The outline schedule for the IDiERI gathering is now available by going to the programme page of this site. Complete information on the keynote speakers, research hubs and mid-conference workshops is currently being finalised and will be posted here over the coming days.
Over 170 delegates have already registered for IDiERI. Make sure you register today to guarantee a place.
Colleagues,
Please note that the online registration and payment system for IDiERI 7 is now open. Please go to the Conference Registration page on this site and click on the event link at the bottom of the page.
We have also updated our accommodation section with a range of places to stay with special conference prices.
Over the coming weeks, the programme for the conference will be brought together, and details of the research hubs, keynote speakers and the outline of the academic programme will be announced on this site.
With best regards,
Michael & the IDiERI 2012 team
Dear Colleagues,
Please follow this link to see some of the most frequently asked questions pertaining to the IDiERI conference.
Thank you for your patience. We hope to have our online registration and payment system up and running very soon.
Best wishes,
Michael & the IDiERI team
We’re delighted to report a huge level of interest in the Institute, with over 160 submissions for presentations of many different types having been received, and from 28 different countries, across all continents. IDiERI 7 promises to be a bumper gathering!
Registration for the conference will be open within the number of weeks, as soon as our technical team are ready to roll. The line-up of keynote speakers and research hubs is currently being finalised and the website will be updated with all details as soon as possible. Keep in touch with the website over the next few weeks.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you all to Limerick in July.
Michael and the IDiERI 7 team
Dear colleagues,
I’m happy to report that arrangements are beginning to fall into place nicely for next year’s IDiERI (International Drama in Education Research Institute) gathering in Limerick from 10-15 July 2012. Please log in to www.idieri2012.org for updates over the coming weeks, including confirmation of keynote speakers and research hubs as well as registration, transport and accommodation details.
Submissions for conference presentations are now beginning to flood in. Please find here a second call for submissions which includes details of research paper, research workshops, symposia/roundtables, performances and posters.
Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals has now been extended to January 5th, 2012.
I would be most grateful if you might forward this extended call to your colleagues, research students and networks to whom it may be of interest.
Sincerely,
Michael
IDIERI, the International Drama in Education Research Institute, is the pre-eminent drama education research conference held triennially in centres of excellence for drama education throughout the world. Six previous conferences have been held in Brisbane, Australia (1995), Canada (1997), the USA (2000), England (2003) and Jamaica (2006). In 2009 the event was hosted by the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. The conference is held is focused on developing the research tradition and broadening the discourse of the drama education community. At the Sydney conference, Michael Finneran was nominated as academic director for the forthcoming conference, to be held in Limerick in 2012.
Philip Taylor was convenor of the first conference in Brisbane:
The aim (of the first IDIERI in 1995) was to critique the different modalities of research design, to draw connections between them, and to probe how knowledge can be advanced by their application. The term ‘institute’ was chosen specifically to describe this interaction. An institute connotes a body that produces and promotes educational advancement, a place where ideas can be investigated and new visions proposed. An institute can become a beacon through which emerging understandings happen, where stereotypical notions can be challenged, where new beginnings occur. (Taylor 1996, Preface)
Conference themes, foci and structures have varied over its previous iterations, but Taylor’s notion of the function and form of an institute remains constant, and IDIERI continues to exist solely as a vehicle for advancing research and thought in drama education. IDEIRI 6 was convened by Michael Anderson, and had the theme of ‘Drama Research Futures: Examining our past, critiquing our present, imagining tomorrow’. His aspiration was to:
… examine(s) the shifting conditions in schools and society generally. The conference examines the traditions of drama education and applied theatre and explores common traditions. The conference themes beg a discussion of the current state of drama education and applied theatre and engages with the future of the field. While speculative in some ways, the theme seeks reflection on the past as a way to examine our research agendas, contexts, methodologies and practices. The conference aims to provide fresh perspectives on familiar debates and engage in a critical examination of emerging issues. (Anderson 2009, p.2)
The challenge for IDIERI 7 in Limerick will be to emulate this tradition but to provide a fresh impetus and focus for the collective discussions of the delegates on research during their week in Limerick.
The Institute theme and Call for Papers for IDIERI 2012 are now available by going to the relevant page on this site or by downloading the PDF available here
We look forward to receiving your abstracts. Closing date is 1 December 2011.
Welcome to the homepage of the 7th International Drama in Education Research Institute, to be held in Limerick, Ireland from the 10-15 July 2012.
This site is currently under construction. It will be fully launched in the last week of August 2011, when the conference call for papers will be issued.