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Globe Education London Shakespeare Centre Local/Global Shakespeares The Fourth British Shakespeare Association Conference 11–13 September 2009 King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe For more information visit www.kcl.ac.uk Local/Global Shakespeares Welcome to the 2009 British Shakespeare Association Conference at King’s College London & Shakespeare’s Globe BSA 2009 has attracted a large Sonia Massai number of scholars, teachers, theatre Main organiser of BSA 2009, practitioners and members of the general King’s College London public from 28 countries worldwide. We are delighted to welcome you Farah Karim-Cooper all and look forward to the next three Co-organiser of BSA 2009, days. The programme offers a wide Shakespeare’s Globe range of paper sessions, seminars, workshops, panels and other activities. Other organisers: Complementing the official programme Claire Bridge, Madeline Knights, is an opportunity to watch a professional Gordon McMullan, Patrick company from Taiwan perform scenes Spottiswoode and Ann Thompson. from their current production of The Merchant of Venice in the style of bangzi, Special thanks to Enrica Corzani, a regional genre of Chinese opera. Sarah Dustagheer, Sarah Lewis, We hope that this conference will Thomas Manss, Helen Wisbey, Jennifer generate stimulating discussions about Young, and all the other graduate two main areas of interest, which students and staff at King’s and the are normally regarded as two separate Globe, who have generously supported entities, namely the impact of us over the last few months. globalization and multiculturalism on the ways in which Shakespeare is currently The British Shakespeare Association studied, taught and performed, and is dedicated to supporting people the effect of local, national and global who teach, research and perform contexts on Shakespeare’s own dramatic Shakespeare’s works. Accordingly, imagination and the production and this international conference offers reception of his works from early modern a wide range of lectures, seminars, London to the present. Quite a task! workshops and panel discussions run Please note that the conference will be by and aimed at scholars, students, split site on Saturday, 12 September, and We hope you enjoy the conference. artists and teachers. Sunday, 13 September; delegates will have to make their own way to both venues (Strand Campus, King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside). Please note that all information is correct at time of print, and subject to change. FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Schedule – Morning Schedule – Afternoon King’s College London King’s College London 9.30 – 11.00 14.00 – 15.30 Shylock in the 20C and 21C: Teams Researching Shakespeare in Registration, Publisher Hall open Parallel Seminar and Panel Sessions A Global Perspective Higher Education Great Hall Seminar Leader: Sabine Schuelting Panel Leader: Christie Carson (Royal Locating Early Modern Repertories (Freie Universitaet Berlin) Holloway, University of London) 10.00 – 11.00 Seminar Leader: Tom Rutter GFSB5 Panelists: Susan Brock (University BSA AGM (Sheffield Hallam University) of Warwick), Emily Burden (The Council Room GFSB1 Filming & Performing Shakespeare Institute), Peter Kirwan Renaissance History (University of Warwick) 10.00 – 11.00 Shakespeare in Wartime: The 20C Seminar Leader: Mark Thornton Burnett Music Seminar Room Coffee served in book exhibition area Seminar Leaders: Ton Hoenselaars (Queen’s University, Belfast) Great Hall (Utrecht University) & Clara Calvo K0.19 15.30 – 16.00 (University of Murcia) Coffee Break 11.00 GFSB2 Shakespeare’s Next Editors: Great Hall Opening Address at King’s Mapping the Field Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Asian Shakespeares in Europe Seminar Leader: Matteo Pangello 16.00 – 17.00 Seminar Leader: Alex Huang (University of Massachusetts) Plenary 2: Going Global 11.00 – 12.30 (Pennsylvania State University) 20CB/K2.41 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Plenary 1: Defining Local K0.20 and Global Shakespeares ‘Shakespeares’ and ‘Africa’ Ed Hall (Propeller) Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Shakespeare’s Europe Early Seminar Leaders: Natasha Distiller The Evolution of an All-Male Company Modern Contexts (University of Cape Town) & Sandra Ann Thompson (King’s College Seminar Leaders: Keir Elam Young (University of Cape Town) Michael Dobson (Birkbeck College, London) (Università di Bologna) & Blackwell University of London) Hamlet: The Universal Mirror? Michele Marrapodi (University Shakespeare in Exile: of Palermo) Shakespeare in Performance Anglophone Expatriate Performance Gordon McMullan (King’s College Old Committee Room Workshop Leader: Bridget Escolme and Its Discontents London) (Queen Mary, University of London) ‘I met a hand…and by and by a single leg Localizing Shakespeare in Asia K0.18 17.15 – 18.15 running