Wednesday 29 April 2015
9:30–10:00 Arrival and Registration
10:00–10:15 Joachim Küpper: Words of Welcome
Toni Bernhart, Sven Thorsten Kilian: Introduction
Panel 1: Political, Institutional and Social Practices
10:15–11:00 Erika Fischer-Lichte: “Networks” on Acting in the Eighteenth Century
11:00–11:45 Jaša Drnovšek: Early Modern Religious Processions: The Rise and Fall of a Political Genre
11:45–12:00 Coffee Break
12:00–12:45 Stephanie Bung: Playful Institutions: Social and Textual Practices in Spanish Academies before 1700
12:45–14:15 Lunch Break
Panel 2: Textual Traditions
14:15–15:00 Jan Mosch: Heteronomy and Weakness of Will in Shakespeare and Racine
15:00–15:45 Esther Schomacher: Sex on Stage: How does the Audience Know? (“La Calandria”, III,10; “Henry V”, V,2)
15:45–16:30 Bernhard Huss: Luigi Groto’s “Adriana” as a Laboratory Experiment on Literary Genre
16:30–16:45 Coffee Break
Panel 3: Engineering the Senses
16:45–17:30 Christopher Balme: Technology Transfer and Expert Networks in Early Modern Theater
17:30–18:15 Stefano Gulizia: Castiglione’s Green Sense of Theater
Thursday 30 April 2015
Panel 4: Poetics in Motion
9:30–10:15 Barbara Ventarola: Corneille and the Spanish Tradition: Poetics and Politics in “Le Cid”
10:15–11:00 Cristina Savettieri: The Agency of Errors: Hamartia and its (Mis)Interpretations in Italian and French Early Modern Italian Dramatic Theories
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Sandra Richter: The English Invention of German Drama on the Basis of the German Novel in Prose: The Case of Fortunatus
12:00–12:45 Gautam Chakrabarti: “Give Me the Language”: Transcultural Interstices in Michael Madhusudan Datta’s English Plays
12:45–14:15 Lunch Break
Panel 5: Cross-Fertilization
14:15–15:00 Franz Gratl: The Role of Music in Folk Drama: An Investigation based on Tyrolean Sources
15:00–15:45 Michael Burden: Settling the Repertory: The Pasticcio versus Comic Opera in Eighteenth-Century London
15:45–16:30 DS Mayfield: Anthropological Constants in Early Modern Drama
16:30–16:45 Coffee Break
Panel 6: Circulating the Nation
16:45–17:30 Igor Grdina: Designs, Examples, Initiatives: Slovenian Dramatists in the Second Half of the Eighteenth
Century
17:30–18:15 Joachim Küpper: The Concept of “National Literatures” and the Cultural Net
18:15–18:30 Coffee Break
18:30–19:15 Stephen Nichols: Comment