WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
2-3:30 PM, Room #222
Jaime Weaver, Virtue in a Borrowed Body: Folk Tradition and Political Resistance in Trương Ba’s Soul
Avanti Chhatre, Nationalism as Ethics: Sonic Imaginations of the Nation in the Marathi Powada (Ballad)
Maggie McLaughlin, A Nice Sharp Elbow: Opacity, Polyvocality, and Trans-Temporality in Bethany Collins’s The Star Spangled Banner
Coffee Break
4-5:00 PM, Room #222
Miriam Burrascano, Less for the Stage than for the Page: Jesuit Visuality in Della Valle’s La Reina di Scotia
Golsa Sohrabi, “A God-Shaped Pill”: Typology and Psychological Compulsion in Passion Play
5:30-6:30PM, Room #222
Playwright’s Workshop
Ilie Shirin (Washington University): Mommy Issues!
Golsa Sohrabi: I Was Busy Dying
With comments by Sarah Johnson
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
10:30AM-Noon, Room #122
Jennifer Kellett, The Genealogy of Incest: A Defense of Phaedra
Jordan Ogle, Confessionalism’s Comic Intervention: (Re)staging Confession and Its Tragic Limits in Anne Sexton’s Mercy Street
Cynthia Shin, The Many Afterlives of Tragedy in Florentina Holzinger’s Ophelia’s Got Talent
Lunch Break
1-2:30PM, Grand Hall
Caroline Lillian Schopp, Disinclination: Viennese Actionism and the Figure of Anna Brus
Coffee Break
3-4:30PM, Room #122
Nicole Rizzo, Out of the Undertow: Performing Oceanic Iconographies in Florentina Holzinger’s Ophelia’s Got Talent
David Gould, The Afterlife of Ariel. Responses to Shakespeare’s The Tempest from Rilke and Heiner Müller
Britt Zeldenrust, Ruin’s Return: The Crisis of Time in Heiner Müller’s Hamletmaschine
Coffee Break
5-6:30PM, Grand Hall
Christopher Wild, Getting Away from Troy and Elsewhere: Trojan Women and Other Classical Exit Tragedies
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