Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Galway, Ireland, Vice-President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research, author of Staging Trauma (2018) and co-editor of Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries (2021) and Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015).Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Irish Studies research cluster at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (2009) and Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (2014).

• AcknowledgementsForeword Introduction 1. Theatre, Performance and CommemorationAlinne Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Miriam Haughton (NUI Galway, Ireland), Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)Section 1 – Commemorative Practices: Performing the Contradictions of our Present2. Unruly Remembering: Great War Anti-heroes and National Narratives in Northern IrelandTom Maguire (Ulster University, UK)3. My Revolution is Better than Yours: Remembrance, Commemoration and Counter-memory of May 68Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Jorges Palinhos (Playwright, Dramaturg and Researcher, Portugal)4. Dancing the Emigratory Experience: Challenging the Boundaries of (Imagined) Communities and (Invented) TraditionsChristel Stalpaert (Ghent University, Belgium)5. Representations of Transition, Memory and Crisis on Stage in Punto y Coma (Ready or Not) by Uruguayan Dramatist Estela Golovchenko Sophie Stevens (University of East Anglia, UK)Section 2 – Disruptive Lessons: Thinking Through the Affects of Memory6. Know Thy Enemy: Wajdi Mouawad on History, Memory and Reconciliation at La CollineYana Meerzon (University of Ottowa, Canada)7. From Difficult Pasts to Present Resonance: Performances of Memory and Commemorative Gestures in Contemporary ViennaVicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)8. Dancing Impossible Histories: Commemoration, Memory and Trauma in Screendance Aoife McGrath (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Section 3: Challenging the Nation/the State: Performing Affective Critiques9. Performing/Mourning Marikana as Affective Critique of a Nation in CrisisMiki Flockemann (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)10. Resonances of Mnemonic Community: Turkey’s Kurdish Question in European OperaPieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)11. Post-colonial Imaginations: Afro-Asian Dialogues in the Past and the PresentBishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Index

Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Galway, Ireland, Vice-President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research, author of Staging Trauma (2018) and co-editor of Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries (2021) and Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015).Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Irish Studies research cluster at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (2009) and Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (2014).

• AcknowledgementsForeword Introduction 1. Theatre, Performance and CommemorationAlinne Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Miriam Haughton (NUI Galway, Ireland), Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)Section 1 – Commemorative Practices: Performing the Contradictions of our Present2. Unruly Remembering: Great War Anti-heroes and National Narratives in Northern IrelandTom Maguire (Ulster University, UK)3. My Revolution is Better than Yours: Remembrance, Commemoration and Counter-memory of May 68Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Jorges Palinhos (Playwright, Dramaturg and Researcher, Portugal)4. Dancing the Emigratory Experience: Challenging the Boundaries of (Imagined) Communities and (Invented) TraditionsChristel Stalpaert (Ghent University, Belgium)5. Representations of Transition, Memory and Crisis on Stage in Punto y Coma (Ready or Not) by Uruguayan Dramatist Estela Golovchenko Sophie Stevens (University of East Anglia, UK)Section 2 – Disruptive Lessons: Thinking Through the Affects of Memory6. Know Thy Enemy: Wajdi Mouawad on History, Memory and Reconciliation at La CollineYana Meerzon (University of Ottowa, Canada)7. From Difficult Pasts to Present Resonance: Performances of Memory and Commemorative Gestures in Contemporary ViennaVicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)8. Dancing Impossible Histories: Commemoration, Memory and Trauma in Screendance Aoife McGrath (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Section 3: Challenging the Nation/the State: Performing Affective Critiques9. Performing/Mourning Marikana as Affective Critique of a Nation in CrisisMiki Flockemann (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)10. Resonances of Mnemonic Community: Turkey’s Kurdish Question in European OperaPieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)11. Post-colonial Imaginations: Afro-Asian Dialogues in the Past and the PresentBishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Index

Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Galway, Ireland, Vice-President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research, author of Staging Trauma (2018) and co-editor of Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries (2021) and Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015).Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Irish Studies research cluster at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (2009) and Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (2014).

• AcknowledgementsForeword Introduction 1. Theatre, Performance and CommemorationAlinne Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Miriam Haughton (NUI Galway, Ireland), Pieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)Section 1 – Commemorative Practices: Performing the Contradictions of our Present2. Unruly Remembering: Great War Anti-heroes and National Narratives in Northern IrelandTom Maguire (Ulster University, UK)3. My Revolution is Better than Yours: Remembrance, Commemoration and Counter-memory of May 68Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Jorges Palinhos (Playwright, Dramaturg and Researcher, Portugal)4. Dancing the Emigratory Experience: Challenging the Boundaries of (Imagined) Communities and (Invented) TraditionsChristel Stalpaert (Ghent University, Belgium)5. Representations of Transition, Memory and Crisis on Stage in Punto y Coma (Ready or Not) by Uruguayan Dramatist Estela Golovchenko Sophie Stevens (University of East Anglia, UK)Section 2 – Disruptive Lessons: Thinking Through the Affects of Memory6. Know Thy Enemy: Wajdi Mouawad on History, Memory and Reconciliation at La CollineYana Meerzon (University of Ottowa, Canada)7. From Difficult Pasts to Present Resonance: Performances of Memory and Commemorative Gestures in Contemporary ViennaVicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)8. Dancing Impossible Histories: Commemoration, Memory and Trauma in Screendance Aoife McGrath (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Section 3: Challenging the Nation/the State: Performing Affective Critiques9. Performing/Mourning Marikana as Affective Critique of a Nation in CrisisMiki Flockemann (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)10. Resonances of Mnemonic Community: Turkey’s Kurdish Question in European OperaPieter Verstraete (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)11. Post-colonial Imaginations: Afro-Asian Dialogues in the Past and the PresentBishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Index