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BBC News -- University searches for theatre alumni for reunion

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:15:00 GMT

Our 50th anniversary celebrations have featured in a BBC news article and audio clip. See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xd2zjgv2o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lg3m48

Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance: Conference Call for Papers

Sat, 15 May 2021 13:15:00 GMT

CFP - DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 17 MAY 2021

Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance

Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century AHRC-Project

Conference at Exeter University, 31 August – 3 September 2021

This event is organised as part of the three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, for which Prof Jim Davis (University of Warwick) is the Principal Investigator.

Keynote speakers:

Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania

David Taylor, Oxford University

The nineteenth century is associated with the transformation of traditional ways of life, rapid technological advances, radical changes to the environment, and the emergence of new conceptions of subjectivity. Theatre was central to the culture of this period, so how far did it reflect or shape the experience of modernity? The Modernist experiments of the latter part of the century used to take centre stage in discussions about modernity, but how far can the popular, commercial theatrical culture of this period be seen as the locus of an emergent modern aesthetic?

This is the third and final conference of our project investigating nineteenth-century stage spectacle, the viewing practices associated with it, and its relationship to the wider visual culture of this period. With this event, we return to one of our core concerns: to consider nineteenth-century spectacle as a new and experimental form and as both a facet and product of modernity. We welcome ideas for papers on all aspects of the visual culture of theatre, from theatrical ephemera to links with the world of ‘high’ art, to new spectacular and immersive technologies. We particularly welcome submissions that bring questions of methodology to the fore, offering new contexts through which we may understand the theatrical spectacle of this period.

To read the full call for papers, submit an abstract, join our mailing list, and find out more about the project, please visit our website https://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com. For queries, please contact Patricia Smyth, P.M.Smyth@Warwick.ac.uk.

SCUDD Conference 2021 hosted by Warwick

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:58:00 GMT

SCUDD 2021: Beyond Inclusion

The annual SCUDD conference will take place online on Thursday 24^th and Friday 25^thJune 2021.

The aim of this conference is to bring together artists, academics, and students to think together about the politics of inclusion: its opportunities, challenges, and limits. The conference begins with a sense that institutional work on diversity and inclusion has tended to rearrange the deckchairs but leave the ship intact and on course for disaster. This conference seeks to identify and interrogate inequalities of access, safety, and opportunity across experiences of exclusion. The purpose here is to identify both the specificities of lived experiences of structural and systemic exclusion but also to look across exclusory practices and phenomena to build resistive solidarities. Moreover, the conference will debate what it might mean to shift the conversation away from inclusion, which retains a sense of the centre enveloping the margin, and instead think through the possibilities for our campuses and our industry to become sites of anti-exclusion.

The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) represents the interests of Drama, Theatre and Performance in the Higher Education sector in the UK. SCUDD acts as a mediator with bodies such as funding councils, the AHRC and the Arts Councils and is consulted by such organisations when matters of future policy are discussed and decided. Its annual conference concerns topics, issues and debates relevant to those working in drama, theatre and performance in HE. This year’s conference will make space for reflections on working in our field during covid-19 and will continue discussions around advocacy for - and threats to - the discipline. As part of the conference, SCUDD’s AGM will take place. The conference will be free to attend.

Hosts: This year’s conference will be hosted online by the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of Warwick. The conference organisers working in partnership with the SCUDD Exec are Dr Anna Harpin, Dr David Coates and Dr Tim White.

Programme and Registration: Details about how to register for the conference and a full programme of panels and events will be released closer to the conference.

Queries: If you have any questions or queries about the conference at this stage, please don’t hesitate to get in touch off list using D.J.Coates@warwick.ac.uk

Social Movements, Performance and Democratic Practices (Indo-Canadian Dialogue): A Conference

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:06:51 GMT

Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute Golden Jubilee Online Conference

Social Movements, Performance and Democratic Practices (Indo-Canadian Dialogue)

Collaboration between: School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick

The last decade has seen the rise of a range of social and political movements across the globe that have challenged the existing boundaries and imaginations of political and legal articulation of rights and justice, and notions of development. At the heart of these developments has been the interlinked phenomenon of populism and performative paradigm of politics that is based on a complex relationship between digital presence and bodies physically assembling in space. Taking forward the earlier collaborative projects between the universities, namely, the Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance and Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performance, the present conference foregrounds theatrical/performance exchanges and the need for cross-cultural dialogue and theorisation in re-examining populism. Opening up a dialogue on the under-explored Indian-Canadian experience, the conference seeks to explore the challenges to the practices of democracy and the potential of performance to offer alternative ways of reorganisation of the world.

The performance studies framework of the conference provides an interdisciplinary exploration of cross-cultural patterns of performance and the performative nature of political dissent, bringing together seemingly diverging experiential realms. It brings together the popular cultural performances and the practices of assembling and choreographing of bodies in the streets as well as in digital space. It also offers a lens to understand what might not otherwise be deemed as public displays, whether it be dissent and protests or ways of care of self and others as vulnerable bodies or not deemed to be able-bodied to articulate politics by the mainstream. The contemporary context of Covid19 pandemic has further brought into relief the specific challenges to understand the performative paradigm of politics. The conference takes the intense moment of pandemic looking both synchronically and diachronically into the practices of democracy, and what past experiences might have to offer to the languages and gestures of democratic practices in the contemporary. In doing so, the conference will foreground an aesthetic of resistance not only as a reactive practice, but as a way to sustain articulation of rights and the politics of inclusion, equality, care for the commons and social justice.

Click the link above to see the event's schedule.

RSVP for link: parameswaranameet@gmail.com

Three Minute Thesis (3MT)

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:21:45 GMT

Can you present your thesis in just 3 Minutes? Are you up for the challenge? You have three minutes, one static slide, no props, and no materials – just you! If you get through the first round we will train and support you so that you are ready for a live Warwick final. The winner of this will get put forward to the regional finals – and who knows maybe the National Final.

Call for papers: Cultures of the Left in the Age of Right-Wing Populism - Manifestations and Performances - Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Monday 15^th- Wednesday 17^thApril 2019

Warwick University in Venice

Palazzo Pesaro Papafava

Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe

This event is the culmination of a substantial period of research funded by the British Academy Partnership and Mobility grant (2016-19) that brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Warwick University (UK) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) as well as researchers, artists and activists from other European and overseas institutions and places. We are asking how could both the historical legacy of the Left and its current manifestations and performances contribute to formulating an aesthetic of resistance not only as a reactive practice, but as a way to sustain the politics of inclusion, equality, care for the commons and social justice? The concept, coined by playwright Peter Weiss against the backdrop of raising fascism in the 1930s—asserts that art and culture, by formulating an aesthetic of resistance, are the means of finding new modes of political action and new forms of social understanding. The urgency of this project is to explore the politics and aesthetics of these forms as means of dissent, but even more importantly, as strategies of sustaining the progressive political agenda both against the backdrop of the alarmingly rising Right and on its own term.

Call for Papers: Cultures of Toxicity

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Conference at the University of Warwick

Friday 8^th and Saturday 9^th November 2019

This conference aims to explore the concept of toxicity in relation to a number of contemporary political concerns including culture, health, economics, gender, and ecology. We are concerned to examine how cultural practices (from theatre to graphic fiction) and critical methodologies, for example in performance studies, are contributing to, and intervening in, contemporary anxieties about safety, risk and toxicity.

Call for Papers: Visuality and the Theatre in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:00:00 GMT

Conference at the University of Warwick

_{Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019}

This research event will consider new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century stage spectacle, its meanings, its relationship to a wider visual culture, and its spectators. This period is associated with a widespread transformation of conceptions of vision and subjectivity, evidenced by an explosion of graphic imagery and new forms of visual experience such as panoramas and dioramas. Theatrical spectacle was at the centre of this emergent trans-medial, popular visual culture; yet there has been no major work to address this area since Martin Meisel’s seminal study, Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England, of 1983. Organized as part of the three-year AHRC-funded collaborative project, ‘Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century’, this event aims to foster cross-disciplinary discussion of spectacle and spectatorship in this period.

Professor Nadine Holdsworth presents keynote speech at The Modern English Drama Association of Korea (MEDAK) conference.

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:23:00 GMT

Professor Nadine Holdsworth presented a keynote speech ‘Theatre, Nation and Social Abjection: What Can Theatre Do?’ at The Modern English Drama Association of Korea (MEDAK) annual conference. The conference took place on Saturday 27^th of October at the University of Kookmin, Seoul, South Korea and drew 60 attendees, the largest turnout in MEDAK's recent history.

School hosts Gendered Citizenship and Performance conference

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:53:24 GMT

On January 5th and 6th 2015, the School of Theatre and Performance Studies is proud to host a two-day conference on Gendered Citizenship and Performance, featuring academic papers, workshops, and performances by Carran Waterfield, Natasha Davis, Cardboard Citizens and Ice and Fire plus academic presenters from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Royal Holloway, University of Manchester, and University of Warwick.

