Performing the Archive 2.51

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National University of Ireland, Galway, University Rooad
Galway,
Ireland

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Supported by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme, the American Society for Theatre Research, the James Hardiman Library, Drama, Theatre and Performance, English, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Moore Institute, the School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Fund and the President's Office.

“Performing the Archives” will gather together scholars, artists and archivists engaged in working with archival materials on research and performance projects to explore the uses and possibilities of the archive today from theoretical and methodological perspectives. We will debate:

• What is the status of archival research methodologies in published research and graduate training today?
• What are the possibilities of collaboration between researchers and practitioners working together to remount work based on the archives or research on new material? What working models exist and what have yet to be imagined?
• How has the digital humanities begun to reshape the possibilities of archival engagement?
• How can we support the labour of not only archival research methodologies but the maintenance of the archives themselves? How does the holding location of archives (university vs. community archive) affect the circulation of these resources? How can partnerships be expanded or reimagined?
• How has the cataloguing of new/recent archives contributed to new learning and change?
• 'From Stage to Street' – Connection of archives, theatre and society: Documentary theatre and socially responsive theatre
• Theatre, Peace and Conflict – How memory of theatre and conflict, especially that of Northern Ireland, is newly understood and experienced through the archives and contributing to resolution and reconciliation
• The craft of the playwright: Drafting, editing and writing for stage or radio

This conference capitalizes on NUI Galway’s unparalleled strength in Irish theatre and literary archives, taking advantage of holdings including the Abbey Theatre, the Druid Theatre, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Thomas Kilroy, Siobhan McKenna and the Galway Arts Festival, among others, to facilitate a national and international conversation about the place of archives in not only theatre and performance research and teaching, but arts practice and perception of theatre history more broadly.

Coinciding with the Galway Arts Festival, the conference will immerse participants in the living performance culture of Galway as the Galway Arts Festival links together artists from around the world to mount Ireland’s largest international arts festival.

Participants will take part in intensive working group sessions as well as participate in keynote and plenary sessions with leading scholars, archivists and performers working at the intersection of practice and research.

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