FRIDAY 18th July
12:00 Registration open
14:30 Session 1: Cultural and Social Context of Medieval Performance I
- Liv Robinson: ‘Performing Pastoral Allegory in the Medieval Convent: ‘The Marriage of Faith and Loyalty’’
- Cora Dietl: ‘Theatrical weddings in conflict communities: Isaac and the women in the plays by Butovius and Stymmelius’
- Angelika Kemper: ‘ubir alle lant. Ritterschaft im ,Innsbrucker (thüringischen) Spiel von Mariae Himmelfahrt’’
- Andreea Marculescu : ‘ «Qu’on dit qu’il y a en France // Les plus doulces gens de ce monde » : Community, Race, and Religion in Mystère de saint Remi (1520)’
16:15 Coffee
16:30 Performance 1: The Game of Nibelungen (Cie Botte-Cul). Performance in simple German.
20:00 Performance 2: Johann Fridolin Lautenschlager’s “Ester” from Fribourg (directed by Cora Dietl). Performance in German.
SATURDAY 19th July
09:30 Session 2a : Swiss theatre
- Estelle Doudet, Stefan Matter, Camille Rivoire: ‘Fribourg en spectacle. Nouveaux regards sur une culture théâtrale méconnue (1400-1600)’
- Heidy Greco-Kaufmann: ‘The intertwining of politics and theater in the early Swiss Confederation’
11:00 Session: 2b
- Karina Fischer: ‘The search for a good wife in a country characterized by denominational conflicts: Lautenschlager’s ‘Ester’ in early modern Fribourg’
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Film: Carnival and the Feast of St. Nicholas in Switzerland (directed by Ryan Raetzer)
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Session 3: Demons I
- Lucy Deacon, Babak Rahimi, Sarah Khalili
17:30 Drinks reception
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Performance 3: Enterlude of the Godly Queene Hester, and a Jewish Purim play, presented by Edward’s Boys. Performance in English.
SUNDAY 20th July
09:30 Workshop: The Evolving story of the actor-martyr St Genet
Richard Hillman, Claude Bourqui, Simone de Reyff
11:30 Performance 4 : Marguerite de Navarre Trop, Prou, Peu, Moins (directed by Sandy Maillard). Performance in French.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 4: Human and non-human actors I
- Lenke Kovács: ‘Deer, Dragon, and Dove—Non-Human Characters in Late Medieval Catalan Drama’
- Sandy Maillard: ‘Des oreilles et des cornes : animalité et animalisation dans la pièce de théâtre Trop, Prou, Peu, Moins de Marguerite de Navarre’
- Magdalena Buszka: ‘Une comparaison des acteurs humains, ainsi que de l’ensemble de la machinerie, dans les trois grands mystères de la fin du Moyen Âge sur sainte Barbe’
15:00 Performance 5: A New Dramatic Adaptation of Roman De Silence (adapted and directed by Lofty Durham). Performance in English.
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Session 5 : Human and non-human actors II
- Clare Wright: ‘Transforming Place and Realising Romance at the 1511 Westminster Tournament’
- Christopher Swift: ‘Machines and Shadows: Islamic Technology and the Performing Arts of the Medieval Mediterranean’
- Mark Chambers: ‘”Take this, body!”: The Use of Whips and Scourges in Early English Drama’
- Bart Ramakers: ‘The Performance of Gift-Giving in Netherlandish Table Plays’
20:00 Performance 6: naqqali (traditional Persian storytelling) (performed by Xanthe Gresham Knight). Performance in English
MONDAY 21st July
10:00 Session 6 : Demons II
- Elke Huwiler: ‘Demon figures in Saint Plays of the Early Modern Swiss Confederation’
- Sonia Maura Barillari : ‘La ‘troupe’ des Malebranche à la lumière des représentations florentines contemporaines’
- Sharon Diane King: ‘My Demon-Haunted, Actors-Undaunted World: Staging the Infernal in Medieval French Comedies’
11:30 Lunch and Performance 7: Two short plays about Job, one Christian, one Islamic. Performance in English.
13:30 Session 7 : Cultural and Social Context of Medieval Performance II
- Susannah Crowder: ‘From Fragment to Mosaic in Medieval Performance’
- Piotr Bering: ‘Performance practices and audience(s) in Late Medieval Poland’
- Eliška Kubartová: ‘A working taxonomy of cultural performances in Bohemia (900-1500)’
- Marla Carlson: ‘La Vigne’s Blindman Farce in Seurre, 1496’
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Session 8: Spectatorship I
- Glenn Ehrstine: ‘Spectatorship and Salvation: The Indulgences of the York Corpus Christi Guild as the Culmination of Audience Engagement with the York Cycle Play’
- Greg Walker: ‘Embodiment and Kinesis in The World and The Child’
- Daisy Black: ‘Edible Properties: Food, Sense and Sin in the Digby Mary Magdalene‘
- Pamela King: ‘’Was never in Scotland hard nor sene / Sic dansing nor deray…’: Burlesque accounts of spectatorship in a lost tradition’
17:00 Performance 8 and drinks: Martin de Cambrai, An anonymous late medieval French farce in original rhymed English translation (Les Enfans Sans Abri, directed by Sharon King). Performance in English.
TUESDAY 22nd July
10:00 Session 9 : Spectatorship II
- Martin W. Walsh ‘Hans Sachs’ Eulenspiegel: Dramatizing a Transgressive Volksbuch’
- Charlotte Steenbrugge: ‘The representation and use of dramatized female and male spectators in dramatic frames in Dutch plays from the late 15th-16th centuries’
- Ulrike Schwarz: ‘Medieval Epics as performative texts: The Gottfried-Wolfram “Dichterfehde” revisited’
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Performance 9: Man’s Desire and Fleeting Beauty, (directed by Elisabeth Dutton). Translation of a Dutch Rhetoricians’ play. Performance in English.
14:00 Session 10 : Spectatorship III
- Valentina Salierno: ‘Performances en mouvement : la société autour des représentations théâtrales à Milan à la fin du Moyen Âge’
- Ivan Missoni : ‘The Question of Reception: The Audience’s Response to Passion Plays’ Performances in Medieval Croatia’
- Martin Bažil : ‘Coram publico ? Le public et le « drame liturgique » à Rouen, XIe-XIIIe siècle’
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Session 11 : Demons III
- Ferran Huerta : ‘Les démons dans la pièce sur la tentation de Jésus Christ dans le MS. 1139 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya’
- Kateřina Vršecká: ‘The devil in medieval drama and literature of Bohemia’
17:30 Performance 10 and drinks: Unruly Woman (storytelling by Daisy Black). Performance in English.
20:00 Performance 11: An adaptation of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (directed by Christoph Blanc). Performance in German.