‘Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance’, GCP is a joint research venture between theatre, film, and politics scholars from University of Warwick and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Supported through a grant from UCG and UKIERI, it will run for two years until 2016.

The full schedule is below:

Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance

January 5-6 2015

Tuesday 5 Jan

10.00-11.15 Welcome: Nicolas Whybrow (Warwick)

Keynote 1: Chair: Janelle Reinelt (Warwick)

Jenny Hughes (Univ. of Manchester) and Carran Waterfield (Triangle Theatre): Sing for your Supper: Pauperism, Performance and Survival

11.30-1.00 Panel 1: Human Trafficking Chair: Jim Davis (Warwick)

Janelle Reinelt (Univ. of Warwick): Is a Trafficked Woman a Citizen? Survival and Citizenship in Performance

Sohini Chakraborty (Kolkata Sanved): Dance Movement Therapy and Psycho-social Rehabilitation: Model Sampoornata

Urmimala Sarkar (JNU): Putting Pieces Together: Mapping Recovery for Survivors of Sexual Violence

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Workshop 1: Cardboard Citizens Chair: Silvija Jestrovic (Warwick)

3.45-5.15 Panel 2: National Figures in Performance Chair: Samik Bandyopadhyay (JNU)

Anuradha Kapur (Ambedkar Univ.): Traversing the Site : 409 Ramkinkars

Elaine Aston (Univ. of Lancaster): ‘India Unmasked' - Anupama Chandrasekhar's Acid

Yvette Hutchison (Warwick): Aesthetics of Embodied Activism: Contemporary South African Women

5.15-6.30 Keynote 2: Chair: Bishnupriya Dutt (JNU)

Emma Cox (Royal Holloway) Irregularity: Performing Volitional Noncitizenship'.

6.30-8.00 Conference Dinner

8.00-10.30 Solo Performances:

Internal Terrains (Natasha Davis, Warwick)

The House (Carran Waterfield, Triangle Theatre)

Wednesday 6 Jan

9.00-10.15 Keynote 3: Chair: Mike Saward (Warwick)

Anupama Roy (JNU): 'Polyrhythms of Citizenship

10.30-12.00 Workshop 2: Ice and Fire Chair: Maggie Inchley (Queen Mary)

12.00-1.30 Panel 3: Citizens’ Encounters Chair: Aoife Monks (Queen Mary)

Maria Estrada-Fuentes (Univ. of Warwick): Towards an ethics of care: Creative approaches to Ex-combatants' Reintegration in Colombia

Silvija Jestrovic (Univ. of Warwick): Murderous Maid: Jean Genet’s The Maids and Domestic Migrants Workers in Saudi Arabia

Susan Haedicke (Univ. of Warwick): The ‘Glasgow Girls’: Many Faces of Child Asylum Seekers

1.30-2.30 Lunch Break

2.30-3.30 Panel 4: Chair: Urmimala Sarkar (JNU)

Milija Gluhovic (Warwick): Citizenship and Religion in these Times

A.P. Rajaram (JNU) Remembering Sadir: Reclaiming Presence

3.45-5.30 Panel Discussion on Ethics and Negotiation with Government, Funders, and other interested groups: Chair: Janelle Reinelt (Warwick)

Members from Ice and Fire, Cardboard Citizens, Natasha Davis, Sohini Chakraborty, Carran Waterfield

5.30-6.30 And in Closing:

Bishnupriya Dutt (JNU) and Shrinkhla Sahai (JNU) Respond to the Conference

6.30 Closing Reception (Food and Wine)

Theatre and Performance Studies » Theatre and Performance Studies News (tag [Conference])

BBC News -- University searches for theatre alumni for reunion

Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance: Conference Call for Papers

SCUDD Conference 2021 hosted by Warwick

Social Movements, Performance and Democratic Practices (Indo-Canadian Dialogue): A Conference

Three Minute Thesis (3MT)

Call for papers: Cultures of the Left in the Age of Right-Wing Populism - Manifestations and Performances - Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe

Monday 15th- Wednesday 17th April 2019

Warwick University in Venice

Palazzo Pesaro Papafava

Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe

Call for Papers: Cultures of Toxicity

Conference at the University of Warwick

Friday 8th and Saturday 9th November 2019

Call for Papers: Visuality and the Theatre in the Long Nineteenth Century

Conference at the University of Warwick

Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019

Professor Nadine Holdsworth presents keynote speech at The Modern English Drama Association of Korea (MEDAK) conference.

School hosts Gendered Citizenship and Performance conference

Monday 15^th- Wednesday 17^thApril 2019

Friday 8^th and Saturday 9^th November 2019

_{Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 June 2019}