ECT Seminar Theory and Theater Spring 2013
1. April 4 NO SEMINAR
2. April 11 (Humanities 193) Shakespeare and Modernity Special Guest Speaker: Drew Daniel (with a response by Aaron Kunin)
Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
3. April 18 Walter Benjamin, The Origin of the German Tragic Drama
4. April 25 Alain Badiou, “Rhapsody for the Theater”; The Incident at Antioch
5. May 2 Contemporary Theater and Theory: Special Guest Speaker: Yuval Sharon
Ranciere, Brecht (TBA), Kleist, “On the Marionette Theater”
Tues. May 7 ECT Symposium: Julia Sushytska on Antigone
6. May 9 Beckett’s Endgame Special Guest Speaker: Martin Harries
Beckett, Endgame, Adorno, “Trying to Understand Endgame”; Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”; Stanley Cavell, “Ending the Waiting Game: A Reading of Beckett’s Endgame”
7. May 16
Chinese Opera Special Guest Speaker: Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
Chi Chun-hsiang, “The Orphan of Chao” (Six Yuan plays); Daphne Lei, Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific, Intro and Ch. 1, Ch. 5; Daphne Lei, “Interruption, Intervention, Interculturalism: Robert Wilson’s HIT Productions in Taiwan”; Antonin Artaud, “Oriental and Occidental Theater”; Ariane Mnouchkine, “The Theatre Is Oriental”; Bertold Brecht, “Alienation Effect in Chinese Acting”
May 22 ECT Symposium: Martin Puchner, “The Drama of Ideas: Socrates and Modern Drama”
8. May 23 Wittgenstein's Dramatic Theory of Language Special Guest Speaker: Martin Puchner
Tom Stoppard, Dogg’s Hamlet; Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, paragraphs 1-33
May 28 ECT Symposium: Robert Watson, “Why Cognitive Overload Necessitates Culture, and Cultural Evolution Necessitates the Arts and Humanities”?
9. May 30 (Royce 314) Special Guest Speaker and Performance: Bryan Reynolds, Fractalicious!
Bryan Reynolds, Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (selections); Bryan Reynolds, Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (selections)
10. June 6 TBD
