2014
Jan. 6 - 14:
Jan 15 - 24:
Jan. 16: Biedermannsdorf bei Wien: Reading (17:45) from "Der Schattensammler: die allerletzte
Autobiografie von Carl Djerassi"
at HLW Biedermannsdorf (Perlasgasse
10) Lange Nacht der Höheren Lehranstalten f. wirtschaftliche Berufe with associated
book distribution.
Jan. 17 - 18: Salzburg:
Lecture (Jan. 18, 16:30) "Sex-Reproduktion-Medizin in 2050"
at annual Chiesi Pneumologie
meeting, Hotel Jagdhof, Hof bei
Salzburg, with associated book distribution.
Jan. 20 - 21:
Jan. 20 (18:00): City Hall (Rathaus) Fireside Chat: “What makes us attractive for the
best brains?”.
Jan.
21: Haus der Industrie, Schwartzenbergplatz 4
(18:15)
Participation in panel “Migration—not a Threat but an Opportunity).
(20:00): “In dialog with CD” and
Golden Arrow Lifetime Achievement Award presentation.
Jan.24: Vienna: Discussion
(10:00-12:00) with junior and senior history students of Wiener Gymnasium, 2. Zirkusgasse with
associated distribution of DerSchattensammler.
Jan 25 - Feb. 11:
Jan.
30: Stanford
University: Chemistry Department event (3:00PM, Clark Center Auditorium) "Beyond Chemistry: The last 25 years of a
nonagenarian" with associated book distribution.
Feb.
1: Mountain View:
Presentation "Early days of Syntex in Mexico" at Syntex
Alumni association annual meeting Michael’s Restaurant, 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd.
11:00AM)
Feb.
8: Stanford
University: (Cubberley
Auditorium, 8:00PM) Performance of Insufficiency
(directed by Chloe Bronzan) followed by post-performance Q & A.
Feb.
9: San Francisco: Discussion
of polymathy, gentleman scientists, opportunity
costs, specialization, and autodidactism to Stanford
student Mutual Improvement Society.
Feb. 12 - 15:
Feb.
13:
Lunch
talk "Academic entrepreneurship:
Facts through Fiction" for business and academic leaders at Hilary J.
Boone Center.
4:30PM
public lecture: "Science on the Page and Stage" at Worsham Theatre of Student Center with associated book
distribution.
Feb.14: Lecture ("The divorce of sex from reproduction: the new facts of life") at
Transylvania University (3:30PM, Cowgill 102) with associated book
distribution.
Feb.
15: University of
Kentucky Drama Department, dramatic reading (directed by Nancy Jones) of INSUFFICIENCY (3:00PM) at Art Museum of
the Singletary Center for the Arts.
Feb. 16 - March 6: San Francisco. Stanford University:
Sophomore Seminar “Science-in-theatre: a new genre?” every Monday 6:00 –
9:00PM.
Feb.
27: San Francisco
State University Chemistry Dept. lecture (11:00 – 12:15). “The Pill: Rise and Demise.”
March 7 - 9: Iowa City: University of Iowa keynote
address 5:00 PM (“The Pill: Rise and
Demise”) at literature/cultural studies symposium "Pill and Pen:
Contraception and unwanted Pregnancy in global Literature and popular
Culture."
March 10 - 18: San Francisco.
March 10: Last Sophomore
Seminar “Science-in-theatre: a new genre?"
March 19 – 20: Provo, UT: Lecture:
“The Pill: Rise and Demise.”
March 21 – 26: San Francisco.
March
22: Video Conference lecture “Geschichte
der Kontrazeption” for Merck/Sharpe.Dohme
conference, Fuschl, Austria.
March 27 - 31:
March
27, 28, 30:
Performances of PHALLACY (Phallstricke) and
EGO by Max Reinhardt Seminar graduates, 19:30, Neue Studiobuehne, Penzinger Straße 7.
