TaPRA 2025 Theatre and Performance Histories CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Celebration
In her afterword to Tanja Beer’s Ecoscenography (Palgrave, 2021), Rachel Hann asks: “How can theatre and performance celebrate the interweaving of humans, things, and places?” We might extend that question to our discipline as a whole: how can theatre and performance scholars find the capacity to celebrate with and within our research? The last few years have been characterised by challenges to our discipline, sector, society,...
TaPRA 2024 Theatre and Performance Histories working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Theatre and Performance Histories: So what?
The Context: In August 2023, our working group began a response to Esther Kim Lee’s ‘Invitation to Theatre History’ (2022), which calls for the wider discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies to unite to ‘rebrand’ and ‘reimagine theatre history together’. Papers at last year’s conference explored the collaborative nature of our work, challenging the stereotype of the theatre and performance historian as a tweed-clad solitary...
Teaching Theatre and Performance Histories Mini-Conference 20-21 March 2024, University of Warwick
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Nearly twenty years ago, Anne Fliotsos and Gail Medford remarked on the lack of attention our discipline pays to teaching: “it is one of the great ironies of theatre scholarship that what most of us do, few of us study” (1). Much has changed in the decades since, from the kinds of students that we teach to the ways that they learn. Scholars have begun to take pedagogy more seriously, publishing essays on how to teach musical, queer, and global-majority theatre and performance histories, for...
