Details of upcoming screenings of Shrew, H5 and the Rylance/Frye 12th Night from the Globe’s recent season have just been announced:
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‘WHEN WAS EARLY MODERNITY?: THE LANGUAGE OF THE SELF’ SEMINAR SPEAKERS: CHAIR This is an interdisciplinary (and inter-period) seminar, drawing on expertise from medieval studies, early modern studies, and beyond. The focus is on a consideration of “languages of the self”, using this consideration to pose questions about the legitimacy of period boundaries and the work performed by periodization in our various disciplinary engagements with the past. The seminar is open to all, but prior registration is required. To register, contact either Huw Griffiths (huw.griffiths@sydney.edu.au) or Nicola Parsons (nicola.parsons@sydney.edu.au) Call for Abstracts TEXTUALITY TECHNOLOGY MATERIALITY 28-30 November 2013 Confirmed plenary speakers: The convenors of the 19th Annual Conference of the Perth Medieval and * The social and cultural lives and afterlives of medieval and early Abstracts and panel proposals (along with titles and brief bios for Further details about the conference programme, registration, and “Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance” (editors-in-chief: Professor Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney and Professor Yoshiko Kawachi) journal is now available on an open access basis through Versita Open Access platform (http://versita.com/mstap/). Of particular interest is Issue no 8 (2011) “Interrogating the Spread of Shakespeare: Australia and New Zealand” (guest edited by Professor Laurence Wright). This issues includes articles from David Carnegie, Anne Blake, Sue Tweg, Alan Brissenden, Emma Cox, Julie McDougall and Rose Gaby. Worldmaking37th Congress of AULLA 10-12 July 2013
hosted by
The University of Queensland St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway University of London) Professor Simon During (The University of Queensland) Professor Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)
The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.
In 1978 Nelson Goodman explored the relation of ‘worlds’ to language and literature. He asked how a world is made, what it might be made of, and how the process of making a world relates to understanding it. Ways of Worldmaking showed that there was no one language to express and understand the world, but many languages, many ways in which ‘universes of worlds as well as worlds themselves may be built’. Goodman’s pluralistic vision has been taken up in a range of disciplines concerned with issues of globalisation from Gayatri Spivak’s work on the subaltern and the process of ‘worlding’ to Pheng Cheah’s exploration of the value and limits of ‘world literature’.
This Congress will explore how worlds and worldmaking feature in language and literature and in humanities scholarship. It asks what our various disciplines identify as the worlds we make in connection to ‘the world’ at large. How is worldmaking defined and articulated? What is at stake in the process? What does it mean to make, unmake, or remake a world, to experience, feel, or belong to a world? How might we understand – or make bridges between – natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds?
AULLA invites submission of abstracts for papers and panels relating to ‘Worldmaking’. There will be opportunities for delegates to have their papers considered for refereed publication.
Abstracts due by 31 March 2013. Please submit a 200-word abstract for papers and any themed panels online.
Information about the Worldmaking Bursary and Sussex-Samuel Prize is available to download here:
Registration by 30 April 2013, via the website. The Shakespeare Association of Korea invites papers exploring topics and issues of “Shakespeare in Global/Local Contexts” for its 2013 international conference to be held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation and will run from 1-2 November 2013 at Seoul National University. The conference aims to bring together scholars, actors, directors, and teachers of Shakespeare to discuss academic, theatrical, and pedagogical issues of Shakespeare in global/local contexts.
