An international interdisciplinary conference of Research Programme 2 (VZ2) of the CoRe: Beyond Security project. The conference hosts three keynote speakers:

• Professor Pavel Drábek (University of Hull, UK)
• Professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (University of Amsterdam)
• Rajni Shah (Amsterdam University of the Arts)

There will be 6 thematic sessions with 20 speakers from Algiers, Argentina, Czechia, Ireland, Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The topics of the individual sessions include: performativity in society, politics, theatre and the media, performing and constructing identities in the age of AI, zones of conflict and resilience.

Friday, 23 May 2025

Room 104 – main building of CU FA, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1

8:30–9:00 am | Registration

9:00–9:15 am | Conference Opening

9:15–10:45 am | Session 1: Performativity in Society and Politics
Chair: Ondřej Pilný

• Alice Koubová: Performativity of the Socio-Political Double Binds
• Leo Marko: The Promise of Immediate Interaction: Observations on Liveness and Political Consciousness in the Digital Age.
• Martin Procházka: Performativity on the Net: “Protocological Management” and the “Societies of Control”

10:45–11:15 am | Coffee Break

11:15 am – 12:30 noon | Keynote 1: Pavel Drábek: Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies
Chair: Martin Procházka

12:30 noon – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break (lunch not provided)

2:00–4:00 pm | Session 2: Performativity in the Media: Theoretical Problems
Chair: Alice Koubová

• Libuše Heczková and Kateřina Svatoňová: Performativity of the Camera as a Feminine Emancipatory Gesture
• Ana Barroso: Dýptichos. A Film with an Introduction
• Agustina Arrarás: Holding Together the Disparate Itself. About the Materializing Effects of Performance
• Valeriya Sabitova: “Worlding” through Costumes of Conflict in Olga Ntenta’s Greek Precarious Body (2017)

4:00–4:30 pm | Coffee Break

4:30–6:30 pm | Session 3: Performativity on the Stage
Chair: Pavel Drábek

• Clare Wallace: “I Thought It Would Be More Theatrical”: Performance, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children
• Ondřej Polák: Deconstructing Performativity of Race in Tambo and Bones: Historical Constructions and Metatheatrical Conflict
• Jan Suk: Performing Space and Resistance: Goat Island Theatre via Michel de Certeau
• Ondřej Pilný: Theatrical Responses to Wall Building

Saturday, 24 May 2025

Room P104 – main building of CU FA, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1

9:00–10:30 am | Session 4: Performing Identities in the Age of AI
Chair: Martin Procházka

• Martin Štefl: Of Yeats, Culture, and Automatic Writing: Managing (Cultural) Identities in the Age of AI and Beyond
• Mirka Horová: “What Wondrous New Machines Have Late Been Spinning!” – AI in Postmodern Byronic Metafiction
• Bogdan Mihai Florea: A Second Language Actor’s Schizo-Affect Training Using AI

10:30–11:00 am | Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:30 noon | Keynote 2: Laura Cull O’Maoilearca and Rajni Shah: Listening across Difference: Scales of Transformation within Institutions
Chair: Clare Wallace

12:30 noon – 2:00 pm | Lunch break (lunch not provided)

2:00–3:30 pm | Session 5: Performativity, Conflict Zones and Resilience
Chair: Martin Procházka

• Nadia Naar Gada: Performativity of Silence in Algerian Women Literature
• Said Gada: Frantz Fanon’s Performative Writing Style and the Poetics of Revolution
• Tim Noble: Gerald Manley Hopkins: Performance of Resilience in Poetry and Priesthood

3:30–4:00 pm | Coffee Break

4:00–5:30 pm | Session 6: Constructing Identities in Performance
Chair: Ondřej Pilný

• Hazel T. Biana: The Korean Gaze: De-orientalising the Performativity of Korean Dramas
• Sally Anderson Boström: Performing Plantation Pasts: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Tourist Spectacle in Hawai‘i
• Hana Pavelková: Performing Queer Identity through Translation and Adaptation

5:30 pm | End of the Conference