Day 1, Thursday 28 September 2023
Venue: Rabinstraße 8, Seminarraum 8
| 17.30 | Coffee and Tea. Welcome |
| 18.00 | Christian Moser (Bonn/St Andrews): Publicum. Theatre as a Paradigm of the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Literature |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
Day 2, Friday 29 September 2023
Venue: CERC-Veranstaltungsraum, Konrad-Zuse-Platz 1–3, 53227 Bonn
| 09.00 | Seán Allan (St Andrews/Bonn) and Birgit Münch (Bonn): Introduction. Stage / Performance / Spectacle and the Public Sphere |
| 9.30 | Alexeï Evstratov (Grenoble): On Spectatorial Agencies. Communities and Individuals in Parisian Theatres Around 1800 |
| 10.15 | Katherine Astbury (Warwick): Staging Napoleonic Theatre. Audiences and Regime Change in Paris,1799–1802 |
| 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 | Emmanuela Wroth (Toronto): The Case of Caroline Branchu. Sexualized and Racialized Celebrity and Spectacle in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris |
| 12.15 | Julia Prest (St Andrews): Enslaved People and the Theatre of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Kati Röttger (Amsterdam): Spectacular Cultures and the New Public Sphere. The Genesis of Diorama in Early 19th-Century Berlin and Paris in the Course of Technological and Social Revolutions |
| 14.45 | Katherine Hambridge (Durham): Berlin’s Public Sphere and “Popular” Theatre |
| 15.30 | Franziska Jekel-Twittmann (Bonn): “Man muss mit Vorsicht auftreten”. Theater, Metatheater und die Instabilität der öffentlichen Meinung in Georg Büchners Dantons Tod |
| 16.15 | Coffee Break |
| 16.45 | Meike Wagner (München): Umstrittene Öffentlichkeiten – Bürgerliche Theaterpraxis im Berlin des frühen 19. Jahrhundert |
| 17.15 | Patrick Primavesi (Leipzig): Öffentlichkeit! – Theaterbautheorien und Raumvisionen um 1800 |
| 18.00 | Final Discussion – Concluding Remarks |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
Workshop languages are English and German.
The workshop is conducted in cooperation with Transdisciplinary Research Area 5 “Present Pasts” (TRA 5) and the Centre Ernst Robert Curtius (CERC). We are grateful for their generous support.
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Seán Allan, Prof. Dr. Christian Moser, Prof. Dr. Birgit Münch