British Shakespeare Association Online Conference 5th-7th August 2021 **Registration for the online conference will be free to BSA members in good standing. The registration link will be made available in the Members’ area of the BSA website in early July** A finalised version of the schedule will include further details of watch parties on the evenings of Days 1 and 2, and will include details of online social spaces that will be made available during breaks. 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. 1 DAY 1 THURSDAY 5TH AUGUST 9:30-11:00am Welcome BST Meet the Editors of the BSA’s Shakespeare journal 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 York) 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 (University of Lancaster) 2:00-4:00pm Break 2 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) 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 Watch Party 7:30/8:00pm Details TBC BST start 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 William Shakespeare 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) Hamlet at the Neocolonial Asian Frontier Andrea Smith (University of East Anglia) Cinematic Shakespeare in Sound Only Break 3 PANEL 5: EDUCATION Chair: Anna Demoux Naseem Alotaibi (Umm Al-Qura University) “Of One’s Own clime, complexion and degree”: Tackling the Ethnic and Religious Issues Parallel of Othello in the Saudi Classroom Session Duncan Lees (University of Warwick) Doing “Being Shakespearean” at a Chinese University: An Interactional Perspective Kathryn Twigg (Shakespeare Institute) The Trauma-Informed Teaching of Shakespeare: Problems, Pedagogies and Proposals 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 Romeo and Juliet 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 Watch Party 7:30/8:00pm Details TBC BST start 4 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) ‘The mother wills it so’: Active Power and Aging Maternity in Three Shakespearean Films 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 Henry V Jessica Chiba (Shakespeare Institute) King Lear, 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 Twelfth Night 5 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 Titus Andronicus 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 6 .