(Pasted) Programme for the University of Warwick's Symposium on Parish Research on 13th May, 2023

 Twenty-First Warwick Symposium on Parish Research

Parish and Performance

Saturday 13 May 2023Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL

Co-organized by Beat Kümin (Warwick / My-Parish) & John Craig (Simon Fraser / Records of Early English Drama) with Daniel Gettings and Maria Tauber (Warwick)


‘The Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace’(unknown Flemish school, early 17thC). © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

FINAL PROGRAMME

9.45 – 10.15 Registration and Coffee (Institute of Advanced Study, Foyer)


10.15 – 10.30 Welcome and Introduction by the co-organizers (IAS Seminar Room)


10.30 – 11.30 Keynote Address, chaired by John Craig (Seminar Room)Peter Greenfield (University of Puget Sound),‘a strange perswasion’: English Parish Performances and the Records of Early English Drama



11.30 – 1 pm   Session 1: MUSIC, DANCE & CHARIVARI, chaired by Beat Kümin (Seminar Room)


Susan Skinner (University of Plymouth), ‘Music, Place and Culture: the Male Voice Choirs of two Cornish Fishing Communities’


Michael Heaney, ‘From Centre Stage to Outcasts: Morris Dancers in Parish Performance 1540-1660’


Taylor Aucoin (University of Edinburgh),  ‘The “Parish Football Fund” and the Hunt for Britain’s Nuptial Charivari’


Emily Winerock (Point Park University, USA/Shakespeare and Dance Project), ‘Choreographing Community or Performing Profanation? Competing Conceptions of Dancing in English Parishes, c. 1550–c. 1640’



1 – 1.45 pm LUNCH (IAS Common Room)



1.45 – 3.15 pm Session 2: DRAMA, chaired by Maria Tauber (Seminar Room)


Lynneth Miller Renberg (Anderson University), ‘Performing Joy: Plays and Emotion in Medieval York’


Lydia Fisher (University of Exeter), ‘The Drama of Stained Glass: an Examination of the 15th century Passion Window at St Kew, Cornwall’


Chris Highley (Ohio State University), ‘The Drama of the Parish: Performing Local Life in Early Modern London’


Kristi Flake (University of Warwick), ‘The Performance of the Book of Homilies in the English Parish, 1547-1720’




3.15 - 3.45 TEA




3.45 - 4.30 pm Session 3: PERFORMANCES – in the ‘Street’ space outside the IAS


David Fletcher (University of Warwick), ‘Parochial Tyranny’ – a Dramatic Reading


Tom ‘Strasz’ Straszewski (University of York), ‘“Heaven and Earth in Little Space”: Performing the Parish through the York Mystery Plays’








4.45 - 5.30               Session 4: PROCESSIONS, chaired by Daniel Gettings (Seminar Room)


Klaas Van Gelder (Vrije Universiteit Brussels/State Archives in Brussels), ‘The Parish as the Main Stage: Seigneurial Joyous Entries in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands’


Bela Mihalik (Institute of History, Budapest), ‘The Performance of Unity: Processions in Eger in the first decade of the post-Ottoman Era, 1687-99’





5.30 - 6.00 CONCLUDING REMARKS AND REFRESHMENTS (Seminar Room)





For further info please contact b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk and / or johnc@sfu.ca Any updates will be posted to the 2023 Symposium homepage at: http://warwick.ac.uk/my-parish/parishsymposia/performance 

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