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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 at 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

He Chengzhou, head of The International Committee

Frode Helland, head of Centre for Ibsen Studies

Lisbeth P. Wærp, head of the organizing committee

Kristian Figenschow, actor at Hålogaland Theatre, will be reading from An Enemy of the
People

Light refreshments will be provided

Tuesday June 19 – Saturday June 23

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 centre. 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. (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)
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Tuesday June 19

8.30-9.00 Registration Teorifag Building, House 1

Keynote

9.15-10.15 Martin Puchner (Harvard University, Boston, USA): Henrik Ibsen. World Literature and
the Creation of Literary Worlds (Auditorium 1)

Chair: He Chengzhou

10.30 – 12.00 Parallel sessions

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 (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA): Aesthetics and the
Search for a National Poetic Form: Ibsen’s Essay “Om Kjæmpevisen og dens Betydning for
Kunstpoesien”

Ståle Dingstad (University of Oslo, Norway): Love’s Comedy revisited – 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)

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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 Gopuram

Balakrishnan Pillai Anandhakrishnan (University of Hyderabad, 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

13.15-14.15 Nuruddin Farah (Author, Somalia/South Africa): Ibsen, In Other Words

(Auditorium 1)

Chair: Helge Rønning

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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

10.15-12.00 Translating Ibsen. (Auditorium 1)

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 Ibsen Exhibition Opening, University Library: “I can’t write letters.” Ibsen through his letters

Exhibition by Sigmund Nesset (librarian, University of Tromsø, Norway)

Opening remarks by Helge Salvesen (director University Library) and Narve Fulsås (professor
of history, University of Tromsø, Norway) on Ibsen’s letters

13.45-15:15 Parallel sessions

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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 Bangladesh

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

15.30 – 17:00 Parallel sessions

3.1 Contrasting Conceptions of 19th Century Modernity – Ibsen and Bjørnson (Room 1.333)

Chair: Ståle Dingstad

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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 Technology, 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-Provoking 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

Eva Feller (University of Zurich, Switzerland): “Let it happen … beautifully” – Death and Art in
Hedda Gabler

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
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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/ University 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

19.00 Public library, Grønnegata 95, city centre

Author Nuruddin Farah (Somalia/South Africa) in conversation with Helge Rønning on Africa
and literature

Thursday June 21

Keynote panel

09.15-11.15 Inaugural Artists Keynote Panel: Applied Ibsen on Four Continents: The Artists’
Intentions (Auditorium 1)

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)

11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions

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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 Producing 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 Ibsen’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 sisters: On Woody Allen and Ibsen

Richard Back (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia): Cinematography 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

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4.5 Scenography/spatiality (Room 1.317)

Chair: Jon Nygaard

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, Trondheim, 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

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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
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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)

18.40, 19.00, 19.20 Excursion: Bus from Perspektivet Museum to Mountain Lift

There will be an opportunity to walk around on the top of the mountain and enjoy the
gorgeous scenery from the restaurant at the top of Mount Storsteinen with a 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 intervals. 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

9.15-10.15 Sun Jian, Shanghai (Fudan University, China): Ibsen and Peking Women’s Normal
University (Auditorium 1)

Chair: Chen Liang

Professor Sun Jian was the head of the organizing committee for the XIIth International Ibsen
Conference in Shanghai, China in 2009.

10.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions

6.1 Ibsen – Film (Room 1.343)

Chair: Troy Storfjell

Tanya Thresher (Independent Scholar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates): Boats in Fields. Uwe
Janson’s Peer Gynt (2006)

Ellen Rees (University of Oslo, Norway): Postsecular Salvation: Hallvard Bræin’s Gatas Gynt
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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 Catastrophic “Heroes”

Maya Vukovska (South-West University Neofit Rilsky-Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): Ibsen’s

Characters: Reformers, Messiahs, Sociopaths. 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

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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

13.15-14.15 Stine Brenna Taugbøl (University of Oslo, Norway): Ibsen goes digital - a
presentation of the new electronic version of Henrik Ibsen's writings (Auditorium 1)

Chair: Astrid Sæther

14.15-14.45 General Assembly

Museum afternoon

The following are free to conference participants for the duration of the conference:

Please show your conference nametag 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 history of
arctic exploration housed in a tradition 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 Emma’s Drømmekjøkken 17.30 (Kirkegata 8)
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Saturday June 23

Keynote

10.15-11.15 Narve Fulsås (University of Tromsø, Norway): The de-dramatization of history and the
prose of bourgeois life (Auditorium 1)

Chair: Tore Rem

11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions

7.1 Translation (Room 1.343)

Chair: Giuliano d‘Amico

Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman (Centre for Ibsen Studies, Norway): Translation 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 Education 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

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Zimin Gao (Northwest University, Xi’an, China): Waiting For My Beloved: Solveig and Wang
Baochuan

Madhuri Sharma (Punjab University, Chandigarh, India): Helmer’s Dispensation: A Travesty of

Natural Justice

7.4 Money, mind and body (Room 1.317)

Chair: Gunnar Arrias

Christine Korte (York University, Toronto, Canada): Capitalism in Crisis: Ibsen’s John Gabriel
Borkman

Marcus Björkqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden): Ibsen’s Doctor’s: A Study of Ibsen’s Men
of Science

Thomas Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Money, memory 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, Russia): 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
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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

20.00 Banquet at Rica Ishavshotel, Panorama room (city centre, Fr. Langesgate 2)
A talk by Nils Magne Knutsen, University of Tromsø, Norway: On the image of Northerners
and Northern Norway in Literature

Sunday June 24: Departure

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)
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