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The Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America 2017 January will be held at the Hyatt Regency from 5 to 8 April 2017. Contents Wednesday, 5 April 4:00 p.m. Advance Registration. Letter from the President ...... 2 5:00 p.m. General Business Meeting for all SAA Members. Meeting Schedule ...... 3 6:00 p.m. Cash Bar for all Members and Registered Guests. Conference Registration ...... 8 7:00 p.m. Play Reading sponsored by Shakespeare Bulletin. SAA Policies...... 9 Thursday, 6 April 8:00 a.m. Registration and Book Exhibits. Deadlines 10:00 a.m. Fifteen Seminars; One Workshop; Eight Digital Exhibits. 1 January 1:30 p.m. Panel Session: “NextGenPlen.” Conference Registration opens 3:30 p.m. Thirteen Seminars; Three Workshops. Hotel Registration opens 6:00 p.m. Annual Reception for all Members and Registered Guests. Vote on SAA Officers opens Vote on Constitution opens Friday, 7 April 8:00 a.m. Registration and Book Exhibits; Graduate Student Breakfast. 15 February 9:00 a.m. Plenary Session: “Queer Natures: Bodies, Sexualities, Environments.” Program Proposals for 2018 due 11:00 a.m. Panel Session: “The Color of Membership.” Vote on SAA Officers closes 1:00 p.m. Annual Luncheon. Vote on Constitution closes 3:30 p.m. Fourteen Seminars; Two Workshops. 9:00 p.m. Performance Screening: The Royal Shakespeare Company’s . 1 March Hotel Registration closes Saturday, 8 April Conference pre-registration closes 8:00 a.m. Information and Book Exhibits. (late registrations at a higher rate) 9:00 a.m. Panel Sessions: “Feminist Formalism”; “Shared Archives, New Methods: Book Last day for registration refunds History and Theater History”; “Shakespearean Fandom in a Digital Age.” 11:00 a.m. Panel Sessions: “Imitatio Redux”; “Shakespeare after Materialism.” 5 April 2:00 p.m. Panel Sessions: “Kinetic Shakespeare”; “Shakespeare and Archaeology”; Conference opens in Atlanta “Temporalities and Technologies.” 4:00 p.m. Sixteen Seminars. 6:00 p.m. Scholars of Color Social. 9:30 p.m. A West Side Story Sing-Along followed by the Closing Dance.

SAA Officers Immediate Past President Natasha Korda Executive Director Program Associate Mario DiGangi Wesleyan University Lena Cowen Orlin Donna Even-Kesef President Lehman College, CUNY Georgetown University University of California, Julia Reinhard Lupton Heather James San Francisco University of California, Irvine Assistant Director University of Southern Trustees Bi-qi Beatrice Lei California Gina Bloom Evelyn Tribble National Taiwan University University of California, Davis University of Otago Vice-President Wendy Wall Heidi Brayman William N. West The Shakespeare Association of America is located in and generously Northwestern University University of California, Northwestern University supported by the Georgetown University Department of English. Riverside

