'Ceremony, Ritual and Performance in the 18th Century’
BECC Joint Annual Workshop with Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Strathcona Building, Lecture Theatre 3, University of Birmingham
9.45-10.20am Registration
10.20-11.30am Performance in the 18th Century
Charles Walton, ‘Law, Vengeance and French Revolutionary Theatre’
Martin Perkins, ‘Public Performances and Public Performers: Concert Life in the Late Eighteenth-Century
Midlands’
David Taylor, ‘Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Staging of War, 1793-1801’
11.30-11.50am Coffee
11.50-1pm Memory, History and Text
Clare Siviter, ‘Rewriting tragic History in the age of Napoleon’
Martin Killeen, ‘Irradiated Glory: some 18th Century Perspectives on Stonehenge’
Emil Rybczak, ‘Reading against the Grain: The Popularity of Shakespeare, Shadwell, and Dryden and Davenant's
Tempests in Print’
1.00-2.00pm Lunch (provided)
2.00-3.10pm Theatres of War
Kate Astbury, ‘Theatre during Napoleon's 100 days, March-July 1815’
Elodie Duché, ‘High Life Below War: British Prisoner of War Theatricals in Napoleonic Verdun’
Devon Cox, ‘French Prisoner of War Theatricals at Portchester Castle during the Napoleonic wars'
3.10-3.30pm Coffee & closing remarks
3.30-4.15pm Visit to Barber Institute of Fine Arts with Barbara Fogarty
4.15-5pm Visit to Cadbury Research Library with Martin Killeen
Booking
Places are limited. Please send an e-mail to becc@contacts.bham.ac.uk by 6 May 2015 to book, specifying any
special dietary requirements. Speakers do not need to book!
Directions
Visitors are reminded that there is a train station on campus (named ‘University’), located on the Birmingham
New Street-Longbridge/Redditch line. Trains run at 10 minute intervals in peak times. Parking on campus is
limited. Further details are available here: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/getting-hereedgbaston.aspx.
Campus maps are downloadable from: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-campusmap.pdf. The Strathcona Building is marked as R18.