23rd May 2015 Institute - Irish Society for Theatre Research

 FRIDAY 22nd May Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 22nd-­‐23rd May 2015 Institute of Technology, Tralee Sólás Building, North Campus 12.30-­‐1.30pm: Lunch Canteen Area Business & Information Technology Building Available for Purchase 1.00-­‐5.00pm: Registration – Foyer of Sólás Building Building signposted at roundabout at entrance to college 1.30-­‐2.45pm: Panel One Room: L105 Title: Cross-­‐Cultural Perspectives: Theatre and Performance • Variations on the Role of the Central European Immigrant in Recent Irish Theatre Professor Mária Kurdi • Colonial Restitution and Intercultural Performance: A Canadian Indigenous and Irish Case Study Dr. Jason King • From the back porch to the stage: Cherishing the living tradition of African-­‐American blues in contemporary performance Donnacha Toomey Room: L210 Title: Theatre -­‐ Traditions and Transformations • J. M. Synge’s stage keen: turning a “pre-­‐modern” performance ritual into a modern spectacle? Dr. Hélène Lecossois • From Memory, Myth and Ritual in Text to Memory, Myth and Ritual in Performance: Performer Challenges Character in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa Dr. Rayla Tadjimatova • Shakespeare after Panti, or, what you will? Emer McHugh Room: L212 Title: Performing Politics • Drama and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Ecological Advocacy in Greg Mbajiorgu’s ‘Wake Up Everyone’ Dr. Norbert Oyibo Eze • From Charlie Hebdo to ISIS’ Propaganda: Biopolitics of (Re)presentation in Contemporary Cultural Hybridity Dr. Calchi-­‐Novati ‘Changing the Situation’: Laughter, Event, and Panti’s Noble Call Dr. Eric Weitz 3.00-­‐4.15pm: Panel Two Room: L204 Title: Nationalists and Loyalists: Performance-­‐Based Perspectives • Micheál macLiammóir’s Easter Rising Professor Joan FitzPatrick Dean • ‘1916: Home: 2016’: Performing Histories Known and Unknown Dr. Miriam Haughton • Loyal to a Fault: Commemorating the UVF Centenary Dr. Kurt Taroff Room: L210 Title: Theatre Contexts: Use of Space and Place • Up Close and Personal: Siamsa Tíre’s What the Folk! Bodies, Memory, Space Dr. Finola Cronin • Politicising performance: audience agency and the response to site. Anu Productions’ ‘Monto Cycle’. Ciara L. Murphy • Enemy of the Stars and the Politics of Performance Dr. Nicholas E. Johnson Room: L212 Title: Beckett: Memory, Embodiment, Existentialism • Chan and Chou-­‐-­‐Buddhist Clowns in Waiting for Godot Wei Feng • Embodiment of the Tragic Absolute: Beckett’s FIZZLES in the City Burç İdem Dinçel • Beckett’s Grammatisation of Memory: A Re-­‐Reading of Krapp’s Last Tape Néill O’Dwyer •
4.15-­‐4.45pm: Break in L104/L106 4.45-­‐5.00pm: 5.00-­‐6.00pm: 6.00-­‐7.00pm: Opening Address: Lecture Hall L108 President Dr. Oliver Murphy IT, Tralee 8.30pm: 10.00pm: Conference Dinner Restaurant, Meadowlands Hotel, Oakpark Road, Tralee Keynote Address: Lecture Hall L108 Professor Anna McMullan, Reading University Title: Locating Beckett in Irish Performance Histories: between innovation and canonicity Wine Reception and Book Launches in L104/L106 Drinks/ Live Traditional Music Session Hotel Bar, Meadowlands Hotel, Oakpark Road, Tralee SATURDAY 23RD May 9.00am-­‐12 Midday: Registration – Foyer of Sólás Building Building signposted at roundabout at entrance to college 9.00-­‐10.15am: Working Groups Performance Philosophy: Room L204 Comedy and Performance: Room L210 Theatre History and Historiography: Room L212 Gender and Performance: Room