Program | Burlesque Symposium

Day I, May 15

Burlesque PRESENTATIONS

1 p.m.

Welcome and introduction and research project presentation

Joanna Staśkiewicz (University Potsdam): Erotic of Scholarship

Jacki Willson (University Leeds): Academic Keynote: A Holey Maternity Bra, Threadbare Slippers and Three Fabulous Wigs: Burlesque Costume as Transformative Threshold

Betty Q (Warsaw): Burlesque Keynote: Undress about it

Panel 2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.

Agata Łuksza (University Warsaw): Burlesque, or an Alternative History of Emancipation

Geraldine Spiekermann (University Potsdam): The Beauty, the Beast and the Burlesque

Sabina Drąg (independent scholar and circus performer): Personae turpis - tribute to female* fools

Katharina Rein (University Potsdam): Floating, Vanishing, and Being Dismembered. Women's Bodies in Stage Magic

4.30 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Tea time/Coffee break

4.45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Bridge Markland: king-ing the drag/lecture

Fun and unacademic artist talk about life and work with performance excerpts.

5.45 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. break

6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.

Burlesque-Show Berlin, New Orleans, and Warsaw and panel discussion with performers

Betty Q (Warsaw), Evilyn Frantic (Berlin), Harpy Queen (Lublin) Lola Noir (Warsaw), Lolita Va Voom (Berlin), Madame Méduse (Warsaw), Qween Quan (New Orleans), Tsarina Hellfire (New Orleans)

Day 2, May 16

Burlesque RE-PRESENTATIONS and DOCUMENTATIONS

Panel 11 a.m. – 1:00p.m. Queerness, art, film, photography

Katharina Wiedlack (University Vienna): Royal Pink – Royal Punk: Burlesque Body Politics in Riot Grrrl and Queercore

Konrad Sierzputowski (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin): Boop-Oop-a-Doop: Anticipation, Burlesque and Cartoons

Aneta Panek (artist and scholar, Berlin): Travesty: buffoonery, play, and joke. Masculin Féminin, alchemical androgynies and the crucial meaning of travesty and changing identities in punk. Travesty as a strategy of exposure and rebellion. Identities of resistance. Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jayne County, Divine, Zazie de Paris, and Romy Haag.

Julia Gaes (Photo Project Wigs and Gloves)

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00p.m. – 5.45 p.m.

Film Panel and discussion:

Documentary I

Fabulous Femininities

50:25 Minutes

Directed: Jonothon Lees, produced: Jacki Willson (University Leeds), UK, 2023

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., coffee break

3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Documentary II

Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival