WITKACY 2009
PRESENTS THE:
CONFERENCE
"WITKACY AS A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VISIONARY"
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINTER
THE REGENT STREET SITE
309 REGENT STREET
SEPTEMBER 17th - 18th 2009
PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE RUNNING ORDER AS AT AUGUST 3rd 2009. (V 5)
Day 1, Thursday September 17th
9.30 – 10.00 |
Registration and Welcome |
10.00 – 11.00 |
Intros § Dr Myszka Guzkowska § Paul Robertson, Head of Modern Foreign Languages § Dr Jeremy Colwill, SS & H § The Context of the Conference A.D. Witkacy 2009 Kevin Anthony Hayes |
11.00 – 11.30 |
Keynote Lecture, Alain Van Crugten, Witkacy and the Grotesque Version of History |
11.30 – 12.00 |
Mark Rudnicki, George Mason University, On History and Suffering in "The Madman and the Nun". |
12.00 – 12.30 |
Michael Goddard, Introductions to Cinema |
12.30 – 1.00 |
Gordon Ramsay – Unity within Diversity: The Alogical and the Connected in Witkacy’s Dramatic Vision. |
1.00 – 2.00 |
Lunch |
2.00 – 2.30 |
The Polish Arts Group Witkacy in the Realms of 21st Century Multi-Media. |
2.30 – 3.00 |
Jeremy Millar & Michael Moran; A Presentation on "The Metaphysics of A Two Headed Calf". |
3.00 – 3.30 |
Tea |
3.30 – 4.30 |
Bryce Lease, University of Kent. Cutting the Romantic’s Throat: Witkacy’s Nasty Nightmare. |
4.30 – 5.00 |
Shah Ahmed, Should We Still Think of Witkacy as a Forerunner of Theatre of the Absurd. |
5.00 – 5.30 |
Concluding Discussion. |
Day 2 Friday September 18th
9.30 – 10.00 |
Arrival, Registration and Coffee |
10.00 – 10.30 |
Keynote Speaker Professor Daniel Gerould Genesis of a Playwright: Maciej Korbowa and Bellatrix 1918. |
10.30 – 11.00 |
David A Goldfarb, Freie Universitat Berlin Witkacy and Socialist Realism in Pre-Communist Poland |
11.00 – 11.30 |
Coffee |
11.30 – 12.00 |
John D. Barlow – Pure Form in Music |
12.00 – 12.30 |
Greg Perkins Eluding the Void: Art and Humour as Anodynes for Witkiewicz, Beckett and Faulkner. |
12.30 – 1.00 |
Kris Van Heukelom, Leuven University Ethics will Devour Metaphysics: Witkacy meets Milosz |
1.00 – 2.00 |
Lunch |
2.00 – 2.30 |
Anna Zakiewicz, National Museum in Warsaw Witkacy’s Painting as a Frozen Drama |
2.30 – 3.00 |
Professor Daniel Gerould Witkacy Now Through Theatre & Contemporary Music. |
3.00 – 3.30 |
Tea |
3.30 – 4.00 |
Translating Zespol Translating Witkacy's Letters to his Wife. |
4.00 – 4.30 |
Conference Conclusion & Provisional Satellite Link Discussion with the Slupsk Conference in Poland. |
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