Friday, April 27^th

1:00  Opening Remarks and Welcome

1:15-2:15 Romantic Masculinity

Chair: Joel Faflak

·         Roberta Barker (Theatre, Dalhousie), “’One of Those Incomprehensible German Characters’: German Heroes, French Playwrights, and the Performance of Romantic Masculinity”

·         Julia M. Wright (European Studies, Dalhousie), “Performing National Masculinity: Thomas Moore and the Voice of the Bard”

2:30-3:30 The Problem of History

Chair: Cynthia Neville

Dorota Glowacka (King’s), “The Trace of the Untranslatable: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Translation after the Shoah”

·J    Jerry White (European Studies, Dalhousie), “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and the Performance of History”

3:45-5:15  Keynote:  Regina Uí Chollatain (University College Dublin), “From Seanchaí to Screen: The ‘Irishman’ in Irish- Language Drama and Film”

9:30-11:00   Constructing Aristocracy

Chair:  Julia M. Wright

·       Sébastien Rossignol (History, Dalhousie), “The Performance of Ducal Identities in Medieval Silesia – Charters as Media of Communication”

·       Estelle Joubert (Music, Dalhousie), “Performing Politics on the Opera Stage: Maria Antonia’s Self-Stylization as Saxon Princess”

·       Sally Colwell (English, Western University), “’Sexy Tudors’: Back to the Beginning and Baring It All in Showtime’s Racy (un)Costume(d) Drama”

11:15-12:15 Creating European Subjects

Chair: Judith Thompson

·        Anthony J. Harding (English, University of Saskatchewan),“The London Magazine: Creating a Metro-cosmo-politan Readership”

·       Joel Faflak (English, Western University), “Performing Crisis: Europe, Romantic Psychiatry, and the Economics of Happiness”

Chair: Jerry White

·         David McNeil and Ron Huebert (English, Dalhousie), “Spectatorship in the Early Modern Period”

·         Jason Haslam (English, Dalhousie), “R. U. ... ?: Queering Robots in Karel Čapek’s R. U. R.”

3:15-4:15 Staging Encounter

Chair: Patricia Cove

·         Peter O’Brien (Classics, Dalhousie), “’The oak is my page, the forest, my book’: Le Brun’s Canadian Heroides “

·         Sara Malton (English, St. Mary’s University), “The Theatre of War:    Naval Impressment, Nation, and the Performance of History”

• Performances of identity (e.g., national, inter-national, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class)
• Theatre and other spectacles
• Cinema, television, new media, etc.
• The concept of performativity in contemporary European Studies
• Literary approaches to performance and/or performativity
• Politics and performance
• The theatre of the law, the law of the theatre
• The European Theatre

It goes without saying that these are suggestions, and that we welcome all manner of proposals which engage with Europe and the way it is performed.  We will also be launching a new peer-reviewed e-journal, European Studies: History, Society and Culture, to be published by the Centre for European Studies at Dalhousie. We are hoping to make a selection of the papers from the colloquium a significant part of the first issue of the journal, due out in early 2013.