News and Events
NEWS AND EVENTS
FUTURE ISTR CONFERENCES
Our most sincere thanks to Dr. Patrick Lonergan, Dr. Lionel Pilkington, Dr. Charlotte McIvor and Dr. Siobhan O'Gorman for organising the 2012 ISTR Conference at NUI Galway.
The Irish Society for Theatre Research is happy to announce that the 2013 Annual Conference will be held at Birkbeck, University of London in November. Further details and the Call for Papers will posted in due time.
Irish Memory Studies Research Network
'Laundry and the memory of the Magdalen Laundries' by Louise Lowe
As part of the Gender and Commemoration Lecture Series coordinated by Dr. Emilie Pine and chaired by Dr. Miriam Haughton. The talk was presented at the UCD Humanities Institute on 12 February 2013 and the podcast as well as the video of the production are now available on the website of the Humanities Institute at the following link:
http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/
Biopolitics Conference Podcasts
Podcasts from a biopolitics conference titled Biopolitics, Society and Performance which took place from October 31st to November 2nd 2012 in Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub is now viewable online. To listen to the podcasts and to find out more information about the conference please follow this link:
http://www.tcd.ie/drama-film-music/news/
ISTR Related Events
Check out our Gallery for pictures of The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image Book Launch, edited by Monica Insinga and Selena Daly, 7 February 2013, Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin
If interested in the collection check our Publications page or e-mail monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie and selena.daly@ucd.ie
Conferences of Interest
Contemporary Gendered Performance and Practice
Queen's University Belfast
12th-13th April 2013
Conference Schedule (Provisional)
Panels or Performances will take place in the Seminar Room, Rehearsal Room or Brian Friel Theatre (BFT), 20 University Square.
Friday 12th April 2013
11.30 - 12.50: Performance Panel (BFT)
Alison Bory, Gretchen Alterowitz, and Amanda Hamp: Like a turtle without a shell, or crow's feet (Dance Performance)
Catherine Cabeen: Hair Trigger (Dance Performance)
12.50 - 2.00: Lunch
2.00 - 3.20: Parallel Panels
Panel A (BFT)
Stefania Marghitu and Conrad Ng (via Skype): 'Defying the Postfeminist Masquerade: Lena Dunham and the Imperfect Body of Girls'
Parida Manomaiphibul: 'Fatale Femmes of Longka: Uncovering Discourses on Female Identity in Thai Soap Operas'
Jennifer O'Meara: 'He Said, She Said: Dialogue and Gender in Contemporary Cinema'
Panel B (Seminar Room)
Ciara Murphy: 'Gender as Space: Marina Carr's Low in the Dark'
Sara Reimers: 'Legitimising Laughter: Staging a Comic Shrew'
Laura Baggs: 'Julius Caesar Re-Dressed: Cross-gender Casting in Contemporary Shakespeare Performance'
3.20 - 3.30: Tea and Coffee Break
3.30 - 5.15: Parallel Panels
Panel A (BFT)
Cara Berger: "Identifying the Feminine in the Postdramatic through Practice-based Research"
Linda Stupart: "This Association"
John D'Arcy: "Breath and SAYESEX"
Dr. Shane Pike: "Masculinities at Play: Some Practice-led Research into (re)presentations of Masculinity in Australian Theatre"
Panel B (Seminar Room)
Cormac O'Brien, Positively Irish: Reconciling the HIV-Positive Body and National Identity in Irish Theatre.