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Letter from the President

a changed political climate. The contro- Our upcoming meeting marks a change versial and divisive presidential election in of focus from William Shakespeare: the the and the vote for Brexit in major anniversary of his death has passed, the UK are destined to have long-reaching after all, and the commemorative anniver- effects on the public and personal lives of sary of the First Folio is still to come. In many of our members and students. Di- recent years, presidents of the SAA have versity, intellectual openness, and academic focused on our current membership and rigor are hallmarks of our institution that history. This year, however, our eyes are we cannot take for granted. We must work on the prize of the future. The first step is hard to protect them and think harder the fulfillment of the major revision of the about our own resources. How do we as SAA’s Constitution that we undertook last scholars, teachers, and performers best year. We reviewed and clarified procedures prepare for an ideological environment of governance, and they were endorsed by in which power is strong on tactics and the SAA membership. In this Bulletin, we tweets but weak on reason and empathy? propose a revision to the SAA’s Constitu- The question is not whether we intervene, tion to include a diversity statement as an but how. To my mind, as I write to you in expression of the SAA’s core values and December 2016, we start with the integ- mission. Please vote. Last spring we commemorated the 400th rity of the classroom and the audacity of anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in New the theater. Shakespeare is a part of this. In Atlanta, our upcoming convention Orleans, a city that knows how to remember There is no part of Shakespeare studies features three plenary sessions dedicated the dead through the living arts of theater without a role. to the possible futures of the SAA. We and music. We joined in the Jazz Funeral continue with the NextGenPlen, which for Shakespeare and then headed out to It seems fitting and even serendipitous that features newer and emerging voices in the Howlin’ Wolf’s Den, the Maple Leaf such urgent questions come to us as we our profession. Saturday morning begins Bar, or the Candlelight Lounge for more. prepare to meet in Atlanta, a city steeped with a plenary session on “Queer Natures” We listened as Wendell Pierce talked about in the histories of the Civil War and Civil before continuing to a second plenary on the vital role of the theater in NOLA after Rights Movement. We will not find, as we “The Color of Membership,” the first of Katrina, and then told us of his dream of did in New Orleans, that we may easily three paper sessions on “Shakespearean returning to Shakespeare to perform Richard flow out of the hotels and into the streets Futures” to be held over the next three III, , and — the most daunting — where the arts and festivity await us. New years. My great hope is that we will fill the Falstaff. We enthusiastically celebrated our Orleans was to us a living version of Henry halls, coffee shops, bars, and streets with second Scholars of Color Social. We went IV, Part 1, and it is up to us to honor the conversation, much of it flowing over from home with caught beads from Mardis Gras with the hopes, dreams, the remarkably diverse range of papers and throws, thanks to Catherine Loomis, and pragmatism, and wit it deserves. Henry seminars organized by the Program Com- personal copies of the first collection of IV, Part 2 was always my favorite, anyway. mittee for SAA 2017. essays, Shakespeare in Our Time, edited by I don’t mean among the Henriad. I mean Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett. the whole enterprise: what would bring a playwright and poet to write a greater but This spring we will meet to exchange and more melancholy work to speak against engage in ideas about scholarship, teach- its charismatic and money-generating ing, and arts that touch on Shakespeare in forebear?

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Wednesday, 5 April The Soundscapes of Thursday, 6 April Renaissance Prose Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Kate De Rycker (Newcastle University) ADVANCE ONSITE REGISTRATION Terrestrial Shakespeare REGISTRATION BOOK EXHIBITS Marjorie Rubright (University of Toronto) 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Testing Knowledge on Shakespeare’s Stage GENERAL BUSINESS SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Benjamin Beier (Hillsdale College) MEETING Accident and the Archives Howard Marchitello (Rutgers University) Megan Heffernan (DePaul University) For all SAA members. Time Reckoning in Whitney Trettien (University of North Early Modern Carolina) 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Alison Chapman (University of Alabama, Birmingham) Adapting Shakespeare: Phebe Jensen (Utah State University) CASH BAR Contemporary Theory and Practice Open to all registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual Katherine Hennessey (University of Typography and the Material Text Meeting and registered guests. Warwick) Erika Boeckeler (Northeastern University) Paul Prescott (University of Warwick) 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Afterlives of Medieval Drama 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PLAY READING Katharine Goodland (College of Staten Island, CUNY) DIGITAL EXHIBITS Sponsored by Shakespeare Bulletin. DH Shax: An Open-Source Textbook All’s Well That Ends Well: for Digital Methods in Shakespeare New Approaches Studies Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago) Vimala Pasupathi (Hofstra University) Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University) Bloody Talk, Talking Blood Heather Froehlich (University of Strathclyde) Yan Brailowsky (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Digital Recipes and EMROC Cognition in the Early Modern Hillary Nunn (University of Akron) Period, Part One Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) Mary Crane (Boston College) Suparna Roychoudhury (Mount Holyoke Amy Tigner (University of Texas, Arlington) College) Digital Renaissance Editions: Critical Lyric Reading Companion and Performance Matthew Harrison (Albion College) Database Lucia Martinez (Reed College) Brett Greatley-Hirsch (University of Leeds) Sarah Neville (Ohio State University) Mystery in Early Modern Drama Aaron T. Pratt (Trinity University) Karen Britland (University of Wisconsin) Marshelle Woodward (College of St. Rose) Early Modern Theatres All are welcome at Shakespeare Bulletin’s jolly participatory reading of Thomas Middleton’s (EMLoT) New Directions for Historicism Tanya Hagen (University of Toronto) A Game at Chess following the SAA’s general Neema Parvini (University of Surrey) members’ meeting. There will be a cash John Estabillo (University of Toronto) bar and a buffet of light snacks to fuel the Queer Theology in Shakespeare game from opening gambit to checkmate, EarlyPrint: Curating and Text Mining as Middleton brilliantly skewers the Studies Early Printed English Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania) politicians and public figures of his time. This Anupam Basu (Washington University) scintillating satire remains relevant today. Race and the Materiality of Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) Early Modern Performance Joseph Loewenstein (Washington Miles Grier (Queens College, CUNY) University)