April 1 - April 5:
April 6 - 20: Vienna
April 21 - May 11: London.
April 23 - 25:
April
23: 1:15 - 2:45 PM: Opening
key note lecture (“What can the theatre
do for science and vice versa”) at “Performing Science: Dialogues across
Cultures” symposium.
6:00
PM: Great Minds lecture (in Co-op lecture theatre): "The demise of contraception: Sex in an age of ART (assisted reproductive
technologies)."
April
24: 10:00 - 5:00 PM “Performing
Science: Dialogues across Cultures” symposium
April
25: 10:00 - 3:30 PM “Performing
Science: Dialogues across Cultures” symposium
7:30
PM: Foreplay premiere (directed by
Andy Jordan) in Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
April
30 - May 31: Performances
(19:15) of FOREPLAY (directed by Andy
Jordan) at King's Head Theatre, (115 Upper Street, Islington).
May 12: Groningen: Lecture (May 12, 8:00PM),
"The divorce of sex from
reproduction: A shift in gender power relations," to Dutch United Nations Student Association (DUNSA) of
University of Groningen with associated book distribution.
May 13 - 14: Freiburg: Lectures at University of
Freiburg:
May
13: 19:30. “Die letzten 25 Jahre eines 90-jaehrigen Workaholics," Aula der Universität.
May 14: 16:00 “Die Pille: Aufgang und Untergang,” Hörsaal des Instituts für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften.
May 15 - 20: Vienna
May 19: Wiener Vorlesung
(19:00, Rathaus): "Ein
Leben zwischen Science, Fiktion und Theater: die letzten
25 Jahre eines 90-jährigen
Workaholics.“
May 21 - 22: Bielefeld:
May 21 (19:00): Reading from
"Der Schattensammler: die
allerletzte Autobiografie von Carl Djerassi," at
Universitätsbibliothek.
May 22 (12:00): Brown
bag lunch discussion „Science-in-theatre:
ein pädagogisches Experiment.“
May 23 - 27: Vienna
May 28 - 29: Fischbachau
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May 30 - June 4:
May 31: Weiz:
Reading from "Der Schattensammler: die allerletzte Autobiografie von
Carl Djerassi" at Weizer Pfingstvision with associated book distribution.
June 5 - 6:
Innsbruck:
June
5: Lecture ("Ursprung und Zukunft der Pille: von Innsbruck über Mexico zum Vatikan") at Univ. of Innsbruck, 18:00..
June
6: Hon. doctorate conferment, 11:00, Archäologisches
Museum, Innstrasse 52).
June 7 - 9:
June 10 – 11: Vienna
June 12: Odense: Plenary Lecture (“From the Pill to the Stage”) at annual
meeting of Danish Chemical Society, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
June 16 – 18: Mainz: Workshop (12:00) and Lecture (6:00
P)M at University of Mainz "Life Sciences - Life
Writing: Grenzerfahrungen menschlichen
Lebens zwischen biomedizinischer Erklärung und lebensweltlicher Erfahrung" with
associated book distribution and honorary doctorate conferment.
June 18 - Aug. 11: Vienna.
June 28: ORF-TV:”Erlesen”
Interview of Autobiography for broadcast on July 22.
August 12 -13: Fribourg: Lecture (“’Jude’—ein Begriff mit 6 Buchstaben”)
at Summer Academy of the Univ. of Vienna “Jüdisches Heiliges Römisches Reich”
at University of Fribourg with associated book distribution.
Aug. 14 - 20: Vienna.
Aug. 21 - 22: Alpach:
Presentation (Aug. 21, 22:00 – 24:00) at Alpbacher
Technologie Gesprächen with associated book distribution.
Aug. 26 – 28: Vienna.
Aug. 29: Cologne: TV Talk Show “Kölner Treff”, WDR.
Aug. 30 – Sept. 1: Vienna
Sept. 2 - 14: San Francisco. Rehearsals
of Ego and Insufficiency.
