PRESENT AND FUTURE ISTR CONFERENCES

 

ISTR ANNOUNCES:

 

 

 

THEATRE NOW

 

 

Current  Thoughts, Future Practices

 

 

Irish Society for Theatre Research

 

Research Symposium

 

25 February 2012, 10 am - 5pm

 

Project Arts Centre

 

 @The Cube

 

 

 

     09:30-10:00                  Registration

 

 

  10:00-11:15          Panel: 'Theatre Now: Current Thoughts and Future Practices

 

Patrick Mason, Raymond Keane, Mary Moynihan, Willie White

 

                         

                        Chair: E Weitz - Trinity College Dublin

 

 

11.15-11:30          Coffee Break

 

 

11:30-12:45          Panel 2: 'Racing, Lepping, Dancing and the Lord knows what': Rethinking the parameters of Irish theatre history'

 

Lionel Pilkington, Mark Phelan, Lillis Ó Laoire

 

                                Chair: Cathy Leeney - University College Dublin 

 

  12.45-13:30          Working groups, Introduction & breakaway     session: Historiography / Comedy / Gender / Class

 

 

13.30 - 14.30          Lunch Break

 

  14:30-15:30          Keynote: Jane Taylor - "On Not Keeping Body and      

Soul Together: an event in the history of the self." 

                      

                        Chair: Paul Murphy - Queen's University Belfast

 

 

15.30 - 15.45          Coffee Break

 

15:45-17:00          Panel 3: 'Theatre Now: Current Thoughts

                                                 and Future Practices'

Thomas Kilroy, Graham Whybrow, Kellie Hughes, Jim Culleton

 

                                Chair: R. Trench - Institute of Technology, Sligo

 

 

Book launches and wine reception upstairs

 

Focus 2012: Interfaces Between Irish and European Theatre, Journal, editor Maria Kurdi, Launched by Melissa Sihra.

 

Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice, editor Rhona Trench, Launched by Stephen Rea.

 

 €10 (unwaged) €20 (includes annual membership fee of ISTR)

 

 

The 9^th annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference will take place in June 2012 in Derry/Londonderry, hosted by the School of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster, in the former Foyle Arts Centre and previous home of Field Day Theatre Company.

 

The conference aims to build upon the scholarly work already done by the Irish Theatrical Diaspora project, and to extend it in an exploration of performances of 'The North'. Tracing the trajectories of emigrants from the North of Ireland to Scotland, Newfoundland, New England and Canada, the conference aims to analyze and explore performative and  theatrical representations of 'The North' and the northerly migration of peoples. This migration stretches back to the Flight of the Earls and the Famine, and also includes recent historical events such as the exiling of individuals and families by paramilitary groups during and after the 'Troubles'; movements of population within Northern Ireland in response to violent sectarianism, and economic and cultural migration. It further aims to recognize Northern Ireland's history of immigration, most famously of the Chinese community which established itself in Belfast in the early 1960s, and the recent establishment of Central and Eastern European communities, which are slowly reshaping Northern Ireland's cultural landscape and conception of diversity. 

 

'Performance' in this case includes theatre, dance, spectacle, and all aspects of the performing arts, as well as extra-theatrical activity - such as parades and community gatherings - that foreground 'the North' in some way.

 

Possible topics include:

·         Dynamics of Space and Place;

·         The  utopian North: the pure North of the imagination;

·         Performance of Exile, Emigration, Migration, Immigration;

·         Northern Connections: Ulster/Northern Ireland, Canada, Newfoundland, Scotland, New England in performance;

·         Performances of identity (Apprentice Boys; Orange Order; Easter parades; performance of paramilitarism and of peace; murals; public memorials) in Northern Ireland and in diaspora;

·         Intercultural and Multicultural performance in Northern Ireland;

·         Borders, Borderlands and No-Man's-Lands

 

Keynote speakers will be announced soon.

Deadline for proposals (max. 250 words) along with a brief bio and contact details: Friday, 24^th February, 2012 to:

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick
School of Creative Arts
University of Ulster
Foyle Arts Building

Northland Road, Derry BT48 7JL

l.fitzpatrick@ulster.ac.uk 

 

The conference organizers welcome applications from scholars at any stage of their career, and particularly encourage graduate students to submit proposals.

 

For more information on Irish Theatrical Diaspora personnel, conferences, and publications, please visit http://www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2008 ISTR Symposium, UCD Blackrock, 4-5 April 2008

 

 

Conference programme, abstracts