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Playing the Knave: Shakespeare Forgotten Histories Shakespearean Distortions of Performance Videogame Marisa Cull (Randolph-Macon College) Early Modern Drama Gina Bloom (University of California, Davis) Marissa Nicosia (Pennsylvania State Global University, Abington) Shakespeare and the Players: Organized by the European Shakespeare Curtis Perry (University of Illinois, Urbana- Digital Postcard Exhibit Research Association Champaign) Justin Shaw () Juan F. Cerdá (University of Murcia) Kayla Shipp Kamibayashi (Emory University) Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire) 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Visualizing English Print, 1450-1700 John Marston: New Directions Jonathan Hope (University of Strathclyde) ANNUAL RECEPTION Martin Butler (University of Leeds) Open to all registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Lost Plays and Their Contexts Meeting. Guest passes are available to those Roslyn Knutson (University of Arkansas, accompanying SAA members, at the rate of $65 PANEL SESSION Little Rock) per guest, to attend the Reception and such other David McInnis (University of Melbourne) conference activities as coffee breaks and special NextGenPlen Matthew Steggle (Sheffield Hallam University) events. Guest tickets to the Annual Luncheon may Session Organizers: Members of be purchased for an additional $50 per guest. the NextGenPlen Committee for 2017 Playwrights in Parts Chair: Wendy Wall (Northwestern University) Gwilym Jones (University of Westminster) Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe Education) Friday, 7 April Performing Blackface Pregnancy at the Stuart Court: Queen Anna of Queer Meter Denmark and The Masque of Blackness Scott Trudell (University of Maryland) 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Sara B. T. Thiel (University of Illinois, Urbana- Thomas Ward (United States Naval SHAKESPEARE YOGA Champaign) Academy) Kate Moncrief (Washington College) Nonsense and Rebellion Regulating Early Modern Open to all registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual Rebecca L. Fall (Northwestern University) Women’s Bodies Meeting and registered guests. Organized by the Society for the Study of Shakespeare and the Implications of Early Modern Women Paratextual Attribution Jessica Murphy (University of Texas, Dallas) 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Amy Lidster (King’s College London) Elisa Oh (Howard University) REGISTRATION Zora Neale Hurston and Humoral BOOK EXHIBITS Shakespeare and Counterfeiting Theory: Comparing Racial Concepts Derek Dunne (Université de Fribourg) from Early Modern England and Harry Newman (Royal Holloway London) 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Post-Abolition America Kyle Grady (University of Michigan) GRADUATE STUDENT Shakespeare and Geek Culture Andrew Hartley (University of North Carolina, BREAKFAST 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Charlotte) Hosted by the Trustees of the Association. Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame) SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Alternatives to the Term Paper Shakespeare and the Creaturely World Nova Myhill (New College of Florida) Rebecca Ann Bach (University of Alabama, PLENARY SESSION Birmingham) Cognition in the Early Modern Queer Natures: Bodies, Period, Part Two Shakespeare, the Book, and the Sexualities, Environments Mary Crane (Boston College) Longue Durée Session Organizer: Karen Raber Jeffrey Todd Knight (University of Suparna Roychoudhury (Mount Holyoke Chair: Mario DiGangi (Lehman College, Washington) College) CUNY) Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania) Early Modern Technologies of Love in a Time of Swarm Space and Place Shakespeare by the Numbers Joseph Campana (Rice University) Laura Williamson Ambrose (St. Mary’s College) Laura Estill (Texas A&M University) Gavin Hollis (Hunter College, CUNY) Eric Johnson (Folger Shakespeare Library) Fruits and Vegetables Vin Nardizzi (University of British Columbia)

