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.

^{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.