All rooms are located in the Fondation des Etats-Unis (building n°15 on the map) unless indicated otherwise.
THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2022
8:00-8:45
Breakfast for those with on-site lodging (Salle Polyvalente)
9:00-13:00
PhD Forum* (Petit Salon) *reserved for forum participants
Opening address: “Critical Dialogues in Contemporary Theatre Research” Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg) & Clare Wallace (Charles University)
Charlotte Manzella (Universität Hamburg) “Temporalities in Contemporary British Climate Change Theatre”
Ondřej Polák (Charles University) “Dialogues Past and Present: Cruel Optimism of Post-Black Theatre”
Valeria Sabitova (Charles University) “Sensation and Affect: Embodiment of Violence in Visual Arts, Theatre and Performance”
Amy Terry (Royal Holloway, University of London) “Playwriting as Intersectionality: Creating Postdramatic Queer Methodologies to Write Coalitional Working-Class Performance”
Jade Thomas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) “Representing Blackness: Metatheater and Genre Remediation in 21st-Century African American Plays”
Eszter Vass (University of Konstanz) “Trauma and Metatheatre in Contemporary Anglophone Drama”
Leila Michelle Vaziri (University of Augsburg) “The Theatre of Anxiety – Border Crossings in 21st Century British Theatre”
Kamila Mamadnazarbekova (Sorbonne University) “The Invention of Nature and Landscaping Britain”
Sarah Busch (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) “Emotional Audiences: The Role of Affect in the Reception of Contemporary Anglophone Theatre”
13:00-14:30
Lunch at the Café Restaurant of the Maison Internationale (n° 21 on the map)
14:30-16:30
Council Meeting (Petit Salon)
17:00-17:30
Conference Opening (Grand Salon)
by the Organizing Team: Cyrielle Garson (Université d’Avignon), Xavier Lemoine (Université Gustave Eiffel), Anna Street (Le Mans Université), Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Sorbonne Université)
Followed by welcoming remarks by Susan Blattes (former RADAC president), Emeline Jouve (RADAC president), Ute Berns (CDE President)
17:30-19:00
Keynote Address (Grand Salon)
Aleshea Harris (Playwright) in Conversation with Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Sorbonne Université) & Jaine Chemmachery (Sorbonne Université)
Chair: Xavier Lemoine (Université Gustave Eiffel)
19:00-20:30
Welcoming Cocktail (Grand Salon)
FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2022
Click on presenter’s name to see their bio and on paper title to see their abstract.
8:00-8:45
Breakfast for those with on-site lodging (Salle Polyvalente)
9:00-10:30
Keynote Address (Grand Salon)
Jen Harvie (Queen Mary University of London) “A Sense of Place: Staging Psychogeographies of the UK Housing Crisis”
Chair: Claire Hélie (Université de Lille)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break (Salle Polyvalente)
11:00-12:30
Panel 1: Re-envisioning Urban Immersive Theatricalities (Grand Salon)
Prudhon, Deborah (Aix-Marseille Université) “Punchdrunk’s Kabeiroi (2017): Taking Immersive Theatre to the Streets”
Radak, Tamara (University of Vienna) “(Post)digital Co-Presence in Digitally Immersive Theatre”
Forlini, Francesca (Roma Tre University) “Performing the city – space, movement and memory in O Ben’groes at Droed Amser”
Chair: Cyrielle Garson (Université d’Avignon)
12:30-14:30
Lunch at the Café Restaurant of the Maison Internationale (n° 21 on the map)
14:30-16:00
Panel 2: Theatres of Protest (Grand Salon)
Colpitts, Andy (Cornell University) “Place on Parade: Genre, Politics, and Puppets”
Schwanecke, Christine (University of Graz) “Criticising Capitalism in the City and on the Stage: The city street movement “Occupy Wall Street” and Tim Price’s Protest Song”
Sedgman, Kristy (University of Bristol) “Civilising the City, the Oldest Theatre in Europe, and Other Lies for Divided Times”
Chair: Emeline Jouve (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès)
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break (Salle Polyvalente)
16:30-18:00
Walkshop to the Sorbonne
Veloso, Verônica (Universidade de São Paulo), Francis Wilker (Universidade Federal do Ceará) and Glauber Coradesqui (Instituto Federal Fluminense) “Walking around cities – traveling, contemplating and discovering spaces”
18:00-19:30
Keynote Address (Sorbonne)
Anne Hamburger (En Garde Arts, New York) in Conversation with Emilie Rault (Actress and Director) & Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Sorbonne Université)
Chair: Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Sorbonne University)
19:30-21:00
Cocktail Reception (Les Patios)
SATURDAY, 25 JUNE 2022
Click on presenter’s name to see their bio and on paper title to see their abstract.
8:00-8:45
Breakfast for those with on-site lodging (Salle Polyvalente)
9:00-10:30
CDE Members’ Meeting (Petit Salon)
Coffee available (Salle Polyvalente)
10:30-12:30
Panel 3: Staging Homelessness in the City (Grand Salon)
Knittelfelder, Elisabeth (University of Graz) “‘Refugees Welcome’: Necrocapitalism and rethinking (B)order in the Migration Performances The Jungle (2017), Lampedusa (2015), and The Walk (2021)”
Moyer, Gabrielle (Stanford University) “Ecce Homo or Theater of the Unhoused”
Bendrat, Anna (Marie Curie-Sklodowska University) “’New apartment, new body, new life’: The intersections of disability and immigrant experience in “the urban East of America” in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living“
Gürbüz-Blaich, Nevin (Heidelberg University) “Mobilities and the City in Contemporary British Drama: Urban Practices”
Chair: Anna Street (Le Mans Université)
12:30-14:00
Lunch at the Café Restaurant of the Maison Internationale (n° 21 on the map)
14:00-14:30
Book Launch (Grand Salon)
Arnold Wesker – Fragments and Visions. Edited by Anne Etienne and Graham Saunders. Intellect: Bristol and Chicago, 2021.
A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre since the 1950s. Edited by J. Malkin, E. Voigts, S. Ablett. Bloomsbury: London, 2021
14:30-16:00
Keynote Address (Grand Salon)
Roy Williams (Playwright) in Conversation with Gemma Edwards (University of Manchester)
Chair: Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg)
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break (Salle Polyvalente)
16:30-18:00
Panel 4: Community Making (Grand Salon)
Drugeon, Marianne (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) “Dorchester community plays”
Edwards, Gemma (University of Manchester) “Made to Connect: Theatrical Exchange in the City/Region of Greater Manchester (UK)”
Cowan, Isla (University of Glasgow) ‘“Survival of the Fittest”: Staging Animal (Inter)Actions on the Urban Stage’”
Chair: Hélène Alfaro-Hamayon (Université Gustave Eiffel)
18:00-18:30
Coffee Break (Salle Polyvalente)
18:30-19:30
Transit to Saint Denis
20:00-22:00
Kaimera Immersive Performance at Saint Denis Market & Basilica of Saint-Denis
An immersive experience that merges contemporary performance and the ancient art of storytelling, SPACES is a site-specific participatory work, created and performed with the local community that gives this place its life and identity. Audience members are guided in groups by silent dancers on a musical and dance journey that starts at the Halle du Marché and finishes at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. On the way, they meet local residents who share personal intimate moments of their lives in their city. Learn more about Kaimera Productions and book your tickets at https://www.kaimeraproductions.com/spaces-st-denis.
(40 places max – please book in advance on your own here)
SUNDAY, 26 JUNE 2022
Click on presenter’s name to see their bio and on paper title to see their abstract.
8:00-8:45
Breakfast for those with on-site lodging (Salle Polyvalente)
9:00-10:30
Panel 5: A Tale of Gentrification (Grand Salon)
Saunders, Graham (University of Birmingham) “The Resistible Rise of Isli-Crouch Upon-Thames: New Metropolitanism in New British Drama”
Voigts, Eckart (Technische Universität Braunschweig) “Vienna, London, Paris: Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt as an Elegy of the 20th-Century Bourgeois, Liberal, European City”
Windberger, Eva-Maria (Universität Trier) “Preserving Memory, Experiencing Loss: Ambivalent Gentrification in Jeremy Tiang’s The Last Days of Limehouse (2014)”
Chair: Aloysia Rousseau (Sorbonne University)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break (Salle Polyvalente)
11:00-13:00
Round table: Dramaturgy and Design (Grand Salon)
Moderator: Eckart Voigts (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Andrew Todd (Architect & Theater Consultant: Studio Andrew Todd)
Cristiana Mazzoni (Architect & Urban Designer: National Architectural school of Paris-Belleville)
Imanuel Schipper (Theatre Scholar: Theatre Academy/Uniarts Helsinki)
Anne Hamburger (Theatrical Producer: En Garde Arts, New York)
Chair: Anna Street (Le Mans Université)
13:00-13:15
Conference Closing (Grand Salon)
by the Organizing Team: Cyrielle Garson (Université d’Avignon), Xavier Lemoine (Université Gustave Eiffel), Anna Street (Le Mans Université)
13:15-14:30
Lunch at the Café Restaurant of the Maison Internationale (n° 21 on the map)