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Book now via the University of Brighton online store. Performance only: £5 Symposium Part 1 and Part 2 & Performance: £50 / £20 (unwaged/student) Symposium Part 1 or Part 2 & Performance: £30 / £15 (unwaged/student) THE BRIGHTON ‘GRAND HOTEL’ BOMBING: HISTORY, MEMORY & POLITICAL THEATRE. A Commemoration of the 30th anniversary, 12th October 1984–2014. A TWO-PART SYMPOSIUM AND DRAMA PERFORMANCE To be held on Wednesday 15th/Thursday 16th October 2014, College of Arts and Humanities, Grand Parade, University of Brighton On 12th October 1984 a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) exploded in Brighton’s Grand Hotel, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, members of her Government, delegates attending the Conservative Party’s annual conference, and their families, were staying. Five people were killed and over thirty were injured, some seriously. The Brighton bombing was one of the most significant among nearly 500 incidents in the PIRA’s campaign of political violence in England over twenty-five years from 1973–97. It generated impassioned as well as critical reflection and debate, nationally across Britain and locally in Brighton and Hove, about how and why the armed conflict in and over Northern Ireland had come to this town in England, the political and ethical meanings of the attack, and its human consequences for those harmed by it. To mark the 30th anniversary of the Grand Hotel bombing, the University of Brighton is hosting a Commemoration that will revisit these questions and re-evaluate the significance of the event today, in the light of the Irish peace process that has brought the PIRA’s armed struggle to a close. The centrepiece is a work-in-progress reading of a new play by local dramatists Julie Everton and Josie Melia, which explores the causes and consequences of the event, highlighting the personal journey towards empathy of Pat Magee and Jo Berry within the ongoing wider peace process. The piece will be framed by a two-part symposium to discuss, firstly, the history, memory and legacy of the Irish Troubles in Britain; and secondly, Everton and Melia’s play, and the role of political theatre in exploring living histories of war and conflict in Britain and Ireland today. Speakers will include theatre practitioners, peace campaigners, political activists and leading academic scholars. The Commemoration is jointly organised by Wildspark Theatre Company and the Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence research cluster at the University of Brighton. Speakers include: Dr Gary McGladdery (Queen’s University Belfast) Nadine Finch (Barrister and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bristol, formerly Chair of the Labour Committee on Ireland) Stephen Hopkins (School of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester) Dr Lesley Lelourec (Centre for Irish Studies, Université Rennes 2) Sarah Jane Dickenson (School of Drama, Music and Screen, University of Hull) Julie Everton (School of Humanities, University of Brighton, playwright) Josie Melia (playwright) Jo Berry (Building Bridges for Peace) Paula McFetridge (Artistic Director, Kabosh Theatre Company, Belfast) Neil Fleming (principal writer, Hydrocracker Theatre Company, Brighton) Jem Wall (Artistic Director, Hydrocracker Theatre Company, Brighton) Dave Wybrow (Artistic Director, Cockpit Theatre, London) For further details and to book a ticket for the the symposium and the play, or for the play alone, visit http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/conflict/events/the-brighton-grand-hotel-bombing ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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