Konferenzübersicht: Grußworte: Eva Burwitz-Melzer (Vizepräsidentin Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Heiner Goebbels (Geschäftsführender Direktor Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Präsident Hessische Theaterakademie)
Martin Zierold (Geschäftsführung Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture)
Chair: Philipp Schulte (Gießen)
Einführungen: Gerald Siegmund (Gießen)
Anneka Esch-van Kann (Gießen)
Chair: Philipp Schulte
Keynotes: Jacques Rancière (Paris): "Doing or Not Doing: Politics, Aesthetics, Performance"
Chair: Stephan Packard (München)
Erin Manning / Brian Massumi (Montréal): "Coming Alive in a World of Texture: For Neurodiversity"
Chair: Stefan Hölscher (Gießen)
Simon Critchley (Essex/New York): "The Faith of the Faithless – Experiments in Political Theology"
Chair: Gerald Siegmund (Gießen)
Oliver Marchart (Luzern): "Dancing Politics. Some Reflections on Commonality, Choreography and Protest"
Chair: Hubertus Büschel (Gießen)
Weitere Vorträge: Friedrich Balke (Weimar): "All in Good Time? Fiction and the Possibility of Historic Events"
Chair: Martin Zierold (Gießen)
Andreas Hetzel (Darmstadt): "Resistance Speaks: Languages of Resistance"
Chair: Wim Peeters (Dortmund)
Frank Ruda (Berlin): "Thinking Politics Concretely: Negation, Affirmation and the Dialectics of Dialectics and Non-Dialects"
Chair: Wim Peeters (Dortmund)
Gabriel Rockhill (Philadelphia): "Critique of the Ontological Illusion. Rethinking the Relation between Art and Politics"
Chair: Stephan Packard (München)
Dieter Mersch (Potsdam): "The Political and the Violent. On Resistances"
Chair: Stephan Packard (München)
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll (Hamburg): "Plus d’un rôle. On the Politics of Playing Together and Performance Practices"
Chair: Jörn Etzold (Gießen)
Juliane Rebentisch (Frankfurt/M.): "Realism Today. Art, Politics, and the Critique of Representation"
Chair: Jörn Etzold (Gießen)
Bruno Bosteels (Ithaca): "Transatlantic Decadence: Aesthetics and Politics"
Chair: Birte Christ (Gießen)
Stephan Packard (München): "Why are Story Arcs Dark and Gritty? Ethics and the Political in Serial TV and Video Aesthetics"
Chair: Birte Christ (Gießen)
Wim Peeters (Dortmund): "Contesting 'the Democratic Chattering of the Letter'. Politics of Comment in 20th Century Literature"
Chair: Hubertus Büschel (Gießen)
Josef Früchtl (Amsterdam): "It Is, As If. Fiction, Aesthetics, and the Political"
Chair: Hubertus Büschel (Gießen)
Armen Avanessian (Berlin): "Reading Political Theories‘ Readings"
Chair: Hubertus Büschel (Gießen)