05 July 2023
06.00–07.30 pm CET
Alena Leshkevich (University of Warsaw), Carnaval in Belarus and Poland: common features and peculiarities
Olga Załęska (University of Warsaw), “It is possible during the procession not to drink, but why?” Alcohol as part of carnival rituals in Kuyavia
06 September 2023
06.00–07.00 pm CET
Jason Gardner, Roots, Rites, Reveries: Portraits of contemporary traditional Carnaval
08 November 2023
06.00–07.30 pm CET
Paul Glen Grant (University of Wisconsin-Madison), The Heathen Mirror: Basel’s Fasnacht through African Missionary Eyes
Pascal Hein (University Stuttgart), Between Tradition and Innovation – The Songs and Sprüchle of swabian-alemannic Fastnacht
07 February 2024
06.00–07.30 pm CET
Dr. Federica Moretti & Prof. Dr. Monika Salzbrunn (Lausanne University), “On fait de la réinvention pour approprier une appropriation”. (Re)inventing carnival traditions in the Greater region of Nice
Prof. Dr. Jack Santino, Dunkirk Carnival and Rethinking the Carnivalesque
10 January 2024
06.00–07.30 pm CET
Dr. Jérémie Voirol (University of Manchester), Playfulness, forms of sociability and social inclusion: the Carnival in the Ecuadorian Andes
Dr. Lina Marie-Sainte (Université des Antilles), Is Trinidad Carnival still a place for expressing resistance and cultural affirmation?
06 March 2024
06.00–07.00 pm CET
Dr. James Palmitessa (Western Michigan University), Carnival and Popular Icono-clastic Revolt in Prague in 1611
Dr. Michael Lukin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/UPenn), Yiddish Carnivalesque Folk Songs
08 May 2024
06.00–07.00 pm CET
Yue Li (Universität Heidelberg), Goethe’s The Roman Carnival as an experimental field of classical theater