“The Prague School Today: Rethinking Performance in Contemporary Context”
University of Toronto (March 23-24, 2018)
Emmanuel College, Room 302
75 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7
Organizer: Andrés Pérez-Simón (U of Cincinnati).
Conference volunteers: Braxton Boyer, Anna Paliy and Teresa Valentini (U of Toronto).
Sponsoring departments: Centre for Comparative Literature; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies; and Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Special thanks: Anthoula Vlahakis, Bao Nguyen, Professors Jill Ross, and Leo Livak.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM.
Friday, March 23
| 9:30-10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00-10:15 | Opening remarks |
| 10:15-11:30 | Panel 1:
Martin Revermann (U of Toronto) “Beckett and the Theatrical Sign: Semiotic Interpretations” Herta Schmid (U of Potsdam) “Realism and Abstractionism in Otakar Zich’s Theory of Dramatic Art” (Demonstration of S. Beckett’s Act Without Words I, 1956) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45-1:00 | Panel 2:
Yana Meerzon (U of Ottawa) “Dramaturgies of Body: Performing Cosmopolitan Self in Solo and Duet Performances” David Drozd (Masaryk U) “Music, Voice and Signs in Movement” |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00 | Panel 3:
Nenad Jovanovic (Wright State U) “The Medium (non-)Specific: Hitchcock’s Rope and Mukařovský’s Space-as-Meaning” Andrés Pérez-Simón (U of Cincinnati) “Breaking the Illusion in the World of Disney: The Case of Moana (2016)” Laura Pontieri (U of Toronto) “Animate, Inanimate and Beyond. Svankmajer’s Actors and Puppets” |
| 4:00-4:15 | Coffee break |
| 4:15-5:15 | Keynote speech:
Silvija Jestrovic (U of Warwick) “Bodies and Objects on Stage and Street (After Veltruský)” |
Saturday, March 24
| 10:00-10:30 | Book presentation: Theatre Theory Reader: Prague School Writings (2016). Presented by David Drozd (Masaryk U) and Veronika Ambros (U of Toronto). |
| 10:30-11:30 | Panel 4:
Lisa Fitzpatrick (U of Ulster) “The Cuchulain Plays of W.B. Yeats: Of Gods and Puppets” Tatiana Smoliarova (University of Toronto) “Nina Simonovich-Efimova’s Adventures of a Russian Puppet Theater (1924, 1935) and Bogatyrev’s Theory of Theatrical Signs” |
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45-12:45 | Keynote speech:
Eva Šlaisová, Charles University “Performing Cathedral: Le Ballet des Ombres Heureuses in Light of the Prague School Theories” |
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch break |
| 1:45-3:00 | Screening of Woyzeck on the Highveld (by Handspring Puppet Company; adaptation of Georg Buchner’s play) |
| 3:00-4:00 | Roundtable:
Woyzeck on the Highveld: Puppetry and Film in Conversation With Veronika Ambros (U of Toronto), Herta Schmid (U of Potsdam), and Lawrence Switzky (U of Toronto) |
| 4:00-4:15 | Concluding remarks |
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updated: Feb 27, 2018