Topics of discussion may include (but are not restricted to):
The keynote speaker for the conference is Michael Dobson (Director, Shakespeare Institute, Univ. of Birmingham, U.K.). Other invited speakers include Peter Holbrook (Queensland Univ., Australia), Alexander Huang (George Washington Univ., U.S.A), Gary Yang (Donghua Univ., China), Ryuta Minami (Shirayuri College, Japan), Bi-qi Beatrice Lei (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), and Li Lan Yong (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore). Please send a 250 word proposal and a brief curriculum vitae with contact information to Hyosik Hwang (Chungbuk National Univ.) or Kyungjin Bae (Inha Univ.) at sakorea2013.info@gmail.com by March 10, 2013. Another Perth follow-up — delegates who attended Michael Neill’s keynote on the final morning may recall that Michael is playing King Lear in Auckland in 2013. The information about this production is available here: 01 March – 30 March 2013 Old Arts Quad, behind the University of Auckland clocktower Directed by Lisa Harrow 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Outdoor Summer Shakespeare at the University of Auckland, an institution that has served as a breeding ground for Auckland theatrical talent over the past five decades. To celebrate, the AUSA Outdoor Shakespeare Trust will present the Bard’s greatest tragedy, King Lear, for a season in March. Featuring theatre professionals, alumni and current students, King Lear boasts the Summer Shakespeare’s most distinguished creative team to date. Internationally renowned actress Lisa Harrow – formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a cast member in the very first Auckland Summer Shakespeare – brings a wealth of experience to her role as the production’s director. She is joined by acclaimed NZ actor/director Michael Hurst, who serves as artistic consultant and plays Lear’s all-knowing Fool. The part of Lear himself is taken by eminent Shakespearean scholar Professor Michael Neill, older brother of the show’s Executive Producer and famous leading man, Sam Neill. The cast numbers over 30 people and will serve to illustrate the increasingly demented king’s dystopia. Top New Zealand composer Gareth Farr will further underscore Lear’s pain with clashes of brass and percussion. King Lear, a work seldom performed because of the sheer stamina required of its performers, tells the story of a patriarchal world dragged into disarray by a conflict between truth and madness. Harrow, in conjunction with Oscar-winning costume designer Ngila Dickson, NZ sculptor Michael Parakowhai, and emerging set designer Jessika Verryt, aims to transport the audience back to a darker age, while holding a mirror up to our contemporary world. Join us to celebrate the past 50 years of a unique theatrical experience, and to launch the next 50 with a bang! Starring: Michael Neill, Michael Hurst, Calum Gittins, Kate Watson, Peter Stevens, Michael Noonan, Anthea Hill, Geoff Snell, Lucinda Hare, Bruce De Grut, Luke Thornborough, Andrew Paterson, Tom Bishop, Caleb Wells, Gorjan Markovski and Nick McDuff ALL BOOKINGS AND COLLECTION OF TICKETS ARE FROM THE MAIDMENT THEATRE, 8 ALFRED STREET. A limited number of photographs from the Perth ANZSA conference are available to view, for those who are interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ Download the flyer here: poster-highres.pdf (3877k) April 22-24, 2013 Convenors:
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 and the commemorations planned to mark it worldwide offer a timely opportunity to reflect on the Tercentenary of 1916 and to critically explore the roles of both Shakespeare and of commemorative practice in global culture over a century. The Tercentenary occasioned debates about the best ways to memorialise England’s ‘National Poet’ in both the northern and the southern hemispheres. The Sydney Shakespeare monument, the Shakespeare Room in the State Library of New South Wales, and the National Theatre in London, each the (belated) outcome of debates about appropriate forms of built commemoration, are long-lasting, multi-dimensional sites of cultural memory.
Other commemorative gestures with less longevity included A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, a volume of global scholarship assembled by Israel Gollancz to celebrate the Tercentenary, which brought together contributions from 40 countries. Each of these markers of memory was crucially shaped by the coincidence of Shakespeare’s Tercentenary and the Great War. How was Shakespeare ‘remembered’ in opposite hemispheres in 1916? What were the irreversible effects of war on Shakespeare commemoration? What is the politics of such ‘remembering’? Shakespeare has had an influential role in narratives and national culture, but should he be remembered or forgotten?
Focussing on comparing events, debates, outcomes and contexts of Shakespeare’s Tercentenary in Great Britain and Ireland with those of Australia and New Zealand, this symposium will provide antipodal readings of these various commemorations. It will offer a space for analysis of cultural memory and commemoration across hemispheres, locales and time. The cultural horizon of these questions is beginning to shift as the centenary anniversaries of World War I and the Shakespeare Quatercentenary approach, enlivening the ways in which we understand the history and present of cultural memory.
Deadline for abstracts or proposals: 30 November, 2012.
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and include a 100 word bio.
Please contact Nicky Brabham <nicky.brabham@uwa.edu.au> or Samantha Hagan at <shagan@sl.nsw.gov.au> for submission of abstracts, proposals and further details and registration. The Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association is pleased to announce that the Lloyd Davis graduate paper prize will be awarded during the International conference on Shakespeare and the Emotions, taking place at UWA in November 2012. The winning essay will be awarded AUD $500.00 and mentoring support by a senior member of ANZSA aimed at the publication of the paper in a peer-reviewed academic journal. The winner will be publicly announced before the final plenary paper of the conference. Graduate students (Honours, Masters or PhD students whose degree has not yet been awarded) who are presenting their paper at the Perth conference are all eligible to apply. Papers are ineligible to compete if not presented in person. To enter for the prize you should submit the final version of the paper (3500-4000 words) complete with endnotes/works cited to Mark Houlahan (Vice President, ANZSA) by 12:00 midnight on Friday 2 November 2012. The email address for submission is: maph@waikato.ac.nz. The identification of the author should be given only in the cover message, not in the paper itself. Undergraduate students whose paper has been accepted for presentation will receive a special mention. If you are an undergraduate student presenting a paper, please make yourself known to Mark Houlahan. Good luck to all! |
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