5 October, Thursday

16:00–16:15 Registration
16:15–16:30 Welcome and Institutional Opening
16:30–16:50 Introduction (Prof. Dr. Christine Ott, Dr. Jeremy DeWaal, Dr. Roberta Colbertaldo)

16:50–17:50 First Panel: Contrasting Ideas about Carnival in Different Christian Traditions
Andrea Baldan (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Carnival in Hell. Carnivalesque Representations of the Infernal Afterlife in France and Italy between the 13th and 17th Centuries
Dr. Stamatis Zochios & Dr. Margari Zoi (Academy of Athens), Carnival Tradition and Ritual Role Playing in the Orthodox World: The Case of “Priests”

refresher break

18:00–19:00 Screening of two short films realized by Prof. Dr. Werner Mezger in the frame of the project “museum4punkt0”

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6 October, Friday

9:30–10:30 Keynote
PD Dr. Heidy Greco-Kaufmann (Universität Bern), Lucerne Carnival and Theatre Traditions. Continuity and Change

coffee break

10:45–11:45 Second Panel: The Battle of Carnival and Lent
Dr. Roberta Colbertaldo (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), The Battle between Carnival and Lent as an Allegory of Court Culture
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bucchi (Universität Basel), Expelling Carnaval. The Rhetoric against Carnaval in Counter-Reformation Italy

lunch break

13:30–15:00 Third Panel: Lenses into the Study of Carnival: Animals, Bodies and Masks
Dr. Katrin Hesse (Deutsches Fastnacht Museum Kitzingen), The Monstrous in Carnival
Dr. Rostislav Tumanov (Universität Stuttgart), Elephants, masks, and Mondi Nuovi. Venetian Carnival Attractions of the 18th Century as Subjects in the Visual Arts of their Time
Candice Moise (Université d’Artois), What Masks Tell us about Carnivals. A Look back at the Masks of a Study in Fourteen European Countries Nowadays

coffee break

15:15–16:15 Keynote
Prof. Dr. Werner Mezger, Der Narr als Schlüsselfigur der mitteleuropäischen Fastnacht

refresher break

16:30–18:00 Fourth Panel: Carnival beyond the Carnivalesque
Dr. Miriam Strieder (Universität Bern), The Arthurian Court – a Serious Matter? In Search of the Carnivalesque in Arthurian Romance
Selina Seibel & Aline Wieders-Lohéac (Universität Stuttgart), Carnival without the Carnivalesque – an Analysis of a Literary Motif in Nineteenth-century French Literature
Dr. Gianluca Esposito (Università Federico II di Napoli), The Motif of Carnival in Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988): Classical and Nietzschean Elements as Connection between Antiquity and Modernity

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7 October, Saturday

9:30–11:00 Fifth Panel: New Approaches to the Study of Carnival: Bridging across Temporal and Geographic Divides
Dr. Jeremy DeWaal (University of Exeter), A History of Emotions Approach to the Study of Carnival: Examples from the Reinvention of the Rhenish Tradition
Nikos Potamianos (Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH, Rethymno), The Transformation of a Modern Urban Carnival: Athens 1800-1940
Giovanni Kezich & Antonella Mott (Trento), Towards a (double) European Atlas of Masquerades and Carnivals. “Carnival King of Europe”, Sixteen Years on (2006-2023).

coffee break

11:15–12:45 Sixth Panel: Carnivals’ Migrations
Prof Dr Jarula M. I. Wegner (Zhejiang University), Trinidad and Tobago Carnival: Between National Pride and Transcultural Entanglements
Kearn Christopher Williams (University of Leeds), I ain’t come here for No Stand Up; I come to Party with my hand Up! : Trinidad Carnival Fetes – Innovation, Tensions and Meanings
Andrew Graver Snyder (Uni. Nova de Lisboa), Portugal’s Brazilian Carnivals: Mediation, Migration, and Modeling

lunch break

14:30–16:00 Seventh Panel: Cultural Politics and Conflicting Meanings in Carnival Celebrations
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Kraay (University of Calgary), From Entrudo to Carnaval in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Dr. Ioana Baskerville (The Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch), Fur, Fun and Fight. Social and Cultural Meanings of the New Year Carnival in Modern and Contemporary Romania
Dr. Isabel Machado (University of British Columbia), Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile

coffee break

16:15–17:45 Eighth Panel: The Contested Meanings of New Orleans Mardi Gras
Derek Wood (Tulane University, New Orleans), From Medieval to Antimodern: The Americanization of Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Prof. Dr. Martha Radice (Dalhousie University, Halifax), ‘Everywhere else it’s just Tuesday’: Contemporary Meanings of New-wave Carnival in New Orleans
Brian Boyce (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), The Meeting Place: Congo Square
17:45–18:15 Concluding discussion

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8 October, Sunday

10:00–11:30 Nineth Panel: Carnival and State Repression
Naz Vardar (Simon Frazer University), Carnival in Modern Turkey: From Public Festivities to Private Commemoration
Dr. Lina Gergova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Traditional St. George’s Day and Socialist Humorous Carnival: Local Transformations
Prof. Dr. Philip Whalen (Coastal Carolina University), Crazy Mother Rides again: The Gender Politics of Carnival Revival in 1930s Dijon

11:30–12:30 Concluding Discussion

Organized by Dr. Roberta Colbertaldo and Dr. Jeremy DeWaal
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Seminarhaus SH 3.104
The conference is open and free for everyone. Please send an informal registration to Colbertaldo@em.uni-frankfurt.de by the 20th September 2023.
https://fettewelten.hypotheses.org/veranstaltungen