Theatre History and Historiography
Full Name: Dr Hayley Bradley
Annual Conference Theme (if applicable): Industry Professionals/Professional Industry: European Legacies and Connections
What were the main points that emerged from your WG this year?
- Circles of association and networks (transnational, of power, friendship, identity, migration)
- Ways of mapping/cross-mapping and dynamics of exchange (and particularly challenges of mapping intangibility)
- Boundaries and crossovers in the legacies and connections of performance in Europe
- Focus of ‘histories’ and historicising the present and the changing models of theatre
- Collaboration
- Trajectories (of value and historical)
- Complexities of economics of theatre
- Industrial and anti-industrail ideologies and aesthetics of performance/theatre/histories
- Traditional and non-traditional structures
What was discussed at your business meeting?
*Reflections on:
- Interim Event (May 2019) ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ at Sheffield Hallam University
- TaPRA Conference (September 2019) WG theme of ‘European Legacies and Connections’ part of our trilogy on ‘Industry Professionals and Professional Industry’
*WG round-table discussion/thoughts regarding
1) Name of the working group
2) Future interim events
3) WG Conference theme 2020
*Next convenors – still soliciting interest for a WG Convenor
*Anything to feedback to the Exec/overall conference feedback
*AOB
Types of contributions:
Papers – with some joint papers
Number of formal contributors (those listed in book of abstracts) 15 papers
Approx. overall number of delegates who attended your WG Sessions 18-21
Composition of WG (PG, ECR, etc.)
Approx. 50% Full time academics, 30% ECR, 20% PG
Did you have any non-UK participants? Yes
If your WG hosted an Open Panel, do you have any feedback?
We did but nothing to report other than that it was well attended.
Any additional points or feedback not covered above?
In the business meeting, members again raised the issue of individuals ‘parachuting in’ to deliver a paper and then leaving (either the conference or the WG).
