***please note change of venue: 3/5 Woodland Road, rooms G4 / G5***

EMS Summer Symposium

We are delighted to welcome you to the annual EMS summer symposium.

Please note that we would appreciate an RSVP if you want to join us for lunch beforehand (free of charge), or for dinner after the event (at own cost). See contact details below. 

Programme

12.15-13.00 LUNCH
Please join us for lunch. If you could RSVP to indicate your attendance, that would really help with catering orders (but last minute change of plans are not a problem).

13.00-14.00 SESSION 1: Chair Tamsin Badcoe
Ellie Rycroft (Bristol, Theatre) - ‘Hair and the Semiotics of Difference in the Hollow Crown: War of the Roses’’
Edward Rendall (Bristol, English/History) - ‘A Frontier in Early Modern Drama: The Door, the Gateway, and the Stage Boundary as Entrances to the Supernatural Realm’

14.00-15.00 SESSION 2: Chair Alex Hoare
Chloe Church (Exeter/Bristol, Art History) — Paintings and Sermons in Counter-Reformation Rome: Durante Alberti’s Annunciation (1585) in Santa Maria ai Monti
John Reeks (Bristol, History) — 'The Quest for Unity: The Corporation of Bristol, 1646-1653'

15.00-15.30 COFFEE

15.30-16.30 SESSION 3: Chair Frank Blair
Ian Calvert (Bristol, English) — ‘Alternative Futures in Dryden's Virgil’
John McTague (Bristol, English) — ‘Collapsing Historical Distance in Behn’s The Roundheads and Dryden and Lee’s Duke of Guise’

16.30-17/30 KEYNOTE: Chair Matthew Steggle
Derek Dunne (Cardiff, English) — ‘Shakespeare's Licence’

17.30-19.00 DRINKS

19.00- DINNER
Everyone is welcome to join us for dinner (at own expense) at Bill’s, Queen’s Road (c. 10 mins walk from Arts Complex: https://bills-website.co.uk/restaurants/bristol). Please RSVP no later than Tuesday 25th June so we can make a group booking.