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Equeer Audience Engagement on the Shakespeare, Memory, and Karen Raber (University of Mississippi) Shakespearean Stage Performance Pamela Allen Brown (University of Lina Perkins Wilder (Connecticut College) “Nature’s Changing Course”: Connecticut, Stamford) The Question of Sonnet 18 Nancy Selleck (University of Massachusetts, Traces of Reading in Shakespeare’s Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University) Lowell) Britain Rebecca Munson (Emory University) 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cosmological Bodies Philip Palmer (University of California, Los Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland) Angeles) PANEL SESSIONS Rebecca Totaro (Florida Gulf Coast University)

The Color of Membership A Digital Textbook for 9:00 to 11:15 p.m. Session Organizer: Arthur L. Little, Jr. DH Shakespeare PERFORMANCE SCREENING Chair: Michael Witmore (Folger Vimala Pasupathi (Hofstra University) Shakespeare Library) Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University) The Tempest

“Ain’t She a Shakespearean?” Lessons Early Modern Trans*Historicity from Giovanni on Shakespeare Simone Chess (Wayne State University) Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire) Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY)

White Bodies in Plain Sight: Home Ecologies Morrison, Shakespeare, and a Jennifer Munroe (University of North Theater of Love and Cruelty Carolina, Charlotte) Arthur L. Little, Jr. (University of California, Mary Trull (St. Olaf College) Los Angeles) Law and Poetics in Shakespeare “Colorblind”: Shakespearean Penelope Geng (Macalester College) Academia versus the Poetics of Rebecca Lemon (University of Southern Diversity on the British Stage California) For the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University) Tempest, director Gregory Doran set out to Meta-Shakespeare “match the magic of Shakespeare’s imagi- Self-Conscious Whiteness Katherine Attie (Towson University) nation.” In partnership with Intel and The Jean E. Howard (Columbia University) Imaginarium (the latter co-founded by Andy Negative Affects in Shakespeare, Serkis), Doran breaks ground technologically Race and the Making of Shakespeare Part One but also plays to traditional strength with Joyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky) Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) the superb performances of a cast headed by Simon Russell Beale as Prospero. As Performance and the Paper Stage, Ariel, Mark Quartley is both puppeteer and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. marionette thanks to performance-capture 1640-1695 wizardry that pairs him with his digital avatar ANNUAL LUNCHEON Emma Depledge (Université de Fribourg) on stage in real time. The real “magic” is Presiding: Heather James (University of Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores that the effects wizardry does not over- Southern California) University) shadow a profoundly human and deeply moving production. Open to all registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual Renaissance Afterlives Revisited Meeting. Guest tickets are available for those Chloe Preedy (University of Exeter) accompanying SAA members, at the rate of $50 Joseph Sherrett (Aarhus University) per guest. Because catering arrangements are made in advance of the conference, luncheon tickets Shakespeare and Black America are not always available to onsite registrants. Patricia Cahill (Emory University) Kim F. Hall (Barnard College) 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Shakespeare and Middleton SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Rory Loughnane (University of Kent) Asia in the Making of Europe Su Fang Ng (University of Oklahoma) Shakespeare in the Anthropocene Carmen Nocentelli (University of New Mexico) Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University) Lowell Duckert (West Virginia University)

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Plays, Ballads, and the Who Read What When? Bad Data, Saturday, 8 April Cycle of Remediation Bad Quartos, Bad Chronologies, Lori Humphrey Newcomb (University of Bad Attributions 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Gary Taylor (Florida State University)

