The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Instiute invites to the international conference „The Animal on Stage: Cultural Performances”. The conference will take place on November 15-16, 2022. Free entrance.
The conference is co-organized by Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw; Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
Task „Circus – research, publications, artistic presentations” [„Cyrk – badanie, publikacje, prezentacje artystyczne”] has been co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
November 15, 2022 (Tuesday)
10:15 | Conference opening
10:30-11:00 | Keynote speech
Peta Tait, La Trobe University (Australia), Animal Action and Emotions in Circus Performance: Nineteenth-Century Economic Opportunism
11:00-11:20 | Discussion
11:20-11:30 | Coffee break
11:30-13:00 | Session I
- Dominika Czarnecka & Dagnosław Demski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), Between the Wild Steppes Left Behind and the New Metropolitan Arenas. Animal Companions at Ethnographic Shows
- Jana Milovanović, Terra Vera NGO (Slovenia), Experimenting with Otherness on the Habsburg Periphery: The Case of Carl Hagenbeck’s ‘Animal Acclimatization Station’ in Brioni Islands
- Marianna Szczygielska, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia), ‘Have you seen Little Cohn?’ An Elephant’s Life on Display
13:00-13:15 | Coffee break
13:15-14:25 | Session II
- Antonio Giarola, CEDAC – Verona: Educational Center for Circus Arts Documentation in Verona (Italy), The Central Role of the Horse in the Circus Show
- Katarzyna Szydłowska-Schiller, National Museum in Warsaw (Poland), The Visual Representation of Animals in Circus Based on the Art Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
14:45-16:00 | Lunch break
16:00-17:30 | Session III
- Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of the Australian National University (Australia), Techno-Tentacles: Environmental Circus and the Visual Narratives of Animal Performances of the Future
- Justyna Schollenberger, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw (Poland), Beast Comedy. Practices of Animal Humor Between Cruelty and Marvel
- Emilia Mazur, Faculty of ‘Artes Liberales’, University of Warsaw (Poland), Animals as Companions in Video Games – a Chance for ‘Staying with the Trouble’
