Tragedy and Resistance

Koordination Cornelis van der Haven und Adam Hansen

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For participating in this workshop: please register through the following website before 1 April 2026: https://event.ugent.be/registration/TragedyResistance

Veranstaltung auf Englisch / Event in English

16.4.

13:30
Keynote Lecture by Caroline Levine (Cornell University / online)

14:30
Questions and discussion, response led by James Jarrett on Tragedy as Humanist Activism Now

15:15
Session 1: Gendered/Sexed Resistance

Lena Kirsch (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena): Female leadership and resistance in Charlotte von Stein’s Dido (1794)

Isabel von Holt (Universität Hamburg): Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s Plays as Exercises of Queer Resistance: A Neobaroque Reading

17.4.

9:00
Keynote Lecture by Marco Checchi (Northumbria University)

10:00
Questions and discussion, response led by Adam Hansen on Marlowe and Resistance

11:00
Session 2: Classical Resistances

Marta Lietti and Marco Formisano (Ghent University): Unsettling Borders in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus

Sotera Fornaro (University of Campania): Tragedy and Resistance: The Antigone Paradigm

Oana Marin (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu): Tragedy to Anti-Tragedy: Antigone and the Politics of Resistance from Sophocles to Brecht, Anouilh, and Žižek

13:30
Session 3: Early Modern Resistances

Canberk Doğalı Resistant Hermeneutics of Jouissance in Antony and Cleopatra

Emma Barrett (University of Limerick): Witchcraft, resistance, and masculinity in The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1606) and Macbeth (1623)

James Ee (Cambridge University): Samson Agonistes, The Tragedy of Antiperistasis

15:30
Session 4: Tragedy and Resistance Now

Mia Zeko Panić (University of Osijek): The Child as Contemporary Pharmakos: Sacrifice, Ritual, and Pre-Dramatic Structures in Marius von Mayenburg’s Freie Sicht

Ovio Olaru (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu): Emilia Galotti on Epstein’s Island

Cato Rooryck (Ghent University): ‘The land that is us’: King Lear as a Confrontation with Australia’s Colonial Past and Present in The Shadow King

Eine Initiative der Universität Gent, der Northumbria University, des Literaturforums im Brecht-Haus, des Arbeitskreises Politische Ästhetiken sowie der THALIA-Forschungsgruppe Theater, Literatur und Performance, UGent-VUBrussel. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch die Universität Gent