At the annual conference of TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research
Assocoation, see http://www.tapra.org), to be held at the University of
Birmingham, 5-7 September 2007, the TaPRA working group Theatre, Performance
and Philosophy will meet to discuss the topic of Ethical Implications of
Theatre Practice. Papers are invited that address this topic from a broad
range of angles: issues you may want to discuss include (but are not
restricted to) these:
· Are there, or should there be limits beyond which theatre should
not go?
· Is it all just a matter of taste, and therefore relative,
subjective, personal, and therefore ultimately not relevant for or
interesting to public / critical / academic debates?
· What are the criteria a serious critical discussion needs to
establish and then adhere to?
· To what extent can the canon of ethical writing provide the
context?
· How have recent ethical debates in continental philosophy shaped
the contemporary theatre?
· Are the social and political aspects of theatre embedded in
questions of ethics, and if so are we able to consider these separately?
We are interested in papers that deal with particular ethical issues,
whether related to specific theatre practitioners/companies/texts, or
specific philosophical investigations of ethics, from Aristotle to
Wittgenstein and Levinas, applied to theatre and performance more generally.
Please send an abstract and a brief biographical note by Friday 29 June to
Dr Dan Watt ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
([log in to unmask])
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