Category Archives: Conferences
Shifting Stages, Shifting Sources: SIBMAS 2026 in Reykjavík
The 2026 SIBMAS Symposium, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, from June 8–10, gathered international performing arts archivists, librarians, and curators to discuss the theme “Shifting Stages: Preserving Performing Arts on Moving Ground”. Hosted by the National and University Library of Iceland and the National Theatre of Iceland, the event addressed the complexities of documenting fleeting performance arts in an era of rapid technological and structural change.
MLA/TLA 2023 Joint Meeting
Registration is now open for the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association and the 2nd Joint Meeting with the Theatre Library Association. This event is currently scheduled to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, March 1-5, 2023. The meeting is planned as a hybrid event. Discounted rates are available to current TLA or MLA members, and […]
MLA / TLA 2021 Joint Meeting
Registration is now open for the Joint Meeting of the Music Library Association and the Theatre Library Association. This virtual conference will take place via Zoom and Remo from March 1-5, 2021. Join us for over fifty presentations about anti-racist performing arts librarianship, library outreach and instruction, print and digital preservation, digital scores, and much more. Discounted […]
Call for Submissions: ASTR 2020 – Theatre & Performance After Repetition
New Orleans November 5 – 8, 2020 Repetition Repeats Itself The American Society for Theatre Research submission process is now open for the 2020 Conference: Theatre and Performance After Repetition. How do we examine theatre from different theories, methodologies and practices of repetition? How have new media technologies changed how we think of repetition and […]
ACRL WGSS/TLA Discussion Forum: Social Justice at the Intersection of the Arts and Librarianship
The Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) of ACRL will host its discussion forum, Social Justice at the Intersection of the Arts and Librarianship, co-sponsored with the Theatre Library Association (TLA) on Monday June 25 at 8:30-10:00 a.m. in Morial Convention Center, room 298. The section’s awards ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will […]
2018 ASTR/TLA Plenary Call for Proposals
American Society for Theatre Research/Theatre Library Association ASTR/TLA 2018 Annual Conference Arousal: Theatre, Performance, Embodiment Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California, November 15–18, 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (TLA) PLENARY The Thrill of Performing Arts Research The Theatre Library Association seeks papers addressing the theme of the 2018 TLA Plenary […]
TLA President’s Remarks at ASTR/TLA Conference 2017
November 18, 2017 Good afternoon. It is my pleasure and privilege to serve as President of the Theatre Library Association and on behalf of TLA thank you to the ASTR Officers, Executive Committee, Conference Program Chairs, and Conference Program Committee. I begin with a report on the activities of the American Theatre Archive Project on […]
2017 ASTR/TLA Conference: Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference”
Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead | Atlanta, Georgia | November 16-19, 2017 Friday, November 17 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Field Conversation 6: Instructional Resources in the Twenty-First Century (co-sponsored by the Theatre Library Association and the ASTR Ad Hoc Committee on Libraries) Sunday, November 19 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM Theatre Library Association Plenary: […]
2018 ASTR-TLA Annual Conference
Joint Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) and Theatre Library Association November 15-18, 2018 San Diego, California Conference Theme – Arousal: Theatre, Performance, Embodiment Performance arouses; arousal is at the center of what performance can and should do. On and off stage, performances evoke, excite, inflame, and awaken. They provoke our different bodies […]
Call for Papers – ASTR/TLA Plenary: “The Body in the Library”
The Body in the Library: A Call for Papers for the Plenary Panel of the Theatre Library Association Association with libraries has traditionally been perceived as damaging to the body. Chaucer’s Oxfordian Clerke is described as unnaturally thin; Prospero can only be redeemed when he decides to “drown [his] book”; and Faustus’s obsessive […]