Please register for the conference before October 1st, 2020, by writing to the organizer,
Yayoi Everett (yeverett@uic.edu).
Program Schedule:
October 3rd (Saturday, 9AM-2:30PM EST)
Introduction (9:00AM-9:15AM): Yayoi Everett and Nick Stevens
Session 1 (9:15-10:45AM): Posthumanism and the Anthropocene (moderator, Nick Stevens)
Megan Steigerwald Ille, “Opera for the Anthropocene: Automobility, Urban Space, andThe Industry’s Hopscotch”
Nicholas D. Stevens, “Fear of an Envoiced Planet: Singing Hyperobjects in (Post)operas of the Climate Crisis”
Jelena Novak, “Opera Beyond Human: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities, and Singing Machines”
Session 2 (11:00-12:15PM) Documentary, Testimonials (moderator, Joy Calico)
Ryan Ebright, “Steve Reich’s The Cave, Documentary Theater, and the Testimonial Turn in American Opera”
Amy Bauer, “¡Unicamente La Verdad!: Camelia la Tejana’s Many Truths”
Lunch break (12:15-1PM)
Session 3 (1PM-2:30PM) Variable Staging and Dramaturgy (moderator, Myron Elliott)
Alexander K. Rothe, “Gesture and Dramaturgy of the Avatar in George Lewis’s Afterword”
Joy H. Calico, “Modes of Engagement with Experimental Opera: Czernowin’s Infinite Now as Case Study”
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, “Inter-Asia Sensibility—Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul”
October 10th (Saturday, 9AM-2:15PM EST)
Session 4 (9AM-10:15AM) Feminist Writing, Voice (moderator, Yayoi Everett)
Colleen Renihan, “Of Sense and Sirens: Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba Wedding”
Liisamaija Hautsolo,“Unspoken feminism: Kaija Saariaho’s monodrama Émilie”
Session 5 (10:30-12PM) Narrative and Self (moderator, Louis Bergonzi)
Edward Venn, “Narratives of the Self in Thomas Hyde’s That Man Stephen Ward
John Clum, “‘There’s Something About That Fellow, Wrong’: Gregory Spears’ Operas of Queer Outsiders”
Yayoi U. Everett, “ Narrative Agencies in Annie Proulx and Charles Wourinen’s The Brokeback Mountain (2014)”
Lunch break (12:00-12:30PM)
Session 6 (12:30-1:45PM) Irony, Subjectivity, Dream(moderator, Nick Stevens)
Cecilia Livingston, “Show and Tell: Operatic Ironies in Written on Skin”
Mauro Bertola, “The Uncanny Realism of Dreams Subjectivity and Oneiricism in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Musical Theatre”
Final Debriefing (1:45PM-2:15PM)