Some highlights from Day 2 of @irishtheatreres.bsky.social’s annual conference 2025 @myiadt.bsky.social #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
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Some highlights from day 1 of @irishtheatreres.bsky.social annual conference 2025 @myiadt.bsky.social #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
The third paper in Music and Cultural Mythologies is “Perpetuating cultural hegemony from the British Empire to AI: the case of bagpipes” by Cassandre Balosso-Bardin #ISTR2025
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Continuing on Music & Cultural Mythologies,Fiona Fearon’s paper “Performing Otherness: Minstrels in Early Twentieth Century Ireland” #ISTR2025
In the final round of panels, Ciara Murphy @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social ‘s paper ‘Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics’ is part of Music & Cultural Mythologies. #ISTR2025
Final panel of #ISTR2025 now with fellow feminist interventionist @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social's excellent and engaging paper on "'Get Your Brits Out': Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics"
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Looking forward to Siân Adiseshiah's keynote on Staging Utopian Subjects #ISTR2025
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Particularly liked the irony that we could literally see the stock market crashing on account of the newest beef in the lower right corner of Kurt's screen as he was questioning what the "great" evoked in MAGA is meant to represent #ISTR2025
Kurt Taroff raises thought-provoking points in ‘Circuses of stasis: performing the defence of the imperial state in the US and Northern Ireland’, juxtaposing the perfomativity and iconography of The Twelfth parades with Trump rallies (at one of which he apparently "signed a baby")
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Excited to find out whether the audio will work or if my co-communications officer @irishtheatreres.bsky.social @lukelamont.bsky.social will actually sing during his paper on "Verbatim musicals in Britain during the rightward lurch", as promised #ISTR2025
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Second day of #ISTR2025 is off to a fantastic start as Brian Singleton discusses ANU Productions’ Hammam (2023), bringing it together with the context of the 2023 Dublin Riot www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ham...
We also heard the research of Rachel Fehily, Róisín O’Gorman, Michael R. Murphy & Sarah Hoover on Dramaturgies and Visibility #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com
Catching our breath after a flurry of brilliant panels this afternoon.
The Government Policy & the Arts panel featured papers from Patricia O’Beirne, Ben McCabe & Charlotte McIvor. #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com
Excitedly waiting for Elaine Sisson's keynote at #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire not only, but also because "modernism" is mentioned in the title #OnceAModernistAlwaysAModernist
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Final paper in Challenging Colonial Legacies: “Converging Narratives: The Importance of Intersectionality and Diverse Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre” delivered remotely by Tara Mozafari #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com
Tuba (Tara) Mozafari now remotely contributing an intriguing talk on "Converging Narratives: The Importance of Intersectionality and Diverse Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre", focussing on "Eclipsed" by Patricia Burke Brogan and "Rathmines Road" by Deirdre Kinahan #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
Yousef Abu Amrieh delivering his and Ahmed Shalabi’s paper “Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand” as part of Challenging Colonial Legacies #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com
Unintentional auditory hauntings now as technology creates reverb #ISTR2025 #GhostInTheMachine #EndsOfEmpire
Yousef Abu Amrieh now presents his and Ahmed Shalabi's fascinating co-written paper on "Decolonizing George William Joyʼs General Gordonʼs Last Stand in Aboulelaʼs River Spirit" #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
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Shonagh Hill @shonaghhill.bsky.social also presenting in the Challenging Colonial Legacies panel, on “Mamtshawe - The Rise of Maqoma and decolonial feminism” #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com
. @shonaghhill.bsky.social now explores Nandi Jola's "Mamtshawe – The Rise of Maqoma" in the context of decolonial feminism, raising thought-provoking points and referencing Vergès notion of decolonial feminism as "a never-ending struggle, revolution as daily work" #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
Great to see what went on in other panels! #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
Attending the "Challenging Colonial Legacies" panel now, with David Clare starting off with a talk on "O’Neillian Echoes in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone (1974)" #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire
#ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire off to a great start - super two days of papers, keynotes, awards, and launches hosted by @myiadt.bsky.social @sjhoover.bsky.social Siobhan O'Gorman and Kevin Wallace
Helen Lane's excellent paper on "Voicing the concerns of our generation: The affective charge of the Irish Spoken Word movement in mainstream media" @irishtheatreres.bsky.social #ISTR2025 sounds like it could be right up @clairemsp.bsky.social @poetryoffthepage.bsky.social 's lane!
Sadly, we cannot be in two places at once despite the fascinating parallel panels - attending Terence McEneaney's engaging, evocative talk on "The Altered Altar: A Sensory and Autoethnographic Reflection of Mass" now #EndsOfEmpire #ISTR2025
#ISTR2025 kicking off any minute now - Follow this space for updates! #EndsOfEmpire