CRASSH

Conference sessions will be held at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.
Performance session will be held at Robinson College Chapel, Grange Road, Cambridge.

09:20 - 09:45

Welcome and Introduction
Professor Robin Kirkpatrick (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)

09:45 - 11:00

Keynote 1
Chair: Professor Robin Kirkpatrick (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)

Professor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard University, USA)
Beauty and Social Justice

11:30 - 12:45

Keynote 2
Chair: Dr Lucia Ruprecht (German and Dutch, University of Cambridge)

Professor Helmut Lethen (The IFK, Austria)
'Pain has no meaning' (Paul Valéry). Narratives of Anti-Therapeutic Realism as a Provocation of Cultural Studies

13.45-15:15

Session 1
Chair: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite (Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK)

Dr Matthew Treherne (Italian, University of Leeds, UK)
Performed Pain and Sacramental Solace: Dante's Purgatorio XX-XXVI

Revd Dr Maggi Dawn (Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Perfection or Paralysis? A Study of Pain as Necessity or Hindrance to the Creative Process

15.45 - 17.15

Session 2
Chair: Dr Robert Gordon (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)

Dr Vittorio Montemaggi (Italian, University of Notre Dame, USA)
'What Game is This?': Play, Wonder and the Representation of Suffering  

Dr Zoe Norridge (New College, University of Oxford, UK)
The Horror of a 'Lovely Spectacle' – Interlinking Pain and Beauty in Representations of the Rwandan Genocide

09:30 - 11:00

Session 3
Chair: Dr Michael Hurley (English, University of Cambridge, UK)

Dr Jeremy Thurlow (Music, University of Cambridge,  UK)
Pain, Dumbshow and the Loss of Language:  Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux

Professor Simon Jarvis (English, University of Cambridge, UK)
Is Art Failed Liturgy? 

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee

11:30 - 13:00

Session 4
Chair: Dr Alyce Mahon (History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK)

Professor Gerald Siegmund (Theater Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Beauty, Pain, and the Body in Jan Fabre’s The Power of Theatrical Madness

Dr Lucia Ruprecht (German and Dutch, University of Cambridge)
William Forsythe’s Three Atmospheric Studies

14:00 - 15:00

Session 5
Chair: Dr Zoe Norridge (New College, University of Oxford, UK) and Professor Robin Kirkpatrick (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)

Bea Priest (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)
Dynamic Beauty: Creation and Begetting in Paradiso 23 

Lucia Yandoli (Italian, University of Cambridge, UK)
Falling Men: Cruel Spectacle in Post 9/11 Culture  

15:30 - 16:30

Session 6
Chair: Dr Lucia Ruprecht (German and Dutch, University of Cambridge)

Scott Annett (English, University of Cambridge, UK)
A Space to be Serious: Witnessing Suffering in Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words

Martin Modlinger (German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, UK)
The Terezin Ghetto Opera 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis': Performance Between Illusion and Pain