Programme

Registration for the conference is £10/£15 (lunch included) and free online. You can book via the Society of Antiquaries’ website.

9.15-9.30am: Registration

9.30-9.45am: Welcome

9.45-11.15am: Panel 1: Materiality and Performance Inside the Playhouse

  • Dr Lydia Valentine (Shakespeare’s Globe), Beauty, Materiality and Degrees of Whiteness in Shakespeare
  • Raghav Verma (Universität Tübingen), Staging Power: Objects, Performance, and Materiality in Early Modern Culture
  • Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), “Put an Antic Disposition on”: Emotions as Costumes in Jacobean Drama
  • Hannah Merlander (King’s College London), “Who Calls There?”: Hearing Across the Tiring House Wall

11.15-11.45am: Tea & coffee break

11.45am-12.45pm: Panel 2: Materiality and Performance Outside of the Playhouse 

  • Dr Robert Stearn (Mary Ward Centre), Abrasive Properties: Pins and Servants in Early Eighteenth-Century England
  • Alessandra Curtis, Sailor’s Pottery and the Emotional Jack-Tar
  • Emma Mitchell (Brunel University of London), “Women of the Town”: Strollers, Streetwalkers and the Performative Somatics of Georgian Sex Work

12.45-1.45pm: Lunch break (sandwich lunch provided) 

1.45-2.45pm: Panel 3: Performing Bodies through Text, Theatre, and Sport

  • Dr Alexandra Collinson (Newcastle University), “I Should Give the Lie to My Mind”: Textual Performance and Prostitution in Authentic Memoirs of Phebe Phillips (1799)
  • Kristen Vitale Engel (University of Connecticut), Performing Power in the 1511 Westminster Tournament
  • Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne), Props and Bodies in The Spanish Tragedy

2.45-3.15pm: Tea & coffee break

3.15-4.15pm: Panel 4: Bibliographic Interests: Texts of and in Performance
(chaired by AJ Goga, University of Surrey)

  • Michelle Michel (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), John Danter and the Printer’s Boomlet
  • Lizzie Conrad Hughes (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Repeated Cues: Comparing Early Modern/Restoration Performance with Modern
  • Dr Meryl Faiers, From Henslowe to Hilliard via Malone

4.15-4.30pm: Mini break

4.30-5.30pm: Keynote

  • Professor Catherine Richardson FSA (University of East Anglia), Shakespeare’s Objects

5.30-5.40pm: Closing remarks

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