CFP: Theatre and Performance Research Association (UK & Ireland) (6/13/05; 9/8/05-9/10/05)

                              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.

 Thanks in advance for you help with this matter.

 Maggie Gale and Viv Gardner
Conference organisers
(email posted on behalf of TaPRA by Jen Harvie, j.harvie_at_qmul.ac.uk)

                              T a P R A

            Theatre and Performance Research Association
                      Inaugural conference 2005
                 Thursday 8-Saturday 10th September
                    The University of Manchester
CALL FOR PAPERS: This is a call for papers for the inaugural conference of
TaPRA, a new research association which aims to reflect and promote current
research in theatre and performance in the context of UK and Irish
Universities and other sister organisations. The inaugural conference will
have research workgroups in the following areas:

                 Theatre History and Historiography
                 (Convenors: Jacky Bratton/Jim Davis j.bratton_at_rhul.ac.uk,
Jim.Davis_at_warwick.ac.uk)

                 Theatre Performance and Philosophy
           (Convenors: Daniel Meyer Dinkgrafe, Anwen Jones
 dam_at_aber.ac.uk, aej_at_aber.ac.uk)

                          Performing Bodies
              (Convenors: Colin Counsel, Joshua Sofaer
 c.counsell_at_Londonmet.ac.uk, j.sofaer_at_mdx.ac.uk)

                 Performance, Identity and Community
               (Convenors: Jen Harvie/Michael McKinnie
j.harvie_at_qmul.ac.uk, m.r.mckinnie_at_bham.ac.uk)

             New Technologies for Theatre
                (Convenors: Jem Kelly, Andy Lavender
j.v.kelly_at_ucc.ac.uk, a.lavender_at_cssd.ac.uk)

                     Applied and Social Theatre
             (Convenors: James Thompson/Helen Nicholson
james.thompson_at_manchester.ac.uk, h.nicholson_at_rhul.ac.uk)

                       Directors/ Collectives
       (Convenors: David Bradby, Maria Delgado/Brian Singleton
d.bradby_at_rhul.ac.uk, m.m.delgado_at_qmul.ac.uk, bsnglton_at_tcd.ie)

               Scenography and Visual Performance
                 (Convenors: Chris Baugh/Helen Iball
C.L.Baugh_at_kent.ac.uk, h.iball_at_hull.ac.uk)

                  The Documentation of Performance
              (Convenors: Viv Gardner/ Ann Featherstone
viv.gardner_at_manchester.ac.uk, vesta_at_rapidial.co.uk)

                      Performance as Research
                 (Convenors: Baz Kershaw/Paul Allain
baz.kershaw_at_bristol.ac.uk, p.a.allain_at_kent.ac.uk)

Please submit your proposal for a paper or presentation (these should be no
longer than 20 minutes) to the relevant Research Workgroup convenors by June
13th 2005. Please complete the proposal sheet and send it directly to the
Research. Workgroup convenor and to viv.gardner_at_manchester.ac.uk or
maggie.gale_at_manchester.ac.uk.

                            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)

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