Tenth International Ibsen Conference

 Final Program for the 10th International Ibsen Conference

Hosted by Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, June 1-7, 2003

Under the Auspices of The International Ibsen Committee

Dedicated to the Life and Work of Rolf Fjelde (1926-2002),

Ibsen Scholar and Translator, and Founding President,
The Ibsen Society of America

Sunday, June 1:

• Arrival at the Richard L. Conolly Residence Hall, the conference lodging site.  

Monday, June 2:

•  10:00: OPENING SESSION: Health Sciences Building Auditorium (H 107)
  
  Presiding: Joan Templeton, President, The Ibsen Society of America 
  
  Remarks by:
  
  His Excellency Knut Vollebæk, The Ambassador of Norway to the United States
  
  His Honor Marty Markowitz, Borough President, Brooklyn
  
  David Steinberg, President, Long Island University
  
  Gale Stevens Haynes, Provost, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
  
  Introduction of Plenary Speaker by Errol Durbach, President, The International Ibsen Committee
  

• PLENARY ADDRESS: "Reading Ibsen's Signs: Ambivalence on Page and Stage" by  Inga-Stina Ewbank, Ibsen scholar and translator, and Emerita, The University of Leeds
  
  Reception to Follow in Quad, Weather Permitting, or in the Salena Gallery 
  
  
• 12:00 - 1:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Ibsen in His Time (H 119)  Chair: Atle Kittang  (The University of Bergen)
  
  Helge Rønning (The University of Oslo): " '. . . den frisinnede uafhængige presse foran mig,  - og den kompakte majoritet bag mig': The Image of the Press in the Works of Ibsen and his Contemporaries"
  
  Kjetil Havnevik (The University of Oslo) : "Ibsen and the Gesamtkunstwerk"
  
  Fredrik Engelstad (The Institute for Social Research, Oslo): "Ibsen and Democracy"
  
  2.  Ibsen and Land/Scape (H 121)   Chair: Elinor Fuchs (Yale University)
  
  Amy Strahler Holzapfel (Yale University): "Smashing the Whole to Smithereens: Ibsen's Seismic Landscape"
  
  Branislav Jakovljecic  (New York University): "From Brand to Pillars of Society: Ibsen and the French Geological Movement" (New York University)
  
  Victor Castellani (The University of Denver): "Not Vertically Challenged: Ups and Downs in the Last Plays"
  
  3.  Issues in the Early Plays (Pratt 120)   Chair: Sanda Baciu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
  
  Lisbeth Wærp (The University of Tromsø): "Brand's Troublesome Ending"
  
  Norman Rhodes (Pratt Institute): "Brand: An Achilles of the Spirit"
  
  Philip Larson (The University of Washington): "Theatrical Style in The Vikings at Helgeland"
  
  

• 1:30 - 2:30: LUNCH BREAK

• 2:30 - 4:00: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Peer Gynt: Texts and Contexts (H 119)   Chair: Philip Larson (The University of Washington)
  
  Chengzhou He (The University of Nanjing): "Peer Gynt, Ah Q and the Dissolving Self" (to be distributed or read)
  
  Harry Lane (The University of Guelph): "Africa as Negative Space in Peer Gynt"
  
  Trond Woxen (The Scandinavian Theater Company, Los Angeles): "Will the real Peer Gynt please Stand Up?"
  
  2.  Ibsen and Other Norwegian Writers (Pratt 120)  Chair: Solveig Zempel (St. Olaf College)
  
  Jan Dietrichson (The University of Oslo): "Ibsen and Lorenz Dietrichson"
  
  Ellen Rees (Arizona State University): "Ibsen, Cora Sandel, and the Impossible Heroine"
  
  Melissa Gjellstad (The University of Washington): "Pastiche and Performativity in Brand and Cecilia Løveid's Østerrike"
  
  3.  Ibsen's Dramaturgy (H 121)  Chair: Knut Brynhildsvoll (The Ibsen Center, The University of Oslo)
  
  Atle Kittang (The University of Bergen): "Ibsen's End Games: The Final Scenes in Brand and When We Dead Awaken"
  
