TAPRA: new UK and Irish theatre and performance research association cfp

[Jen Harvie]

(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

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

                              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)