Through a dynamic programme of conventional papers, performances, and recitals, the day will explore pressing societal and cultural themes including identity, trans/gender issues, race, and civic engagement.
This conference aims to create a vibrant space for critical exchange, creative experimentation, and interdisciplinary dialogue. By bringing together diverse voices and perspectives, we seek to explore how contemporary performance can both reflect and challenge our times.
Themes include:
- Arts in the community
- Diversity and performance
- REF IMPACT case studies and research
- Sustainability in and through and performance
- Immersive technologies and performance capture
- The social, political and cultural dimensions of the arts
- Arts as entertainment, arts as resistance, arts as dissent
Schedule
10:00 - 10:30
Registration and Welcome
Panel 1: Performing the Collaborative (10:30 – 11:30)
Chair: Dr Ben Harbisher
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10:30 – 10:50
Dr Xristina Penna (University of Derby)
Scenographic Contraptions: Practice-research Methodologies of Endurance and Duration in a Groundless Contemporary Performance Landscape -
10:50 – 11:10
Dr Paula McCloskey (University of Derby)
Performing Fiction-Ecologies as Co-Inquiries -
11:10 – 11:25 Q&A
Panel 2: Performing Pedagogy (11:30 – 12:30)
Chair: Dr Ava Hunt
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11:30 – 11:50 (Online)
Dr Dorothy Morrissey & Dr Fiona McDonagh (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
The Third Space Potential of an Inter-Faculty Collaboration Involving Theatre Students and Student Teachers -
11:50 – 12:10 (Online)
Anand K., Ph. D. Research Scholar, CMS College (Autonomous), Kottayam, Kerala, India
Performing the Self: Exploring Identity through Digital and Immersive Theatre in the Classroom -
12:10 – 12:25 Q&A
12:25 – 13:30
Lunch Break
Panel 3: Performing Identity (13:30 – 14:30)
Chair: Dr Xristina Penna
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13:30 – 13:50
Dr Peter Maber (Northeastern University London)
“A New Life, A New World”: The Transformations of Migrant and Refugee Theatre-Making in the UK -
13:50 – 14:10
Dr Rebecca Ora (rora) (University of Birmingham)
*Still Waiting: Memory, Surrogation and Racial Culpability in Edgar Arceneaux’s Until Until Until… -
14:10 – 14:25 Q&A
Panel 4: Performing Care (14:30 – 15:25)
Chair: Dr Paula McCloskey
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14:30 – 14:50
Dr Richard Dawson (University of Derby)
The Impact and Challenges of Working Through the Arts with Looked After Children and Young People -
14:50 – 15:10
Alice Marshall (University of Derby)
Tender Steps: Exploring Grief, Community, and Contemporary Performance -
15:10 – 15:25 Q&A
15:25
Final Remarks | End of Event