SHAKESPEARE YOGA Response Stage Networks: Othello, Volpone, and Anna Riehl Bertolet (Auburn University) Helen Ostovich (McMaster University) Open to all registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford) Meeting and registered guests. Shakespearean Fandom in a Digital Age Shakespeare after Materialism Session Organizer and Chair: Louise Session Organizer: James Knapp 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Geddes (Adelphi University) Chair: Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University, INFORMATION Newark) Shakespeare and the BOOK EXHIBITS Post-Reformation Materialisms Transformative Principle Sujata Iyengar (University of ) Jennifer Waldron (University of Pittsburgh) 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Shakespeare / Hiddleston / Insubstantial Materiality PANEL SESSIONS Coriolanus: Rhizomatic Chloe Porter (University of Sussex) Crossings in Fanfiction Feminist Formalism Towards an Ethics of Representation Stephen O’Neill (National University of David Hawkes (Arizona State University) Session Organizer: Jennifer Higginbotham Ireland, Maynooth) Chair: Evelyn Gajowski (University of Materialism, Idealism, Realism Nevada, Las Vegas) A Network of Our Own: Shakespeare Henry Turner (Rutgers University) and the Acafan Judith Shakespeare’s Brother Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) Michelle M. Dowd (University of Alabama) After Materialism: Beyond the Dualist Opposition? The End of Women’s Writing 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. James Knapp (Loyola University Chicago) Jennifer Higginbotham (Ohio State University) WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Sarah Enloe (American Shakespeare Centre) Margaret Cavendish’s PANEL SESSIONS Forms and Fancies With actors from the Shakespeare Tavern Lara Dodds (Mississippi State University) Playhouse. Kinetic Shakespeare Session Organizer: Linda McJannet Shared Archives, New Methods: Chair: Sheila Cavanagh (Emory University) Book History and Theater “Walk softly, and look sweetly, and History say nothing”: Female Agency on the Session Organizers: Claire Bourne and Early Modern Dance Floor Tara Lyons Emily Winerock (University of Pittsburgh) Chair: Lucy Munro (King’s College London) Or Not to Be: Dancing beyond Remediating Sixteenth-Century in Christopher Wheeldon’s Drama: Gismond of Salerne Misericordes/Elsinore in Script and Print 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Elizabeth Klett (University of Houston, Tamara Atkin (Queen Mary London) Clear Lake) PANEL SESSIONS Asides: Performance and Print Hybrid Shakespeare: Claire Bourne (Pennsylvania State Imitatio Redux Physical Theatre Adaptations University) Session Organizer: Laurie Maguire Linda McJannet (Bentley University) Chair: Urvashi Chakravarty (George Mason Drama Collections: Archives of University) Response Performance to Print Amy Rodgers (Mount Holyoke College) Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) “To recreate owre selves”: Academic Drama and Imitation Machining Performance James McBain (Université de Fribourg) W. B. Worthen (Barnard College)

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Shakespeare and Archaeology Diversifying the Field of Theatrical Historiography Roundtable Organizer: Franklin Hildy Shakespeare Performance Richard Schoch (Queen’s University Belfast) Chair: Kate Giles (University of York) Carla Della Gatta (University of Southern Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University) California) Julian Bowsher (Museum of London Ruben Espinosa (University of Texas, Women, Performance, and the Archaeology) El Paso) Dramatic Canon Kevin Colls (Staffordshire University) Clare McManus (University of Roehampton) Early Modern Performance Franklin Hildy (University of Maryland) beyond Drama Diana Owen (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Ineke Murakami (University at Albany, SUNY) 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Joanna Schmitz (Southern Illinois University, Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University) Edwardsville) SCHOLARS OF COLOR SOCIAL Finding Fletcher Sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library. Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of The Third Annual Social continues the tradition Temporalities and Technologies Canada) of celebrating diversity in the SAA community. Session Organizer: Alice Dailey All registrants for the Forty-Fifth Annual Chair: William Germano (Cooper Union) Hamlet: Shifting Perspectives Meeting are welcome to attend, as are their Sonia Massai (King’s College London) registered guests. Gaming Shakespeare: The History Plays as Cybertext Material Texts and Digital Interfaces Rebecca Bushnell (University of Sarah Werner (Washington, D.C.) 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Pennsylvania) Metropolitan Shakespeare SING-ALONG: Little, Little Graves: Shakespeare’s Nina Levine (University of South Carolina) WEST SIDE STORY Photographs of Richard II Alice Dailey (Villanova University) Negative Affects in Shakespeare, Moving Parts: Digital Shakespeare Part Two Texts and the Temporality of Artifacts Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) Alan Galey (University of Toronto) New Shakespearean Economies William Junker (University of St. Thomas) 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Laura Kolb (Baruch College, CUNY)

