Cultures of Correspondence, July 2010


Early Modern Studies In Scotland Seminar
A One–Day Colloquium at the Centre for Early Modern Studies
University of Aberdeen, 24th July 2010



Speakers:

Suzanne Trill           on Women’s Letter-writing in Scotland
Alison Wiggins        on Bess of Hardwick’s Correspondence
James Daybell         on Early Modern Letter Books
Andrew Zurcher      on Letters of the Elizabethan Secretariat
Andrew Gordon       on Purloined Letters at the Elizabethan Court
Kenneth Austin        on Theodore Beza’s Correspondence Networks

To reserve a place please contact a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
Attendance £10
A limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries are available
For full programme go to www.abdn.ac.uk/emsis


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CULTURES OF CORRESPONDENCE: THE CONFERENCE
The One-Day Cultures of Correspondence Colloquium will be followed in 2011 by a conference jointly organised by
Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth &
Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
The conference ‘Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain, 1550-1640’
will take place at the University of Plymouth 14-16 April 2011,       

The Call For Papers is now available at
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/hpa        
and at the EMSIS website
www.abdn.ac.uk/emsis


Dr Andrew Gordon
Department of English
Taylor Building
University of Aberdeen



Shakespeare’s Globe Gesture Lab at The Globe

Shakespeare’s Globe Gesture Lab
 November 5th-7th 2010 at Shakespeare’s Globe

Advising artists about imitation, Leonardo da Vinci suggested they  “take pleasure in carefully watching those who talk together with gesticulating hands, and get near to listen to what makes them make that particular gesture” (fol. 1).  The Shakespeare’s Globe Gesture Lab will conduct a similar experiment by bringing together theatre practitioners, drama scholars, cognitive theorists and psychologists to investigate the relationship gesture and thought have to performance. What is the relationship between gesture and thought? How do actors incorporate gesture into their performances? How conscious is the actor’s hand? Can we develop a theory of acting or a method of actor training by studying historical gestures?

Over the three days, theatre practitioners will conduct experiments on the Globe stage and academics will give papers on a variety of topics related to these questions and together discuss the dynamic relationship between the hand and mind in performance.

Experiments include: Ben Naylor and Anna Morrissey (The Central School of Speech and Drama) ‘The Bulwer Project’ ; Tom Cornford (University of Warwick) ‘Thinking with Your Hands: Michael Chekhov’s “Language of Gestures”’; Stephen Purcell (Southampton Solent University) and Andy Kesson (University of Kent) ‘“Here, where you are”: Investigating Dramatic and Theatrical Space’

Speakers include: Dr Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, Virginia), Professor David McNeil (University of Chicago), Professor Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago, New Zealand), Dr Terri Bourus (Indiana University), Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe), Professor Geoff Beattie (Manchester University)

Registration opens in October. For more information, please contact Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper on farah@shakespearesglobe.com

Farah Karim-Cooper
Head of Research & Courses, Globe Education
020 7902 1439
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