Registration Open: Victorian Afterlives: Gaskell in Adaptation Colloquium (11/12/2011)

Victorian Afterlives: Gaskell in Adaptation Colloquium
Saturday, November 12, 2011  10am - 4.30pm
The Council Room, King's College London, Strand Campus

Coffee and Welcome  9.30am – 10.00 am

Panel 1: Adapting Gaskell 10am  – 11.15am

• Prof. Deborah Wynne, Chester: 'Fabric and Fluff: North and South and the Costume Drama'
• Dr Peter Garratt, Northumbria: 'Gaskell & Victoriana'

Panel 2: Mary Barton on Stage 11.15 am – 12.30 pm

• Dr Andrew Maunder, Hertfordshire: 'Recasting Mary Barton: Adapting Elizabeth Gaskell for the Victorian Stage'
• Prof. Thomas Recchio, Connecticut: 'Elizabeth Gaskell As "A Dramatic Common": Stanley Houghton's Appropriation of Mary Barton in Hindle Wakes'

LUNCH  12.30pm  - 2pm

Panel 3: Cranfordia Then and Now 2.00 pm - 3.15pm

• Brenda McKay, Birkbeck: 'Dramatising 1970s Cranford: Reconstructing History, or a Slice of Contemporary History?'
• Dr Chris Louttit, Radboud: ‘Cranford: the Sequel'

Tea 3.15pm - 3.45pm

Roundtable Discussion 3.45pm - 4.30pm

Contact  Dr Louise Lee (louise.lee@kcl.ac.uk) for more details. Registration is £12. Please send cheques to the address below and make payable to King’s College London.

Dr Louise Lee

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Editor, Gaskell Journal
English Department
King's College
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS