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TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Social Movements, Performance and Democratic Practices (Indo-Canadian Dialogue): A Conference
Conference Schedule (Canadian Standard Time)
Day 1: March 25th, Thursday (CST: 10 am–1 pm; IST: 7:30 pm–10:30 pm; UK time: 2- pm–5pm)
Session I (CST: 10 am- 11:30 am): Key Note
Welcome Address by Dr. Prachi Kaul, Director, SICI
Key Note: De-Centering Leftist Theatre across Cultures: With Brecht from the GDR to India, by
Joerg Esleben, Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa
Respondents:
Anuradha Kapur, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
Prateek, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan
Session II (CST: 11: 30 am – 1 pm): Alternative Routes of Performance Exchanges
Speakers:
Milija Gluhovic, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Sumangala Damodaran, Development Studies, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
Ameet Parameswaran, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Day 2: March 26th Friday (CST: 10 am–1 pm; IST: 7:30 pm–10:30 pm; UK time: 2- pm–5pm)
Session I (10 am – 11:30 am): Politics & Poetics of Everyday Life: Biography, Gender, Political Engagement
Speakers:
Silvija Jestrovic, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Urmimala Sarkar, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session II (11: 30 am - 1 pm): Theatre/Performance and the Affective Registers of the Political
Speakers:
Yana Meerzon, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mallarika Sinha Roy, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anika Marschall, School for Communication and Culture, Aarhus University
Day 3: March 27th, Saturday (CST: 9:30 am–1 pm; IST: 7:00 pm–10:30 pm; UK time: 1:30 pm–5pm)
Session I (9:30 am- 11:30 am): Theatre/Performance and the Space(s) of Resistance
Speakers:
Dragan Todorovic, Writer and Multimedia artist; Faculty of Creative Writing, University of Kent
Bishnupriya Dutt, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anupama Roy, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Adrian Kear, Performance Arts, Wimbledon College of Arts, UK
Session II (11:30 am – 1 pm): From Disasters to Pandemics: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance
Nivedita Menon, Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dialogue with Artist: Conversation with Rahul Varma, Playwright, Artistic Director, Teesri Duniya Theatre, Canada, conducted by Yana Meerzon and Ameet Parameswaran
RSVP for link: parameswaranameet@gmail.com