ISTR SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Provisional Conference Timetable

Thursday- Pre-conference Event

1730 Annual Beckett Lecture at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD: "whole body like gone...: Performing Embodiment in Beckett's Drama
Professor Anna McMullan Queens University Belfast

Friday

[Registration Desk open daily from 08:30] (Memorial Theatre)

0900-1150 Working Groups Sessions

Cultural Identities Contact: Anna McMullan: anna.mcmullan@qub.ac.uk
Theatre History and Historiography: Contact Tom Maguire: tj.maguire@ulster.ac.uk
Textual Practices: Contact Eamonn Jordan: eamonn.jordan@ucd.ie
Performance Studies: Contact: Bernadette Sweeney: B.Sweeney@ucc.ie

1200- Lunch - Blackrock Campus Restaurant

12:30- 13:30 Work in Progress - The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by Simone Benmussa, Drama Studies Students, UCD – Liguori House, Main Entrance

1335-1510 Panel Sessions 1 (Four person panels)

1515-1530 Coffee

1530-1630 Plenary Lecture by Professor Tony Roche, University College Dublin

1630 Break and go to Abbey Theatre

1730-1900 Launch of Irish Theatre International- Abbey Theatre (TBC)

(Potential Theatre visit)

SATURDAY
[Registration Desk open daily from 08:30] (Memorial Theatre)

0900-1030 Panel Sessions 2

1030-1050 Coffee

1100-1230 Panel Sessions 3

1230 -1330 Lunch

1315 Celebration of Bernadette Sweeney’s new book Performing the Body in Irish Theatre (Palgrave 2008)

1330-1430 Annual General Meeting

1430-16:00 Panel Sessions 4

1600-1700 Plenary Lecture by Professor Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London

1700-1800 Wine Reception – Blackrock Campus Restaurant

1800-2100 Dinner- Restaurant (Additional Cost - 33.50, covers three course meal, excludes drinks which can be paid for at the table)

Conference Cost includes, Annual ISTR membership (30 euro full-membership/15 Students), lunch, and coffee both days and wine reception

Conference: Full Fee: 100 euro
Reduced Fee: 85 euro
Cash or Cheque:
(There will be no credit card facility)
(If you have already paid membership, deduct the amount by 30 or 15 euro respectively.)

Evening meal Saturday evening is extra- Three course in Tonic Blackrock Village, 33.30 euro- Pay for drinks individually extra at table.

Download a Registration Form

View the provisional book of abstracts