Bryan Hogan, "The Queerest Act"
Niall Rea: "Towards an Obscenography: Queering Performance Design"
Armanc Yildiz: "Tactics of Doing: Queer 'Possibilities' and the Sex Shops of Amsterdam"
End of Day: Wine Reception
Saturday 13th April 2013
10.15 - 11:35: Performance Panel (BFT)
Caroline Astell-Burt: Performance Intervention (Puppet Performance)
Edina Husanovic: "Dis-Orient Express: Performances of Oriental Femininity along the Route of the Orient Express" (combination dance performance & paper presentation)
11.35 - 11.50: Tea and Coffee Break
11.50 - 1.10: Parellel Panels
Panel A (Rehearsal Room)
Tara Alturi: "Eyes and Arms: Hugging Mothers, Present Artists, and More than Internet Connection"
Anna Khimasia: "Insecure and Contingent: The Work of Canadian Performance Artist Cara Tierney"
Hannah Ballou, "Lady and The Tramp: Staging dissonance in the female comic body"
Panel B (BFT)
Lisa Brown: "Close Shaves: Agamben's Whatever Being and Moustachioed Memes"
Dr. Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez: "'Bowties are cool': Subverting queer masculinities in British Science Fiction: Doctor Who (2010-2013)"
Rhianna Humphrey: "Beyond Born this Way"
1.10 - 2.00: Lunch
2.00 - 3.20: Parallel Panels
Panel A (Rehearsal Room)
Ariane de Waal: "The 'Griefless Girlfriend' and the Deconstruction of Heroic Masculinity in Contemporary British War Drama"
Elin Nicholson: "Female Theatre Practitioners in Palestine"
Kasia Leach: "'Our breasts are also dripping': 'Piggish' Challenging the Superiority of Biological Motherhood and Dethroning 'Human' in Antonina Grzegorzewska's Migrena and Anna Augustynowicz's Performance Thereof"
Panel B (BFT)
Dr. Paula Blair: "Non-Specific Threat: Challenging Constructs of Masculinity in Willie Doherty's Video Installations"
Chris Bell: "A Captive Masculinity: Performing Masculinity in the Prisons of Northern Ireland"
Laura Aguiar: 'We Were There: The Women of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison'
3.20 - 3.30: Tea and Coffee Break
3.30 - 5.00: Keynote
Professor Elaine Aston: Title TBD
End of Conference: Wine Reception
For further reference on registration and ISTR Gender and Performance Working Group meeting on the 14th April, go to http://performinggender2013.wordpress.com/
Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention
CDE 2013, Prague
Thursday 30th May - Sunday 2nd June 2013
Ondrej Pilný and Clare Wallace (Charles University)
As a public and communal art form, theatre has long been understood as a space for the exploration and performance of power, protest, intervention and identity. While debates around theatre and politics may be as old as theatre itself, both terms must be recognized as moving targets. The heritage of Brecht and the history of activist theatres of the 1960s and 1970s meet crucial challenges in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Amelia Howe Kritzer's concluding chapter to Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain (2008) points to one of the most pervasive of these challenges at the turn of the century: that of postmodern detachment from the political. The post-89 political arena has featured an alleged "end of history", followed by the inauguration of an age of terrorist threat to the repercussions of globalized neoliberal policies; it presents a complex and contradictory field of engagement, one in which community has been etiolated, and in which activism or intervention may seem naïve or pointless. What does political engagement mean to theatre practitioners in the twenty-first century?
The 2013 CDE conference aims to investigate the relations between the political and the theatrical in this recent context, to explore the enactment, representation or interrogation of community in performance, the nature of intervention both creative and critical.
We invite papers in English of 20 minutes length. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• Theatre as criticism
• The politics of theatre criticism
• Political theatre vs. theatre and politics
• Acts of intervention
• Aesthetics and politics
• Censorship
• Reflectionist and interventionist attitudes
• The politics of representation
• Gender and race
In accordance with CDE's constitutional policy, papers should deal exclusively with contemporary (i.e. post-Beckettian, post-1989) theatre and drama in English.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2012
Conference website: http://cde2013.ff.cuni.cz/
Contact: Clare Wallace klara.wallace@gmail.com
Venue: Masarykova kolej (Masarykova residence, Czech Technical University) Thákurova 1, Praha 6
ISTR CONFERENCES
Perform, or Else!
New Perspectives on Theatre Studies
Irish Society for Theatre Research, National University of Ireland, Galway, 26-28 October 2012
Please find below the final programme