Between Then and Now: Performing Archives
About this Event
The Performance Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University is hosting the conference ‘Between Then and Now: Performing Archives’ at the Royal Exchange Theatre on 23-24 June 2026. The conference will interrogate the role of the archive in shaping, capturing, echoing, and contextualising performance, and to bring this area of thinking and practice into productive dialogue. We are interested in exploring how the archive can be a score for future development, how it can be reactivated, reanimated or re-enacted.
Please find a brief schedule here. We are expecting about 25 papers, presentations, performances and exhibitions over the two days. We have a small number of spaces available for academic and artistic colleagues and PhD students who would like to attend, but because of the size of the room and catering, these places are limited. If you would like to attend on either Tuesday or Wednesday, please sign up at the form below. If you have questions, please contact the Performance Research Group at [email protected]. For more information about the conference and the Performance Research Group please go here: https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/call-for-papers/
Tuesday 23rd June
9:30 Assemble
9:45 Welcome
10:00 Keynote presentation - Karen Christopher
11:00 Morning Coffee
11:30 Session One - Papers with Q&A
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Session Two - Performances with Q&A
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Session Three - Performance Presentations and Q&A
16:45 Move to bar
17:00 Session Five - Performances
18:30 End of day
Wednesday 24th June
9:30 Assemble
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Session Five - Papers with Q&A
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Session Six - Papers with Q&A
13:15 Lunch break
14:15 Session Seven - Performance Presentations and Q&A
15:30 Afternoon coffee
15:45 Keynote presentation - Matthew Spangler
17:00 Thank you and goodbye
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