Programme
Please note all times are CEST.
The schedule was updated on May 28, 2021.
Friday, May 28
13:30 – 13:40 Welcome
Panel I: Theatre and Social CrisisChaired by Radka Kunderová, Freie Universität Berlin
13:40 – 14:10 Christopher Balme, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Theatre, Corona and Crisis: Scenarios
14:10 – 14:25 Discussion
14:25 – 14:55 Andrea Tompa, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
From Social Change to Social Drama: or How the Present Expropriates the Past
(The Case of Hungarian Theater after 1990 till the Present)
14:55 – 15:10 Discussion
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee break
Panel II: West-East Transitional Dynamics in TheatreChaired by Tony Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London
15:30 – 16:00 Anneli Saro, University of Tartu
Turn to the West: Dynamics of Theatre in Transition
16:00 – 16:15 Discussion
16:15 – 16:45 Tanja Bogusz, Hamburg University
Two Cultures, One Institution
East-Western Entanglements at the Volksbühne Berlin after 1989
16:45 – 17:00 Discussion
17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break
Panel III: Redefining Institutions and IdentitiesChaired by Janelle Reinelt, University of Warwick
17:15 – 17:45 Brandon Woolf, New York University
Considerations on the Berlin Theater Situation: 30 Years Later
17:45 – 18:00 Discussion
18:00 – 18:30 Jana Wild, Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava
Redefining Slovak Theatre of the 1990s
18:30 – 18:45 Discussion
Saturday, May 29
Panel I: Theatre and the Changing Public SphereChaired by Jan Lazardzig, Freie Universität Berlin
10:00 – 10:30 Paweł Sztarbowski, Theatre Academy in Warsaw and Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw
Spectres of Communism
10:30 – 10:45 Discussion
10:45 – 11:15 Matthias Warstat, Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin 1989: Theatre and Street Protests
11:15 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:15 Radka Kunderová, Freie Universität Berlin
Redefining the Political Theatre?: Czech Theatre in the Early 1990s
12:15 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
Panel II: Potentialities of (Political) TheatreChaired by Radka Kunderová, Freie Universität Berlin
14:00 – 14:30 Meike Wagner, Stockholm University
Performing Citizenship around 1800
Utopian Performatives of Early Bourgeois Theatre
14:30 – 14:45 Discussion
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30 Tony Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London
The Politics of Displacement Effects
Althusser’s ‘Brecht’ and the Present Conjuncture
15:30 – 16:00 Discussion + closing remarks