Performing Peace: Tanks Talk and Theatre, an international symposium

Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004
All events are free and open to the public!

Papers and Presentations
10 a.m. - 1 p.m., Elizabeth Baker Room, Baker Center

• Dr. Naum Panovski (Catholic University), Slobodan Snajder's Ines and Denise - Women's scream against the madness of war
• Professor Joyce Barnes (Kennesaw State University), Spoken Word Epics and Hip Hop "Lysistrata"
• Dr. Esiaba Irobi, (Ohio University School of Theater), Actors who wear Bulletproof Vests: Street Theater, Tanks, and Tear Gas
• Professor Christopher Markle, (Northern Illinois University), Lynching and the White director's burden

Video and Slide Presentations
2:30 - 4:30 p.m., 1954 Room, Baker Center

• Miodrag Tabacki (Serbia), "Theatre as Political Intervention"
• Dr. James Mirrione (New York University), "The Last Enemy" (documentary) Theater by Palestinian, Israeli and Jordanian Actors

Panel Discussion
4:30 - 6 p.m., 1954 Room, Baker Center

• Maura Keefe, Moderator (Ohio University School of Dance), In search of the Key Note

Featured Performance
8:30 p.m., Ridges Auditorium 

• "The Heart That Remembers: A Tale of Musicians in a Time of War," created and performed by Paul Berliner, internationally renowned musician and ethnomusicologist, author of The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe and Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation

For further Information please contact William Fisher, School of Theater, 593-9194. Additional support comes from Contemporary History Institute, Dean Tymas-Jones and The College of Fine Arts, Athens Center for Film and Video, Dean Irwin and The Russ College of Engineering, Rajko Grlic, School of Dance and The Oak Room. Paul Berliner's performance is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation.

[ 30 ]