L202 10.30-­‐11.45am: Panel Three Room L204 Title: Folk Culture-­‐ Preservation and Transformation • Re-­‐Lighting the Fire: The Festival of the Fires at Uisneach, the Sacred Centre of Ireland Ruth Illingworth • Making Love at the Crossroads: is it theatre? Nastaise Leddy • Traditional Performances and Forces of Cultural Transformation/Obliteration? Dr. Ngozi Udengwu Ndubuisi Nnanna Ikechukwu Erojikwe Room: L210 Title: Irish Theatre – Rulings and Resolutions • Celtic Tiger Dramas: Class, Consumption and Presumption of Privilege Dr. Eamonn Jordan • A victim or survivor? The transformative power of language in dealing with those affected by sexual assault and rape in contemporary Irish culture Carole Quigley • Judgement Day: Neoliberalism and Irish Theatre History Professor Lionel Pilkington Room: L212 Title: Contemporary Theatre: Beliefs and Identities • Right to be Forgotten and the Image Crimes of Digital Culture Dr. Matthew Causey • Grotesque Worlds in Contemporary Irish Drama: Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh Dr Ondřej Pilný • RE-­‐THINKING over Occupy Gezi with the Analogy of Performance Melike Saba AKIM 11.45am-­‐12.15pm: 12.15-­‐1.15pm: 1.15-­‐2.00pm: 2.00-­‐3.00pm: 3.00-­‐4.15pm: Break in L104/L106 Keynote Address: Lecture Hall L108 Dr. Lillis O Laoire, Senior Lecturer, NUIG Title: Transformations of Indigenous Performance Lunch – Canteen Area Business & Information Technology Building Available for Purchase ISTR AGM: Lecture Hall L108 Panel Four Room: L105 Title: The Abbey Theatre and Female Playwrights: Tradition, Transition and Performance • Forgotten Theatre -­‐ The Dwindling Canon(Performance and Discussion) Gavin McAlinden • Tradition. Transition. Transformation? The Abbey Theatre and Women Playwrights Dr Brenda Donohue Room: L210 Title: Theatre in Dublin: Past, Present, Prospects • From Stanislavski to Scenography: The Processes and Impacts of Dublin’s Focus Theatre Dr. Siobhan O’Gorman • The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society: Tradition? Transition? Transformation? Dr. Shelley Troupe • Dublin’s Theatre Royal Remembered Conor Doyle Room: L212 Title: Regional Theatres: Socio-­‐Historical Tools of Expression • Revealing an amateur dramatic legacy: Listowel Drama Group, 1944-­‐1959 Dr. Fiona Brennan • A Cog in the Wheel of Change: Red Kettle Theatre Company and Regional Theatre Development Elizabeth Howard • Identity -­‐ A Production that is never Complete: Signifiers in the works of Pat Ahern, Founder of Siamsa Tíre Dr. Sharon Phelan 4.15-­‐4.45: Break in L104/L106 4.45-­‐6.00pm: Panel Five Room: L204 Title: Title: Performance: Traditional and Modern Forces • Bird Men: Performing and Understanding Chineseness Between Orientalism and Occidentalism Wei Zheyu • Three Sisters – Waiting for Godot Siwei Li Room: L210 Title: Performance: Emergence and Development • Stones and Bones: Unearthing the Arche-­‐Fossil in Pan Pan’s Embers Dr Trish McTighe • “Always already” in emergence: the ‘nascent’ state in contemporary Irish theatre Paul Donnelly • The Popular Theatre Tradition in the plays of Enda Walsh Dr. Ian R. Walsh Room: L212 Title: Performance -­‐ The Event Itself • World (s) Under the Lens in Schaubühne’s Hamlet Angela Butler • John Banville’s Adaptations of Kleist: Performance as a thing-­‐in-­‐itself Neil Murphy 6.00pm: Close of Conference at IT Tralee 7.00pm: Bella Bia Restaurant, 2 Ivy Terrace, Town Centre, Tralee 8.30pm: ’Turas’ Performance, Siamsa Tíre, National Folk Theatre of Ireland, Town Centre Tralee