British Shakespeare Association Online Conference 5th-7th August 2021

**Registration for the online conference is free to BSA members in good standing. The registration link is available in the Members Area of the BSA website**

Zoom links for each session will be provided in the finalised version of the schedule, which will be sent in early August to those who have registered for the conference.

All times are given in British Summertime (BST). Please adjust accordingly for your own time zone.

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DAY 1 THURSDAY 5TH AUGUST Welcome from the Conference Chair: Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds)

9:30-11:00am Meet the Editors of the BSA’s Shakespeare Journal BST Speakers: Deborah Cartmell (De Montford University), Brett Greatley-Hirsch (University of Leeds), Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University) Tom Rutter (University of Sheffield)

Break

PANEL 1: HISTORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Chair: Ollie Jones (University of )

Parallel Anna Myers (Edinburgh College of Art) Material Legacies of ‘The Seven Ages of Man’: Shakespeare at Home in Eighteenth-century Sessions England Esther Schupak (Bar-Ilan University) Shakespeare’s Roman Plays in the Early American Republic Amy Lidster (King’s College London) Shakespeare as Wartime Propaganda

11:30-1:00pm BST PANEL 2 : RETHINKING DREAM IN LOCKDOWN 2020: NEW APPROACHES TO A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Chair: José A. Pérez Díez (University of Leeds)

Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick) ‘Unlock Your Calendar’: Extra-Textual Additions and Popular Culture in the Bridge Dream Benjamin Broadribb (Shakespeare Institute) ‘With parted eye’: Lockdown Dreams and the Metamodern Sensibility Gemma Kate Allred (University of Neuchâtel) ‘Such tricks hath strong imagination’: Creating Magical Worlds in Lockdown Dreams

Lunch Break

Parallel WORKSHOP: FEMALE SOLIDARITY IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS Facilitator: Tanya Roberts (London South Bank University) Sessions

SEMINAR: SHAKESPEARE BODY AND MIND Facilitator: Alison Findlay (Lancaster University) 2:00-4:00pm Break

Parallel WORKSHOP: IMPERFECT ALCHEMIST AND ‘UNPERFECT PLAYER’: SHAKESPEARE & OTHERS IN A PLAGUE YEAR

Sessions Speakers: Naomi Miller (Smith College, USA) and Chris Rohmann (Massachusetts, USA)

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4:30-6:00pm BST ROUNDTABLE: EARLY MODERN GERMAN SHAKESPEARE IN ACTION: TRAUMA AND LAUGHTER IN CREATION THEATRE’S ROMIO UND JULIETA

Speakers: Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter), Freyja Cox Jensen (University of Exeter), Harry McCarthy (University of Cambridge), Kareen Seidler (Berlin), Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds) Break

8:00pm BST WATCH PARTY: Animated Tales -- . Please search for “[Shakespeare: The Animated Tales] Macbeth” on YouTube. Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #BSA2021WP

DAY 2 FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST

PANEL 3: CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE Chair: Chris Green (Perse School)

Parallel Leo Doulton (York Shakespeare Project) Cyberpunk Macbeth: From Presentism To Futurism Sessions Márta Minier (University of South Wales) Shakespeare and Cultural Capital Induced Tourism: Shakespeare Co-produced for EasyJet’s 2014 Shakespeare Flight 9:30-11:00am Andrew Muir (Independent Scholar) Bob Dylan and as Performance Artists

BST PANEL 4: SHAKESPEARE AND ASIAN SCREENS Chair: Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin) Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) Shakespeare in Parts: The Other Indian Shakespeare Story Jason Eng Hun Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University) at the Neocolonial Asian Frontier Andrea Smith (University of East Anglia) Cinematic Shakespeare in Sound Only

Break

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PANEL 5: EDUCATION Chair: Anna Demoux (Université Clermont Auvergne)

Kathryn Twigg (Shakespeare Institute) The Trauma-Informed Teaching of Shakespeare: Problems, Pedagogies and Proposals Parallel Naseem Alotaibi (Umm Al-Qura University) “Of One’s Own clime, complexion and degree”: Tackling the Ethnic and Religious Issues Session of in the Saudi Classroom

Duncan Lees (University of Warwick) Doing “Being Shakespearean” at a Chinese University: An Interactional Perspective 11:30-1:00pm

BST PANEL 6: DRAMATURGY Chair: Harry McCarthy (University of Cambridge) Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol) Women, Walking, and Windows: The Kinetics of Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin) “Orgies of Egalitarianism”: Casting Practices under Emma Rice and Michelle Terry Dilek Zerenler (Selçuk University, Dilek Sabancı State Conservatory) New Dramaturgic Approaches to Intertextual Texts of Shakespeare

Lunch Break

Parallel WORKSHOP: ACTIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING SHAKESPEARE AS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY Sessions Facilitator: Jennifer Kitchen (University of Warwick) 2:00-4:00pm BST SEMINAR: SHAKESPEARE AND MAP-MAKING Facilitators: Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University) and Colm MacCrossan (Independent Scholar)

Break

Parallel WORKSHOP: PODCASTS AND FEMINIST SHAKESPEARE PEDAGOGY (1h30) Sessions Facilitator: Varsha Panjwani (New York University, London)

4:30- 6:00/6:30pm SEMINAR: SHAKESPEARE AND DISABILITY (2h) BST Facilitator: Susan Anderson (Sheffield Hallam University) Break

8:00pm BST WATCH PARTY: The Winter’s Tale (1913) silent film: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-winters-tale-1913-online start Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #BSA2021WP

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DAY 3 SATURDAY 7TH AUGUST

PANEL 7: SHAKESPEARE AND FILM Chair: Susan Anderson (Sheffield Hallam University)

Carolina Conte (Old Dominion University) William, Emily and Us Parallel Edel Semple (University College Cork) Badass Moms: Aging Maternity in Taymor’s Tempest and Fiennes’ Sessions

9:30-11:00am PANEL 8: MIND AND MEANING Chair: Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)

Suzy Lawrence (King’s College London) ‘Perish the man whose mind is backward now’: Fear, Temporality and Emotional Agency BST in Jessica Chiba (Shakespeare Institute) , Nietzsche, and the Denial of Transcendental Meaning Colm MacCrossan (Independent Scholar) Shylock the Heel: Confirming Comedic Villainy by Betraying the Logic of Justice

Break

Parallel WORKSHOP: SHAKESPEARE’S RIVALS IN ACTION (1h30) Sessions Facilitators: Mike Cordner and Ollie Jones (University of York)

11:30- 1:00/1:30pm SEMINAR: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE (2h) BST Facilitator: Helen Mears

Lunch Break

PANEL 9: ADAPTATION AND REINTERPRETATION Chair: Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol)

Parallel Sally Barnden (King’s College London) The “hollow crown” and the Royal Voice in The Crown and King Charles III Sessions Paul Tyndall (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) Taming of the Shrew at the Stratford Festival Gethin Roberts (University of Bristol) Malvolio and Malvolia: Cross-Gender Casting and the Creation of New Narratives in

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2:00-3:30pm ROUNDTABLE: PLAYHOUSE TO ROUGHHOUSE: ADAPTING SHAKESPEARE FOR ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE

BST Facilitator: Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick) Speakers: Rebecca Macmillan and Tom Wilkinson (Impromptu Shakespeare), Toby Park (Spymonkey), Brice Stratford (Owle Schreame)

Break

PANEL 10: LANGUAGE AND METAPHOR Chair: Alison Findlay (Lancaster University)

Bailey Sincox (Harvard University) Genealogy of an Insult: The Hyrcanian Tiger Parallel Rikita Tyson (Commonwealth School, Boston, MA) Apostrophe and Action in Romeo and Juliet Sessions Hassana Moosa (King’s College London) Race, Slavery, and the ‘Mahomet and Hiren’ Trope in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Othello

4:30-6:00pm BST PANEL 11: INTERCULTURAL SHAKESPEARE Chair: Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds)

Jim Taylor (Independent Scholar) Shakespeare, Touring, and the Cultural Cold War: Peter Brook’s in Eastern Europe (1957) Sabina Laskowska-Hinz (University of Warsaw) Marked by Death: A Visual Interpretation of Hamlet for the Polish Theatre Poster by Andrzej Krause and Marcin Mroszczak (1970) Paula Baldwin Lind (Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile) When Othello arrived in Chile: Words Put into Action

Short Break TBC Closing Remarks Break

7:00pm BST WATCH PARTY: The Globe’s Romeo and Juliet. This live stream is a ticketed event. Please purchase tickets (£5-£10) here: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/romeo-and-juliet-live-stream-2021/ Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #BSA2021WP

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