28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM (GMT+01:00)

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM SHAKING THE HABITUAL is a collaborative work by Despoina Tzanou (text) and Alexandra Voutsina (video) shown as part of the Opening Night *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM Antke Engel: 'Queering desire through serendipity and a_sociality.' (Sound Only) *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM Exchange #1: Refusing, Resisting, Expanding: The Reorganisation of Life 29 May 2020, 11:15-13:15 Chair: Lisa Moravec   1. ‘Ritual of Hopscotch — An Esoterico-geographical Attempt’ by Cynthia Montier & Ophélie Naessens  2. ‘Expanded Affinities’ by Andrea Ray 3. ‘Snoring is the able-sleepers brag’ by Genevieve Costello 4. '(In)human Energies and the Desire for Refusal’ by AC Davidson *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM RITUAL OF HOPSCOTCH (Full Version) by Cynthia Montier & Ophelie Naessens *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

Exchange #2: Show me the Body 29 May 2020, 14:15-16:00 Chair: Tom Hastings  1. 'Hold Me, Spit on Me, Cover Me in Care: The Poethics of Queer Subjectivity in Front of an Erotic Reception of Daphins and Chloe at a Rave Last Summer’ by Marcus Bell  3. ‘Sex, Performance and Circulation — a treatise on the “new” dominating commodities in Biocapitalism’ by Denise Ackerl (not on file) *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM 'The Vicissitudes of Pleasure: Between the Machines of Desire and the Politics of the Good', Keynote Lecture by Keti Chukhrov 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:30 *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM   Exchange #3: Transgressive Desires 30 May 2020, 10:45-11:45 Chair: Saskia Hubert 1. 'Trans Pleasure as Pedagogy: Desire, Seduction and Ambivalence in Les Garçons Sauvages’ by Jacob Breslow 2. 'Beyond “Sexual Orientation” – Biopolitics and the Government of Bisexual Bodies and Subjectivities in Asylum Case Law’ by Christian Klesse *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM   ‘Realistically Impossible: the Magic of Social Change’ Keynote Lecture by Mijke van der Drift 30 May 2020, 12:00-13:30 *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.

LOVE SPELLS & RITUALS FOR ANOTHER WORLD* 28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM Exchange #4: Love Letters 30 May 2020, 16:15-17:45 Chair: Sarah Cave   1. 'Vulnerable Desire: A defence of the Love Poem’ by Phoebe Eccles 2. ‘Conjuring Bambi: Cuteness, Incantation and Reclamation in Pascale Petit’s Mama Amazonica’ by Caroline Harris 3. ‘Music and the Medial Woman: Meta-structure and Metaphysics in Contemporary Songwriting’ by Sorana Santos (not available to watch on demand) 4. 'Aeneas’ by Nadira Wallace *This program is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, curated by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec. It is funded by the newly launched School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL; the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (HARI); and the Department of Media Arts, RHUL.