International Performance Research Pedagogies Towards an Unconditional Discipline?

The anthology marks the completion of seven years of the Erasmus Mundus MA Programme (2008-2013) in International Performance Research (MAIPR), a programme run jointly by the universities of Warwick (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Helsinki/Tampere (Finland), Arts in Belgrade (Serbia), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). This collaboration serves as an exemplary case to interrogate broader questions that are pertinent to the present and the future of the discipline of theatre and performance studies. The essays in this volume take stock of the achievements, insights and challenges of what international performance research is or ought to be about. By way of reflecting on the discipline of Performance Studies using the MAIPR programme as a case study in point, the volume addresses the critical link between the discipline of Performance Studies and Humanities education in the contemporary university in the context of globalisation.