SEMINARS Shakespeare and Film Form This West Side Story Theme Party will com- memorate the 60th anniversary of the Broad- Beyond Shakespeare’s Genres Courtney Lehmann (University of the Pacific) way production with clips, songs, and a cash Jane Hwang Degenhardt (University of bar. Costumes, swing dresses, and petticoats Massachusetts, Amherst) Shakespeare and the are welcome. Following the Sing-Along, all are Cyrus Mulready (SUNY New Paltz) Medical Humanities invited to the SAA/Malone Society Dance. Emily Detmer-Goebel (Northern Kentucky Commonplacing Shakespeare, University) Past and Present Richelle Munkhoff (University of Colorado) 10:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Jesse Lander (University of Notre Dame) Shakespearean Migrants, Immigrants, CLOSING DANCE Disability and Subjectivity in Exiles, and Refugees Tickets may be purchased with conference Shakespeare Scott Oldenburg (Tulane University) registration or at the door for $15. Wes Folkerth (McGill University)

online pedagogies, as well as those who would like The Duchess of Malfi Special Events in Atlanta to learn more about digital tools, projects, and new initiatives in Shakespeare studies. Participants Also on Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m., the Resurgens THATCamp: Shakespeare! in this open, inexpensive “unconference” Theatre Company presents The Duchess of Malfi On Wednesday, 5 April, the Folger Shakespeare need not know how to make tools to attend; at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse, a half-mile Library and the University of Georgia will host a the emphasis will be on how we use them. To walk from the . Tickets one-day, participant-driven event at the University register, go to www.shakespeare2017.thatcamp. are discounted $20 for SAA members. Resurgens of Georgia’s DigiLab. THATCamp (The org. The participant fee is $15 per person. The undertakes to recover “scores for lost voices,” an Humanities and Technology Camp) welcomes THATCamp Shakespeare shuttle, which departs enhanced prosodic approach to verse-speaking. faculty, graduate students, and independent the Hyatt Regency Atlanta at 8:00 a.m. and returns Performances may include same-sex casting, scholars and programmers working in online participants to the hotel in the evening, costs $25 thematic doubling, universal lighting, and audience publication, games, mapping, social media, and per person. interaction. Visit http://www.resurgenstheatre.org.

