Of Victorian Interest: Registration Open: Politics, Performance and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (4/19-20/2012)

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Registration is open for the April symposium on "Politics, Performance and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain" which is part of the AHRC-funded research project, "The cultural politics of English pantomime, 1837-1901" We're meeting in the Arts Building, University of Birmingham, from 2pm Thursday 19 April, to 6pm, Friday 20th April.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/drama/research/pantomime/index.aspx

You can find the schedule and information about speakers at:
https://sites.google.com/site/victorianpantomime/2011-symposium_politics-and-performance

Speakers include:

Mike Sanders (Manchester): on Platforms, Correspondences and Theatrical Metaphor.
Jim Davis (Warwick): Victorian pantomime and the Politics of Gender Variance
Jane Pritchard (Victoria and Albert Museum): on Ballet, class and identity
Jill Sullivan (Independent): on The Irish question in regional pantomime
Marcus Morris (Lancaster): on Labour leaders, political rhetoric and performativity
Richard Gaunt (Nottingham): on Peel as actor-dramatist (parliament itself as theatrical institution)
Caroline Radcliffe (Birmingham): on Theatrical hierarchy and Cultural capital: East and West London
Anselm Heinrich (Glasgow): on Gladstone, national theatre and contested didactics of theatre.
Janice Norwood (Hertfordshire): on East End Socialism, performance techniques in protest/marches
Peter Yeandle (Lancaster): on Christian Socialism and performing arts: politics, theology and theatricality

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