SIBMAS - International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts

SIBMAS Conference August 25th to 29th 2008

Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage

Call for Paper

Deadline  All proposals for papers must be received by 31st March 2008

Papers invited: There will be two types of papers considered for the 2008 conference programme:

Full Papers.  A paper addressing one or more of the stated themes (see below).  Full papers should be planned to last no more than 20 minutes.

Exhibition Papers.   A paper which will be issued to delegates for the exhibition and trade fair session on August 28th.
Presenters will be expected to discuss their papers with delegates and will be provided with an opportunity to demonstrate an audio-visual or online resource (digitisation, electronic archive, database, etc). French / English interpretation will be available.

All presenters will be listed in the conference programme and their papers will be published in the subsequent published proceedings.  The organisers regret that, due to the likely number of papers proposed, not all can be accepted for full presentation.

Conference Themes

Papers on the following themes will be welcomed:

  1. The ephemeral nature of the performing arts and examples of projects which have attempted to collect or present documentary material in an innovative way, in traditional or electronic formats.
  2. Lessons which can be learned from other disciplines and cultures about the challenge of recording intangible heritage
  3. Examples of innovative methods of collecting evidence through, for example, reminiscence work; oral history projects; proactive collecting through close collaboration with performing artists, etc.
  4. Exercises in recording the whole process of creating a production from the initial idea through to public performance
  5. The special characteristics of specific forms of documentary materials such as costumes, photographs, designs, etc, and their reliability as a source of evidence
  6. Restagings and reconstructions as a means of reliving theatrical performance

Format for Proposals:

Your proposal should include the following information

  • Your full name and job title
  • Address
  • E-mail address
  • Please state whether you are a member of SIBMAS
  • Title of paper
  • Summary:  Please provide a synopsis of up to 200 words summarising the content of your proposed paper
  • State whether you are you submitting a Full paper or an Exhibition paper, or are happy to be considered for either
  • State whether your presentation will require an online or audio-visual demonstration

Please e-mail your proposal to sibmas@rsamd.ac.uk.

All proposals must be submitted in full by 31st March 2008

Proposals will be considered by a Conference Panel, and prospective presenters will be contacted by 20th April 2008 with the panel’s decision.

All successful presenters must be able to provide a full text of their paper by 30th June 2008. This will be required for the purposes of preparing simultaneous translation into French.


URL: http://www.sibmas.org/English/call2008.html

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