Please see below for a notice on the next Voices and Books network event, which includes a number of talks likely to be of interest to Romanticists.\u00a0 Attendance is free.<\/p>\n
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AHRC Network \u2018Voices and Books 1500-1800\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Public Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday 11 November, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n Convenor: Dr Arnold Hunt with Professor Jennifer Richards<\/p>\n Location: The Conference Centre at the British Library<\/p>\n How did people read aloud in the past? How do we do that now? And why does it matter that we recover and reflect on this experience? At this workshop we will discuss the many different ways in which the experience of listening to books, past and present, can be recorded and analysed, and the archives we might use, from the British Library\u2019s Sound Archive to The Reading Experience Database. We will also hear and talk with the award-winning poet and radio broadcaster, Professor Sean O\u2019Brien, about writing for listeners.<\/p>\n 9.00: Arrival and welcome<\/p>\n 9.30: Chris Reid (QMUL): \u2018Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons, 1750-1800\u2019<\/p>\n 10.15: Arnold Hunt (British Library): \u2018Reading sermons aloud, 1600-1900\u2019<\/p>\n 11.00: Break<\/p>\n 11.30: Barbara Ravelhofer (Durham): \u2018Speech and Style in Early Modern Drama: lessons from the Shirley Project\u2019<\/p>\n 12.30: Buffet Lunch<\/p>\n 1.30: Josie Billington (Liverpool): ‘Shared Reading Aloud in Contemporary Practice: The Reader <\/em>Project\u2019<\/p>\n 2.15: Shafquat Towheed (Open University): ‘Recovering readers and listeners 1500-1800 for The Reading Experience Database’<\/p>\n 3.00: Break<\/p>\n 3.30: Sean O\u2019Brien (Newcastle) will read a selection of his poetry and answer questions about the practice of reading poetry aloud<\/p>\n 4.30: Concluding remarks.<\/p>\n This event is free and open to anyone who would like to come. If you are interested in attending, however, please contact the Network Co-ordinator, Dr Helen Stark: Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk<\/a>. (N.B. places may be limited and you will be asked for a deposit, to be returned)<\/p>\n We have bursaries for unsalaried ECRs (within 2 years of PhD) and PhD students; these will\u00a0cover some of the costs of travel\u00a0and accommodation\u00a0for attending\u00a0the workshop. If you would like this support, please send a short statement about how attendance would benefit your research to the Network Co-ordinator: Helen.Stark@ncl.ac.uk<\/a>. *DEADLINE FOR BURSARIES FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 5PM ON 31st<\/sup> OCTOBER 2014*<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please see below for a notice on the next Voices and Books network event, which includes a number of talks likely to be of interest to Romanticists.\u00a0 Attendance is free…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}