Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances (CDE 2023)

Programme

Thursday, 8 June

9 am – 1 pm

• Ph.D. Forum @ IBZ Uni Erfurt, Michaelisstraße 38 (closed event)
• Opening Remarks & Moderation: Martin Middeke (Universität Augsburg) and Clare Wallace (Univerzita Karlova)
  • Nina De Bettin Padolin (Karl-Franzens Universität Graz)
  • Sarah Busch (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg)
  • Ondřej Polák (Univerzita Karlova)
  • Valeria Sabitova (Univerzita Karlova)
  • Lina Stücker (Universität Münster)
  • Jade Thomas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Eszter Vass (Universität Konstanz)

1.30 pm: Ph.D. Forum lunch @ Peckham’s, Pergamentergasse 11

3 – 4.30 pm: Board Meeting @ IBZ Uni Erfurt, Michaelisstraße 38

2 – 4.30 pm: Arrival & Registration @ Augustinerkloster, Augustinerstraße 10

5 – 7 pm:

• Welcome & Opening Remarks by Ute Berns (Universität Hamburg), Johanna Hartmann (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) and  Ilka Saal (Universität Erfurt)
• Keynote 1: Mary Kathryn Nagle (New York): Indigenous Sovereignty and Female Activism

7 pm: Reception

Friday, 9 June

9 – 10.15 am: Keynote 2: Nassim Balestrini (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz): Sensing a Twenty-First-Century Commons in the Theater: Relationality in a Climate of Distrust and Destruction

Break

10.30 – 12 noon: Panel I: Theater, Public Sphere, Audiences

• Julia Rössler (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Testimony, Amateurism, and the Public Sphere in Documentary Theater
• Ondřej Pilný (Univerzita Karlova): Community and Manipulation in the ‘Parallel Worlds’ of Tim Crouch
• Cyrielle Garson (Avignon Université): The Promises and Pitfalls of Post-Pandemic VR Theatre in North America

12 noon – 1 pm: Lunch

1 – 2.15 pm: Keynote 3: Martin Middeke (Universität Augsburg): Inoperative Communities in 21^st-century Theater

Coffee Break

2.30 – 3.30 pm: Panel II: Crip and Queer Communities

• Heidi Lucja Liedke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): The Politics of Queer Belonging and Utopian Performatives in Peter McMaster’s A Sea of Troubles and Split Britches’s ‘Zoomie’ Last Gasp
• Liselle Terret (University of East London): Crip and Queer Ethics of Care: Not F**kin’ Sorry

3.45 – 5.45 pm: CDE Members’ Assembly, Elections

6 -7.30 pm: Guided Walking Tour through historic old town OR Decolonize Erfurt Tour

Saturday, 10 June

9 – 10.15 am: Keynote 4: Tavia Nyong’o (Yale University): The Racial Reckoning in Art and Performance

Break

10.30 – 12 noon: Panel III: Performative Interventions in Racial Formations

• Annette J. Saddik (City University of New York): Performing Community through the Comic Grotesque in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors
• Jade Thomas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Allegory, Morality, Community? The Political Functions of Metatheatrical Strategies in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Everybody
• Frank Obenland (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz): Theatrical Performances as Collective Experiences in Contemporary Plays by African American Women

12 noon – 1 pm: Lunch

1 – 2 pm: Panel IV: Singularity and Plurality

• Dorothee Birke (Universität Innsbruck) and Janine Hauthal (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The Poetics and Politics of We-Narration on the Contemporary British Stage
• Mona Becker (Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Singularity and Solidarity in Slavoj Žižek’s Antigone

3 pm: Optional Visit of Theater Waidspeicher Erfurt: Premiere of Der Tapfere Zinnsoldat (The Steadfast Tin Soldier), puppet performance based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

Individual Dinners/Beer Garden

Sunday, 11 June

8.30 – 9.45 am: Keynote 5: Sabrina Mahfouz (Los Angeles): Rewriting the Margins: On Gendered and Ethnic Belonging in Contemporary British Drama

Break

10 – 11.30: Panel V: Community, Precarity, Resistance

• Amy Terry (Royal Holloway London): Working Class Anger, Breaking Community, and Creating Coalition in Scottee’s Bravado and Class
• Elizabeth Tomlin (University of Glasgow): Subversion and Resistance in Representations of Working-Class Subjects
• Trish Reid (University of Reading): Coalitions of Vulnerability in Recent British Drama

Coffee Break

11.45 – 12.45 pm: Panel VI: Rethinking Community

• Kerstin Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): Un/Common Ground in a Shared Space: What it Means to be Human in Current Theatrical Practice
• David Savran (The Graduate Center, City University New York): Identity Politics as Lingua Franca?

Conference Closing Remarks

1 – 2 pm: Lunch

2 pm: Departure