Provisional programme

Monday 8 June

 9:00 – 9:30 WELCOME AND REGISTRATION  

• SIBMAS Presidents
  9:30 – 10:00.    Opening speech by Nic Leonhardt and Alan R. Jones
• Yassaman Khajehi
  10:00 – 10:30.    Contemporary Performative Rituals, Fieldwork Experiences and Archival Challenges: A Methodological Reflection on an Ongoing Research Project

COFFEE BREAK

• Fridthjófur Thorsteinsson
  11:00-11:30.    Shifting Histories: Preservation in Motion.
• Melissa Wertheimer 
  11:30 – 12:00.    Crawl, Don’t Run: How Web Archives Support Contemporary Performing Arts Documentation and Research

LUNCH

• Clarisse Bardiot, Doug Reside, Thomas Thorausch and Susanne Foellmer 
  13:30 – 14:30.    ROUND TABLE “Digital Futures: AI, Innovation, and the Performing Arts Collections“
• Frederieke van Wijk
  14:30 – 15:00.    A power imbalance in the Circus Collection: the human zoo and freakshow

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION 1

• Cristina Modreanu 
  15:45 – 16:15.    How to Recover Women’s Voices from Theatre History? Guidelines for a Feminist Research Methodology
• Morgen Stevens-Garmon
  16:15 – 16:45.    Catch the Light: the papers of Beverly Emmons at the Library of Congress (challenges inherent in documenting a field that utilizes continually evolving technology)

WELCOME COCKTAIL AT OLD THEATRE

Tuesday 9 June

• Alexandra Beraldin, Anna Lawaetz, Libby Smigel, Aristide M. LaVey, Dunja-Maria Münch
  9:30 – 10:30.    ROUND TABLE “The Afterlife of Performance: Working with Secondary Sources”

COFFEE BREAK

• Aliénor Fernandez
  11:00 – 11:30.    Martine Franck and performance photography: a seismology of the archive
• Daniela Lieb
  11:30 – 12:00.    How to incorporate water-damaged theatre collections into a literary exhibition to be mounted in a chronically understaffed institution no-one has ever heard of

LUNCH + POSTER SESSION 2

• Zahir Faiz, Staf Vos, Karin Thomson, Dita Lánska
  13:45 – 14:45.    ROUND TABLE “Crisis, Care, and Continuity in Cultural Collections”

COFFEE BREAK

• Laura Ars
  15:00 – 15:30.    Archiving as Human Work: Donors, Trust, and Care in Performing Arts Collections

POSTER SESSION 3

• Helena Hantáková
  16:30 – 17:00.    The Prague Quadrennial memories and future

COFFEE BREAK

• SIBMAS General Assembly
  17:30 – 18:30 (19:30 – 20:30 CET)

DINNER (optionnal)

Wednesday 10 June

• Tour 1
• Plateform event Old Theatre
  11:00 – 12:30.

LUNCH

• Tour 2

END OF SYMPOSIUM

Posters sessions

• Miriam Althammer
  Body Maps between Absence and Presence. Transnational Gymnastics and the Afterlives of Embodied Knowledge in Modern Europe.
• André Felipe Costa
  El Concilio de Amor: Archives and Sonic Fictions of Ibero-American Queer Theatre.
• Eva del Rey
  Archiving Performing Arts Discourses.
• Katja Weingartshofer
  Costume Design at the Threshold of Digital Preservation: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies between Theatre and Archive.
• Ana Wegner, Berilo Nosella, Elizabeth Azevedo and Fabiana Fontana
  Theatre Memory and the Preservation of Technical Documentation in Southeastern Brazil.
• Ana Perne 
  Digitisation, Accessibility, and Sustainability: Preserving Slovenian Theatre Audio and Audiovisual Heritage.
• Harriet Reed
  Collecting independent music venues across the UK.