Type of post: | Association news item |
Sub-type: | No sub-type |
Posted By: | Glen McGillivray |
Status: | Current |
Date Posted: | Wed, 13 Dec 2017 |
The Popular Entertainments Working Group will be meeting again during the next conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research, 9-13 July, at the University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, and invites proposals from scholars, scholar-practitioners, emerging researchers, and those joining the Working Group for the first time. Occasional attendees and members who are not presenting are also welcome to participate.
Call for papers
The Popular Entertainments Working Group invites papers that either engage with the conference theme, or that explore areas of ongoing interest in the study of popular entertainments. In 2018 the Popular Entertainments Working Group is particularly interested in papers which address:
a) popular entertainments as part of the wider ecology of theatre;
b) methodologies used by researchers in the field of popular entertainments;
c) papers that span a combination of these two;
d) and papers that address the main theme of the 2018 IFTR conference.
Popular entertainments within the ‘legitimate’ theatre ecology
Over its ten-year history the working group has largely been engaged in a project of recuperation, of uncovering varieties of popular entertainment, and of giving them a place ‘at the academic table’, so to speak. As many of the papers presented in the working group indicate, however, popular entertainments are an integral part of theatre ecology. The working group is interested in papers that bring to light the importance of the popular within ‘high’ art practices, or that provide links between the ‘legitimate’ and the ‘illegitimate’. Topics might include, for example:
Methodology
The working group is also interested in papers concerning the following:
practice, and what are the possibilities and limitations?
The joint convenors of the Popular Entertainments Working Group are Dr Gillian Arrighi, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle, Australia Gillian.Arrighi@newcastle.edu.au and
Dr Mikael Strömberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden mikael.stromberg@lir.gu.se