David Coates
@davidjcoates.bsky.social
Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
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?
March 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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?
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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:
Backstage at Gripsholm, one of my favourite historical theatres in Sweden!
March 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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:
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.
Meike's book is ready for pre-order! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/performin...
Performing Citizenship and German Amateur Theatricals
This open access book proposes a revision of 19th-century theatre history and examines the contribution of amateur theatre practice to European theatre, by shif…
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March 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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.
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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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March 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
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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?...
1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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March 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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?...
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📣 Deadline is coming soon! Monday 17 March 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Brussels time) 📢
Want to be an #intern at the ERC? Or know someone who would?
Applications for the October '25-February '26 session are open!
Discover the details 👉 traineeships.ec.europa.eu
When applying, don't forget to select the ERC ☑️ as your #1 choice 🧡.
#internship #traineeship #trainee #research #science
Applications for the October '25-February '26 session are open!
Discover the details 👉 traineeships.ec.europa.eu
When applying, don't forget to select the ERC ☑️ as your #1 choice 🧡.
#internship #traineeship #trainee #research #science
March 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
📣 Deadline is coming soon! Monday 17 March 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Brussels time) 📢
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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...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
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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...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
Conference Theme, Calls for Papers and Timeline
warwick.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
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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.
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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.
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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...
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.
⏰Reminder that the deadline to submit to present, perform, provoke or celebrate at #TaPRA2025 is tonight at midnight. Please use the link on Warwick's page to apply.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
March 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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.
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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 🗃️
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Applications + 2 page CV to m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk by 31 March 2025 #18thC #skystorians #ecr 🗃️
www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
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March 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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/...
Applications + 2 page CV to m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk by 31 March 2025 #18thC #skystorians #ecr 🗃️
www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
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 .
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March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
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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.
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.
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
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.
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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…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
March 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
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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...
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...
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
February 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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...
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...
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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
“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
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...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
“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
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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.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
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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
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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
February 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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...
TaPRA Conference 2025
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February 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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...