The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama
Faculty of English, University of Oxford
Lecture Theatre 2
September 25-26, 2014
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Programme
25 September
9:00 Registration
9:15-9:30 Opening remarks
9:30-10:15 Project presentation: The Representation of the ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-Century English Drama (Tiziana Morosetti and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Oxford)
10:15-11:15 First Keynote: ‘From the 1970s to the 1790s and the Importance of Metanarratives’ (Hazel Waters, Institute of Race Relations, London)
11:15-11:45 Refreshment break (Foyer)
11:45-1:15 Panel 1: Staging the Other in Georgian England
- ‘By a Nose or By a Hair: Bearding the Jew on the Georgian Stage’ (Toni Wein, California State University at Fresno)
- ‘The Jew on Stage: Exoticism and Ostracism in Dramas of Milman and Wade’ (Michael Bradshaw, Edge Hill)
- ‘The Exotic, the Magical, and the Ancient: Staging the Arabian Nights in Early Nineteenth-Century London’ (Melissa Dickson, Oxford)
1:15-2:30 Lunch (Senior Common Room)
2:30-4:00 Panel 2: Embodying the Other
- ‘Edwin Forrest: The Exotic American Body on the 19th-Century English Stage’ (Arthur W. Bloom, independent scholar)
- ‘“L’atelier de Canova”, Vauxhall Gardens, 1837: Sculpture and Body Doubles’ (Claire Jones, Chichester)
- ‘Becoming the Other: Pantomime techniques for staging the “Exotic” Body’ (Bernadette Plageman, Sorbonne/Sorbonne Nouvelle)
4:00-4:30 Refreshment break (Foyer)
4:30-5:30 Panel 3: Exotic Bodies between Theatre and the Novel
- ‘Impressment, Exoticism, and Enslavement: Revisiting the Theatre of War across the Nineteenth-Century’ (Sara Malton, Saint Mary’s, Halifax)
- ‘“Dancing on the Dead”: Performances of Slavery and Abolition in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda’ (Lucy Sheehan, Columbia)
5:30-6:30 Professor Heard’s Exotic and Curious Magic Lantern Show (Seminar Room K)
6:30 Welcome Reception (Senior Common Room)
26 September
9:00 Registration
9:30-10:30 Second Keynote: ‘Jumbomania; or, the English, their Elephant, and the Imperial Politics of the Early 1880s’ (Peter Yeandle, Manchester)
10:30-11:30 Panel 4: India on the Victorian stage
- ‘Transcultural Operatics of a Bodily Nature: Staging Indian Femininity in Solomon’s The Nautch Girl’ (Zara Barlas, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
- ‘Colonial Villains and Native Victims: Fin de siècle subversion in Murray’s Carlyon Sahib’ (Robert Dean, South Wales)
11:30-12:00 Refreshment break (Foyer)
12:00-1:00 Panel 5: Defining Britishness and the British Other
- ‘Grotesque Bodies, Parochial Lives: Offsetting the Exotic in 19th-Century British Drama’ (Jim Davis, Warwick)
- ‘Innoculative Hybridity: Blackface Performance and the Anti-Exotic’ (Michael Meewis, Warwick)
1:00-2:00 Lunch (Senior Common Room)
2:00-3:30 Panel 6: Female Bodies: fin de siècle and beyond
- ‘“That’s what a woman can do”: The representation of Women in the Victorian Music Hall’ (Louise Wingrove, Bristol)
- ‘“Shall it be Mark Antony?”: The Imperial Chant of the Abject-Exotic in G. B. Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra’ (Arup K. Chatterjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- ‘The Dancer, the Pioneer and the “Don’t Care Girl!”: 1911-25’ (Katharine Cockin, Hull)
3:30-4:00 Refreshment break (Foyer)
4:00-5:00 Panel 7: The Victorian Exotic as interpreted today
- ‘Singing the Exotic Body across the Atlantic: From Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado to Chicago’s Swing Mikado’ (Serena Guarracino, L’Orientale, Naples)
- ‘A Progressive Othello: Black Modernity in Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet (2012)’ (Sophie Duncan, Oxford)
5:00-6:00 Third Keynote: ‘“An Object Lesson to the Chinese Mind”: The Boxer Rebellion, Exoticism, and Abjection in Imre Kiralfy’s China, or the Relief of the Legations at the 1901 Military Exhibition’ (Ross Forman, Warwick)
- Closing remarks