  Ada Graf-Weiss (The University of Surrey): "Ibsen and Meta-Theatre"
  
  Erik Østerud (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology): "Ibsen's Tableaux"
  
   

• 4:15 - 5:45: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Nora's Sisters (H 119)  Chair: Astrid Sæther (The Ibsen Center, The University of Oslo)
  
  Aimin Chen (Nanjing Normal University): "Ibsen and Women's Liberation in China" (to be distributed or read)
  
  Eileen Hoare (Macquarie University, Australia): "A Doll House in Australia"
  
  Rochelle Wright (The University of Illinois): "A Doll House Through an Iranian Lens"
  
  2.  Ibsen and Pirandello (Pratt 120)  Chair: Barbara Horn (St. John's University)
  
  Nina Da Vinci Nichols (Rutgers University, Newark): "Nihlism and Ghostliness in the Last Plays"
  
  Daniela Bini (The University of Texas): "Rubek's Irene, Sirio's Tuda, and Luigi's Marta: The Muse and the Artist"
  
  Vincenzo Bollettino (Montclair State University): "Existence as Narrative and Affirmation"
  
  3.  Ibsen and the Bible (H 121)  Chair: Asbjørn Aarseth (The University of Bergen)
  
  Arnbjørn Jakobsen (Independent Scholar): " ' With him, to live is to die': Biblical Allusion in Ibsen's Dramas of Contemporary Life"
  
  Paul Baxter (Independent Scholar): "The Master Builder: Biblical Allusion and the Problem of Succession"
  
  
• 6:30: RECEPTION (With the "Mighty Wurlitzer") FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS AND INVITED GUESTS, hosted by Long Island University (Old Paramount Theatre/Gymnasium).  Not open to the public.  
  
  
• 7:30: BUFFET DINNER (With the LIU Jazz Band) FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS AND INVITED GUESTS, hosted by Long Island University (Old Paramount Theatre/Luntey Commons).  Not open to the public.

Tuesday, June 3:

• 8:00 - 900: BREAKFAST MEETING: IBSEN SOCIETY OF AMERICA COUNCIL (Conference Room 2 D, Residence Hall)
  
  
• 9:00 - 10:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Ibsen and Modern British Dramatists (Pratt 120)  Chair: Errol Durbach (The University of British Columbia)
  
  Ibrahim Yerebakan (Ataturk University): "Ibsen and Pinter"
  
  Rebecca Cameron (The University of Saskatchewan): "Ibsen and British Women Dramatists"
  
  Mehmet Takkac (Ataturk University): "A Doll House and Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing"
  
  2.  Mothers, Fathers, Daughters (H 119)  Chair: Sandra Saari (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  
  Ellen Hartmann (The University of Oslo): "Ibsen's Motherless Women"
  
  Yan Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Many Mothers in Ibsen: Toward An Irigarayan Reading" (to be distributed or read)
  
  Krisztina Galgoczi (The University of Budapest): "Absent Fathers, Obedient Daughters: Hedda and her Sisters"
  
  3.  Issues in the Contemporary Dramas 1 (H 121)  Chair: Erik Østerud (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  
  Knut Brynhildsvoll (The Ibsen Center, The University of Oslo): "Ghosts: Two Supplementary Texts"
  
  Asbjørn Aarseth (The University of Bergen): "The Greenhouse, the Zoo, and the Aquarium: Allegories of Inauthenticity"
  
  

• 10:30 - 11:00:  Coffee Break (Quad or Lobby) 
  
  

• 11:00 - 12:30:  CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Ibsen/Strindberg/Bergman  (H 119)  Chair: Rochelle Wright (The University of Illinois)
  
  Barbara Lide (Michigan Technological University): "Strindberg's Ibsen: Admired, Emulated, Scorned, and Parodied"
  
  Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams (The University of Washington): " ' When the Scales Fall From our Eyes and We Can See Das Ding an Sich': Ibsen's Ghosts and Strindberg's Ghost Sonata"
  
  Birgitta Steene (The University of Stockholm): "Cultural Echoes: Ingmar Bergman Stages Ghosts"
  
