Conferences
A list of conferences held under the auspices of, or in collaboration with, Performing Premodernity
Comala and Nina: Operatic Performance in the Age of Sensibility
This scholarly symposium, took place in Vadstena on 6 August 2016, organised by the research group Performing Premodernity on the occasion of the Vadstena Academy’s double-bill production of two little known Italian operas: Pietro Morandi’s Comala (Naples? 1780) and the one-act version of Giovanni Paisiello’s Nina o sia La pazza per amore (Naples 1789). The […]
IFTR annual conference held in Stockholm 13-17 June 2016
The members of Performing Premodernity took part in the 2016 annual conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research which will be held in Stockholm. The conference “Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices” addressed questions concerning our relationship to theatre history, i.e. the relation between present and past. How and why […]
Rousseau and the Theatre: Political-Aesthetic Ideals and Practices
A conference organised by Performing Premodernity, 24 -26 August 2015. The starting point for this three-day conference was that Performing Premodernity wanted to emphasize that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ever since his own lifetime, has wrongly been regarded by many as belonging to a long tradition of anti-theatrical thinkers. Numerous theatre scholars have refrained from exploring Rousseau’s theatrical […]
Performing Premodernity at the 2015 IFTR Conference in Hyderabad, India
In July 2015, members of the research group “Performing Premodernity” presented a curated panel entitled “Theatre for the People? Accessibility, Sensibility and Democracy in Late 18th-Century Theatre” at the annual conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research in Hyderabad, India. The second half of the 18th century saw some major changes in theatrical culture. […]
Acting in the Late Enlightenment (1740-1800)
4-6 December 2014 Performing Premodernity held an international symposium entitled Acting in the Late Enlightenment (1740-1800). Scholars and practitioners gathered for a day of lectures and discussions about acting in the second half of the late eighteenth century, and about the revival of period acting principles on the modern stage. 1740-1800 was the period of […]
