CFP: Performance, Indentity, Community Workgroup (UK & Ireland) (6/13/05; TaPRA, 9/8/05-9/10/05)

                                          T a P R A

            Theatre and Performance Research Association
                      Inaugural conference 2005
                 Thursday 8-Saturday 10th September
                    The University of Manchester

CFP: Performance, Identity and Community Research Workgroup

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the inaugural Theatre and Performance Research Association
conference, we invite the submission of proposals for presentations to
the Performance, Identity and Community research workgroup.

The relationship between performance, identity and community has become
a significant critical concern in theatre and performance. We wish to
encourage the submission of proposals that engage the rubric for the
panel inventively and interrogatively. While we anticipate that
colleagues will interpret the panel's concerns widely, the following
questions may begin to outline some critical contours:

- How might performance be a locus for the formation, re-formation, and
questioning of communities and identities?
- What conceptual, methodological, historical and practical challenges
does the intersection of performance, identity and community pose?
- What is the potential efficacy and what are the potential limitations
(however defined) of linking performance with issues of community and
identity?

Proposals should take the form of an abstract of no more than 350
words, and presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in
length. The deadline for receipt of proposals by the workshop
convenors is July 13, 2005. Please incorporate the information
indicated in the brief form copied below. Also copied below is the
full description of the conference.

Please send your proposal to the workgroup convenors at
j.harvie_at_qmul.ac.uk and m.r.mckinnie_at_bham.ac.uk. Copies should also be
sent to the conference organisers at viv.gardner_at_manchester.ac.uk and
maggie.gale_at_manchester.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you in Manchester in September.

Regards,

Jen Harvie
School of English and Drama
Queen Mary, University of London

Michael McKinnie
Dept. of Drama and Theatre Arts
University of Birmingham

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                       T a P R A
            Theatre and Performance Research Association
                      Inaugural conference 2005
                    The University of Manchester
                 Thursday 8-Saturday 10th September

                    Paper/Presentation proposal

Research Workgroup:

Name:

Contact address:

Proposed title:

Summary (no more than 350 words)

  T a P R A
            Theatre and Performance Research Association

T a P R A is a new British and Irish research association founded in
order to foster and sustain research in all theatre, performance and
related areas in British and Irish Universities and allied
institutions. This initiative is, in part, a response to the
competitive, and divisive, climate that has developed incrementally
over the past decade within British theatre research as a result of the
RAE and other government policies. T a P R A has also been set up in
recognition of the fact that in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales,
in not having a 'local' umbrella forum dedicated exclusively to
research, we have not been able to reap the intellectual and other
benefits that such association provides, nor been able to facilitate
regular scholarly exchanges between the research communities. Above
all this initiative is based in a positive desire to meet with fellow
'local' scholars in the field and exchange research, challenges,
questions and anxieties, and to explore synergies and diversities.

We are holding our inaugural conference at the University of Manchester
and would be grateful if you could distribute the enclosed information
to anyone you think might be interested in presenting a paper. The
conference will also include a membership registration process and an
election for the officers of the new organisation which has initially
been set up by twenty British and Irish academics working in the field.

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