  2.  The Playwright as Thinker (H 121)  Chair: Helge Rønning (The University of Oslo)
  
  Paul Houe (The University of Minnesota): "Ibsen as Intellectual"
  
  Sara Jan (Southampton University): "Ibsen's Dialogic Imagination"
  
  Tom Eide (The University of Oslo): "Ibsen's Ethical Method"
  
  

• 12:30 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK
  
  LUNCH MEETING:  INTERNATIONAL IBSEN COMMITTEE (Conference Room 2 D, Residence Hall)
   

• 1:30 - 3:00: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Issues in the Contemporary Dramas 2 (H 119): Chair:  Lisbeth Waerp: (The University of Tromsoe)
  
  Gudleiv Bø (The University of Oslo): "Individualism and Love"
  
  Andrey Korovin (The University of Washington): "Ibsen's Influence on Russian Symbolist Poetry"
  
  2.  The Inexhaustible Wild Duck (H 121)  Chair: Thomas Van Laan (Rutgers University)
  
  Steve Ressler (New York University): "Giving Werle His Due"
  
  Jørgen Dines Johansen (The University of Southern Denmark): "The Wild Duck: Comedy, Tragedy, or Satire?"
  
  

• 5:30:  PLENARY ADDRESS:  "Ibsen: The Impact" by Eric Bentley, Drama Scholar and Critic, Emeritus, Columbia University (The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Scandinavia House, Park Avenue and 38^th Street, Manhattan.)
  
  Reception to follow hosted by The American-Scandinavian Foundation
  
  Rest of Evening Free
   

Wednesday, June 4: FREE DAY

Thursday, June 5:  IBSEN IN PERFORMANCE / IBSEN AS VISUAL ARTIST

• 9:30: PLENARY ADDRESS:  " 'Unser Ibsen': Ibsen on the Contemporary German Stage" by Marvin Carlson, Drama Scholar and Critic, Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, The City University of New York  (Auditorium, H 107)
  
  Coffee Break (Quad or Lobby) 

• 11:00 - 12:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Scenographies (H 119)  Chair: Gerd Stahl (The National Theatre, Norway)
  
  Astrid Sæther (The University of Oslo): "Ibsen's Landscape Paintings: Idyll and Conflict"
  
  John Andreasen (Aarhus University): "Revisiting Nora in 2003: Scenographies for A Doll House"
  
  Roberto Alonge and Gianna Di Martino (The University of Turin): "Massimo Castri's Ibsen Productions"
  
  Tove Ilsaas (The University of Oslo): "Teaching Ibsen Through Performance"
  
  2.  Hedda Gabler in Production (H 121)  Chair: Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams (The University of Washington) 
  
  Marina Litavrina (The Russian Academy of Theatre Art, Moscow): "Two Hedda Two: Nazimova's Two Hedda's"
  
  Ann-Charlotte Harvey (California State University, San Diego): " 'Platform Translation': Strategy in Three Productions of Hedda Gabler" 
  
  Gergana May (The University of Washington): "Text into Film: the Northwest Film Forum's Hedda Gabler" 

• 12:30 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK

• 1:30 - 2:15: General Session (Auditorium, H 107): Arne Lunde (The University of California, Berkeley): " ' Dobbeltbarnebarnet ': Modernism, Popular Genre, and Autobiographical Anxiety in the Films of Tancred Ibsen"

• 2:30 - 3:30: IBSEN SOCIETY OF AMERICA GENERAL MEETING (Auditorium, H 107)
  
  Presiding: Joan Templeton, President
  
  Conferral of Honorary Membership on Inga-Stina Ewbank: Thomas Van Laan
  
  BUSINESS MEETING TO FOLLOW

• 3:30 - 4:00: Coffee Break (Quad or Lobby)

• 4:00 - 4:45: General Session (Auditorium, H 107): Susan Mason (California State University, Los Angeles): "Harold Clurman's The Lady from the Sea" 

• 5:00 - 5:30: General Session (Auditorum, H 107): Else Barratt-Due (Norwegian National Radio): "Sounds Like Ibsen: Doing Ibsen's Plays on the Radio" (Presentation of the NRK Ibsen Series)
  
  DINNER BREAK
   

• 8:45: LADY FROM THE SEA: A Site-Specific Installation Performance.  Wax Factory Production.  The Old American Can Factory, 230 3^rd St., Brooklyn.
  
