Northern Modernism Seminar
University of Birmingham
Friday, 15th March 2013
University of Birmingham
Friday, 15th March 2013
10.15-10.45 Registration & Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome: Andrzej Gasiorek
11.00-12.00 Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford) ‘Biology and the
Female Body on Stage: Reproductive Issues in Early Modernist Theatre’.
12.00-1.00 Claire Warden (University of Lincoln) ‘Saluting the Red Army: Basil
Dean's Russian adventures’.
1pm-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Daniel Moore (University of Birmingham) “A revolution of
incalculable effect”: Marion Richardson and Modern Art at School.
3.00-3.15 Tea & Coffee
3.15-4.15 Scott Klein (Wake Forest University) “You Must Speak”: Silence,
Scale, and Politics in Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
4.15-5.15 Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University) “Saved from the blessings of
civilization”: John Ford, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism
Enquiries and Registration to Rebekah Lockyer: rlc832@bham.ac.uk