TaPRA 2023, Theatre and Performance Histories Working Group: Collaboration and Co-Creation in Theatre and Performance Histories
Deadline: April 11, 2023
Theatre and Performance Histories Working Group
Collaboration and Co-Creation in Theatre and Performance Histories
TaPRA 2023, 30 August – 1 September, The University of Leeds
In Allure of the Archive (1989), Arlette Farge paints a picture of the historian at work in the archive – the place that is perceived to be their natural environment. Farge’s ‘insider’s account of how historians practice their craft’ (xiii) presents them as exotic and eccentric creatures that ‘could...
TaPRA 2020, 2 – 4 September, Liverpool Hope University, Theatre History and Historiography Working Group CfP: Working with the past, operating in the present, looking to the future
Deadline: April 17, 2020
‘To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history.’
(Cicero)
In his 2004 article Thomas Postlewait ruminated on a ‘Disciplinary Mandate’ for theatre historians and considered the ways in which the field might develop in years to come, asking ‘How, then, will our discipline define itself tomorrow?’
Since the early years of this...
