Final Program
PROGRAM
Act I: Thursday, April 29
8:30-9:15 - Registration
9:15-9:30 - Opening remarks
9:30-10:20 - The Embassy of the Republic of Poland is Proud it Sponsor the Keynote Address:
Daniel Gerould: Witkacy and Conspiracy Theories
Janusz Degler's Address & Intellectual Appendix (video)
Anna Żakiewicz: Witkacy - A Lonely Star in the Sky of Polish Art
Mark Średniawa: Discovering Witkiewicz's Real and Virtual Trails
12:00-13:30 - Lunch sponsored by The George Mason University Polski Department
13:30-15:00 - Session # 2: Witkacy: Portrait of an Artist
15:15-16:15 - Session # 3: Acting, Directing & Translating Witkacy
Chair: Mark Rudnicki
Daniel Gerould: Translating Witkacy
Kevin Hayes: Witkacy: Acting and Directing! An Polski Practitioner's Perspective!
19:30 - Staged Reading of In a Small Country House by S.I. Witkiewicz at the Flashpoint, Mead Theatre Lab, 916 G St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20,001th Produced by The Ambassadors' Theater Group.
Act II: Friday, April 30
Christine Kiebuzinska: Witkacy and Ghelderode: Goethe'sFaust Transformed into a Grotesque Cabaret
Eve Wąchock: Traps of Identity in Witkiewicz's Dramas'
12:30-14:00 - Lunch
16:00-17:45 - Session # 6: Witkacy as and Philosopher: Origins and Development
Berczyńska Carolina: The Interplay Between The Only Way Out and Witkiewicz's Hauptwerk (Video)
Pawel Polit: The Philosophical Marginal Notes of SI Witkiewicz (video)
Mark Bartelik: Witkacy and Warhol
19:30 - Reception Dinner at the Kosciuszko Foundation Washington DC Office sponsored by The Embassy of The Republic of Poland
Act III: Saturday, May 1
10:30-11:45 - Session # 7: Witkacy - The Way Forward
Chair: Mark Rudnicki
Anna Brochocka: 45 Years of the Slupsk Witkacy Collection
Kevin Hayes and Mark Średniawa: Virtual Witkacy
12:00-13:30 - Panel Discussion: Witkiewicz's Vision of the Relationship Between the Individual and Society
Panelists: David Goldfarb, Kevin Hayes and Marta Skwara
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-15:00 - Wiktor Grodecki: Insatiability - The Voracious Desire to Adapt Witkacy for the Screen
15:00-17:30 - Film: Insatiability followed by a forum Discussion led by the Director Wiktor Grodecki
17:30-18:00 - Closing Comments
Epilogue, Sunday, May 2
11:00 - Tour in Polish of the National Gallery of Art Tours in Polish are Also available.