Publications - Developing Theatre

Books

Balme, Christopher B.; Hakib, Abdul Karim (Hrsg.) (2023): Theatre for Development in Africa. Historical and Institutional Perspectives. 1. published. Hildesheim; München: Georg Olms Verlag; Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. DOI: 10.5282/ubm/epub.93602.

Balme, Christopher B. (Ed.) (2003): „Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World“. New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003196334.

Published Articles

Christopher Balme:

Balme, Christopher:“ Theatre-historiographical patterns in the global South 1950–1990: Transnational and institutional perspectives. „The Routledge Companion to Theatre Historiography, eds. Tracy Davis and Peter Marx, London: Routledge, 2020, 269-289. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75988/

Balme, Christopher:“Theatrical Institutions in Motion: Developing Theatre in the Postcolonial Era.“ Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 31, no. 2 (2017): 125-140. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/663575

Balme, Christopher: „Building theatrical epistemic communities in the Global South: Expert networks, philanthropy and theatre studies in Nigeria 1959-1969.“ Journal of Global Theatre History, Bd. 3 Nr. 2 (2019): 3-18. https://gthj.ub.uni-muenchen.de/gthj/article/view/5119/4370

Balme, Christopher & Leonhardt, Nic: „The Rockefeller Connection: Visualizing theatrical networks in the Cultural Cold War“. Comparatio 12:2 (2020): 127 – 144. URL: https://comp.winter-verlag.de/article/COMP/2020/2/11

Balme, Christopher: „Theatre and citizenship education: global perspectives and points of contact“. In: International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education: Acting Globally, ed. Nicholas McGuinn et al. London: Routledge, 2022, 9-18. doi:10.4324/9781003058144-1

Balme, Christopher & Andrade, Clara: „Transnational networks of the Theatre of the Oppressed:The institutionalization of a circulating method“. In: Journal of Global Theatre History 4.1 (2020), 3-20. DOI: 10.5282/gthj/5128

Balme, Christopher: „Arts and the University: Institutional logics in the developing world and beyond“. Journal of Global Theatre History – Special Issue „Cold War University“ 4:2 (2020):i6-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5151

Nic Leonhardt:

Leonhardt, Nic: „The Rockefeller Roundabout of Funding. severino Montano and the Development of Theatre in the Philippines in the 1950s.“ Journal of Global Theatre History, Bd. 3 Nr. 2 (2019): 19-33. https://gthj.ub.uni-muenchen.de/gthj/article/view/5117/4368

Rashna Nicholson:

Nicholson, Rashna: On the (Im)possibilities of a Free Theatre: Theatre Against Development in Palestine. Theatre Research International 46:1 (2021): 4-22. DOI: 10.1017/s0307883320000553

Judith Rottenburg:

Rottenburg, Judith: „Younousse Seye: le devenir d’une artiste panafricaine dans le Sénégal de l’après-indépendance.“ Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions magazine (2018). URL: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/younousse-seye-le-devenir-dune-artiste-panafricaine-dans-le-senegal-de-lapres-independance/.

Rottenburg, Judith & Skwirblies, Lisa (eds.): Journal of Global Theatre History – Special Issue „Cold War University“ 4:2 (2020): 1-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/2020-2

Rottenburg, Judith & Skwirblies, Lisa. „Introduction“ to: Journal of Global Theatre History – Special Issue „Cold War University“ 4:2 (2020): 1-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/2020-2

Gautam Chakrabarti:

Chakrabarti, Gautam: „‘The Empire Floats Back’: Ariane Mnouchkine, her L’Indiade and the Nāṭyaśāstra.“ Cracow Indological Studies, Vol. XX, No. 1 (2018), pp. 31–68.

Chakrabarti, Gautam: „From Moscow with Love: Soviet Cultural Politics across India in the Cold War,” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 20:02, Special Issue, ed. Louise Bethlehem, Lindelwa Dalamba & al (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis, 2019), 239-57. http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17533171.2019.1579475.

Ziad Adwan:

Adwan, Ziad: „The Opera House in Damascus and the ‘State of Exception’ in Syria.“ New Theatre Quarterly 32, no. 3, (2016) 231-243. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/opera-house-in-damascus-and-the-state-of-exception-in-syria/1F51F0391460293C75FE3394918FAD88

Adwan, Ziad: „The Local Otherness: Theatre Houses in the United Arab Emirates.“ Arab Stages 2, no.2 (Spring 2016). https://arabstages.org/2016/04/the-local-otherness-theatre-houses-in-the-united-arab-emirates/

Adwan, Ziad: „Imaginary Theatre Professionalising Theatre in the Levant 1940-1990″, The Journal of Global Theatre History, 3, 1 (2019), 19-37.

Adwan, Ziad: “‚The place of the Intellectuals‘: The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus between dictatorship and the market.” Journal of Global Theatre History 4, no. 1 (2020): 37-54. https://gthj.ub.uni-muenchen.de/gthj/article/view/5124/4376

Gideon Morison:

Morison, Gideon: „Undercurrents of Anglo-American Collaboration: Funding, Training and Cold War Influences on the Theatre Studies Curriculum of Selected Nigerian Universities“. Journal of Global Theatre History – Special Issue „Cold War University“ 4:2 (2020):i6-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5152

Abdul Karim Hakib

Hakib, Abdul Karim: „Towards historiographies of theatre for development“. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 25:4 (2020), 581-584, DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2020.1791695

Papers

Christopher Balme:

27.5.2016 “Theatrical institutions in motion: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945”. Keynote: „Theater and Mobility“ conference, Universität Eichstätt.

19.1.2017 “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945”. Invited lecture Universität Heidelberg.

21.2. 1917 “Theatrical institutions in motion: developing theatre in the postcolonial era.” Research colloquium, Royal School of Speech and Drama, London. Published in: (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/663575).
12.7.2017 “Theatrical modernism for the world: theatrical epistemic communities 1920-1960.” IFTR conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

22.6.2018 “Theatrical epistemic communities: Expert networks and Postcolonial Theatre 1945-1975”. Paper presented at the international conference “Dynamics of Interweaving Performance Cultures”, June 21-24, Academy of Arts, Berlin.

23.7.2018 “The Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of theatre studies in Nigeria”. ERC Conference “Philanthropy, Development, and the Arts. Histories and Theories”, Carl-Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung 23-25 July, 2018. To be published in the Journal for Global Theatre History 2 (2019).

“Theatre-Historiographical Patterns in the Global South 1950-1990: Transnational and Institutional Perspectives.” To be published in Routledge Handbook to Theatre and Performance Historiography, ed. Tracy C. Davis and Peter Marx. London: Routledge, 2020 (currently under revision).

Gautam Chakrabati:

April 2017 “From Moscow with Love: Soviet Cultural Politics across India in the Cold War,” University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Published in (doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2019.1579475).

12.7.2017 “’The red bear has awoken!’: Soviet engagement with Indian theatre artists in the Cold War.” IFTR conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

9.7.2018 “A Month in India: Boris Babochkin’s Theatrical Passage to the Subcontinent,” World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR, July 9-13 July, 2018) at the University of Arts, Belgrade.

Nic Leonhardt:

27.5.2017 “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945”, conference paper, “How to change World,” Center for the History of Global Development, University of Shanghai, 26-28 May, 2017.

12.7.2017 “Multiple theatricalities and the philanthropic agenda of stabilizing cultural geographies after 1945” IFTR conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

25.7.2018 „Grants in Aid for Theatre in the 1950s: Severino Montano’s Initiatives at the Philippine Normal College, Manila“, ERC Conference “Philanthropy, Development, and the Arts. Histories and Theories”, Carl-Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung 23-25 July, 2018. To be published in the Journal for Global Theatre History 2 (2019).

Rashna Nicholson:

6.6.2018 “The Impact of Foreign Funding on Theatre”, Theatre Studies Research Colloquium, LMU Munich.

25.7.2018 “On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre”, ERC Conference “Philanthropy, Development, and the Arts. Histories and Theories”, Carl-Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung 23-25 July, 2018.

Judith Rottenburg:

15.5.2019 „Un art nouveau pour une nation nouvelle“. Nation building und globale Zirkulation in der Kunst des unabhängigen Senegal. Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Basel.

Rebecca Sturm:

10.7.2018 „The ITI and the globalization of theatre in the Cold War“, World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR, July 9th- 13th July, 2018) at the University of Arts, Belgrade.

10.7.2019. “The ITI and the globalization of theatre. Inter-German conflict at the 1959 World Congress in Helsinki”. World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR, July 8^th-12^th, Shanghai Theatre Academy)

Working Papers

Christopher Balme, Nic Leonhardt: The Workshop. On the Genesis of a Global Form, Paper No. 1/2019.

Gideon Ime Morison, Workshops as a method for the dissemination of performative knowledge in Nigeria. The case of African Contemporary Dance and Ijodee Dance Company, Paper No. 2/2020.

Ziad Adwan: The New out of Nothing: The Workshop between the Liminal and the Liminoid, Paper No. 3/2020.

About the Series

The Working Paper Series “Developing Theatre” is part of the ERC Advanced Grant “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945” (grant agreement No. 694559).

The working papers enable a pointed examination of theoretical and historical questions affecting the dissemination of the performing arts in a global context after 1945. They thus serve both the exchange of theoretical ideas and the development of conceptual foundations of the project. The goal of the short contributions is to present, critically examine and further develop theoretical concepts. The Working Papers, then, should not be understood as conclusive theoretical contributions, but rather as an invitation to exchange conceptual positions.

Editors

Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
PD Dr. Nic Leonhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenCopyright and ContentThe copyright remains with the authors of the respective Working Papers. The authors are responsible for the published content. The Working Papers reflect the views of their respective authors and not those of the editors. Further development and the final publication of the content elsewhere by the authors are explicitly possible.Place of publicationLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 2019.

About the Series

The Working Paper Series “Developing Theatre” is part of the ERC Advanced Grant “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945” (grant agreement No. 694559).

The working papers enable a pointed examination of theoretical and historical questions affecting the dissemination of the performing arts in a global context after 1945. They thus serve both the exchange of theoretical ideas and the development of conceptual foundations of the project. The goal of the short contributions is to present, critically examine and further develop theoretical concepts. The Working Papers, then, should not be understood as conclusive theoretical contributions, but rather as an invitation to exchange conceptual positions.

Editors

Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
PD Dr. Nic Leonhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenCopyright and ContentThe copyright remains with the authors of the respective Working Papers. The authors are responsible for the published content. The Working Papers reflect the views of their respective authors and not those of the editors. Further development and the final publication of the content elsewhere by the authors are explicitly possible.Place of publicationLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 2019.

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Indian Theatre Artists and the Cold War

The ERC Workshop „Between ‘East’ and ‘West’: Indian Theatre Artists and the Cold War“ has taken place on 29-30 September, 2017 in India International Centre (IIC).

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