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Dear Colleagues,
TaPRA is pleased to announce that the 2006 Annual Conference of the Theatre and Performance Research association (TaPRA) will be hosted by the University of London at the Central School of Speech and Drama (in Swiss Cottage), from Thursday, 7th September to Saturday 9th September, 2006.
Calls for papers will be made through TaPRA's Working Groups in the near future, and details of registration, the programme, and accommodation will be posted thereafter. For the moment, here are the dates for your diary!
Best wishes,
Kate Newey
(TaPRA Conference Secretary)
TaPRA is a new British 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. TaPRA 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.
Current TaPRA Working Groups are:
Theatre History and Historiography
(Convenors: Jacky Bratton/Jim Davis)
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Theatre Performance and Philosophy
(Convenors: Daniel Meyer Dinkgrafe, Anwen Jones)
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Performing Bodies
(Convenors: Colin Counsel, Joshua Sofaer)
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Performance, Identity and Community
(Convenors: Jen Harvie/Michael McKinnie)
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New Technologies for Theatre
(Convenors: Jem Kelly, Andy Lavender)
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Applied and Social Theatre
(Convenors: James Thompson/Helen Nicholson)
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Directors / Collectives
(Convenors: David Bradby, Maria Delgado/Brian Singleton)
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Scenography and Visual Performance
(Convenors: Chris Baugh/Helen Iball)
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The Documentation of Performance
(Convenors: Viv Gardner/ Ann Featherstone)
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Performance as Research
(Convenors: Baz Kershaw/Paul Allain)
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Prof. Kate Newey
Head, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
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