This project works on reviewing the multiple dependence between philosophy and drama, on developing the contribution of dramatic concepts to philosophical thought, and vice versa, the contribution of philosophy to the scenic languages.

We understand “drama” in the larger sense: it is precisely by the multiplicity of its languages that drama can enrich the philosophy of language. This project will accept contributions that refer to any of the languages used in the scene, from text to movement or space, as well as case studies in which the dramatic is found in theater, dance, film, opera or in euphoric or dysphoric situations of everyday life. 

Executive coordinator Paulo Filipe Monteiro (pfm@sapo.pt)

Organization

• Institute for Philosophy of Language (IFL)
• Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Scientific Committee

• Freddie Rokem (University of Tel-Aviv)
• Herbert Blau (University of Washington )
• José Gil (IFL/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Maria Filomena Molder (IFL/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Martin Puchner (Harvard University)
• Paulo Filipe Monteiro (IFL/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Programme

17 January 2013 

9.30-10h Opening, with UNL Provost, FCSH Director, IFL Director and Conference Coordinator 10-11h Martin Puchner (keynote speaker): Wittgenstein's Dramatic Heirs

11-12h Maria Filomena Molder (keynote speaker): The dramatic pattern of the Wittgensteinian language-games

12-13h Rui Romão: Drama in the philosophical work of Iris Murdoch Laura Cull: What is Performance Philosophy?

lunch

14-17.30 Two parallell sessions:

PANEL A:

• Sinead Hogan: The theatre of authorship: the absent mise-en-scène or Derrida between Mallarmé and Beckett. Tom Stern: Progress, stagnation and repetition in philosophy and drama
• Dina Mendonça: Looking for surprise: insights from drama and philosophy
• Vanessa Brito: La dramatisation de la pensée Bartholomew Ryan: Kierkegaard’s Mellemspil, or the performance in philosophy
• Costica Bradatan: Philosophy as performance

PANEL B:

• José Maria Vieira Mendes: Theatre is not a space of equality. On theatre and literature
• Claudio Rozzoni: The essence of theater between reality and unreality
• Gabriele Sofia: Theatre, Phenomenology and Neurosciences
• Ana Pais: “Almost imperceptible rhythms and stuff like that”: the power of affects in live performance
• Bruno C. Duarte: Pasolini’s Tragic Chorus
• Teresa Pedro: The idea of drama in F. W. J. Schelling's interpretation of Greek tragedy
• Kelina Gotman: The Real and Its Doubles: Theatre, Philosophy & Change

18.00h-19.00 Herbert Blau (keynote speaker): The Metaphysical Fight: Performative Politics and the Virus of Alienation

dinner

18 January 2013

• 9.30-10.30 José Pedro Serra: Tragedy and Wisdom Cláudia Madeira: Hybris and Mimesis in contemporary performance art
• 11h-12h Paulo Filipe Monteiro: Curtains and self
• 12-13h Freddie Rokem (keynote speaker): Form and Pressure

lunch

14.00h-15.00 José Gil (keynote speaker): Deleuze, Derrida, Artaud: body and writing

15.30-17.00

• Nuno Nabais: Deleuze and the idea of a theater without image
• Ana Godinho: Drama and the specification of the concept

17.30h-18.30 Eduardo Lourenço (keynote speaker): Closing conference

19 January 2013

9.00 -13.00 PANEL C: Luzo-Brazilian Panel on Performance and Philosophy (in Portuguese)

• Ana Bigotte Vieira : Ideias de Europa para ideias de teatro? 
• Verônica Fabrini : Ao sul da cena 
• Cláudia Petrina Leite da Silva : Por um corpo cénico em devir e suas ressonâncias: o ateliê coreográfico do Rio de Janeiro 
• Robson Carlos Haderchpek : O mito e o simbólico no espectáculo Santa Cruz do Não Sei 
• Melissa Lopes : Encontros Íntimos: a relação entre o dentro e o fora no trabalho de criação do ator 
• Antônio Flávio Alves Rabelo : Linhas de emissão de forças, diferenciação e espelhamento 
• Maria Beatriz Mendonça : Étienne Decroux e Georges Bataille: diálogos possíveis sobre a arte soberana 
• Ana Clara Cabral Amaral : Laços entre o desejo e a imaginação no corpo-em-arte 
• Patrícia Leonardelli : Corpo da consciência e possíveis dramaturgias da memória que dança