Wednesday 29 June
7.30-9.00am
Breakfast served for those staying at St Hugh’s
Dining Hall
9.00-11.00am
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht the Recycling/Recycled Playwright
Maplethope Seminar Room
Stephen Parker: ‘Erinnert ihr euch der peinlichen Schädel des Sokrates und Verlaine?’ Bertolt Brecht’s Satyr Drama Baal
Horst Jesse: The Method of Recycling Bertolt Brecht’s Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe helps to understand the message of his play
Paul Sharratt: Mother Courage and her Versions
Elisabeth Hostetter: Tracking the Inexplicable Rise of Corrupt Power: Perceptions/Receptions of Brecht’s Ui
Chair: Stephen Brockmann
OR
Session B: The Lehrstück
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Finn Iunker: Recycling luxury: Der Lindberghflug
Michael Wood: A Future for the Lehrstück? Andres Veiel’s Der Kick and the Recycling of Form.
Angelos Koutsourakis: Learning Provocations: On Cinematic Lehrstücke
Chair: David Banett
OR
Session C: Brecht, Africa and the Middle East
Louey Seminar Room
Nenad Jovanovic: Transmedia documentary and Brecht: The Case of 18 Days in Egypt
Temitope Abisoye Noah: Gerima’s Teza and Brecht’s Mother Courage: Politics of Motherhood at the War Front (Ethiopia)
Magdi Youssef: Brecht and the Arab Spring
Ela Gezen: Translation, Adaptation, and Implementation of Brechtian Theater Aesthetics in the Turkish Context
Chair: Marc Silberman
11.00-11.30am
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
11.30am-1.00pm
Roundtable discussion: "Working with Brecht"
With Mark Ravenhill, David Constantine and Stephen Parker
China Centre Lecture Theatre
1.00-2.30pm
Lunch served
Maplethorpe Hall
2.00-5.00pm
Seminar with Mark Ravenhill
‘Recycling Coriolanus’
Maplethope Seminar Room
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 20 participants)
2.00-5.00pm
Short films screening
China Centre Lecture Theatre