There’s another thing to look forward to… our book “Developing Theatre in the Global South. Institutions, Networks, Experts”, is announced to be published in spring 2024 with UCL Press, London The book will be open access as we think that news, new and revised knowledge and scholarship should come without barriers. Many thanks for being…… Continue reading Developing Theatre in the Global South
The second issue 2019 of the Journal of Global Theatre History is now available online. It is dedicated to the theme Developing Theatre and Philanthropy and gathers contributions from Christopher Balme, Jan Creutzenberg and myself. All three articles address case studies of promoting theatre practice and education through the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1950s and…… Continue reading GTH Journal (2, 2019) out now – Focus on Philanthropy and Developing Theatre
There is hardly any context of learning and further education, in which the format of the workshop would not be common. Whether in the private sector, in the arts, in the academia or in theatre: workshops are popular as a format and form of learning in limited time and space. From an intensive preoccupation with…… Continue reading Working Paper “The Workshop. On the Genesis of a Global Form”
At this year’s annual conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, China, I will be sharing a panel on the Rockefeller Foundation’s philanthropic initiatives in the field of theatre after 1950 together with Christopher Balme (LMU Munich), and Jan Creutzenberg (Seoul). In my talk “Far-Flung |…… Continue reading IFTR 2019 in Shanghai – Talk on Severino Montano and his Arena Theatre in Manila
From 16-20 March 2020, our ERC funded project “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945” at LMU Munich will be organizing an international conference in collaboration with Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa on the topic Theatre for Development (TfD): Historical and Institutional Perspectives. The thrust of the…… Continue reading Theatre for Development: Historical & Institutional Perspectives– Conference in Pretoria, March 2020 – CfP
Ich kann mich noch sehr gut an diesen einen Sommerabend erinnern, als wir anlässlich der Jahrestagung der International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2016 in Stockholm unter Kollegen in der U-Bahn darüber sprachen, dass Europa eine so reiche Theaterszene und -geschichte aufweist, wir aber in der gemeinsamen Erforschung und hinsichtlich des Austauschs europäischer theaterwissenschaftlicher Kompetenz…… Continue reading EASTAP – Neue Assoziation für Dialog und Forschung über Theater in Europa
Wenn der schöne Trubel des Semesters abklingt und die vorlesungsfreie Zeit beginnt, tauchen wir Forscherinnen gerne in die Archive ab oder ziehen uns in unsere Schreibstuben zurück, um der Recherche und dem Schreiben Zeit und Raum zu geben. Mit Hilfe eines Karl Ferdinand Werner-Fellowships am Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris werde ich mich im…… Continue reading Forschungsfutter & Flanieren à Paris
Nic Leonhardt 