The London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World III
The deferred 2020 conference took place online 15-17 April 2021.
- Registration
- Directions to New College
- Draft Timetable
- Abstracts
- Conference Programme
- Accommodation
If you have any queries please contact michael.burden@new.ox.ac.uk or jonathan.hicks@abdn.ac.uk.
Delegates experiencing any issues with joining the zoom conference on any of the days should contact jacqui.julier@new.ox.ac.uk
Call for Papers
The third London Stage in the 19th-century World conference will be held online from 15th - 17th April 2021, and will feature keynote addresses by Catherine Hindson (Bristol) and Susan Valladares (Durham). There will also be a launch event for Part I of the digital calendar of performances on the nineteenth-century London Stage.
We welcome contributions on all aspects and forms of theatrical practice in nineteenth-century London, from plays and operas to pantomime and puppetry. The ‘London stage’ should be interpreted as inclusively as possible, including such topics as criticism, dance, scenography, genre, theatrical technology, colonial politics, and the staging of the natural environment. Papers on sources, collections, and theatrical materials are also sought.
For the 2021 conference, we are particularly interested in how metropolitan performance engaged with global trends, including (though not limited to) trade, conflict, climate, and migration. Proposals might address how acting bodies gave shape to a changing world and how audiences responded. We are similarly concerned with the rise of transnationalism as a scholarly framework for addressing the dynamics of cultural exchange in the nineteenth century. What polities or territories were enacted on the London Stage and what particular forms of group identities were made possible by theatrical venues? As in previous years, this meeting will provide opportunities to take stock of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field as well as a chance to consider the place of London in the broader theatrical and political world.
The panel for paper selection will be Michael Burden (Oxford), Jim Davis (Warwick), Jonathan Hicks (Aberdeen), Kate Newey (Exeter), and David Francis Taylor (Oxford).
The Call for Papers has now closed.
Image: Set design by the Grieve family, showing a cloister in a wooded setting (Victoria and Albert Museum s.1028-1984)