Sunday 26 June
7.30-9.00am
Breakfast served for those staying at St Hugh’s
Dining Hall
9.00-10.30am
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht, Music and Rhythm
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Martin Brady: ‘Altes wird aufgerollt’: Paul Dessau’s posthumous collaborations with Brecht
Carolin Sibilak: ‘From now on music had the characteristics of art’ – composing Brecht after Brecht
Michael Morley: Dancing Feet, Metric Feet: Fred Astaire, Brecht and a thirties socio-cultural quickstep
Chair: Sylvia Fischer
OR
Session B: Brecht, Science, Technology
Louey Seminar Room
Ian Saville: Brecht and Decision Science
Alexandra Oliveira: Brecht and Photography
Christina Papagiannouli: The Director as Researcher: Bertolt Brecht
Chair: Kris Imbrigotta
OR
Session C: Teaching Brecht
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Grace Bridgewater: Rediscovering the familiar – Teaching Brecht in HE education
Ann Shanahan: Repeating ‘Pirate Jenny’: Re-cycled Performance as Radical Teaching Demonstration
Bill Gelber: Engaging with Brecht: Producing Mother Courage in Higher Education as a Test of His Methodology
Chair: David Barnett
OR
Session D: The Brechtian Legacy: Contemporary Performance
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Minou Arjomand: Eichmann in Jerusalem as Epic Theatre
Anthony Hostetter: Recycling the Verfremdungseffekt : The Staging of Charlotte Delbo’s Who Will Carry the Word?
Nadine Friedman-Roberts: Epic Theatre and Eight-Inch Heels: The Unlikely Alignment of Drag Superstar RuPaul and Brecht
Chair: Meg Mumford
10.30-11.00am
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
11.00am-1.00pm
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht-Mix
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Akira Ichikawa: Mann ist Mann und Kabuki
Lin Cheng: Wer ist der "Zweifler“? - Über den Zusammenhang von Bildfigur und Gedicht
Joachim Lucchesi: Mit Eisler im Arbeitszimmer und Dessau in der Küche: Brechts "Wünschelrutenprinzip“ in der Musik
Hans Peter Neureuter: Brecht als Übersetzer
Chair: Friedemann Weidauer
OR
Session B: Castorf±Brecht
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Steve Earnest: Castorf Destroys Brecht: Considerations Regarding Der Jasager, Die Massnahme and Baal
Hanife Schulte: Brecht in Contemporary German Theatre: Frank Castorf’s Productions of Brecht’s Plays from the Perspective of Postdramatic Theatre
Katie Hawthorne: "Das hat Brecht nicht verdient": Frank Castorf’s Baal as an Act of Vandalism
Günther Heeg: Brecht’s "Material Value": Frank Castorf Recycles Baal
Chair: Laura Ginters
OR
Session C: Brecht International 1
Louey Seminar Room
Lin Chen: The interpretation and misinterpretation of the Verfremdungseffekt on the modern Xiqu stage – take the Yueju opera Good Person of Jiangnan as an example
Christine Jing-Chia Chou: Revision and Critique on the Tradition: Unfamiliar Side of Brecht to the Chinese World
Gudrun Tabbert-Jones: ‘Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose’: Brecht and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Chair: Antony Tatlow
1.00-2.30pm
Lunch served
Maplethorpe Hall
2.30-3.30pm
Keynote: Hans-Thies Lehmann
‘Brecht Translating / Translating Brecht’
China Centre Lecture Theatre
3.30-4.00pm
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
4.00-5.30pm
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht and Collaboration
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Paula Hanssen: Brecht‘s Women Colleagues and Translation: Muses, Translators and Scribes
Katherine Hollander: ‘Producing Something with the Other’s Talents’: Brecht, Community, and Zusammenarbeit in Exile
Vera Stegmann: Brecht, Weill, and Hannah Arendt: Pamela Katz’s Book The Partnership in View of her Work for Film
Chair: Tom Kuhn
OR
Session B: Brecht and Ireland
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Siobhán O’Gorman: Manifestations without the Manifesto? Bertolt Brecht and Edwards-MacLiammóir’s Dublin Gate Theatre
David Barnett: The Berliner Ensemble Stages The Playboy of the Western World
Chair: Laura Bradley
OR
Session C: Mahagonny and its Legacy
Louey Seminar Room
Rikard Schönström: Quotes as commodities – The use of slogans in Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny
Marc Silberman: Recycling Mahagonny: Harry Smith’s Avant-garde Film Remake
Steve Giles: ‘Degenerate’ Opera? The Contemporary Reception of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’
Chair: Stephen Parker
OR
Session D: Brecht and Shakespeare 1
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Peter Billingham: When Eddie & Bert met Bill: 'Bingo. The Game's Up!' Brechtian dramatic strategies in Edward Bond's radical revisiting of Shakespeare
Stephen Unwin: Brecht’s Shakespeare/Shakespeare’s Brecht
Astrid Oesmann: Inherent Estrangement: Brecht’s Reading of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Chair: Ralf Räuker
6.00-7.00pm
German-language roundtable discussion
With Erdmut Wizisla, Kathrin Röggla, Günther Heeg and Jürgen Kuttner
China Centre Lecture Theatre
7.30-9.00pm
Dinner served
Maplethorpe Hall
9.00-10.15pm
Song recital by Robyn Archer and Michael Morley
Singer Robyn Archer and pianist Michael Morley perform a selection of theatre and cabaret songs by Brecht, Wedekind and others.
Mordan Hall
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 140 participants)
8.00-11.30pm
Bar open
Wordsworth Tea Room