  Wine and cheese to follow the performance, in the Factory courtyard, courtesy of the Royal Norwegian Consulate, New York City

Friday, June 6:

• 9:00 - 10:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1.  Hedda Gabler: Texts and Contexts (H 119) Chair: Birgitta Steene (The University of Stockholm)
  
  Håvard Nilsen (The University of Oslo): "How Ibsen Found his Hedda Gabler"
  
  Marilyn Blackwell (The Ohio State University): "Spatiality and Spectatorship in Hedda Gabler"
  
  Merrill Kaplan (The University of California, Berkeley): "Hedda and Hjørdis: Word, Deed, and Rumor in Hedda Gabler and The Vikings at Helgeland"
  
  2.  Ibsen and the Irish Stage (Pratt 120): Chair: Sara Jan (Southampton University)
  
  Leyvoy Joensen (Allegheny County Community College, Pennsylvania): "Ibsen and the Irish Literary Renaissance"
  
  Maggie Ivanova (The University of Illinois): "Revealing What Lies Beneath the Surface: Ibsen in the Dramatic Practice of Lennox Robinson"
  
  3.  Issues in the Late Plays (H 121)  Chair: Nina Da Vinci Nichols (Rutgers University, Newark)
  
  Sanda Baciu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania): "The Myth of the Master Builder"
  
  Tanya Thresher (The University of Wisconsin): "When We Dead Awaken: Waking Up to Patriarchal Tradition" 

• 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break (Quad or Lobby)
   

• 11:00 - 12:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
  
  1. The Inexhaustible Rosmersholm (H 119) Chair:  Jørgen Dines Johansen (The University of South Denmark)
  
  Mitsuyi Mori (Seijo University): "A Japanese View of the 'Double Suicide' "
  
  Thomas Van Laan (Rutgers University): "Conflicting Perspectives in the Final Episode"    
  
  2.  Ibsen and the Baltics/Ibsen in Albania: (Pratt 120): Chair: Silvestras Gaiziunas (Director, The Balto-Scandinavian Academy)
  
  Benedikts Kalnacs (The University of Latvia): "Ibsen and Baltic Modernism"
  
  Arunas Bliudzias (The Balto-Scandinavian Academy): "An Enemy of the People in the Baltics"
  
  Silvestras Gaiziunas (The Balto-Scandinavian Academy): "Emperor and Galilean and 20^th-Century Lithuanian Literature"
  
  Kudret Velca (The University of Tirana): "Ibsen's Reception in Albania"
  
  3.  Ibsen and Modernity (H 121)  Chair: Fredrik Engelstad (The Institute for Social Research, Oslo)
  
  Mark Sandberg (The University of California, Berkeley): " 'Hjem for Mennesker/Folkhemmet': The Fate of Ibsen's Housing"
  
  Frode Helland (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology): "Petrified Time: Ibsen's Response to Modernity, with Special Emphasis on Little Eyolf"
  
  Sandra Saari (Rochester Institute of Technology): Discourse of Displacement in The Lady from the Sea
  
  

• 12:30 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK
  
  

• 1:30 -3:00: General Session: Anne Sabo (St. Olaf College), Frankie Shackelford (Augsburg College), Solveig Zempel (St. Olaf College): "Peeling Peer's Onion in the Undergraduate Classroom: A Powerpoint Panel" (Auditorium, H 107)
  
  

• 3:15:  INTERNATIONAL IBSEN CONFERENCE GENERAL MEETING.
  
  Presiding: Errol Durbach, President, International Ibsen Committee (Auditorium, H 107)
  
  Jens-Morten Hanssen (The Ibsen Center, The University of Oslo): "Research Resources on Ibsen.net"
  
  BUSINESS MEETING TO FOLLOW
  
  EVENING FREE

Saturday, June 7: DAY AT LEISURE

• 6:00 P.M.:  BANQUET: Pete's Downtown Restaurant, 2 Water Street, Brooklyn