Graduate Seminars

Drama

DR S MEER, DR Z SVENDSEN AND DR A ROKISON, Drama Research Seminar (2S, 1½ hours, odd weeks) W.5 Drama Studio
The theme for this year’s seminar is ‘performance and its contexts’, examining the contemporary understanding of performance within different disciplines – including music, classics, art history, theatre – and how these different disciplinary constructions of performance might inform one another.

2  May Performance and its Contexts: Disciplinary Perspectives. Round Table discussion with Professors John Rink (Music) and Andrew Webber (MML), Dr. Julika Gittner (Architecture) and Clare Foster (Classics)

16 May Seeing the Victorian and Edwardian stage through early film: Professor David Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer will lead an illustrated discussion on the relationship between 19C theatre and film.

For further details of the programme and speakers, and for inclusion in the mailing list, e-mail zas21@cam.ac.uk. Graduate students, colleagues and academic visitors with interests in any aspect/period of drama or performance are welcome.