Welcome to ADSA
The Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies
ADSA is the peak academic association promoting the study of drama in any performing medium throughout the region. ADSA represents members of staff and postgraduate students of Australasian institutions of tertiary education who are engaged in teaching, research and practice in theatre, drama and performance studies. Directors of associated theatres and members of the theatrical profession are also active members. ADSA's annual conference is usually held in July.
Next conference
- Compass Points: Locations, Landscapes and Coordinates of Identities, Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland, Brisbane, 3-6 July 2012
Recent conference
- Transcultural. Transnational. Transformation. : seeing, writing and reading performance across cultures, Monash University, 28 June - 1 July 2011
News
Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus By Peta Tait (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).
Can be ordered for yourself, and for your library's collection, via attached order form.
Final CFP: Recasting Commodity & Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
Two-day symposium, London, 22–23 November 2012 (CFP deadline 30 April 2012)
CFP: Volume on Teaching Australian & New Zealand Literature
edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff
Message from Sharon Mazer - Proposal to close Theatre & Film Studies at University of Canterbury
On 26th March 2012, Professor Ed Adelson, PVC for the College of Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, published his proposal to disestablish the Theatre and Film Studies programme.
CFP: Popular Entertainment Studies 3.2
Special Focus issue: “Pantomime and the continuities of performance: a global perspective”
