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Registration is now open for the major international
conference ‘Race, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Popular Stage’ (to be held
in the Storey Institute, Lancaster, 11-14 July 2012).
Please visit the website for further information (https://sites.google.com/site/victorianpantomime/2012-conference).
The full programme is available for download from the
website. A list of confirmed panels and speakers is to be found at the base of
this email. You’ll see an excellent line up of speakers from across the UK,
North America and Australia. John
MacKenzie will provide the keynote lecture: ‘All the Empire’s a Stage:
the Context and Performance of Imperialism’. (Emeritus of Lancaster, Edinburgh
etc). He is author of Propaganda and
Empire, Imperialism and Popular Culture and series editor of Manchester
University Press’ Studies in Imperialism. Jane
Pritchard (Victoria and Albert Museum) will deliver a special session
which includes the exhibition of early film footage highlighting dance
practice. The conference includes papers from academics working in the fields
of theatre history/performance studies, Victorian literature, cultural history
and museum studies. Cengage is sponsoring a special session on digital archives
and Victorian Studies.