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Dear Colleagues, The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA, www.tapra.org), will hold its 2nd Annual Conference at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, from September 7-9, 2006. The TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group would like to invite proposals for papers for this conference. Please send abstracts with a brief biographical note to the convenors, Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe [log in to unmask] or Dr Dan Watt [log in to unmask] by the deadline of 30 June 2006. For details on the working group's remit, see below and at TaPRA website: www.tapra.org Theatre Performance and Philosophy Mission Statement Ever since Aristotle's Poetics in the West, and Natyashastra in what is now South Asia, philosophy has played a major role in relation to theatre, both in explaining the phenomena associated with theatre and in influencing theatre practice and theory. Besides examining the often overlooked historical links between philosophy and theatre in the works and plays of given thinkers like Hegel and Sartre, of particular interest to the TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group will be the use of theatrical metaphors in philosophy and the notion of the "performative" and performance, from Austin's How To Do Things with Words to Derrida's "Signature, Event, Context". The radical transformations of philosophy undertaken by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Lyotard, Deleuze, Bataille, Debord, and Baudrillard offer philosophy itself as a theatre in which its poetic aspect is asserted as irreducible to any political or social agenda that may seek to define it. In examining the links between recent philosophical enquiry and theatre and performance this working group will explore the potential practical and theoretical implications of such a turn. Working Methods The TPP working group will meet annually at TaPRA conference and maintain a lively debate in between through an email list and research paper presentations at both Aberystwyth and Loughborough. An outlet for publications exists for appropriate titles, including conference proceedings, in the Rodopi series Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, for which TPP co-convenor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe serves as general editor, as well as through the refereed web journal at www.aber.ac.uk/cla We look forward to receiving your proposals. Dr Daniel Watt Lecturer in English and Drama Department of English and Drama Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU Tel: 01509 222956 Fax: 01509 269994 [log in to unmask] Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies University of Wales Aberystwyth Parry Williams Building Penglais Campus Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AJ Wales, UK Tel. 01970 622835 Fax 01970 622831 Email: [log in to unmask]