Workshop “Shifting Dramaturgies in Transmodern Worlds”, 14th and 15th of November 2024
Our research group will hold its first larger research workshop on November 14th and 15th under the title: “Shifting Dramaturgies in Transmodern Worlds.” The workshop investigates the notion of “dramaturgy” under changing conditions: How did and do aesthetics themselves change due to increasing acknowledgment and integration of non-European discourses into Eurocentric paradigms within the arts. How is the European discourse renewing itself through the appropriation of its ‘others’ – but also being simultaneously appropriated/transformed in other parts of the world? Therefore, the workshop takes up the double function and twofold meaning of “dramaturgy”: It signals towards the structure of an artistic work, and it also implies working methods as the central link between artistic expression and material conditions. The several contributions question the possibilities, challenges and discontents of dramaturgy and aesthetics in so-called transmodern, i.e. plural and inter-related worlds. If the contexts and the environments of theatre/dance/performance etc. gain more importance, this might create frictions with the often-mentioned politics of representation and perception. What becomes of the idea of dramaturgy, if eventually both of its inherent two functions come into contradiction?
As invited experts, Prof. Dr. Konstantina Georgelou (University of Utrecht), Prof. Dr. Nicole Haitzinger (Paris-Lodron University Salzburg), Prof. Dr. Mwenya Kabwe (University of Cape Town), Daniel Kötter (Berlin), Dr. José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo (University of São Paolo), Anna Ptak (Warsaw) and Dr. Sandra Umathum (Vienna) will give insights into their investigations, as well as the core members of the research group.
Venue: Ruhr-University Bochum, BlueSquare (Kortumstr. 90, 44787 Bochum), 4th floor.
Beginning: 14th of November, 2pm
End: 15th of November, 5pm
The workshop is open to the public. Interested guests are more than welcome, but kindly asked to register: Emma.Herrmann[at]rub.de
Full abstract of the workshop as PDF here.
The detailed program will be announced soon.