Lecture/Reading/Travel Schedule of Carl Djerassi

 

2010

 

Jan. 4 – March 15: Stanford University: Sophomore Seminar Science-in-theatre: a new genre?

 

Jan. 28: San Francisco: Talk (From the Pill to the Pen) 5:30 – 7:30 at American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Feb. 6: Stanford University: dramatic presentation in Pigott Theatre (7:30 – 10:00 pm) with 5 Equity actors and soprano under SICa auspices of BENJAMIN, ADORNO, SCHOLEM, SCHNBERG: A DISPUTE ABOUT ART, MUSIC, IDENTITY, WIVES AND PORNOGRAPHY. (directed by Isabella Gregor).

 

Feb. 7: San Francisco: dramatic presentation (2:00 – 4:00 pm) with  5 Equity actors and soprano of SCHNBERG ON PARNASSUS: SCHNBERG'S CHESS, KLEE'S JEWISHNESS, BENJAMIN'S OBSESSION, AND OTHER PUZZLES (directed by Isabella Gregor) at Contemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission Street).

 

Feb. 21. San Diego; Presentation (Science-in-theatre: sleeping beauty or ?) at Science in the Theatre session of annual AAAS meeting: 1:30 - 3:00 PM

San Diego Convention Center, Room 1B.

 

March 5: Stanford: Seminar (4:00PM) From the Pill to the Pen and Stage. Carnegie Institution, Plant Biology.

 

March 21 – 28: Buenos Aires: Argentinean lecture tour.

 

March 22: Presentation (19:00) of Cuatro Judios en el Parnaso for Editorial Capital Intelectual at Libreria Atenea.

 

March 23:

 

            Lecture (9:30) on El nacimiento quimico de la Pildora en Mexico for Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologa e Innovacin Productiva at Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Ave. Alvear 1711).

 

Conferment of doctor honoris causa  and Lecture(16:00) on Ciencia en la ficcin no es ciencia ficcin. Es una autobiografia? at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Saln Auditorio.

 

March 25:

 

Lecture (11:00) on Biotechnologia: hechos a travs de la ficcin at Instituto Nacional de Technolgia Industrial (Av. Gral. Paz 5445).

 

Lecture (19:00) on El sexo en la edad de la reproduccin technolgica on behalf of Laboratorio Elea at Auditoria, Centro Cultural Borges.

 

 

March 29 – April 2: San Francisco.

 

April 3 – 11: London

 

April 12 - 15: Vienna

 

April 16 – 18: Prague. Lecture (April 16 at 10:00 am) at Czech Academy of Sciences on The Chemical History of the Pill.

 

April 19 - May 7: Vienna.

 

April 28: Soiree (19:00) on Science, Theatre, and Music: a liaison dangereuse in Palais Clam-Gallas (Whringerstr. 32-36) under joint auspices of the French Cultural Institute and the Technical University of Vienna.

 

April 30: Schallaburg,: Participation in opening of exhibition Beatles, Pille und Revolte - die 60er Jahre" in Schloss Schallaburg with associated dramatic reading of AN IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION.

 

May 5: Presentation (19:30) and dialogic reading from CDs novels and plays at Wiener Produzentinnengalerie  (Schleifmhlgasse 12 -14, A-1070 Vienna) at "Sexus, Gesellschaft, Macht" exhibition.

 

May 6: Presentation on "Science Visualization on stage" within Prof. Vendls Master class of "Art and Science Visualization".at University of Applied Arts (16:00).

 

May 7: Rotary Club Wien Mozart Lunch presentation (13:00). Sex im 21. Jahrhundert. SAS Palais Hotel (Parkring, 1010).

 

May 8 – 13: London.

 

May 14 - 17: Newark, NJ.

 

May 18 – 23: San Francisco

 

May 24 – 29: Vienna

 

May 31: Hamburg: Appearance at ARD TV-talk show Beckmann.

 

June 1 -  June 6: Vienna

 

June 6 – 8: Bonn: Lecture (Wissenschaft und Theater: Eine Liaison dangereuse") under auspices of North American Studies Program, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn

 

June 9 – 11 (tent.): Brest: Staging of Oxygne.

 

June 12: Vienna.

 

June 13 - 16: Israel:

 

June 15: (18:00) Lecture (Science in theatre: a liaison dangereuse) at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

 

June 19 – 27: Vienna.

 

June 28 – July 15 (tent.): London

 

July 16 – 30: Vienna.

 

July 31 – Aug. 3: Jerusalem:

 

Aug. 1: Lecture ("Chemical History of the Pill") at 18th Jerusalem Summer School in Life Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies.

 

Aug. 4 – 6: Salzburg

 

Aug. 4: Salzburg Festspiel-Dialoge: Wissenschaftlerinnen auf der Bhne: Spiegelbild oder Illusion ?  (11:30, Schttkasten der Salzburger Festspiele, Herbert-v.-Karajan-Platz).

 

Aug. 7 – Sept. 1: Vienna.

 

Sept. 2 – 6 (tent.); San Jose, Costa Rica: Premiere of OXIGENO at National Theatre.

 

Sept. 7 -21: Vienna

 

Sept. 14: Institute for Molecular Biotechnology talk Academic Entrepreneurship at IMBA Meet the Expert dinner, Hotel Sacher.

 

Sept. 22: Berlin: Staging of Dortmund (2009) production of TABOOS in Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Jgerstrasse 22/23) on occasion of Die Zukunft der Evolution symposium.

 

Sept. 24 – 26: London.

 

Sept. 27- Oct. 19: San Francisco

 

Oct. 20 – 26 (tent): London

 

Oct 27 – Dec. 14 (tent.): Vienna.

 

Dec. 3: Graz: Presentation (19:00) Versteckte autobiographische Geheimnisse for Kiwanis Club in Minoritensaal (Mariahilfer Platz 3) with associated book signing.

 

Dec. 15 – 21: London

 

Dec. 21 – March 2011: San Francisco