
Tragedy and Resistance
Zur politischen Reaktivierung historischer Tragödien
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For participating in this workshop: please register through the following website before 1 April 2026: https://event.ugent.be/registration/TragedyResistance
Veranstaltung auf Englisch / Event in English
13:15
Keynote Lecture by Caroline Levine (Cornell University / online)
14:15
Questions and discussion, response led by James Jarrett on Tragedy as Humanist Activism Now
15:00
Session 1: Gendered/Sexed Resistance
Ovio Olaru (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu): Emilia Galotti on Epstein’s Island
Lena Kirsch (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena): Female leadership and resistance in Charlotte von Stein’s Dido (1794)
Isabel von Holt (Universität Hamburg): Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s Plays as Exercises of Queer Resistance: A Neobaroque Reading