David Coates

This week our @erc.europa.eu project team met in Stockholm. One of the highlights was travelling to Gripsholm Castle to see Gustav III’s court theatre - an amazing survival from the 18th century. Scene cloths still hang above the stage that haven’t been lowered since the 1770s. Tantalising right?

This week we had our project meeting in Stockholm. We were considering how contemporary cultural institutions connect to their local communities. We then thought about how this may apply to our historical examples. Over the next week we’ll share some of the things we got up to. Teaser below:

@methuendrama.bsky.social great to see this work coming to fruition!

The first book from our @erc.europa.eu project on ‘Performing Citizenship’, looking at amateur theatre in the German context, is now available for pre-order. Congratulations to Meike for getting this out in the world! Thank you @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for making this happen.

Sir Nathaniel Dance, Knt. Commander of the Earl Camden, in the service of the EIC (Tate). He is depicted from the bust up, in profile, looking to the viewer's left.

Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld
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YouTube video by BBC Archive 1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

If you have 10 mins and want to watch real Edwardian women talk about their experiences of being teenagers at the turn of the century, then this is for you. youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo?...

📣 Deadline is coming soon! Monday 17 March 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Brussels time) 📢

Mottled watercolour background with "TaPRA 2025. Deadlines Extended" written over it

Eight of our working groups and the TaPRA Gallery have extended their Call For Papers deadline to Tuesday 18 March. All details are available on the Warwick website here:

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

More details to come tomorrow but several of the TaPRA working groups have extended their CFPs until Tuesday 18 March. Please the webpage linked for first sight on which are still accepting submissions.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Thanks so much Céline!

Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.

Great article by @davidjcoates.bsky.social about theatre history, queer artists and embodied knowledge in @theconversation.com, and an excellent demonstration of the social role that theatre history plays.

theconversation.com/queer-theatr...

Keep those abstracts coming in for this year’s @tapra.bsky.social conference folks! It’s been great to see so many popping into the inbox from the online form over the last week. The deadline for papers is today.

Updated deadline: QMCECS/BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship to facilitate research in London libraries & archives. £500 travel/living expenses + accommodation in Mile End.

Applications + 2 page CV to m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk by 31 March 2025 #18thC #skystorians #ecr 🗃️
www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men . ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.

American voters:

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy.

SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Theatre and Performance Studies are delighted to have named one of our studios after our dear colleague Professor Jim Davis who passed away in 2023. His legacy in the department is significant. We’ll raise a toast to officially open it at the end of our 50th anniversary celebrations on 28 June 25.

Theatre feature: Beyond Oscar Wilde: Queering the Theatrical Past David Coates, an Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, has been retrieving histories of LGBTQ+ men to coincide with Queer History Month.

Theatre feature: Beyond Oscar Wilde: Queering the Theatrical Past -

David Coates, an Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, has been retrieving histories of LGBTQ+ men to coincide with Queer History Month.

www.britishtheatreguide.info/features/bey...

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

This will be great! @tapra.bsky.social #skystorians #c18th

The TaPRA Theatre and Performance Histories group have our next free online lecture on 5 March, 5-6.15pm GMT. Prof. Fiona Ritchie will present “Four Nights in Oxford in 1815: What the End of Dorothy Jordan’s Career Can Tell Us About Women and Regional Theatre”. Sign up: theatrehistory@tapra.org

A reminder that the calls for papers for the 13 working groups of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social) are live. We’ll be hosting the event here at Warwick from 27-29 August 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 10 March. Details: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

We’ve had a remarkable two days at Craig-y-Nos castle assessing the condition of the theatre and its assets. We hope to be able to share our findings through the Society for Theatre Research, who generously funded the work. We’ll use the findings to advocate for funding to conserve the theatre.

This is a second lavender scare. They're going to purge all LGBTQ employees from the federal government.

Get involved Find out more about how to take part in the festival

The call for applications for Being Human Festival 2025 is open! Funding available for public engagement with research activities to take place in November. Deadline 4 July 2025.
www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved #18thC #skystorians 🗃️