Theatre and Performance Studies News

Conference at the University of Warwick

_{Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019}

This research event will consider new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century stage spectacle, its meanings, its relationship to a wider visual culture, and its spectators. This period is associated with a widespread transformation of conceptions of vision and subjectivity, evidenced by an explosion of graphic imagery and new forms of visual experience such as panoramas and dioramas. Theatrical spectacle was at the centre of this emergent trans-medial, popular visual culture; yet there has been no major work to address this area since Martin Meisel’s seminal study, Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England, of 1983. Organized as part of the three-year AHRC-funded collaborative project, ‘Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century’, this event aims to foster cross-disciplinary discussion of spectacle and spectatorship in this period.

The University of Warwick’s Faculty of Arts has been named 44th in the world for Arts and Humanities by the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2019 by subject. The new ranking also places Warwick in the UK’s top 10 Arts and Humanities faculties at 9th=.

Professor Nadine Holdsworth presented a keynote speech ‘Theatre, Nation and Social Abjection: What Can Theatre Do?’ at The Modern English Drama Association of Korea (MEDAK) annual conference. The conference took place on Saturday 27^th of October at the University of Kookmin, Seoul, South Korea and drew 60 attendees, the largest turnout in MEDAK's recent history.