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On Being a Twenty-First-Century Theatre Historian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 August 2019
Abstract
This series of provocations on the changing work of theatre historians opens with a contribution by David Wiles, who recounts a meeting of IFTR's Theatre Historiography Working Group in London in 2018. Wiles's reflection is followed by responses from scholars working in or on different regions, including perspectives by Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr (Philippines), Lorena Verzero (Latin America) and Promona Sengupta (India).
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1 O'Connor, Peter and Anderson, Michael, ‘Research in a Post-normal World’, in O'Connor and Anderson., eds., Applied Theatre: Research (London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2015), pp. 3–94, here p. 3CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2 Convened jointly by the University of Exeter and Royal Holloway University of London. Organizers: Elaine McGirr, Jane Milling, Kate Newey, Liz Schafer and David Wiles. The meeting was convened on RHUL premises in Bloomsbury, and RHUL kindly provided cups of tea.
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