
Dear colleagues and friends, readers and researchers,
I hope that you are all doing well and wish you all the best for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year!
It has been very quiet on this blog over the past few months. As is so often the case in academia and the cultural sector, this was due to personnel and personal changes. They seem to be as much a part of our academic activities as research, teaching, publishing and administration. And, of course, the all-important balance between ‘work’ and ‘life’.
I started this blog many years ago in my role as co-director of the Koselleck project Global Theatre History at LMU Munich. As senior of the ERC project Developing Theatre, I continued the blog afterwards.
It is an immense pleasure for me, and I am very happy and grateful that I can continue my research in the field of global theatre history(ies) with my funding as part of the so-called Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In the coming years, my research on Global Theatre Histories: Connections, Dis:Connections, Challenges, will focus on theatre in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi periods and on networks of female theatre makers and facilitators in the 19th and 20th centuries. All this against the background of global theatre history.
Christopher Balme and I paved this new path within theatre studies a good decade ago. ‘GTH’ – the interrogation and exploration of global theatre history(ies) – is far from over. In the meantime, numerous dear colleagues around the world are researching questions of global networking, conflicts, connectivities and dis-connectivities of the theatrical world.
This blog is not only intended as a showcase for my own research and publications. Rather, it sees itself as a platform for all those out there who are looking at theatre, opera, circus, or dance globally, be it from a historical or contemporary perspective. So feel invited to enrich the blog with your short guest contributions.
I look forward to the coming years of exchanging ideas and researching together.
It feels good to be back (home) again 🙂
Yours sincerely, Nic (Leonhardt)
Dr.NicLeonhardt@gmail.com & N.Leonhardt@uni-koeln.de
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Nic Leonhardt (14. Januar 2025). Jump into a new era – GTH is back again. Global Theatre Histories. Abgerufen am 17. Februar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/13330