I am very delighted to announce that my text “Change is a Constant: Festivals in ‘Hybrid’ times and Spaces” has been published in the very first issue of the full open access Global Media Journal, Indian edition, (Vol. 14, Issue 1, June 2022). The text is based on my keynote address within the framework of…… Continue reading New article out: “Change is a Constant: Festivals in ‘Hybrid’ Times and Spaces”
On Friday, 19 August 2022, 10am (local time), I will give a talk on “Theatre Across Oceans, or: How to Write a Shared History of Theatre at the Turn of the 20th Century”. The lecture is on invitation of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ghana. I will speak about my recent…… Continue reading Theatre Across Oceans, or: How to write a Shared History of Theatre – Public Talk at the University of Ghana, 19 August, 2022
Watch the recording of the presidents’ welcome address by clicking on the image. I am very happy and grateful to announce that I have been elected president of SIBMAS, the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts, at the 33rd SIBMAS conference in Warsaw, Poland. SIBMAS is a UNESCO…… Continue reading Elected SIBMAS President – Thank you & merci!
Keynote address at the Janapada virtual International Folklore Festival, 4 Dec, 2021. The festival has been recorded. The paper can be downloaded here: Nic Leonhardt _Keynote Change is a Constant_Janapada Virtual Festival_4 Dec 2021Herunterladen
Monday, November 29- 3pm (Brazil), 7pm (Germany) Rio de Janeiro – via Zoom Sign up in advance at: https://tinyurl.com/TheatreAcrossOceans* The lecture will be held via Zoom in English, and will have consecutive translation.
Last year, for the first time, a conference was held in the context of the Festival Cultures du Monde in Gannat, organized by Dr Vikrant Kishore and Etienne Rogier. The festival has existed for almost 50 years, but an accompanying conference had never been held before.In this peculiar year 2020, as everywhere else, strict health…… Continue reading Speaking of Masks… Gannat Online Conference, 16 Oct 2020
Der Katalog zur Ausstellung Petra Levis, Aquarelle/ Watercolors”, herausgegeben vom Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU München, ist im April 2019 erschienen; in ihm ist auch mein Beitrag Wa(h)re Fake Cakes, oder: Das ist kein Bonbon-Glas. Augentäuschung, Sinnlichkeit und Inszenierung von Zeitlichkeit in den Arbeiten von Petra Levis veröffentlicht. Die Ausstellung wurde am 30. April eröffnet und…… Continue reading Wa(h)re Fake Cakes – Katalogtext zur Kunst von Petra Levis
Das Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) der LMU München zeigt im Sommersemester 2019 Arbeiten der deutsch-amerikanischen Künstlerin PETRA LEVIS Dauer der Ausstellung: 30. April bis 31. Juli 2019 Vernissage: Dienstag, 30. April 2019, 19 Uhr Einführung: PD Dr. Nic Leonhardt (Theaterwissenschaft, LMU) Ort: Center for Advanced Studies, Seestraße 13, 80802 München Das CAS bittet um…… Continue reading Vernissage Petra Levis @CAS LMU, 30. April
Der für den 12. Dezember 2018 angesetzte Vortrag mit Book Launch musste wegen eines Trauerfalls in meiner Familie leider ausfallen. Der neue Termin ist 6. Februar 2019, 18:30h Internationales Begegnungszentrum Amalienstraße 38, 80799 München Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2019, 18 Uhr 30. Um Anmeldung beim IBZ wird gebeten per e-mail an ibz-club@ibz-muenchen.de oder telefonisch 089 28 66…… Continue reading Neuer Termin! Theater über Ozeane – Vortrag mit Book Launch am 6. Februar 2019, IBZ München
The understanding of what is historic(al), how to write history and how to archive the past depends largely on the temporal and cultural setting of societies. Against the background of increasing globalization and transnational as well as transregional mobilities in contemporary times, the traditional eurocentric writing of theatre history, too, has become subject to revision…… Continue reading Iste – Ille. Here and There. Keynote on Global Theatre History (Stockholm, 22-24 Nov, 2018)
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