We hope you will join us for the inaugural graduate student conference of the Early Modern Reading Group, “‘A Local Habitation and A Name’: Locality and the English Theatre,” this Friday and Saturday on the UIUC campus! For more information about the conference schedule, events, and the reading group, please visit: http://publish.illinois.edu/erlymodrn.
Friday, 24 April: Lincoln Hall, Room 1066
- Registration and Welcome, 2:30 – 3:30 PM
- Act I: Re-locations, 3:30 – 5:00 PM (Curtis Perry, respondent)
- Caitlin McHugh, “Othello on the Restoration Stage”
- InHye Ha, “Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table: Gaming Women and Eighteenth-Century Staging”
- Sara B. T. Thiel, “Polluting Impressions: Patriarchal Anxiety and Maternal Agency in Two Jacobean Tragedies”
- Participants’ Dinner: Destihl Restaurant & Brew Works 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Saturday, 25 April: ACES Library, Heritage Room
- Act II: Locating performance, 10:00 – 11:30 AM (Andrea Stevens, respondent)
- Ann Hubert, “The N-Town Plays: Medieval Drama on a Modern Stage”
- Mark B. Owen, “Deep Theatrical Space and the Production of Character in Coriolanus”
- Elizabeth E. Tavares, “’Drum and trumpets, and to London all’: Sound, Social Blocking, and the Lord Pembroke’s Players”
- Break for lunch 11:30 – 1:00 PM
- Keynote Address, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
- Erika T. Lin (George Mason University), “Dancing in the Mire: Personation and Alternative Sites of Performance”
- Coffee break, 2:15 – 2:30 PM
- Presentation by Scholarly Commons, 2:30 – 3:00 PM
- Act III: Alternate localities, 3:00 – 4:30 PM (Robert Barrett, respondent)
- Carla B. Rosell, “Locating Sedition in John Bale’s King Johan”
- Lee Emrich, “’Give Me My Gown’: Performance, Professional Identity, and Material Culture in Early Modern Theatre and Law”
- Cristina Rosell, “In Quest of Self: Mapping Identity in The Merchant of Venice”
- Closing Remarks, 4:30 – 5:00 PM
- Dinner theatre: “The N-Town Plays,” 6:00 – 8:30 PM (Illini Union)
This event is free and open to the public. It is generously supported by the Graduate College, the Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Studies program, the Unit for Criticism and interpretive Theory, the Department of Classics, and Scholarly Commons. Feel free to contact the conference organizers, Elizabeth E. Tavares (tavares1@illinois.edu) and Carla B. Rosell (rosell2@illinois.edu), with questions or comments.