| 8.45 - 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.15 | Welcome |
| 9.15 - 10.15 | Keynote Address Professor Elizabeth Boa, Nottingham: "Aping and Parroting: Imitative Performance in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften" |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45 - 11.05 | Bettina Brandl-Risi, Basel/Berlin: "Die Figur des Theaters im Text: Zur Konjunktur des Text/Theaters im tableau vivant" |
| 11.05 - 11.25 | Lisa Parkes, Los Angeles "The Kreutzer Dynamic: Musical 'Lustmord' in Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata and Thomas Mann's Tristan" |
| 11.25 - 11.45 | Discussion |
| 11.45 - 12.05 | Johannes Türk, Berlin: " 'Die Taktik der inneren Linie': Zur Performanz des Traumatischen in Robert Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" |
| 12.05 - 12.25 | Uta Staiger, Cambridge: "Beyond the Body Politic: Reconsidering Performance and the State in Heiner Müller's versions of Medea" |
| 12.25 - 12.45 | Discussion |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Keynote Address
Professor Claudia Liebrand, Cologne: "Kinematographische Gender-Performanzen" |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Katrin Oltmann, Cologne: " 'The Final Act is yet to be played...': Gender Performance and Masquerades in Alexander Korda's Silent Movie Samson und Delila (Austria)" |
| 15.20 - 15.40 | Marino Guida, Cambridge:
"Interrogating the Cinematic Performance: Straub/Huillet's filming of Kafka's Der Verschollene" |
| 15.40 - 16.00 | Discussion |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Dr Cathy Gelbin, Manchester: "Metaphors of Genocide: The Staging of History and Identity in the Post-Holocaust Art of Tanya Ury" |
| 16.50 - 17.10 | Dr Robert Gillett, London: "Schriftsteller UND Schauspieler: Queer Performativity in the Work of Hubert Fichte" |
| 17.10 - 17.30 | Discussion |
Friday 8 March
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| 9.00 - 9.20 | Dr David Barnett, Huddersfield/Munich: "Text as Material: The Category of Performativity in Three Contemporary German Plays" |
| 9.20 - 9.40 | Dr Andrea Capovilla, Cambridge: " 'Spielt süßer das Lied': Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl in performance" |
| 9.40 - 10.00 | Discussion |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | David James Prickett, Cincinnati/Berlin: "Magnus Hirschfeld and the Photographic (Re)Invention of the 'Third Sex'" |
| 10.20 - 10.40 | Professor Ellis Hanson, Cornell/Cambridge: "Endless Suffering: Cure as Exhibitionism in Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz" |
| 10.40 - 11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Keynote Address Professor Sander Gilman, Chicago/Berlin: "What makes a German a German: Aesthetic Surgery and Cultural Identity" |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 - 14.20 | Dr Beth Linklater, Swansea: " 'Ein einsames unverstandenes Kunstwerk'. Performing Gender through Make-Up: Re-viewing Ingeborg Bachmann's Probleme Probleme through Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills" |
| 14.20 - 14.40 | Dr Markus Hallensleben, Tokyo: "Performanz der Metapher: Der Körper als Text" |
| 14.40 - 15.00 | Discussion |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Round Table Discussion |