Recent Talks and Conference Papers by Professor Katharine Cockin

  • 29 October 2016, ‘Ellen Terry in Liverpool’, symposium for Late Victorian Literary Liverpool, organised by Mark Samuels Lasner and Professor Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware, USA held at the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool.

  • 31 July 2016, ‘Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig (and the Bach Inheritance)’, Who is Gordon Craig? Event, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage.
  • 29 July 2016, AHRC Searching for Theatrical Ancestors conference, British Library.

  • 25-29 July 2016, ‘Shakespeare’s Women and Ellen Terry’s Men’, International Association of University Professors of English: Triennial Conference, Institute of English Studies, London.
  • 15-18 June 2016 ‘The Figure of the Child in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement', Horrible Histories: Children's Lives in Historical Contexts conference, King's College London.

  • 8 March 2016: A keynote lecture on Edith Craig for the Durham University International Women's Day conference.
  • 26 March 2015: A conference paper on 'Performing Passion and Patronage: Rereading the Critical Exchanges Between George Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry' at the 39th Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, USA.
  • 18 March 2015: A public talk on 'Ellen Terry: Lives and Letters' at the Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
  • 15-17 September 2015, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Women’s Suffrage: Madhatters in Ganderland and Women’s Suffrage Drama’, Alice Through The Ages, University of Cambridge

  • 13-16 July 2015, ‘Transatlantic Shakespeare (1883-1910)’, Transatlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions, University of Liverpool.

  • 9-10 July 2015, ‘“Our Lady of the Lyceum” Performs “Ellen Terry”: Letters, Stories and Plots’, The Actress as Author, Chawton House Library, Alton.

  • 30 May 2015, ‘Clubs, Cliques and Pioneers: Problems in Materialism and The ‘Free Theatre’ 1891-1919’, Raymond Williams Now, Manchester.

  • 25-26 September 2014, ‘The Dancer, the Pioneer and the 'Don't Care Girl': 1911-25’ at the Exotic Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Drama, University of Oxford.

  • 28 July-1 August 2014, ‘Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and the “masque at the Scala”: Women’s Suffrage Drama and Stratification’, International Federation of Theatre Research, University of Warwick.

  • 10-11 July, 2014, ‘“Read between the lines”: Ellen Terry’s Letters’ (invited keynote lecture), Victorian and Edwardian Lives and Letters, University of Hertfordshire.

  • 26-28 June 2014, ‘A Modern Crusader (1912): Women’s Suffrage Drama and the ‘Fire of Prometheus’, ‘Modernism Now! British Association of Modernist Studies, London.

  • 31 May 2014, ‘Remembering Hrotsvit 1914: Strong Voices and Imprisoned Bodies’, Hrotsvit 2014, University of Hull.