Northern Modernism Seminar
15 March 2013
University of Birmingham
10.45 Welcome from Andrzej Gasiorek
11.00 Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), ‘Biology and the Female Body on Stage: Reproductive Issues in Early Modernist Theatre’
12.00 Clare Warden (Lincoln University), ‘Saluting the Red Army: Basil Dean’s Russian Adventures’
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Daniel Moore (University of Birmingham), ‘”A Revolution of Incalculable Effect”: Marian Richardson and Modern Art at School’
3.00 Tea and Coffee
3.15 Scott Klein (Wake Forest University), ‘”You Must Speak”: Silence, Scale and Politics in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
4.15 Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University), ‘”Saved from the Blessings of Civilization”: John Ford, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism’
5.15 Close.
All are welcome and attendance is free.
Attached is a poster to advertise the day. Enquires and registration to Rebecca Lockyer.
