Spring Quarter
Monday, April 08, Mimmi Woisnitza (graduate student in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago): “‘Ins Göttliche Verzeichnet’: The Problem of the Imagination in Kleist’s Comedies.” 3:00-4:30pm in Rosenwald 405.
Monday, April 15, Annemarie Matzke (member of She She Pop & Professor of Theater Studies, Universität Hildesheim): “Theatre at Work. Towards a Theory of Rehearsal Practice.” 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Tuesday, April 23, Trent Leipert (graduate student in the Department of Music, University of Chicago): “Post-Cinematic Opera and Transpersonal Affect.” 3:00-4:30pm in Rosenwald 405.
Monday, May 06, Andrea Wald (graduate student in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago): “Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Lyric Drama The Death of Tizian: Surface and ornament as formal principles of cognition.” 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, May 20, Abigail Akavia (graduate student in the Department of Classics, University of Chicago), Sarah Nooter (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Chicago), and David Wray (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Chicago): “Oedipus in Performance: a post-production discussion of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King”. 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, June 03, Matt Hauske (graduate student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago). 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Winter Quarter
Monday, January 14, Jan Lazardzig (Feodor Lynen Research Fellow in the Department for Germanic Studies, University of Chicago): “Performing Tranquility.” 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, January 28, Pre-Prospectus Workshop: Please join us for a presentation and discussion of the dissertation proposals of Dan Wang (graduate student in the Department of Music, University of Chicago), Solveig Nelson (graduate student in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago) and Artemis Willis (graduate student in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago). 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, February 11, Lauren Caldwell (graduate student in the Department of English, University of Chicago): “Contract and Conscience.” Co-sponsored with the Renaissance workshop. 5:00-6:30 in Rosenwald 405.
Monday, February 25, Ellen Mackay (Associate Professor of English, Indiana University-Bloomington): “Thinking Swimmingly about Performance.” Co-sponsored with the Renaissance workshop and the Nicholson Center. 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, March 11, Marco Ferrari (MFA student in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago), “A Time of Place.” 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Performance Penthouse, 9th floor.
Fall Quarter
Monday, October 8, Introductory Research Forum: Join us for our opening reception and workshop member introductions. 3:30-5:00pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, November 5, Opera Cabal (Artistic Director, Majel Connery & Production Dramaturg, Joseph Cermatori): “The Slumber Thief”. 3:00-4:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, November 12, Stephen Orgel (Professor of English and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University): “Real Places in Imaginary Spaces: Architecture and the Stage”. Co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center. Reception to follow. 4:30-7:00pm in Classics 110.
Tuesday, November 13, Stephen Orgel (Professor of English and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University): ”What is an Audience?” Co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center. Reception to follow. 4:30-7:00pm in Rosenwald 405.
Wednesday, November 14, Stephen Orgel (Professor of English and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University): PhD students are invited to Special Collections for a graduate seminar on early print. Co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center. Space is limited, so please contact Jeanne Fitzsimmons if you would like to attend. 4:30pm in Special Collections, Regenstein Library.
Thursday, November 29, Martin Puchner (Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University): “Wittgenstein’s Literary Heirs”. Hosted by the Nicholson Center. Reception to follow. 4:30pm in Classics 110.
Friday, November 30, Martin Puchner (Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University): “Wittgenstein, Stoppard, and Dramatic Language”. 12:00-1:30pm in the Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room, Rm 801.
Monday, December 3, Julia Reinhard Lupton (Professor of English, University of California-Irvine): “‘Grace Dissolved in Place’: Pericles, Messianism, and the Affordances of Action”. Co-sponsored with the Renaissance workshop, with support from the Nicholson Center. 5:00pm in Rosenwald 405.