Events Calendar
Friday, October 25, 2019 - 11:00am - 06:30pm
11:00 -11:15 Welcome
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University)
11:15-12:30 Keynote
David Mayer (University of Manchester, emeritus)
12:30-1:30 Buffet Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel 1
Christine Gledhill (University of Leeds)
“Melodrama’s Modern: Challenges and Propositions”
Amy E. Hughes (University of Michigan)
“Pets, People, and the New ‘Dogaturgy’ of The Dog of Montargis”
Jim Davis (University of Warwick)
“Experiencing Melodrama: Perspectives on the Melodrama Audience”
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Panel 2
Taryn Hakala (CSU Channel Islands)
“The Modern Weaver Lad: Melodrama in Victorian Manchester”
Daniel A. Novak (University of Alabama)
“‘Pause + Picture’: Melodramatic Tableau, Visual Modernity, and Racial Performance”
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (Louisiana State University)
“Echoes and Whispers; or, How Elizabeth Polack Helped Emancipate the Jews, One Melodrama at a Time”
5:00-5:15 Concluding Remarks
Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University)
5:15-6:30 Reception
Registration is free, but important. Please RSVP to