Theatre and Performance Research Association

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Theatre and Performance Research Association

Organisational Statement

TaPRA is a new British research association founded in order to foster and sustain research in all theatre, performance and related areas in British and Irish Universities and allied institutions.

This initiative is, in part, a response to the competitive, and divisive, climate that has developed incrementally over the past decade within British theatre research as a result of the RAE and other government policies.

TaPRA has also been set up in recognition of the fact that in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in not having a 'local' umbrella forum dedicated exclusively to research, we have not been able to reap the intellectual and other benefits that such association provides, nor been able to facilitate regular scholarly exchanges between the research communities.

Above all this initiative is based in a positive desire to meet with fellow 'local' scholars in the field and exchange research, challenges, questions and anxieties, and to explore synergies and diversities.

 

TaPRA Conference 2009

TaPRA Conference 2009

TaPRA 2009 will be hosted by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth
Monday 7 September - Wednesday 9 September, 2009

Visit the 2009 Conference page, here:  CONFERENCE PAGE LINK

Download the REGISTRATION FORM HERE

 

Conference organizers:

Roberta Mock, Lee Miller, and Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/arts/theatre

International Guests:

Professor Ric Knowles (University of Guelph, Canada) and Professor Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)

Calls for Papers can now be read on individual Working Group pages on this website.

Please note that TaPRA is run for and by its membership through its Working Groups. For this reason, neither the TaPRA executive nor the conference organizers receive or accept proposals for papers themselves. All proposals must be made directly to a TaPRA Working Group. Each Working Group specifies its own focus, format and conference theme.

The deadline for proposals is 1 April 2009 for all Working Groups.


POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES AWARD ***********************

TaPRA Conference 2009: Postgraduate Bursaries


TaPRA is offering five postgraduate bursaries for the 2009 TaPRA conference in Plymouth (7-9 Sept). The bursaries cover the conference fee and a year's membership, but not accommodation. Applicants must belong to a TaPRA Working Group, and have had a paper accepted for this year's conference.

Applications should include:
A Curriculum Vitae
A case for subvention including an outline of the proposed paper (maximum 200 words)

Applications should be sent to Professor Viv Gardner either by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or in hard copy to:

Professor Viv Gardner
Drama
School of Arts, Histories & Cultures
Martin Harris Centre for Music & Drama
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 2PA

Applications must arrive by 22 May 2009. Successful applicants will be informed by 29 May 2009. Applicants are advised that they should not pay their conference fee and subscription until they have heard the result of the competition. TaPRA will pay the bursary directly to the host university.

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Postgraduate Essay Competition 2009


After the success of last year, with the two winning pieces about to be published in
Contemporary Theatre Review, this competition is running again in 2009, kindly sponsored for
this second year by Palgrave and Manchester University Press.

First and runner up prizes include:


• the best essay to be published in Contemporary Theatre Review
• all titles so far published in the Palgrave ‘Theatre &’ series: Theatre & Audience, Theatre
& Human Rights, Theatre & Ethics, Theatre & The City, Theatre & Politics, Theatre &
The Body, Theatre & Globalization, Theatre & Education
• a choice of FIVE free books from Manchester University Press
• a year's free membership of TaPRA
Prizes will be given at the TaPRA Conference 2009 to be held at Plymouth University.

Essays no longer than 6,000 words by bona fide postgraduate students should be submitted
by email to Paul Allain ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by Friday 8th May 2009.

Jury
Paul Allain (University of Kent, UK)
David Bradby (Royal Holloway, UK)
Marvin Carlson (CUNY, USA)
Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Australia)

 

With the generous support of:

 

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Postgraduate Essay Competition Winner 2008
TaPRA is delighted to announce the winner of our new competition to encourage and reward postgraduate writing. The prize was formally announced at the TaPRA conference at Leeds on the evening of Wednesday 3rd September, 2008.


Natalia Theodoridou

with an essay titled

‘Hysteria and Trance: Shared Ground’

Natalia is a MRes student at Royal Holloway College, University of London


The runner up was Catherine Curtin, a PhD student in the Department of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin, with her essay titled ‘Recovering the Body and Expanding the Boundaries of Self in Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh’.


The prize for the winner is £100 worth of books from Palgrave and MUP, a year's free membership of TaPRA, as well as publication of the essay in Contemporary Theatre Review.

Jury
Professors Paul Allain (University of Kent, UK), David Bradby (Royal Holloway, UK), Marvin Carlson (CUNY, USA), Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Australia).

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