New Horizons – Race and Performance
24-25 May, Villanova University
Friday 24 May
Welcome Address
9:00AM
PANEL 1:
9:30 – 11:00AM, MULLEN 312
Convener: Kay Martinovich
When the Winds of Changes Shift: Irish Influences at the Port of Duluth
Melissa Line Sturges
Paradise ‘Yet To Be:’ Representing Interracial Love & Solidarity in recent Irish
American Theatre and Song
Tim Dougherty
“A Painful Irony”: The Politics of Race in the Irish Theatre Industry
Dr. Ciara Murphy
BREAK 10:30-11AM, LOBBY
Guest Artist: James Ijames
11:00-12:00pm, SMITH LAB
LUNCH 12:30-2:00PM, LOBBY
KEYNOTE: Justine Naske
2:00-3:30PM, SMITH LAB
BREAK 3:30-4:00PM, LOBBY
PANEL 2:
4:00-5:30PM, MULLEN 312
Convener: Sarah Hoover
A ‘Returned Missioner’ from China: The Blind Mice by Brian Friel
Kelly Matthews, Ph.D.
Irishness as Whiteness: Performing White Supremacy through Anti-LGBTQ+
Discrimination in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Erin Valentine
Ruptures in Identity and Memory: Men in Northern Irish Drama
Lia Capotorto
Conference Reception 6:00PM, The Refectory at Villanova
Saturday 25 May
PANEL 3:
9:00-10:30AM, MULLEN 312
Convener: Charlotte McIvor
Seeing Irish: Visibility in Irish Performance
Maia Purdue
ANU’s ‘Others’: Complicity and Co-Presence in 21st Century Irish Theatre
Dr. Miriam Haughton
Dramaturgy and Racism in Irish Theatre
David Cregan
BREAK 10:30-11AM, LOBBY
PANEL 4:
11:00-12:30PM, MULLEN 312
Convener: Ciara Murphy
Reimagining Postcolonial Feminism Narratives
Tuba Mozafari
How to continue when time has stopped?: Immigration, feminisms and temporal
experience in Rosemary Jenkinson’s Lives in Translation (2017)
Dr. Shonagh Hill
Suffering, Raging, Othered: A Feminist Consciousness of Mothers in Wartime
Kay Martinovich
BOOK LAUNCH 12:30
Theatre, Performance and Commemoration (Methuen 2023) edited by Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes, Miriam Haughton and Pieter Verstraete
LUNCH 1PM-2:00PM, LOBBY
PANEL 5:
2:00-3:30PM, MULLEN 313
Convenor: TBC
Stereoptic visions of the future and Western blindspots: British and Irish
performance of climate disaster
Dr. Luke Lamont
What’s in a Name? Rhetorical Shifts in Post-2010 Diversity-Focused Irish Arts
Council Policy Impacts for Migrant and Minority Ethnic Irish Artists in Ireland and
Beyond
Dr. Charlotte McIvor
Resisting Erasure: Theatre, Performance, and Data Infrastructure Shaping
Knowledge Landscapes
Dr. Sarah Hoover
1:00PM Award Ceremony
END OF CONFERENCE
Photo Credit: Photo by Master Wen on Unsplash