on campus, Teorifag Building, Vandrehallen)
Sigmund Nesset (University of Tromsø, Norway): “I can’t write letters”. Ibsen through his letters (on campus, University library)
Olga Tobreluts (Russia): Emperor and Galilean (Perspektivet museum, city centre, free entrance)
Conference meet-up place Skarven pub, city centre
Sunday June 24: Departure