Tradition, Transition and Transformation:
Performance and Cultural Dynamics
The Institute of Technology, Tralee in association with the Irish Society for Theatre Research
ISTR 2015 | Book of Abstracts (pdf)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Solás Building, North Campus, IT Tralee, Dromtacker, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
FRIDAY 22nd MAY 2014
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
FADFA
Room: L210
Title: Theatre – Traditions and Transformations
– 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
FADFA
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
FADFA
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 – Opening Address: Lecture Hall L108
President Dr. Oliver Murphy IT, Tralee
5.00-6.00pm – Keynote Address: Lecture Hall L108
Professor Anna McMullan, Reading University
Title: Locating Beckett in Irish Performance Histories: between innovation and canonicity
6.00-7.00pm – Wine Reception and Book Launches in L104/L106
8.30pm – Conference Dinner
Restaurant, Meadowlands Hotel, Oakpark Road, Tralee
10.00pm – Drinks/ Live Traditional Music Session
Hotel Bar, Meadowlands Hotel, Oakpark Road, Tralee
Saturday 23rd May 2014
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
FADFA
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
FADFA
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 – Break in L104/L106
12.15-1.15pm – Keynote Address: Lecture Hall L108
Dr. Lillis O Laoire, Senior Lecturer, NUIG
Title: Transformations of Indigenous Performance
1.15-2.00pm – Lunch – Canteen Area Business & Information Technology Building
Available for Purchase
2.00-3.00pm – ISTR AGM: Lecture Hall L108
3.00-4.15pm – 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
– Transition. Transformation? The Abbey Theatre and Women Playwrights – Dr Brenda Donohue
FADFA
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
FADFA
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: Performance: Traditional and Modern Forces
– Bird Men: Performing and Understanding Chineseness Between Orientalism and Occidentalism – Wei Zheyu
– Three Sisters – Waiting for Godot – Siwei Li
FADFA
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
FADFA
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