SCHEDULE
April 12, 2018 15:30-16:00
Introduction: framing the event PART I
16:00-16:30
Marissia Fragkou, “‘Feeling Feminism’: Feminist Politics of Perception in Contemporary Women’s Writing for Theatre” [via Skype]
16:30-17:00
Clara Escoda, “‘The Reject’, Affective Excess and Utopian Impulse in Alice Birch’s Many Moons (2011) and Kate Tempest’s Wasted (2013)”
17:00-17:30
Clare Wallace, “Moving Parts: Emotion, Intention and Ambivalent Attachments in Recent British Theatre” 17:30-18:00
Martin Middeke, “Affects Won from Fascination, or: Feeling Oneself to Death: Allure, Glamour and Moments of Intensity in Penelope Skinner’s Eigengrau (2010) and Mike Bartlett’s Game (2015)”
20:00
Dinner
April 13, 2018
PART II
09:30-10:00
Mark Robson, “Tears (Theatre at the End of the World)” 10:00-10:30
Mireia Aragay, “Complicating Empathy”
10:30–11:00
Liz Tomlin, “Tragic Affects: Shock, Shame and Satisfaction”
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
PART III
11:30-12:00
Cristina Delgado-García, “This is what Emocracy Looks Like: The Turn to Affect in Contemporary Political Dramaturgies” 12:00-12:30
Lynette Goddard, “Black Lives Black Words at the Bush Theatre: Art, Affect and Activism”
12:30-13:00
Martin Welton, “This Beautiful Future – Atmosphere, Affect, State”
13:00-13:30
Towards general conclusions and round up
13:30-15:00
Lunch