Shakespeare Association of America | January 2017 7 Register for Atlanta Transportation immediately following one in which they have spoken on an SAA panel or in which they have Conference registration is now open. For those By Train led an SAA seminar or workshop. Dissertation who register by the 1 March 2017 deadline, the MARTA (the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit candidates are eligible to speak on panels but registration fee is $150 for faculty and indepen- Authority) connects the Atlanta airport (also not to lead seminars or workshops. No SAA dent scholars and $90 for graduate students. known as the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta member should submit more than one program After 1 March, the cost of registration increases International Airport) to . proposal in any given year or be part of more to $180 and $125, respectively. Registration fees MARTA trains depart from the baggage claim than one proposal in a year. are non-refundable after 1 March. area of the airport’s Domestic Terminal. Take Proposing a Seminar or Workshop The Meeting Registration Fee entitles each a northbound MARTA train to the Peachtree SAA member to attend all sessions, seminars, Center Station, one stop north of the Five SAA seminars should open a number of workshops, and events in Atlanta, including Points transfer station. Then ride an escalator pathways into a subject, recognizing that the the General Business Meeting on Wednesday up to the Mall and look for seminar meeting is an occasion for focused evening, the Annual Reception on Thursday signs for the covered walkway to the Hyatt discussion of written work completed in evening, the Annual Luncheon on Friday, the Regency Atlanta. advance. Materials should be submitted by the Scholars of Color Social on Saturday evening, With a $1.00 Breeze Card, the fare is $2.50. proposed leader(s) with a description of issues and film screenings. The ride takes approximately twenty minutes. to be raised or practices to be modeled. Audio- visual equipment, data projectors, and internet Guest passes are available to those accompa- By Airport Shuttle access are not generally provided for seminars nying SAA members, at the rate of $65 per and workshops. If the proposed program relies guest. Each pass entitles one guest to attend the The ticket counter for the airport SuperShut- upon equipment and services, these should be Annual Reception and other conference activi- tle is located in the south-side baggage claim requested and described in the proposal. ties, including coffee breaks and special events. area of the Domestic Terminal. SuperShuttle Guest tickets to the Annual Luncheon may be costs $16.50 one way and $33.00 round trip. Proposing a Panel Session purchased for an additional $50 per guest. Room Share Paper panels, roundtables, and other public Register for the 2017 Meeting. sessions should engage topics of current inter- The SAA assists members seeking roommates. est and general appeal for the SAA member- E-mail [email protected] with ship. Materials should be submitted by the Hyatt Regency Atlanta dates and requirements. session organizer and should include the Hotel registration is now open. The Hyatt names of the speakers or participants along Regency Atlanta is the first of the famous with descriptions of their proposed contribu- atrium-tower hotel buildings designed by John Childcare tions. While the traditional format has been C. Portman, Jr. and the first with a revolving The concierge of the Hyatt Regency Atlanta three 20-minute papers per session, the SAA restaurant on the top floor. Opened in 1967, the recommends Guardian Child Care Services, welcomes proposals for other formats for hotel was expanded by the additions of the Ivy located within walking distance of the hotel at engaging important ideas and issues. For 2018, Tower in 1971 and the International Tower in 34 , SW. Phone 877.755.6522. submissions are encouraged on the subject of 1982. In the 1981 filmSharky’s Machine, stunt- “Shakespearean Futures”; these should address man Dar Robinson set a record for the highest institutional conditions that affect our intel- filmed freefall jump from a building—220 Events in Atlanta lectual lives, strategic challenges, and opportu- feet—at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The record The 46th Annual Writers’ Festival at Agnes nities for disciplinary transformation. still stands. Scott College, scheduled for 6 and 7 April, features readings by Patrick Phillips, Claudia Submitting a Proposal The Hyatt Regency is located on Peachtree Rankine, and Kayla Miller. For more infor- Street within walking distance of the city’s top Members of the 2018 Program Committee are mation, consult https://www.agnesscott.edu/ attractions, including the , happy to advise on the crafting of competitive writersfestival/. The Shakespeare Tavern per- the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and proposals. Please consider consulting: forms The Canterbury Tales; go to http://www. the College Football Hall of Fame. It is a half- shakespearetavern.com/. mile from the Atlanta Shakespeare Company at Heidi Brayman (Chair): [email protected] the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse and a ten- Anston Bosman: [email protected] minute cab ride from the Tony-Award-winning Program Proposals Michelle Dowd: [email protected] at the . Farah Karim-Cooper: Farah.K@shakespeares- Proposals are now being accepted for the globe.com The SAA’s discounted hotel rate is $140 per SAA’s Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting in Los Carla Mazzio: [email protected] night for single and double occupancy, $160 per Angeles, California, on Easter weekend, 28-31 night for triple and quadruple occupancy, and March 2018. The submission deadline for all To be considered, completed proposals must $195 for club-level rooms. Mandatory state and proposals is 15 February 2017. be submitted via the SAA’s online form, to be local taxes are 16%, and the State of Georgia found on the SAA’s Program Proposals web- recently introduced a $5 per night hotel occu- Proposals are accepted only from postdoctoral page. For any difficulty with the form, contact pancy fee. Amenities include a 24-hour fitness scholars who are members in good standing of [email protected]. room, a seasonal outdoor pool, and free WiFi. the SAA. No member may speak on an SAA The SAA rate is offered from 1 January to 1 panel more than once in any three-year period. Deadline for Proposals: 15 February 2017 March 2017, based on availability. There are no similar restrictions on seminar or Reserve your room at the Hyatt Regency workshop leadership; SAA members may pro- Atlanta. pose to lead a seminar or workshop in the year

