The Postgraduate Committee is represented by Rachel Clements, Virginia Elgar and Michael Pearce who may be contacted by email:

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DEALING WITH THE DIGITAL
TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium
10 – 5.30, 20th March 2010, Bedford Square, London


Invitation and call for papers

Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to a TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium. The symposium is free for TaPRA members and £10 for non-members (this fee includes TaPRA membership for 2009-10).

Digital technologies are changing the way in which theatre is made, challenging our notions of what theatre is and impacting upon how it is documented and analysed. ‘Dealing with the Digital’ aims to provide a range of perspectives, approaches to, and ideas about how new technologies are influencing the way in which we create, understand, preserve and critically engage with theatre/performance.

The one-day event will be divided into two sections. The morning seminar will focus upon academic development and will be led by Dr Rosemary Klich. The seminar aims to explore the direct impact digital technologies are having upon performance research methodologies.

The second half of the day will be a symposium, followed by a round-table discussion. Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to present a 10-minute paper on any issue related to technological developments and research.

Specific subjects for investigation might include, but are by no means limited to:

§        Performing new technologies: the impact of digital technologies on theatre and vice-versa
§        The live, the mediated and the intermedial
§        Presence and (dis)appearance
§        (Re)shaping  notions of scenography and performance space
§        Digital technologies’ impact on the reception of theatre/performance
§        Specific new technological developments and their theatrical possibilities and/or current application
§        Online performance: Virtual Reality and social networking
§        The digital archive/library: preservation, documentation and access

For those wishing to present please send the title of your paper and a short abstract (200 words max) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by 1st March.

Postgraduates who would like to attend the symposium without presenting should also send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by 1st March. In the email please state if you are a TaPRA member.

There are a small number of travel bursaries (max £25) available for attendees from outside London. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary please state so in your email.

Places and bursaries are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,


Rachel Clements, Virginia Elgar and Michael Pearce
TaPRA Postgraduate Representatives

*************************POSTGRADUATE BURSARY OPPORTUNITIES ***********************

TaPRA Conference 2010: 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.

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


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).



With the generous support of:

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

The competition will run again in 2009

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

Platform

Platform is a postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, seeks proposals for articles. To read more, follow the link: www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform