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Bulletin The Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America will be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference opens on Wednesday, 2016 June 5 April 2017 and closes on Saturday, 8 April 2017. Panel sessions include: • Queer Natures: Bodies, Sexualities, (University of Sussex), Henry Turner (Rutgers SAA News Environments University), and Jennifer Waldron (University of Plenary Organizer Karen Raber (University Pittsburgh) Call for Bibliography ................. 2 of Mississippi), with Joseph Campana (Rice 2017 Seminars ............................ 3 University), Vin Nardizzi • Shakespeare and Archaeology (University of British Columbia), and Laurie Roundtable Organizer Franklin Hildy (University 2017 Workshops ......................... 9 Shannon (Northwestern University) of Maryland), with Julian Bowsher (Museum of Get on the 2018 program ......... 11 London Archaeology), Kevin Colls (Staffordshire • The Color of Membership University), Kate Giles (University of York), Roundtable Organizer Arthur L. Little, Jr. Diana Owen (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust), Further Information (UCLA), with Dennis Austin Britton (University and Johanna Schmitz (Southern Illinois of New Hampshire), Jean E. Howard University, Edwardsville) Travel Grant applications ......... 10 (Columbia University), Joyce MacDonald 2017 Digital Exhibits ................ 10 (University of Kentucky), and Jyotsna Singh • Shared Archives, New Methods: (Michigan State University) Book History and Theater History Atlanta hotel rates ..................... 11 Panel Organizers Claire M. L. Bourne 2017 registration fees ................ 11 • Feminist Formalism in (Pennsylvania State University) and Tara L. Meeting policies ........................ 11 Early Modern Literary Studies Lyons (Illinois State University), with Tamara Panel Organizers Jennifer Higginbotham (Ohio Atkin (Queen Mary London), Lori Humphrey State University) and Lara Dodds (Mississippi Newcomb (University of Illinois), Helen Ostovich Upcoming Deadlines State University), with Michelle M. Dowd (McMaster University), and W. B. Worthen (University of Alabama) (Barnard College) 1 June Seminar selections open • Imitatio Redux, or, Rethinking Sources • Shakespearean Fandom in a Digital Age and Influences Panel Organizer Louise Geddes (Adelphi 15 September Panel Organizer Laurie Maguire (University University), with Valerie Fazel (Arizona State Seminar selections close of Oxford), with James McBain (University University), Sujata Iyengar (University of of Fribourg) and Gary Taylor (Florida State Georgia), and Stephen O’Neill (National 1 October University) University of Ireland Maynooth) Seminar placements announced Dissertation submissions due • Kinetic Shakespeare • Temporalities and Technologies Panel Organizer Linda McJannet (Bentley Panel Organizer Alice Dailey (Villanova 1 November University), with Elizabeth Klett (University of University), with Rebecca Bushnell (University Travel Grant applications due Houston, Clear Lake), Amy Rodgers (Mount of Pennsylvania) and Alan Galey (University of Digital Exhibits proposals due Holyoke College), and Emily Winerock Toronto) NextGenPlen submissions due (University of Pittsburgh) 1 January • Shakespeare after Materialism The NextGenPlen for 2017 will be Conference registration opens Roundtable Organizer James A. Knapp (Loyola organized this fall. See the following page University Chicago), with David Hawkes for further information. (Arizona State University), Chloe Porter 1 New for 2016-2017 2017 NextGenPlen Submit your Publication Each SAA meeting features a plenary to the SAA Member session of short papers by early-career presenters. Publication Database The SAA seeks to build a bibliography NextGenPlen papers are selected via a Officers of the SAA of published work that began life in SAA blind screening process, with precedence seminars, workshops, roundtables, or given to those introducing new topics, panels. This is to document the SAA’s displaying fresh thinking about traditional President achievements in advancing research and issues, and demonstrating diverse Heather James approaches to early modern scholarship. University of Southern California scholarly publication and to serve as a comprehensive resource for SAA members. Vice-President Those submitting papers for consideration Wendy Wall To document your publication(s), please must be either (1) graduate students at Northwestern University consult the Member Publications page of the dissertation stage or (2) scholars who have received the Ph.D. within the past Immediate Past President the website. Mario DiGangi three years. All submitters must be current Lehman College, CUNY members of the SAA. 2017 Dissertation Prize Trustees Each submission should be uploaded in Gina Bloom The J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize two parts: University of California, Davis recognizes exceptional doctoral work with a significant Shakespeare component. • A cover page indicating (1) the name Heidi Brayman of the author, (2) the affiliation of the University of California, Riverside Dissertations submitted for the 2017 prize author (if applicable), and (3) the date must have been approved between 1 Natasha Korda the Ph.D. was awarded or is expected. September 2015 and 1 September 2016. Wesleyan University • A paper, five pages double-spaced in Applications are comprised of three parts: Julia Reinhard Lupton Times New Roman 12-point font (for a University of California, Irvine • A completed online cover sheet with reading time of ten minutes maximum). name and affiliation. Papers must be thoroughly anonymized, Evelyn Tribble University of Otago • An unsigned cover letter of no more with no names or affiliations in page than two pages, providing an abstract headers and no author identities betrayed William West of the dissertation and giving context in notes or acknowledgments. Papers that Northwestern University for the submitted writing sample (see have been incompletely anonymized will below). not be reviewed. Executive Director Lena Cowen Orlin • Twenty pages from the introduction to Those whose papers are selected are Georgetown University the dissertation or from any chapter of required to withdraw from seminar or workshop participation. The deadline Assistant Director the applicant’s choice. for submissions is 1 November 2016. To Bi-qi Beatrice Lei Finalists will be asked to submit copies of submit, go to the NextGenPlen 2017 page National Taiwan University their full dissertations for further review. of the SAA website. Senior Programs Manager Submissions must be thoroughly Caroline Reich anonymized, with no author names or Georgetown University affiliations in the page headers and no Programs Associate author identities betrayed in notes or Donna Even-Kesef acknowledgments. Submissions that have Georgetown University been incompletely anonymized will not be considered. Applicants must be SAA members in good standing. The 2017 prize will be presented at the Annual Luncheon in Atlanta. The deadline for applications is 1 October 2016. To submit, go to the Dissertation Prize page of the SAA website. The Shakespeare Head of the Rex Crewe, at the 2016 Opening Reception, New Orleans Shakespeare Association of America | June 2016 2 2017 Seminars 01. Accident and the Archives 04. Asia in the Making of Europe what is not, how lines are drawn, and what Megan Heffernan Su Fang Ng happens when they are transgressed. (DePaul University) (University of Oklahoma) Whitney Trettien Carmen Nocentelli 07. Cognition in the (University of North Carolina) (University of New Mexico) Early Modern Period Mary Crane How do archival accidents influence our Over fifty years after Donald Lach’s (Boston College) textual and literary histories? Can we read monumental Asia in the Making of meaning in the received arrangement of Europe, this seminar seeks to reassess Suparna Roychoudhury (Mount Holyoke College) pre-modern compilations, commonplace how Europe’s encounters with the East books, and finding aids? What chance influenced Western culture. Papers might What are the concepts and terms encounters (and new points of friction) consider works featuring Asian characters with which Shakespeare and his are effected by warped scans on EEBO and settings; European or Asian contemporaries spoke about and and erasures of blank pages from digital representations of the encounter; intra- understood mental life? How do early facsimiles? Papers might focus on European rivalries; the appropriation of modern ideas about cognition relate confrontations between bibliography and Asian knowledges into European cultures to classical or medieval ones? How material texts, technological glitches and or vice versa; tactics of accommodation does Shakespeare handle these in oddities, or the conflicted temporalities of or adaptation; cross-cultural exchanges his depictions of perceiving, thinking, objects assembled over time. and networks; shared histories and and feeling? What does the medium of mythologies. theater add to such depictions? Papers 02. Afterlives of Medieval Drama might engage topics such as memory or Katharine Goodland 05. Beyond Shakespeare’s Genres madness, or else explore notions such as (College of Staten Island, CUNY) Jane Hwang Degenhardt intuition or skill, giving attention to history, (University of Massachusetts) This seminar invites papers on any aspect philosophy, or form. of the afterlives of medieval English Cyrus Mulready drama: props, staging, notions of time (SUNY New Paltz) 08. Commonplacing