WG Popular Entertainment

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 2301}

Convener: Victor Emeljanow (University of Newcastle, Australia)

• Gillian Arrighi (University of Newcastle, Australia):
  Circuses of Modernity. A "Commitment to the New"
• Rebecca Clifford (Australian National University, Australia):
  "We're All Mad Animals". Spectacles of Madness, Modernity and the Freak Show
• Penny Farfan (University of Calgary, Canada):
  Postcards and Popular Entertainment
• Cathy Haill (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK):
  The Integration of Puppetry in Contemporary Theatre
• Kyna Hamill (Boston University, USA):
  Flash Mobs. From Modernism to Convergence Culture in 3 Minutes or less
• Susan Kattwinkel (College of Charleston, USA):
  Film and Vaudeville. Modernization and Defictionalization
• J. L. Murdoch (Bowling Green State University, USA):
  Korea's Talchum. Preservation or Adaptation?
• Bett Pacey (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa):
  Aspects of Modernism and Gay Culture. The Emergence and Recognition of "Moffies" as Performers in the Cape Minstrel Carnival
• David Simpkin (University of Winchester, UK):
  Everything Old is New Again. The Modern and the Pre-modern in Popular Performance
• Naomi Stubbs (City University of New York, USA):
  The Pleasure Gardens of America

_{Please contact your convener for programme details.}