You are invited to attend this one day symposium which explores the relationship between art, theatre and visual culture in the nineteenth century. This event follows on from the ‘Shared Visions’ conference which took place at Warwick University in February 2012. Invited speakers will give papers and position statements that look across disciplinary boundaries to consider the issues which underlie the unprecedented level of interchange between theatre and the visual arts during this period.

Programme

10.00 – 11.30: Welcome followed by Panel 1:

Shearer West, University of Oxford, position statement

Jim Davis, University of Warwick, Artists and Actors in the Age of Romantic Sociability

Marcus Risdell, Curator, Garrick Club, Actor, painter, collector, photographer: Theatre and its collections

11.30 - 12.00: Tea & Coffee

12.00 – 1.30: Panel 2

Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol, Grangerizing Theatre History: Public Events, Stage Celebrity and Visual Culture

Kate Newey, University of Exeter, The Industrial Sublime

David Mayer, University of Manchester, Trouble at t’ millpond: an early film and a late-Victorian stage

1.30 – 2.15: Lunch

2.15 – 3.45: Panel 3

Stephen Bann, University of Bristol, Exhibiting Theatricality: Further Thoughts on Delaroche

Patricia Smyth, University of Warwick, ‘Unimaginable Illusion’: Emotional Response in Nineteenth-Century Art and Theatre

Kurt Taroff, Queen’s University Belfast, The Spectacle Within: Symbolist Painting and Minimalist Mise-en-Scène

3.45 - 4.15: Tea & Coffee

4.15 – 5.00: Concluding Discussion followed by Drinks Reception.

Symposium fee: £20.00 (£10.00 postgraduates)

Registration is open: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/staff/jim_davis/sharedvisions

For further information on the symposium please contact patricia.smyth@nottingham.ac.uk or Jim.Davis@Warwick.ac.uk.