A massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who attended our conference. The programme is reproduced below. We will continue updating this space with photographs, recordings, and information.
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Unless otherwise specified, all events will take place at the School of English, Kennedy Hall on The Scores. Directions available in the Conference Google Map.
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10:00 Check in (with tea and coffee)
10:30 Welcome
10:45 Keynote Address from Professor Paul Readman (King’s College London): ‘Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2020: Identity, Community and the Performance of the Past’
11:45 Historical Pageant Materials Exhibition at the University Special Collections Martyr’s Kirk Library
12:30 Catered Lunch
13:45 Panel: Modernist Writers and the Pageant Genre in Novels and Poetry: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Charles Williams, and W. H. Auden
- Josh Phillips (University of Glasgow): Woolf’s Wartime Pageant for Peace: Between the Acts, ‘Anon’ and ‘The Reader,’ and the Staging of Literary History
- Tom Poynor (University of St Andrews): The Heavenly Pageant of Descent into Hell
- Isobel Montgomery Campbell (Martin Shaw Trust): The Business of Art: The Making of The Rock and Judgement at Chelmsford
15:15 Martin Shaw: From the Church to the Theatre: Free Public Concert of Martin Shaw’s Pageant Play Music at the St Leonard’s Chapel
16:10 Round Table Discussion
- Dr Angela Bartie (University of Edinburgh)
- Parker T. Gordon (University of St Andrews)
16:50 Closing Remarks
Professor Paul Readman (King’s College London), and Dr Angela Bartie (University of Edinburgh) are both researchers for the pageant database The Redress of the Past.
Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants 