The Postgraduate Committee is represented by Zoe Svendsen and Rachel Clements, who may be contacted by email:
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For the 2008 conference, postgraduate students can participate in the activity of the working groups, but may also wish to indicate their activities via this website. Those wishing to do so should complete the following form and send it to the Web Officer, Jem Kelly via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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TaPRA Conference 2008: Postgraduate Bursaries
TaPRA are offering four postgraduate bursaries for the 2008 TaPRA conference in Leeds (3-5 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 (
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) 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
by Monday 28 July 2008. Successful applicants will be informed by Thursday 14 Aug.
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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 (
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) 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
