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Research and performance: a roundtable on the future of the archive.
The American Society for Theatre Research's Fiftieth-Anniversary Conference in Chicago in November 2006 chose as its theme "'America,' 'Society,' 'Theatre,' and 'Research.'" For the plenary on research, conference chair Shannon Jackson proposed a special roundtable on the state of the archive, which would be jointly organized by ASTR and the Theatre Library Association (TLA). She envisioned an interactive dialogue between theatre history scholars and archivists exploring shared and conflicting issues. Performance studies scholar Tavia Nyong'o of New York University and I were enlisted to organize the panel.
Our call for papers--initially titled "Performing History/Historicizing Performance: The Archive as Negotiator or Co-Conspirator?"--solicited contributions investigating archival challenges in theatre research as well as performative aspects of the archive. As a stimulus for discussion, we posed the following questions:
* What is the difference between performance history and performative history?
* What is the relationship between performance history and theatre history?
* What does it mean conceptually and professionally to think of the archive as static? as dynamic? or performative?
* How does serious engagement with performance and performativity change archival research and protocols? Correspondingly, how does engagement with archival research and protocols affect theories of performance and performativity?
* How should the archive transform its methods of collection, description, and access to respond to new strategies of performance scholarship?
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Source: HighBeam Research, Research and performance: a roundtable on the future of the archive.