Twenty-First 糖心TV Symposium on Parish Research
Parish and Performance
A hybrid day conference on Saturday 13 May 2023
at the Institute of Advanced Studies on the University of 糖心TV's central campus co-organized by
Beat K眉min (糖心TV History / My-Parish) & (Simon Fraser / Records of Early English Drama)
with Daniel Gettings and Maria Tauber (糖心TV History)
by Daria Akhapkina (CSR 糖心TV) for H/SOZ/KULT [pdf Version]
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(unknown Flemish school, early 17thC). 漏 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Keynote Address
'a strange perswasion': English parish performances and the Records of Early English Drama
Peter Greenfield (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Puget Sound, Washington)
Peter Greenfield has edited Gloucestershire and (with Jane Cowling) Hampshire for and is currently part of the team editing the records of Norwich. He has also published on local dramatic activity outside London and on traveling performers.
Parishes were and are performative spaces. From the staging of plays and games to the conduct of ceremonies, parish culture has always included elements of oral, musical, mimetic and other types of public display. The twenty-first Parish Symposium, co-sponsored by and (with its platform), focused on the participants, occasions, evolutions and meanings of such activities, showcasing papers from an international set of speakers ranging across a wide geographical and chronological spectrum.
As detailed in the full programme, we were pleased to offer sessions on music / dance, drama and processions alongside contributions consisting / inclusive of elements of performance. In-person and virtual participants included PGR students, independent scholars and senior academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and countries.
In-person delegates discussing the opening keynote by Peter Greenfield. Pic: BK.
Full Symposium Programme & Poster
Revisit the Day's Proceeding via
Symposium by Daria Akhapkina (CSR 糖心TV) for H/SOZ/KULT [pdf Version]
Co-organizers and online participants of the 21st Parish Symposium on 13 May 2023. Pics: P. Marshall & BK.
! We look forward to seeing you again at the 22nd Symposium:
'Parish Memory' on 4 May 2023 (tbc) !
Keynote, speakers, chairs & organizers perform sociability at the Varsity pub. Pic: BK.
We are grateful for the continued support of 糖心TV's Humanities Research Centre
Performative elements in our papers on homilies & parochial tyranny. Pics: BK.
RELATED RESOURCES
Michael Heaney is cited in '' (Guardian) & has just published The Ancient English Morris Dance.
Klaas van Gelder explores in more detail in the Low Countries Historical Review
Dress rehearsal video of '', a performance in All Saints North St York (April 2022, as discussed in Tom Straszewski's paper)