Re-Imagining the Public Sphere: Stage, Performance and Spectacle Around 1800 - Interdisciplinary Workshop, Bonn, 28/29 September 2023
Day 1, Thursday 28 September 2023
Venue: Rabinstraße 8, Seminarraum 8
17.30 Coffee and Tea. Welcome
18.00 Christian Moser (Bonn/St Andrews): Publicum. Theatre as a Paradigm of the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Literature
19.30 Dinner
Day 2, Friday 29 September 2023
Venue: CERC-Veranstaltungsraum, Konrad-Zuse-Platz 1–3, 53227 Bonn
09.00 Seán Allan (St Andrews/Bonn) and Birgit Münch (Bonn): Introduction. Stage / Performance / Spectacle and the Public Sphere
9.30 Alexeï Evstratov (Grenoble): On Spectatorial Agencies. Communities and Individuals in Parisian Theatres Around 1800
10.15 Katherine Astbury (Warwick): Staging Napoleonic Theatre. Audiences and Regime Change in Paris,1799–1802
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Emmanuela Wroth (Toronto): The Case of Caroline Branchu. Sexualized and Racialized Celebrity and Spectacle in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
12.15 Julia Prest (St Andrews): Enslaved People and the Theatre of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Kati Röttger (Amsterdam): Spectacular Cultures and the New Public Sphere. The Genesis of Diorama in Early 19th-Century Berlin and Paris in the Course of Technological and Social Revolutions
14.45 Katherine Hambridge (Durham): Berlin’s Public Sphere and “Popular” Theatre
15.30 Franziska Jekel-Twittmann (Bonn): “Man muss mit Vorsicht auftreten”. Theater, Metatheater und die Instabilität der öffentlichen Meinung in Georg Büchners Dantons Tod
16.15 Coffee Break
16.45 Meike Wagner (München): Umstrittene Öffentlichkeiten – Bürgerliche Theaterpraxis im Berlin des frühen 19. Jahrhundert
17.15 Patrick Primavesi (Leipzig): Öffentlichkeit! – Theaterbautheorien und Raumvisionen um 1800
18.00 Final Discussion – Concluding Remarks
19.00 Dinner
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Seán Allan, Prof. Dr. Christian Moser, Prof. Dr. Birgit Münch
The workshop is conducted in cooperation with Transdisciplinary Research Area 5“Present Pasts” (TRA 5) and the Centre Ernst Robert Curtius (CERC). We are grateful for their generous support.
Workshop languages are English and German.