Sept. 16 - Oct. 12: Vienna.
Sept.
25: Discussion (15:00) “Carl Djerassi, Sein Leben vor, mit und nach der Pille,“ at Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehranstalt (Leyserstraße 6, A-1140) with associated book distribution.
Oct. 13 – 15: France.
Oct.
14: St. Etienne:
Lecture
(14:00 – 15:00) “The Divorce of Coitus from Reproduction” at Center for Biomedical
and Healthcare Engineering of Ecole nationale
supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne,
Lecture
(18:30) and dramatic reading (with actors) of “La science au théâtre” at Fête du Livre
of La Rotonde.
Oct.
15: Paris: Lecture
(16:00) and dramatic reading of “La
science au théâtre” in Amphi
Jean Perrin, of Laboratoire de Physico-chimie
des Rayonnements, (Campus UPMC, rue Pierre et Marie Curie) organized by Société Chimique de France.
Oct. 17 - 26: San Francisco. Z Space Production
Premieres of Ego and Insufficiency at Z-Below theatre (every
day except Oct. 20).
Oct. 28 – Nov. 1: Paris.
Oct.
29: Rennes: Lecture
and dramatic reading (18:30 – 20:30) from “La
science au théâtre” at l'Espace
Ouest-France.
Nov. 2 – 6: London.
Nov.
3: Cambridge
University:
13:00-14:30, William Mong
Hall, Sidney Sussex College: Book launch of "In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen"
by Carl Djerassi (Discussant Lord Martin Rees).
17:00-18:30, William Mong
Hall, Sidney Sussex College: The Diane Middlebrook
and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Public Lecture by Prof.
Jacqueline Rose (Professor of English, Queen Mary College, Univ. of London) “Feminism and the Abomination of Violence.”
Nov. 7 – 11: Vienna
Nov. 12: Magdeburg: Otto-von-Guericke Lecture (“Sex im Zeitalter der technologischen Reproduktion—Aufgang
und Abgang der Pille”) at
University Magdeburg
(19:00, Hörsaal 1, Gebäude 26 der Otto-von Guericke-Universität) with associated book distribution.
Nov. 14 – 30: Vienna
Dec. 1 – 3: Munich
Dec. 1: Lecture (19:00) “Paul Zion Klee in München: nicht-jüdischer Jude?” in Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München, Hauptgebäude, M 118 (Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München Maxvorstad) with associated book distribution.
Dec.
2: Lecture (17:00) “Cortisone
and the Pill: an unusual Mexican connection” Münchner
Chemische Gesellschaft at
Department of Chemistry, LMU, Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F,
Buchner Hörsaal with associated book
distribution.
Dec.
3: Lecture (18:00) “Die
Trennung von Sex und Reproduktion.
Moralische
Wertvorstellung vs. gesellschaftliche
Realität" in Center for Advanced Studies, Seestr.13, LMU München with associated book
distribution.
Dec. 4 -20: Vienna.
Dec.
4 (Vienna): Reading
(in English) from In retrospect: from the pill to the pen at
Shakespeare and Company (Sterngasse 2, A-1010) at
7:30PM.
Dec.
5 (Vienna): Presentation
(in English) of In retrospect: from the pill to the pen at
Angewandte Innovation Laboratories; Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 at 6:00 PM with associated book
distribution.
Dec. 6 (Vienna): Lecture (17:45 -18:30) "Die naechsten 50 Jahre:
Ende der Kontrazeption?"at Kongress der
Wiener Gesellschaft für
Sexual Medizin, Jugendstielhörsaal,
Medizinische Universität
Wien.
Dec.
12 (Vienna): TV
(Wiener Sender W24) “Gerald Matt spricht mit…” 7:00 PM in Herrengassenhochhaus, Herrengasse
6-8 (1010 Wien)
Dec. 21 -22: London
Dec. 23 and beyond: San Francisco