TaPRA 2025 Performance, Identity, and Community CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Looking Back to Look Forward: Where Have We Gone Wrong?
In light of the conference theme, ‘Milestones and Markers’, we’ve chosen to reflect on the themes of the Performance, Identity, and Community Working Group over the past few years, taking stock of what we’ve done, what we’ve not done, and what we want to do in the future. Methodological questions have cut through the CfPs over the last five years, with themes ranging from cruel...
TaPRA 2024 Performance, Identity and Community working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Resistance/refusal in the afterlives of performance
This year, we continue our focus on methods (both contemporary and historical) and the epistemic politics in and of performance. To that end we are turning our focus to the afterlives of performance, and specifically, the politics and ethics of creating and maintaining those afterlives, with an emphasis on queer and anti-colonial approaches that resist or refuse closed/ untroubled legacies.
How does a politicised framing of...
