MAP is an interuniversity research centre established among the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the University of Parma, and the University of Genoa to develop research and projects, organize meetings and seminars, and curate and share reflections on the memory of the performing arts, as both tangible and intangible heritage.
MAP focuses on theatre, dance, performance, and also on those festive, ritual, political cultural practices where the performative element is crucial.
MAP pays attention to the ways in which memory is constructed, utilized, and reactivated.
MAP aims to activate multiple relationships between universities, theatres, archives, and society, becoming a platform for scientific, educational, and informative collaboration.

Study seminar: Comedians in Nazi Camps: Memory and Stage, Antonella Ottai (University of Rome La Sapienza)

online event, 12 December 2024, 5:30 PM

Fourth meeting within the seminar series "Memory, Performace, and Scenes of Conflict“, organized by Francesca Bortoletti, Livia Cavaglieri, Roberta Gandolfi, Tancredi Gusman and Donatella Orecchia.

Call for Papers. The Prism of Festivals in Theatre and Performance Studies. Open Historiographic Issues

Rome, Tor Vergata University, 9-10 October 2025

The conference aims to serve as a platform for reflection and discussion on the research methodologies of theater festivals, considered in their holistic artistic, political, and social dimensions. Particular attention will be given to festivals understood as “intangible cultural heritage” of the communities that produced them, as well as to the methodologies for collecting, digitally cataloging, and networking sources for their study, along with the reactivation of their memories. The conference seeks to emphasize a methodological and historiographical approach, including interdisciplinary perspectives, in dialogue with cultural studies, global studies, sociology, ethnography, and postcolonial and decolonial approaches.

Scientific Committee: Francesca Bortoletti, Roberta Ferraresi, Roberta Gandolfi, Pascale Goetschel, Gerardo Guccini, Tancredi Gusman, Donatella Orecchia, Armando Petrini, Alessandro Pontremoli, Heike Roms.