Shakespeare Association of America | January 2017 8 Proposed Amendment to property of others, including all abstracts, Sexual Harassment Policy papers, and talks presented at the SAA. the Constitution The SAA strives to be an inclusive and Permission: Permission should always be welcoming point of contact for our diverse Last year, SAA members voted to adopt obtained before citing unpublished work heard membership of scholars, teachers, and students revisions to our Constitution that clarified or read at the conference. from around the world. We take instances matters of structure and governance. of disrespectful, dismissive, patronizing, or Circulation: SAA members should never This year, the Trustees propose a further harassing behavior—whether in speech or circulate others’ work in their own scholarship amendment to the description of our core act, whether in formal or informal settings, or teaching without the author’s permission. values, adding to the “purposes of the and whether based on gender, sexuality, race, Association” the following clause: Seminar Abstracts: Abstracts, shared at the ethnicity, religious affiliation, ability, status, or age—seriously. Those who are the targets “To pursue inclusive and diverse policies of conference and uploaded on the SAA website, of harassment should not feel unheard or membership that recognize the importance should be treated in the same respectful way as unassisted. of categories such as race, ethnicity, national papers read or circulated. origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, Definitions: Sexual harassment is behavior age, and ability, as well as the variety of Social Media: SAA members should follow the that demeans, humiliates, or threatens professional conditions that obtain for tenured guidelines given below for digital distribution, an individual on the basis of their sex. and tenure-track faculty, contingent faculty, in real time or in retrospect, of the content of It is unwanted attention that a recipient and graduate students.” panels or seminars. experiences as offensive or disruptive to personal well-being. Sexual harassment can All SAA members are encouraged to vote on Social Media Guidelines include crude behavior (such as offensive the proposed amendment and in the election statements, jokes, or gestures); dismissive or of officers for 2017. In recent years, Twitter, Facebook, and other insulting modes or address (such as referring forms of social media have become a rich to a woman not by her name but as “honey”); resource for scholarly discourse, opening unwelcome sexual attention (such as unwanted Seminar and Workshop up the conversation to those outside of the touching or repeated requests for dates); and Guidelines conference’s physical space. However, many of coercion. Sex-based harassment also takes us are new to social media, and the conventions nonsexual forms when an individual is targeted Membership of the Shakespeare Association around its use are still forming. The SAA’s because of gender or gender expression. It of America is required for participation in Guidelines involve three basic principles: singles out some members of the community any SAA seminar or workshop. Enrollment in as acceptable targets and as unworthy of seminars and workshops is open only to those Consent: Recording devices and Twitter respect. who are at the dissertation stage of research broadcast work and comments that have Harassment never occurs in a vacuum. or who have achieved postdoctoral standing. traditionally been relatively closely held. Audio Frequently, alienating behaviors including Acceptance of a place in a seminar or workshop and visual recordings of sessions should not race- and religion-based harassments represents a commitment to complete the work be made or posted without the permission intertwine with sexual harassment. Working of the seminar or workshop, to observe the of all panelists or seminar members, ideally to discern, for instance, whether a comment procedures laid out by the program leader, to secured through the moderator or seminar about appearance is aimed primarily at attend the Annual Meeting, and to honor the leader in advance of the session. Any speaker someone’s gender, sexuality, religion, or race SAA’s policies on Academic Integrity and Sexual has the right to request that his or her work and mistakes how harassment can leave its impact Harassment, as well as its guidelines regarding comments not be tweeted. Please ask subjects on multiple levels. The SAA emphasizes the the use of Social Media. Any member found to involved before posting and tagging photos. importance of adopting a fully intersectional be in violation of these policies and guidelines understanding of sex-based harassment. will be denied a place in a seminar or workshop. Professional Tone: The SAA hashtag Harassment not only sabotages the individual; The policies and guidelines are intended to represents an extension of the conference it also damages the Shakespeare Association preserve the SAA’s historic reputation for online. Participants are encouraged to consider community by discouraging participation in egalitarian, ethical, and collegial governance their comments to be public and to avoid the Association and compromising the free and behavior. remarks that would be inappropriate in other exchange of ideas that is at the center of our professional spaces. mission as an organization. Academic Integrity Policy Fair Quotation: Live-tweeting often Respect: All of the spaces into which our represents itself as a transcript of written words. professional meetings extend are professional, The SAA thrives on the circulation of new Tweeters should be aware of the potential for and the values of respect, equity, and non- and emerging ideas. The special atmosphere misrepresentation, appropriation, and removal discrimination should inform conduct in the of the Annual Meeting derives in part from of context. It is important to attribute tweets seminar room and on the dance floor, over its distinctive ways of bringing scholars of all with a speaker’s handle or full-name (e.g., @ coffee, and over drinks. All members should ranks and many kinds of affiliations together handle:xxx). Retweeting and favoriting remove aspire to treat each member as having an for a free exchange of ideas. Unusual openness tweets from temporal sequence, so it is best to equally valuable contribution to make. requires a high degree of academic trust. attribute individual tweets, rather than just the For more, see http://www. Given the circulation of work-in-progress first in a sequence. shakespeareassociation.org/about/saa- the conference fosters, it is important for all The SAA Hashtag: #shakeass17 policies/. members to follow established citation and copyright guidelines in handling the intellectual

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