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Friday, 24 April 2015
Friday conference presentations will take place in room 1066, located on the first floor of Lincoln Hall, just off the main quad. The building is wheelchair accessible, includes WiFi, and is smoke-free: 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801.
Registration and Welcome, 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Act I: Re-locations, 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Respondent: Curtis Perry / UIUC / English
Othello on the Restoration Stage
Caitlin McHugh / University of Minnesota / English
Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table: Gaming Women and Eighteenth-Century Staging
InHye Ha / UIUC / English
Polluting Impressions: Patriarchal Anxiety and Maternal Agency in Two Jacobean Tragedies
Sara B. T. Thiel / UIUC / Theatre
Dinner: Destihl Restaurant & Brew Works 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Located in downtown Champaign, Destihl is walking distance from the Illinois Terminal, and offers a number of vegetarian and gluten-free options: 301 N. Neil St., Champaign, IL 61820.
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Saturday conference presentations will take place in the ACES Library, Information, and Alumni Center in the Heritage Room, located on the first floor. The building is wheelchair accessible, attached to nearby parking, includes WiFi and smoke-free: 1101 S. Godwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801.
Act II: Locating performance, 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Respondent: Andrea R. Stevens / UIUC / English
The N-Town Plays: Medieval Drama on a Modern Stage
Ann Hubert / UIUC / Medieval Studies
Deep Theatrical Space and the Production of Character in Coriolanus
Mark B. Owen / Loyola University Chicago / English
“Drum and trumpets, and to London all”: Sound, Social Blocking, and the Lord Pembroke’s Players
Elizabeth E. Tavares / UIUC / English
Break for lunch 11:30 – 1:00 PM
Keynote Address, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Dancing in the Mire: Personation and Alternative Sites of Performance
Erika T. Lin / George Mason University / English
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
Respondent: Robert W. Barrett / UIUC / Medieval Studies
Locating Sedition in John Bale’s King Johan
Carla Rosell / UIUC / English
“Give Me My Gown”: Performance, Professional Identity, and Material Culture in Early Modern Theatre and Law
Lee Emrich / University of California, Davis / English
In Quest of Self: Mapping Identity in The Merchant of Venice
Cristina Rosell / Louisiana State University / English
Closing Remarks, 4:30 – 5:00 PM
Dinner theatre: “The N-Town Plays,” 6:00 – 8:30 PM
The performance will take place in the Illini Union first floor rooms A & B. Tickets for participants are provided in your registration packets. The performance includes a catered meal and a cash bar. For more information about the production, click here.