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
Registration details and online registration can be found here:
http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=307
Directions to Birmingham (Edgbaston Campus): http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/index.aspx
Recommended Local Accommodation: http://www.nmr.bham.ac.uk/documents/HotelsRestaurants.pdf