FRIDAY 20 MARCH
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Panel 1 Theories of Performance
Chair: Stefan Aquilina, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Dorita Hannah, University of Tasmania
Borderline Performances: Weak(ening) Architecture
James Corby, Department of English, University of Malta
Disciplining Performance Philosophy: Thinking, Knowledge, Truth
Mario Frendo, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Nietzsche’s Musical Perspectivism: Interdisciplinary Ontologies in Performance
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Panel 2 Performing Histories
Chair: Henry J. Frendo, Faculty of Arts & Institute of Maltese Studies, University of Malta
Vicki Ann Cremona, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Interdisciplinarity and the theatrical event – the case of Carnival in Malta
Brandon Shaw, Department of Dance Studies, University of Malta
Friction, Antagonism, and Interdisciplinary Partnering: Prokofiev’s and Lavrovsky’s
Romeo and Juliet (1946)
Emanuel Buttigieg, Department of History, University of Malta
Negotiating Encounters, Controlling Spaces: Official meetings between Grand Masters and
Inquisitors in Valletta and Vittoriosa
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Panel 3 Interdisciplinarity as Collaboration/Polysemy: In Higher
Education, Rehearsal Processes, Theoretical Perspectives
Chair: Joseph P. Buhagiar, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Malta
Joanne Butterworth, Department of Dance Studies, University of Malta
Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Tertiary Education: What Benefits?
Laura Vorwerg, Royal Holloway, University of London
Interdisciplinarity and skill development within the rehearsal room: The Skill Behind the
Spectacle of War Horse
Bakare Babatunde Allen, Department of Communications and Performing Arts, Bowen
University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria
Theatre and Drama as Poly-Systemic Product; From Cultural and Traditional Perspective
14:30-15:30 Panel 4 Postgraduate Contributions
Chair: Marco Galea, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Tyrone Grima, Faculty of Theology, University of Malta
Theatre and Spirituality

Annelies Van Assche, Department of Art Science, Ghent University
Precarity: A Concept Linking Performance Studies and Social Sciences
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel 5 Particularising the Research: Performance Examples
Chair: Paul Clough, Department of Anthropological Sciences, University of Malta
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Faculty of Education, Dance Studies, Royal Academy of Dance
Transmodern Dance Practices: Insights into a theoritisation of recent performance histories through an analysis of Empty Moves – Parts I and II ( 2007) by Angelin Preljocaj
Johan Callens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tennessee Williams’s
Vieux Carré Caught between Heritage and Themepark
Sidra Lawrence, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University, US
Dagara Female Performance and Strategic Coalition Building

SATURDAY 21 MARCH
9:00-10:15 Keynote Speech
Dr Laura Cull, Department of Theatre and Dance, School of Arts, University of Surrey
Doing Performance Philosophy: attention, collaboration and the missing “&”
Chair: Mario Frendo
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Panel 6 Performance and the Posthuman Turn
Chair: Norbert Bugeja, Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta
Frank Camilleri, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Hybridising the Discipline: Performer Training in the Twenty-First Century
Colin Noyale, Department of Dance Studies, University Campus Suffolk
Distributed Performers’ Self in Composition: An Insight into Interdisciplinary Structured
Improvisation
Malaika Sarco-Thomas, Department of Dance Studies, University of Malta
Momentum, gravity and ‘ sens ational facts’: Attending to interdisciplinary materiality through contact improvisation
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Panel 7 Points of contact: Performance and Cognitive Science
Cultural Studies, and Ethnomusicology
Chair: Sandra M. Dingli, The Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of
Thinking, University of Malta
Dagmara Krzyzaniak, Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, Adam
Mickiewicz University of Poznan
Healing properties of drama. Similarities between theatrical performance and cognitivebehavioral therapy

Jonas Rutgeerts, Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture - Institute of Philosophy, KU
Leuven University
Choreographing the Interdisciplinary: Test Cases at KU Leuev, Belgium
Fabrizio Deriu, Faculty of Media Studies, University of Teramo, Italy
& Ignazio Macchiarella, Faculty of Arts, University of Cagliari
John Blacking’s Ethnomusicology in a Performance Studies Perspective
14:30-15:30 Panel 8 Postgraduate Contributions
Chair: TBA
Burç İdem Dinçel, Department of Drama, Trinity College Dublin
Dialectics of Disciplinarity and the Afterlife of Attic Tragedies on the Modern Stage
Henrique Rochelle Meneghini, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Dance Writings: Discussing Dance Communication
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:30 Panel 9 Applied Performance
Chair: Philip Ciantar, Department of Music Studies, University of Malta
Louise Ghirlando, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Malta
Embodying the Role of Dramatherapist
Olyesya Razdorskaya, Department of Foreign Languages, Kursk State Medical University,
Russian Federation
Formation of Applied Creativity by Means of Performing Creativity
Richard Launder, Visual Art Department National Academy of Art & Design - KHIB, Bergen,
Norway & Julia Collura, Theatre Department, Arts Educational Schools, London
Carrot Juice Without Borders: Proscriptive Rights & The Commons - A collaborative intervention performance, in The Commons of Beirut