University of Bristol
Humanities Complex, 7 Woodland Road BS8 1TB
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| 9.00 onwards |
Registration and Coffee |
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| 9.20 |
Welcome |
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| 9.30-11.00 |
Panel 1: Action in Practice
Stephen Longstaffe :
‘The Farce of the Fart and Clown Cabaret’
Marla Carlson (University of Georgia):
‘Blindman farces as slapstick’
Charlotte Steenbrugge (University of Sheffield) and Elisabeth Dutton (Université de Fribourg):
‘Framing the stage and staging the frame: Performing Man's Desire and Fleeting Beauty’
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| 11.00
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Coffee.
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| 11.20-12.50 |
Panel 2: Forms of Action
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton):
‘Does Eve talk with her mouth full? The timing of an apple bite in early performances of The Fall’
Georgie Crespi (University of Reading):
‘“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory”: audience engagement with music in the 15th-century morality plays’
Thomas Meacham (University of Miami) :
‘Allegorical Action and Performativity in English Morality Plays and Interludes’
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| 12.50 |
Cathy Hume (University of Bristol):
‘Introduction to The Life of Job’
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| 13.00-14.00
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Lunch.
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| 14.00-15.00 |
Performance of The Life of Job with coffee and cake
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| 15.30-16.30 |
Panel 3: Action and Religion
Lucy Deacon and Sara Khalili Jahromi (Université de Fribourg):
‘Staging the struggle of Satan and Ayoub (Job) in the Iranian Ta‘ziyeh ’
Jacob Ridley (University of Oxford):
‘Reformation and stasis: did the Protestants substitute Word for action?’
Pamela M. King (University of Glasgow):
‘Decorously communicating with the holy: a brief history of instruction on praying and its application in scriptural drama’
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| 17.00-18.00 |
METh business meeting, with wine
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| 19.00 |
Optional conference dinner at Black Cumin, 50 Cotham Hill, Redland,
Bristol BS6 6JX. Menu available
here
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