University of Turin
Centre for Northern Performing Arts Studies
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
DAMS
Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo

25th-27th October 2004

Italian Scientific Committee:

Roberto Alonge (University of Turin); Umberto Artioli (University of Padua); Siro Ferrone (University of Florence); Franco Perrelli (University of Turin); Silvana Sinisi (University of Salerno); Roberto Tessari (University of Turin).

Ibsen: The Dark Side
International Conference

Conference Program
Sala Lauree della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione

25th October
3 p. m.
Opening Session.
4 p. m.
Knut Brynhildsvoll (Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo): The Silent Messages: The Secret Communications in Some of Ibsen’s Plays;
Sandra Tomescu Baciu (University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca): Sexuality as Primordial Image in Peer Gynt;
Ellen Hartmann (University of Oslo): Demonic Aspects in The Lady from the Sea;
He Chengzhou (University of Nanjing, China): The Troubled Sexuality of Hedda Gabler: Foucault and Ibsen.


26th October
10 a. m.
Joan Templeton (Brooklyn University College): Love-Starved Women: Female Sexuality and Feminism in Ibsen;
Franco Perrelli (University of Turin): The Strange Case of Dr Ibsen and Mr Strindberg;
Behzad Ghaderi (Kerman University, Iran): Freemasonry in Ibsen’s Drama; 
Bent Holm (University of Copenhagen): A Frozen Dream. John Gabriel Borkman produced by Asger Bonfils.

4 p. m.
Roberto Alonge (University of Turin): Ibsen and Sexuality;
Silvana Sinisi (University of Salerno): Henrik Ibsen’s Bestiary;
Sven Heed (University of Stockholm): Violence and Revolt in A Doll’s House; 
Beret Wicklund (Sör-Tröndelag University College): Gothic Subtext in the Munich Trilogy.
Jørgen Stender Clausen (University of Pisa): Sexuality and Relationship between Male and Female: a Comparison of Ibsen and Strindberg;

27th October
9 a. m.
Astrid Sæther (Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo): The Other Woman.
An Attempt to Analyze the Role of the Other Woman, as She Appears in Ibsen’s Prose Plays;
Jørgen Dines Johansen (University of Odense): How did Osvald get Syphilis?
Paolo Puppa (University of Venice): ------------------------------.