Dramatic Experience: Poetics of Drama and the Public Sphere(s) in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
- Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum, L116, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
- Beginn: 28.11.13
- Ende: 29.11.13
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
From Aristotle to New Historicism, drama has been recognized as a medium tailored to produce and manipulate collective emotions, whether anthropologically constant or socially and historically variable. This conference is designed to investigate different approaches and venues of research open to students of early modern drama, departing from this understanding of drama. Bringing together experts on Western European cultures, as well as scholars working on Russia, East Asia and Northern Africa, we intend to explore the interaction between “universal”, internationally transferable theatrical poetics, textual genres and performative techniques, and specific audiences, diverging socially, geographically and chronologically. Reaching beyond theater studies per se, this perspective will allow us to address the complex structure of various early modern “public spheres”, from the court society to various forms of lower class sociability, as well as the issue of public emotionality and its place in cultural history: the differences and similarities in form and function between theater and ritual, the importance of theatrical practices for pre-modern social and political order, the tensions between public and private, social and aesthetic sensibilities.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 28 November 2013
9:30 – 10:00 Arrival and registration
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction and welcome by JOACHIM KÜPPER (Freie Universität Berlin)
Panel 1: Theatre and the City
10:15 – 11:00 WENDY HELLER (Princeton University)
l favore degli dei: Myth, Spectacle, and Ovidian Dramaturgy in Seicento Opera
11:00 – 11:45 TATIANA KORNEEVA (Freie Universität Berlin/DramaNet)
Theatrical Spells: Techniques of Enticement in Eighteenth-Century Italian Fairy Comedy
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break
12.00 – 12.45 NIGEL SMITH (Princeton University)
Theatre, Aesthetics and Political Crisis in the Seventeenth Century: Amsterdam in Context
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch break
Panel 2: Theatrical Effects
14:15 – 15:00 PETER W. MARX (Universität Köln)
How to create a Scene? Early Modern Drama and Theatre between Literary Practice, Cultural Performances and the Emerging Theatrical Arts
15:00 – 15:45 HANS RUDOLF VELTEN (Universität Siegen)
Devils on and off Stage: Shifting Effects of Fear and Laughter in Late Medieval German Religious Theater
15:45 – 16:30 PHILIP SADGROVE (University of Manchester)
Audience/Dramatist Interaction on the Early Arabic Stage
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break
Panel 3: Scenarios of Power
16:45 – 17:30 CLAUDE HAAS (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin)
The Public of the Sovereign and the Private Sphere of Mourning: Pierre Corneille’s Horace (1640)
17:30 – 18:15 KIRILL OSPOVAT (Freie Universität Berlin/DramaNet)
Terror and Pity: Hamlet and the Poetics of Autocracy in Eighteenth-Century Russia
18:15 – 19:00 HEINRICH KIRSCHBAUM (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Self-Burial and the Mystery of Rising: Perlocutionary Eschatology in Polish Romantic Drama
Friday, 29 November 2013
Panel 4: Theatre and the Academies
10:00 – 10:45 KATJA GVOZDEVA (Freie Universität Berlin/DramaNet)
Why Do Men Go Blind in the Theatre? Gendering the Audience in Italian Renaissance Comedies
10:45 – 11:30 DÉBORAH BLOCKER (University of California, Berkeley)
From Sacred Music to Courtly Pleasures: Defining the Melodramatic Experience in Jacopo Peri’s and Ottavio Rinuccini’s Euridice (1600)
11:30 – 11.45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 SVEN THORSTEN KILIAN (Freie Universität Berlin/DramaNet)
Opening Spaces for the Reading Audience: Fernando de Roja’s Celestina (1499/1502) and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Mandragola (1519)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
Panel 5: Noh and its Echoes
14:00 – 14:45 STANCA SCHOLZ-CIONCA (Universität Trier)
Noh Theatre Within Walls and Beyond in Early Modern Japan (1603-1868)
14:45 – 15.30 CARRIE J. PRESTON (Boston University)
Noh Echoes, No Conductor: Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River
and the Measures of Intercultural Performance
15:30 – 15.45 Coffee break
Panel 6: Theatre and Social Knowledge
15:45 – 16:30 TONI BERNHART (Freie Universität Berlin/DramaNet)
Imaging the Audience in the Eighteenth-Century Austrian Popular Drama
16:30 – 17:15 ALEXEI EVSTRATOV (University of Oxford)
Molière and Performing the Bourgeois: Theatrical Experience and Social Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
17:15 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:15 LOGAN JAMES CONNORS (Bucknell University)
From Contagion to Cognition: Aestheticizing the Theatrical Event in Eighteenth-Century France
18:15 – 19:00 Final Discussion
Further details about the conference can be found at the following link
For more information on the event, please contact dramanet2013@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
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