after it’: performing Indonesia, Seminar Leader: Beatrice Lei Plenary 3: 1609 – 2009: Shakespeare’s 1621–2/2001–2 (National Taiwan University) Practical Approaches to Teaching Sonnets Music Lecture Room Shakespeare with the RSC Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Sonia Massai (King’s College London) Workshop Leader: Virginia Grainger Raiding the Borders: Radical Global/Local Pedagogies (Royal Shakespeare Company) Stanley Wells (The Shakespeare Experiments with Shakespeare Seminar Leaders: Kate Flaherty K0.16 Birthplace Trust) & Paul Edmondson in Performance (University of Sydney) & (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) G.B. Skip Shand (Glendon College, The Plurality of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12.30 – 14.00 York University) Lunch Break GFSB3 SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER Schedule – Morning King’s College London 18.30 9.30 12.00 – 13.30 Intercultural Shakespeare & Opening Reception Publisher Hall opens Parallel Seminar and Panel Sessions the Modern Great Hall Great Hall Stage Director: Session Organiser, Coming of Age in Shakespeare Reiko Oya (Keio University, Tokyo) 20.00 9.30 – 10.00 [A-levels to University] Speakers: Reiko Oyan, John Stokes Optional evening activity Coffee served in book exhibition area Panel Chair: Sean McEvoy (Vardean (King’s College London), Cary DiPietro Chinese-Opera style production Great Hall College, Brighton) (University of Toronto Mississauga) of The Merchant of Venice, Panelists: Carol Atherton, Ewan K0.16 Taiwan Bangzi Theatre Company 10.00 – 10.30 Fernie (Royal Holloway University Greenwood Theatre Taiwan Bang Zi Company, London), Andrew Hadfield European Shakespeares: Tickets are free of charge, but you The Merchant of Venice (University of Sussex), Martin Nicholls, Transformations & Innovation must pre register to reserve a seat Platform: director, playwright, Michelle O’Callaghan, Luke Walters Session Organiser: Boika Sokolova for the performance. translator and leading singer GFSB5 (University of Norte Dame, London) take questions following the Speakers: Boika Sokolova, Peter Greenwood production Global & Local Emotion Davidhazi, Madalina Nicolaescu Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Session Organiser: Lars Engle (University (University of Bucharest) of Tulsa) GFSB2 10.30 – 11.30 Speakers: Lars Engle, David Plenary 4: Shakespeare and Hillman (University of Cambridge), Postgraduate Research at/on Intercultural Performance John Roe (University of York) London Theatres Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Council Room Panel Leader: Sarah Dustagheer (King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe) Rustom Bharucha (Critic and Director) Locale Shakespeares Panelists: Sarah Dustagheer, Memory and Misunderstanding: Session Chair: Catherine Silverstone Penelope Woods (QueenMary, Learning through Intercultural Stories (Queen Mary, University of London) University of London/Shakespeare’s around Shakespeare Speakers: Mark Houlahan (University Globe), Sophie Leighton-Kelly of Waikato), David Carnegie (Victoria (Queen Mary, University of London/ Q/A with Alan Read University of Wellington), Rose Gaby The Barbican) (King’s College London) (University of Tasmania) GFSB1 GFSB3 11.30 – 12.00 Ceremony, Performance and Practice Coffee Break Shakespeare on Film & Television in Shakespearean Drama Great Hall Session Organiser: Russell Jackson Workshop Leaders: Alison Findlay (The Shakespeare Institute) (Lancaster University) and Elizabeth Speakers: Russell Jackson, Sarah Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University) Hatchuel (Université du Havre) K0.18 K0.20 SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER Schedule – Afternoon Schedule – Morning Shakespeare’s Globe King’s College London Shakespeare in Schools: 15.00 – 16.30 Shakespeare: Teaching, Performance, 9.30 UK and Beyond Parallel Seminar and Panel Sessions and Race Publisher Hall opens Panel Leader: Perry Mills (King Edward Session Organiser: Ayanna Thompson Great Hall VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon) Semi Plenary: Localizing the Early (Arizona State University) Panelists: Fiona Lesley, James Stredder Modern Stage: Robert Weimann’s Speakers: Ayanna Thompson, Antonio 9.30 – 10.00 (Gunma University) Life Work Ocampo-Guzman, and Amy Scott- Coffee served in book exhibition area 20CB/K2.41 Session Organiser: John Gillies Douglass (University of Maryland) Great Hall (University of Essex) & Robert Weimann Inigo Jones Studio 2 13.30 – 15.00 Panelists: John Gillies, David Schalkwyk, 10.00 – 11.30 Lunch Break Nora Johnson (Swarthmore College), 16.30 – 17.00 Parallel Seminar and Panel Sessions Jeanne McCarthy (Oglethorpe Coffee Break University), William West (North UnderGlobe Theatre for Young People Western University) Chair: Georghia Ellinais (National Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre 17.00 – 18.00 Strategies) Plenary 5: Representing Shakespeare