FRIDAY 28 APRIL
VENUE: PORTLAND BUILDING, UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS.
WELCOMING REMARKS AND PRESIDENTAL ADDRESS
9:30 – 10.00 – room: portland c11
Jim Moran and Chris Collins (University of Nottingham)
ISTR President: Eric Weitz (Trinity College Dublin)
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REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND PRACTICE
10.00 – 11:45 / chair: peter kirwan (university of nottingham)
room: a09
Name: Valerie Ní Loinsigh (Independent Scholar)
Paper: “Revolution in Performance”
Name: Anna Teresa Scheer (University of Lincoln)
Paper: “Save Capitalism – Throw the Money Away’: A Revolutionary Pseudo-Event
REVOLUTIONS AND THE ARCHIVE
10:00 – 11:45 chair: michael p. jaros (salem state university)
room: portland c27
Name: Siobhán O‘Gorman (University of Lincoln)
Paper: “R/Evolutions in Practice: Histories, Affects and Performance Archives”
Name: Zosia Kuczynska (University of Nottingham)
Paper: “The Brian Papers: Archival Revolutions”
- Coffee Break – room: portland c26
KEYNOTE
12:15 – 13:30 – room: portland c11
Name: Jim Moran (University of Nottingham)
Paper: “Children of the Revolution: 1916 in 2016”
Chair: Chris Collins
- Lunch Break – room: portland c26
NEW SCHOLARS’ LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30 – room: portland c20
with: Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham) and Aoife McGrath (Queen’s University Belfast)
about: A very informal lunch for MA, PhD and early-career researchers with discussions on: how to apply for funding; other important conferences to attend; submitting work to new scholars’ awards; how and where to publish research; and how to apply for academic jobs.
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REVOLUTION AND IRISH MODERNITY
14:30 – 16:15 chair: jo robinson (university of nottingham)
room: portland c20
Name: Holly Maples (Brunel University, London)
Paper: “An Irish Theatre in America: Irish and Theatrical Revolt in New York City”
Name: Michael P. Jaros (Salem State University)
Paper: “Dead Class, Dead School: McCabve, Mcnas, and the European Avant-Garde”.
Name: Gemma Edwards (University of Nottingham)
Paper: “Synge and Places of Modernity: a Spatial Reading of the Negotiation Between the Primitive and the Modern in The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea”
Name: Christopher McCormack (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Paper: “Art Deco at the Abbey: Using Design Artefacts to Reveal Cosmopolitan Displays at the National Theatre in the 1930s and 40s”
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REVOLUTION AND VISUAL CULTURE: RADICAL AFFECTS
14:30 – 16:15 chair: aoife mcgrath (queen’s university belfast)
room: portland c27
Name: Angela Butler (Trinity College Dublin)
Paper: “Affective Encounter: Repetition and Immersion in The Corn Exchange’s Man of Valour”
Name: Andrew Westerside (University of Lincoln)
Paper: “Somewhere Between ‘Fact’ and ‘Faction’: Digital Revolution on the Material Stage
Name: Sam Haddow (St. Andrews University)
Paper: “Some Revolting Images”
- Coffee Break – room: portland c26
KEYNOTE
16:45 – 18:00 – room: portland c11
Name: Vic Merriman (Edge Hill University)
Paper: ‘Re-Actions, Re-Visons: Counter-Revolution and Dramaturgy in Twentieth-Century Ireland’.
Chair: Jim Moran
- Wine Reception – room: portland c26
Book launch of Theatre and Residual Culture by Mary P. Caulfield
SATURDAY 29 APRIL
VENUE: HIGHFIELD HOUSE, UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS.
WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
9.00 – 10.00
room a09: comedy and performance working group
room a11: gender and performance working group
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SOCIALLY-ENGAGED REVOLUTIONS
10.00 – 11:30 eric weitz (trinity college dublin)
room: a09
Name: Luke Lamont (University College Dublin)
Paper: “Analysing the Rise of Documentary Theatre and Theatre of the Real in Ireland”
Name: Ava Hunt (University of Derby)
Paper: “Human Rights, Participatory Theatre and Regional Publics: Acting Alone and A Story to Tell”
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THE LEGACY OF 1916
10.00 – 11:45 / chair: mary p. caulfield (s.u.n.y. farmingdale)
room: portland c20
Name: Ryan K. Evans (Lancaster University)
Paper: “‘Th’ Time for Ireland’s Battle is Now, The Place for Ireland’s Battle is Here:’ Space in the Plays of Sean O’Casey”
Name: Leon Butler (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Paper: “Typography synergy in theatre and rebellion in Ireland from 1904-1923”
Name: Conall Parr (Northumbria University)
Paper: “When the Gunmen Play: Militancy and Myth in Modern Irish Republican Drama”
1916: CONTEMPORARY COMMEMORATIONS
10.00 – 11:30 / chair: chris collins (university of nottingham)
room: a2
Name: Ciara L. Murphy (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Paper: “‘The state of us’: Challenging State-led Narratives Through Performance During Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’”.
Name: Justine Nakase (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Paper: “Warlike Races: Performing Race and Identity in the GAA’s Laochra 1916 Commemorative Event”
Name: James Hickson (Trinity College Dublin)
Paper: “Wrestling with Reality: Identity and Politics in Over The Top Wrestling’s ‘Revenge for the Rising’”
- Coffee Break – highfield house cloisters
A.G.M. / NEW SCHOLARS’ AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
12:15 – 13:15 – room: a01
- Lunch Break – highfield house cloisters
ISTR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LUNCH MEETING
13:15 – 14:15 – room: a09
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GENDERED REVOLUTIONS
14:15 – 15:45 chair: siobhán o’gorman (univeristy of lincoln)
room: a09
Name: Carole Quigley (Trinity College Dublin)
Paper: ‘“I don’t think Daddy’s Choosy. He Just wanted to bate us all inta the dirt’: Consent, Victim Blaming, Sexual Violence and Toxic Masculinity in Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill”.
Name: Mária Kurdi (University of Pécs)
Paper: “‘They’re Only Things’: Women and the Debris of the Past in Elaine Murphy’s Shush”
Name: Mary P. Caulfield (S.U.N.Y. Farmingdale)
Paper: “A Commemorative Rewrite, a Catfight, and Oh Those Bloody Irish: 2016, Reflections on a Rising”.
REVOLUTIONARY BODIES
14:15 – 15:45 chair: holly maples (brunel university, london)
room: a11
Name: Aoife McGrath (Queen’s University Belfast)
Paper: “Dance and Affect: Moving Experiences of a ‘Terrible Inheritance’”
Name: Paula Guzzanti (Queen’s University Belfast)
Paper: “Embodied at the GPO: the Language of Affect in Choreographic Practice”.
Name: Shonagh Hill (University College Dublin)
Paper: “Revolutionary Bodies: the Tableaux Vivant of the Inginidhe-na-hEireann”
- Coffee Break – highfield house cloisters
KEYNOTE
16:15 – 17:30 – room: a01
Name: Dr Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool)
Paper: “Fighting Spirits”
Chair: Jim Moran
CLOSING REMARKS / WINE RECEPTION
17:30 – room: highfield house cloisters
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