Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2025 Institute of Art, Design + Technology (IADT), Dún Laoghaire 6-7 June This conference examines the intersections of place, politics and performance as they relate to the histories, legacies, and persistence of structures associated with colonial empires as well as neocolonial practices. For this interdisciplinary event, we invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on (or of)
» Read moreNEI/UFSC is delighted to announce two new volumes of the series on Irish theatre and disability, with Editora Iluminuras and the support of Ireland’s DFA Emigrant Support Programme: Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan/O aleijado de Inishmaan, translated by Domingos Nunez, and Stacey Gregg’s Override/Comando manual, translated by Alinne Fernandes. 2023 saw the publication of J.M. Synge’s The Well of the
» Read morePutting performance to work for children and young people University of Galway on Friday 11th November This symposium is organised by the Talking Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Research Network in collaboration with Baboró International Children’s Festival, and hosted by the Discipline of Children’s Studies, University of Galway. The Talking TYA Research Network is a research community for TYA makers and
» Read moreThis open access book is a new survey of theatre practices in Ireland from 1957 to the present. Part I: Histories, situates the theatrical activity of twentieth and twenty-first century Ireland within its social and political contexts, identifies key practitioners, landmark productions, institutions, festivals, and seminal revivals. Part II: Theories, offers five key theoretical frameworks – nation, language, body, space
» Read moreSeminar with Professor David Throsby: Monday 10 June 2024 12-1pm, Studio 1, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway David Throsby is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He is internationally recognised for his research and writing
» Read moreNEI Digital Lecture Stage Sets and “theatrical nationhood” in the Irish Literary Revival Professor Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University) Chair: Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (PPGI-NEI-UFSC) 28th May 2pm Brazil 6pm Ireland Live on PPGI UFSC YouTube Channel NEI Digital Lectures aim to discuss aspects of the annual themes explored by Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses (NEI) at UFSC. 2024 is dedicated to the
» Read moreNew Horizons – Race and Performance Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, May 24-25, 2024 The host of the conference, David Cregan, OSA, Ph.D. will organize an ISTR webinar in 2024 to share conference details and planning travel. Keynotes: James Ijames MFA, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his play Fat Ham https://www.jamesijames.com/ Justine Nakase Ph.D., theatre maker and scholar based in
» Read moreThe Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland are a record of a life’s work in progress. They represent a way of working and of making art over a period spanning more than fifty years. This book is the first of its kind in its attempt to interrogate the role of the Brian Friel Papers in Friel’s legacy
» Read moreThis book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance; wealth acquisition; employment conditions; educational access; intercultural encounters; sexual intimacy and violation; and acts of resistance, protest and solidarity. This book addresses complex intergenerational, intercultural,
» Read morePatrick Lonergan | Published online by Cambridge University Press Available to download for free until 1 September 2023 from Cambridge Core – CLICK HERE. Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political series This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history – a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the
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