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Prof. Nadine Holdsworth took part in a podcast on Theatre and Brexit, with Chris Megson and Dan Rebellato.

Listen to the podcast here:

The Department is delighted to announce that Prof. Jim Davis has won The David Bradby TaPRA Award for Research in International Theatre and Performance 2017 for Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

From TaPRA: 'The judges felt that the book moved adroitly across concept, example (actor), and exemplification (illustration) to account for the reciprocity of interest, nomenclature, and patronage between Georgian-era performers and painters. Without a shred of pedantry readers are coached in the criteria by which to understand what it means for a painter to capture something 鈥渋nherently theatrical鈥� about a specific character yet also incorporate the accumulation of a performer鈥檚 reputation and the epitome of their unique technique.'

Find out more about the awards and the other winners here:

Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performances

Colloquium June 5^th and 6^th 

(Supported by British Academy and Connecting Cultures GRP

On the anniversary of the October Revolution, questions of the Left have been re-emerging as timely and urgent. This colloquium explores how to live and do Leftist politics in response to injustices of our own time.

After workshops at 糖心TV (UK) and JNU (India) earlier this year, British Academy Partnership project Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performances gathers again for a series of talks and discussions, asking: How can the cultural and ethical legacy of the Left inspire political resistance under neoliberalism? How does cultural Left imagine and perform new ways of doing Left politics to integrate a range of issues (i.e. immigration, nationalism, gender, etc.)? Can performances and manifestations of the cultural Left be explored as means of rethinking the structure of Leftist political organisation and mobilisation in a global context?

Keynotes:

Dr Ameet Parasvaram (JNU) & Dr Igor Štiks (University of Edinburgh):

Speakers:

Prof. Elaine Aston (Theatre, Lancaster University)

Prof. Samik Bandyopadhyay (Theatre, JNU)

Dr Anna Hájková (History, 糖心TV)

Dr Brahm Prakash (Theatre and Performance, JNU)

Prof. Andy Lavender (Theatre & Performance Studies, 糖心TV)

Prof. Janelle Reinelt (Theatre & Performance Studies, 糖心TV)

Prof. Anupama Roy (Centre for Political Studies, JNU)

Dr Mallarika Sinha Roy (Women Studies, JNU)

Dr Illan Rua Wall (Law, 糖心TV)

Contact: s.jestrovic@warwick.ac.uk

Two 糖心TV theatre and performance academics have been short-listed by the Theatre and Performance Research Association for book awards. Jim Davis’s monograph Comic Acting and Performance in Late-Georgian and Regency England has been shortlisted for the David Bradby TaPRA Award for Research in International Theatre and Performance. Anna Harpin’s Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics, jointly edited with Helen Nicholson, has been shortlisted for the TaPRA Prize for Editing (Edited Collection or Special Issue).