Canada, Irishness and Performance: Opening the DebateGraduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto |
Program
All sessions will be held at the Robert Gill Theatre, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, unless otherwise noted. For directions and detailed information on conference locations, please visit the Locations page.
| Friday April 15 | |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | |
| Coffee & Tea; Registration | |
| Lobby, Robert Gill Theatre | |
| 1:00pm-2:15pm | |
| PANEL 1: Irish Integration in Quebec: Performance Studies and Interdisciplinary Perspectives | |
| Convenor: | Jason King, University of Limerick |
| Panelists: | Jason King, University of Limerick: “Spectacles of Integration: Irish Famine Orphans Adoptions in Cultural Practice and Theatrical Performance” |
| Simon Jolivet, Université d'Ottawa:“Performing ‘Irishness’ in a Canadian Metropolis: Staging Irish and Irish Canadian Events in Montréal, 1890-1920” | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 2:30pm-4:00pm | |
| PANEL 2: Irish Theatres in Canada: Perspectives from Practitioners | |
| Convenor: | Karen Fricker, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Panelists: | Jean-Denis Leduc, Founder Director, Le Théâtre de La Manufacture, Le Théâtre La Licorne, (Montréal, QC) |
| Rosemary Dunsmore & Breese Davies, MackenzieRo: The Irish Repertory Theatre of Canada (Toronto, ON) | |
| Patrick Toner, An Amharclann (Saint John, New Brunswick) | |
| Sharon Taylor, Toronto Irish Players (Toronto, ON) | |
| BREAK | |
| 6:00pm-7:30pm | |
| KEYNOTE: Jackie Maxwell in Conversation with Ann Saddlemyer | |
| Sponsored by the Celtic Studies Program's Annual Speakers Series fund. | |
| *NOTE: This session will be held at Alumni Hall, Room 400, St. Michael's College, 121 St. Joseph Street* | |
| Saturday April 16 | |
| 10:30-11:00am | |
| Coffee & Tea | |
| Lobby, Robert Gill Theatre | |
| 11:00am-12:15pm | |
| PANEL 3: Counting and Accounting for Irish theatre in Quebec | |
| Panelists: | Brad Kent, Université Laval, Quebec: “Towards a History of Irish Theatre in Quebec” |
| Patrick Toner, University of New Brunswick, St. John: “National Identities: Quebec and Irish Theatre in the 1980s” | |
| 12:15pm-1:45pm | |
| BREAK FOR LUNCH | |
| 1:45pm-2:45pm | |
| SPECIAL PANEL: IRISH STEP DANCE | |
| Kathleen Spanos, University of Maryland: “Embodied Knowledge in Irish Step Dance: Authenticity and tradition in the North American diaspora” | |
| To accompany her paper, Ms. Spanos will include an Irish Step Dance performance | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:00pm-4:15pm | |
| KEYNOTE: Lisa Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster, Derry): “Invisible Interculturalism? Performing Ireland on the Canadian Stage” | |
| Sponsored by The British Academy | |
| 4:15pm-5:30pm | |
| CONFERENCE ROUNDUP: Irish diasporas, Canadian multiculturalism and theatrical analogies | |
| This Roundtable discussion will feature a number of invited respondents (including Nicky Grene, Trinity College Dublin, and Anne Nothof, Athabasca University), but is open to all conference delegates for a broad discussion based on issues raised, but not fully explored, at the conference. Additional respondents TBC. | |
| WALK TO MASSEY COLLEGE | |
| 6:00pm–7:30pm | |
| CONFERENCE RECEPTION | |
| Hosted by Massey College in honour of former Master, Ann Saddlemyer | |
| See Locations page for directions to Massey College | |
| Many thanks to our generous sponsors: The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, The Celtic Studies Program, and Massey College at the University of Toronto; The British Academy; and The Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland. | |