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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