Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to the opening seminar of the Autumn 2015 Gender ArcResearch Seminar Series:

“1916: Home: 2016”: Commemorating the Past, Performing the Future

Dr. Miriam Haughton and Dr. Charlotte McIvor

Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway

Abstract: This presentation introduces ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ a national and international programme

of multi-disciplinary research and creative arts projects. ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ focuses on two key

anniversaries occurring in 2016 within the frame of Ireland’s current Decade of Centenaries: the

centenary of Easter Rising and the 20-year anniversary of the closing of the Republic of Ireland’s last

Magdalene Laundry. By grouping events together in time in October 2016 throughout the island of

Ireland and internationally (with events also taking place in Canada, the UK, the United States, and

Brazil), ‰Û÷1916: Home: 2016′ will create spaces to reflect on a spectrum of stories that expose hidden

lives and narratives, both in Ireland and elsewhere, from 1916 to 2016 and beyond.

Miriam Haughton is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the National University of

Ireland, Galway. Her monograph Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow is forthcoming with the

Palgrave MacMillan series, ‰Û÷Contemporary Performance InterActions’. She co-edited the ISTR

journal Irish Theatre International, themed ‰Û÷Perform, or Else’ (2014), and the collection Radical

Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015). She has published multiple essays in

international journals, including Modern Drama (‰Û÷Honorable Mention’, Outstanding Articles 2015),

New Theatre Quarterly, and Irish Studies Review. Miriam is a supporting member of the National

Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), an executive committee member of the Irish Society for

Theatre Research (ISTR), and a member of the feminist working group of the International

Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).

Charlotte McIvor is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway and Director of

Postgraduate Studies in Drama. She has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley,

California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University. Her research specialisations include

intercultural performance at the intersection of migration and critical race and gender studies. She

has just completed an Irish Research Council funded project, ‰Û÷Interculturalism, Migration and

Performance in Contemporary Ireland’ and her monograph, Migration and Performance in

Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

Her publications include Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (coedited

with Matthew Spangler) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and

Contemporary Practice (co-edited with SiobhÌÁn O’Gorman). Her work has appeared in Modern

Drama and Irish University Review among others and multiple edited collections including ‰Û÷That

Was Us’ Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance.