Programme

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

• 9:30 - 10:00 : Registration and Coffee

• 10:00 –11:00: Welcome
  Joachim Küpper (DHC) and Christoph Holzhey (ICI)
  Does Performance Philosophy necessarily pose the question of genre? – Ramona Mosse, Maïté Marciano, Anna Street

• 11:00 – 12:30: Seminar Sessions
  Seminar A, Session I - Suffering / Laughter:
  Moderator: Alice Lagaay
  Konrad Bach - Laughter as a Phenomenon of Presence
  Alice Koubova - To Be Ludic or Sacrificed in Performance? On the Ludic Mode of Thinking
  Gregor Moder - After Catastrophe: From Beckett to Zizek

Seminar B, Session I - Universal / Particular:
Julien Alliot - The "Uncomely Comedy": Celebrating the Divided Subject in Contemporary British Drama
Karoline Gritzner - Tragedy and the Persistence of Semblance
Kate Katafiasz - Comedy, Tragedy, and Radicalism in Edward Bond's Under Room

• 12:30 - 14:30: Lunch Break /Catered lunch for Participants

• 14:30 – 16:00: Seminar Sessions
  Seminar A, Session II - Suffering / Laughter
  Moderator: Russell Ford
  Preciosa de Joya - The Philosopher Farts and Clowns: Humor and Wisdom in Javanese Puppet Theatre
  Katja Vaghi - Rococo Laughter; Dancing and Laughter in Jiri Kilian's Birth-Day
  Daniel Watt - How funny is it being a plank of wood: the terrible comedy of Cricot2 Theatre

Seminar B, Session II - Violence / Ethics
Moderator: Kristin Flade
Kélina Gotman - Exceptionalism, Schizophrenia, Artaud: On Judgment
Mischa Twitchin - In Patagonia? Some Notes for a Future Discussion of Beckett's Catastrophe
Audroné Zukauskaité - Performative Evolutions: Romeo Castelluci's Tragedy Endogonidia

• 16:00- 16:30: Coffee break.

• 16:30 – 18:30: Roundtable Discussion 1: How do tragedy and comedy make/unmake the world?
  Moderator: Tony Fisher
  Panelists:
  Rupert Glasgow - Comedy, Philosophy and the Paradox of Expecting the Unexpected
  Joachim Küpper - The Function of Tragedy
  John Morreall - The Tragic Vision and the Comic Vision
  Jennifer Wallace - "The Real State of Sublunary Nature": Can Tragedy and Comedy Be So Neatly Divided?

• 18:30- 19:00: Coffee break

• 19:00 – 20:30: Keynote 1: Hans-Thies Lehmann: Theatre – Tragedy - Thought

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014

• 09:30 - 10:00 Coffee

• 10:00 – 12:00: Seminar Sessions
  Seminar A, Session III - Universal / Particular
  Moderator: Tony Fisher
  James Corby - Of Comfort No Man Speak: Tragedy, Indifference, Consolation
  Anna Kawalec - Comic Agents. Alfred Gell's New Paradigm of Comedy
  Mark Robson - The Necessity of a Figure
  Katrin Trüstedt - Sea-Change of Comedy: Shakespeare's Tempest and Hegelian Dialectics

Seminar B, Session III - Violence / Ethics :
Moderator: David Savran
Florian Becker - "He Who Does {Not} Learn Also Dies" - Christoph Menke on Tragedy and the Learning Play in Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller
Matthias Dreyer - Caesura of Tragedy - Historicity as Critical Process
Rachel Fensham - On Watching Tragedy: Black Medea and the Chorus
Andrew Parker - Marx's Shakespeare and Shakespaere's Marx: Reading "Anglisch" 1862)

• 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch / Catered lunch for Participants

• 14:00 - 14:30 Book Presentations
  Alice Lagaay and Freddie Rokem: Performance Philosophy Book Series (Palgrave Macmillan)
  Magda Romanska: Comedy - An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan)
  Erika Fischer-Lichte and Torsten Jost: Interweaving Performance Cultures, Upcoming Publications

• 14:30 – 16:00 Keynote 2: Erika Fischer-Lichte

• 16:00 -16:30 Coffee Break

• 16:30 – 18:30 Roundtable Discussion II: How do comedy and tragedy perform philosophical thought?
  Moderator: Alice Lagaay
  Panelists:
  Russell Ford - Deleuze on Comedy and Tragedy
  Nikolaus Müller-Schöll - The Comical As Paradigm of the Experience of Modernity
  Freddie Rokem - "The Philosophical Focal Point Where Tragedy and Comedy Converge"
  Stephen Wilmer - The Asylum Seeker in Greek Tragedy

• 18:30– 19:00 Coffee Break

• 19:00 –20:30 Keynote 3: Simon Critchley – Comic versus Tragic Catharsis

• 20:30-21:30 Closing Remarks and Reception