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MONDAY, 24 JUNE


9:00 – 9:20 Registration
9:20 – 9:45 Welcome and introduction (Room 206)
9:45 – 11:00 Tony Fisher - Theatre and its discontens (keynote) (Room 206)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Parallel sessions
 
SESSION NO. 1:
ART, PERFORMANCE ART
chair: Martin Pehal (Room 205)
11:30 – 12:00 Tom Drayton - Can I join in? Playful performance as political intervention
12:00 – 12:30 Elena Sarno - Destructive play in Daisies (1966)  and its relation to joy and feminism
SESSION NO. 2:
CHILDREN’S PLAY AND SUBVERSION
chair: Zuzanna Rucinska (Room 206)
11:30 – 12:00 Lucy Benson - Voiceless political engagement
12:00 – 12:30 Einar Sunsdal and Maria Øksens - Colonization of play

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break 

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel workshops 
WORKSHOP NO. 1:
André Baier - The chocolate game – An exercise of the betzavta pedagogy of democracy
 
WORKSHOP NO. 2:
Nancy Smithner and David Montgomery
 Caravans of Lost Dreams: Democracy Flounders in the Fake News


TUESDAY, 25 JUNE

 
9:20 – 10:00 Notes of an ethnographer (Wendy Russell) & morning discussion

10:00 – 11:00 Parallel sessions 
 
SESSION NO. 3:
PLAYFUL DIALOGUES
chair: Maria Øksens (Room 205)
10:00 – 10:45 Workshop No. 3 - Susanne Kass - Writing love songs for institutions, enemies, and other who are difficult to love
10:45 – 11:15 Catherin Homan - The playspaces of democracy?
SESSION NO. 4:
PHILOSOPHY AND DRAMA
chair: Alice Koubová (Room 205)
10:00 – 10:30 - Martin Weichold - Enacting the kingdom ofends: A ludic approach to a better society
10:30 – 11:00 Freddie Rokem - Playing with the dead in the polis: Sophocles’ Theban plays

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel sessions 

SESSION NO. 5:
CHILDREN’S GAME AND DEMOCRACY EDUCATION
chair: Susanne Kass (Room 205)
11:30 – 12:00 Laura Camas and Gonzalo Jover - Children’s play as a place of construction of a creative democracy: a proposal from Jane Addams and John Dewey
12:00 – 12:30 Rosana Kohl Bines, Carolina Moulin, Liana Biar - Refugee children at play
12:30 – 13:00 Dag Oisten Nome - Toddlers, toys and citizenship

SESSION NO. 6:
URBAN SPACES, STREETS
chair: Martina Pecková Černá (Room 206)
11:30 – 12:00 Liam Miller - Camus and street art
12:00 – 12:30 Lise Specht Petersen - The democratic dimension in the urban space
12:30 – 13:00 Nélio Conceição - The urban free play: aesthetic experience and politics in contemporary cities

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break 

14:30 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

SESSION NO. 7:
VELVET CARNIVAL – CASE STUDY FORM CZECH REPUBLIC
chair: Martin Weichhold
(Room 205)
14:30 – 15:00 Martin Pehal - Velvet carnival: Germinator of democracy
15:00 – 15:30 Radek Chlup - Creating verbal and visual symbols in the Velvet Carnival

SESSION NO. 8:
MUSIC AND DEMOCRACY
chair: Petr Urban
(Room 206)
14:30 – 15:00 Martin E. Rosenberg - The gift of silence: Towards an anthropology of jazz improvisation as neuro-resistance 
15:00 – 15:30 James Harvey  - Orchestral performance practice in community music as gestalt meta-democratic meme

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Workshop and Session 

WORKSHOP NO. 4
(Room 205)
Olga Cieslarová - Playful satire: (Un)masking pressing issues
(Follow up to the Velvet carnival session)

SESSION NO. 9:
DONALD WINNICOTT'S INSPIRATION AND ARTISTIC INSTITUTIONS
chair: Catherine Homan (Room 206)
16:00 – 16:30 Martin Nitsche - Play and political life of sensations
16:30 – 17:00 Alice Koubová - Power and powerlessness of art
17:00 - 17:30 Martina Pecková Černá - Independent theatre as a playful barometer of democratic societies

17:30 - 19:30  Reception Dinner
 

WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE

 
9:00 – 9:30 Notes of an ethnographer (Malcolm MacLean) & morning discussion
9:30 – 9:40 Introduction (Room 206)
9:40 – 11:00 Keynote: Ben Shepard - On sustainable urbanism and living theatre, dialectical activism and metamorphoses (Room 206)
 
 
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel sessions
 
SESSION NO. 10:
SOCIAL, COMMUNAL, GEOPOLITICAL
chair: Martin Nitsche (Room 205)
11:30 – 12:00 Adrian Voce - Play, playwork and social ecology: reconstructing democracy, one play space at a time
12:00 – 12:30 David Kennedy - Communal philosophical dialogue, play, and social democracy

SESSION NO. 11:
ETHNICITY, REPRESENTATION AND PLAY
chair: Fredie Rokem (Room 206)
11:30 – 12:00 Mechthild Nagel - Ghosting ethnic notions in civic life
12:00 – 12:30 Zuzanna Rucinska - Can role playing be wrong?
12:30 – 13:00 Faith Ibarakumo Kenaminikpo - Utilization of artistic play for education of children’s rights and democracy

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break 

14:30 – 16:00 WORKSHOP No. 5Jeff Watson, Kiki Benzon - Futures of democracy 
(Room 205)

16:00 – 16:30 CLOSING REMARKS & DISCUSSION