Shakespeare in Culture

The Fourth Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum

National Taiwan University, Taipei
November 26-28, 2009 

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Organizer:
NTU Shakespeare Forum

Partners:
Chinese-Taipei Theatre Association, NTU Center for the Arts, NTU Library

Sponsors:
National Science Council, Ministry of Education
NTU Aiming for Top University Project, College of Liberal Arts, NTU
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, NTU, Department of Drama and Theatre, NTU

Overview:

“Shakespeare in Culture,” the fourth conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum, is a high-profile, international event, with speakers coming from China, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macao, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. An arena for interdisciplinary approaches to Shakespeare, the conference hosts not only scholarly presentations but also two performances, a computer workshop, a teaching workshop, and a book exhibit.

Keynote Speeches:

Richard Burt (University of Florida), “Missing Shakespeare's Corpus: Spectral Media, Mourning, and the Incomplete Works of Culture"

Dennis Kennedy (Trinity College Dublin), “Shakespeare, Asia and the Intercultural”

Ching-Hsi Perng
(National Taiwan University), “Growing Young: Bonding the Bard and Bangzi Opera”

Ann Thompson (King’s College London), “Hamlet and the market in cultural commodities”

Performances:

Bond
A Bangzi opera adaptation of The Merchant of Venice by the Taiwan Bangzi Company
(starring Hailing Wang, Hai-shan Chu, Yang-ling Hsiao, and Chien-Hua Liu; translated by Ching-Hsi Perng, written by Ching-Hsi Perng and Fang Chen, and directed by Po-Shen Lu), with a post-performance discussion session

Shakespeare in Song

Vocal recital by Chia-yi Lee (Taipei National University of the Arts)

Computer Workshop:

Resolving Authorship Disputes with Information Technology
Albert C. C. Yang (Taipei Veterans General Hospital)
Bring a text (5000 words minimum, in plain text format) of concern to the workshop and test on site to find out if it is authentically Shakespearean!

Teaching Workshop (Maximum: 20, registration required):

How to Incorporate Acting into a College-Level Shakespeare Class
J
oseph Graves (Peking University)
Linda Alper (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)

Book Exhibit:

A book exhibit of titles by international presenters and local scholars will be set up at the conference site.

Registration:

Admission is free, but registration by November 1 is required for
(1) a hardcopy of the conference proceedings,
(2) participation of the workshops,
(3) a ticket to the preview of Bond,
(4) a ticket to Shakespeare in Song, and
(5) meal services.

Please complete the attached registration form and return it to NTU@Shakespeare.tw.
Updates can be found at www.Shakespeare.tw.

 

 

Scholarly Event Inside Out/Outside In 5th Blackfriars Conference
(Staunton, 10/20-25/2009)
Publication Dialogue with Soliloquy: A Study in Shakespearean Soliloquies Ching-Hsi Perng (Mar. 2009)
Publication Revel's World of Shakespeare
Joseph Graves (Feb. 2009)
Scholarly Event Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances
9th World Shakespeare Congress (Prague, deadline 2/28/2009; 7/17-22/2011)
Scholarly Event Shakespeare in Asia
Shakespeare Association of Korea International Conference (Seoul, deadline 2/28/2009; 10/23-24/2009)
Performance

BOND《約/束》
A Bangzi Opera Adaptation of The Mearchant of Venice.

I'Inside Out/ Outside In’

5th Blackfriars Conference

The American Shakespeare Center

October 20-25, 2009

The American Shakespeare Center, in partnership with Shakespeare's Globe in London, will host its fifth Blackfriars Conference, "Inside Out/Outside In," in honor of Andy Gurr in Staunton, Virginia, from 20-25 October 2009.

Registration fee includes tickets to the ASC productions of 1 Henry IV, Merry Wives, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Rehearsal by George Villiers (et al); opening and closing banquets; a special presentation by the ASC actors honoring the work of Andy Gurr; and Paul's Menzer's Shakespeare on Ice, a play and cocktail party.

We are inviting proposals for papers on topics to do with early modern drama in performance, including but not restricted to the staging, texts, design, repertory, personnel, and the business of plays in early modern England. Paper presentations are limited to 10 minutes (presentation without actors) and to 13 minutes (presentations with ASC actors). Presenters should be aware that they will hear the sound of a thundersheet when two minutes remain and will exit pursed by a bear when time is out.

In order to submit a 300 word abstract and a short bio to Sarah Enloe, Director of Education, by 30 May 2009, go to the ASC website. Please include a brief statement saying whether or not you would be interested in having your work in a volume of Blackfriars Conference essays.

We realize that in an economic downturn, any travel expenses may present a challenge to you or your organization. We hope that the unique format and topics at this conference will inspire you to invest in the imagination engendered by this event. Opportunities for this kind of scholarly interaction are too rare to miss, so plan to make a fall break of shows and stimulating scholarship in a beautiful autumn setting.

If you’d like to get more information, please refer to http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/v.php?pg=379
The American Shakespeare Center:
13 W. Beverley Street, Fourth Floor
Staunton, VA 24401
Phone (540) 885-5588 (TOP)

Dialogue with Soliloquy: A Study in Shakespearean Soliloquies

Author: Ching-Hsi Perng

Publisher: Bookman Books

Date: Mar. 2009

Language: Chinese

List Price: NT$250 (TOP)

Revel’s World of Shakespeare

Author: Joseph Graves Translator: Xiao-Qing Hu

Publisher: Bookman Books

Date: Feb. 2009

Language: Chinese & English

List Price: NT$200 (TOP)

‘Local / Global Shakespeares’

4th British Shakespeare Association Conference

King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe

September 11-13, 2009

The British Shakespeare Association is dedicated to supporting people who teach, research, and perform Shakespeare's works. Accordingly, this large international conference offers a wide range of lectures, seminars, workshops and panel discussions run by and aimed at scholars, students, artists and teachers.

The theme of BSA 2009 is ‘Local / Global Shakespeares’ and contributors are invited to identify and discuss ways in which Shakespeare is currently being used both locally – by specific practitioners, companies and communities – and globally – in festivals, film, scholarship and education, both within and beyond the English-speaking world.

BSA 2009 will host 12 plenary sessions, live performance and over 30 parallel sessions, including academic seminars and paper presentations, panel discussions and workshops. BSA 2009 is a thoroughly international event, with speakers coming from Taiwan, China, Japan, India, the United States, Canada, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Registration will open early in the New Year. The official conference website will be hosted by the English Department at King’s College London
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/english/)

For further information, please contact:

Dr Sonia Massai, Reader in Shakespeare Studies, English Department, King’s College London (TOP)

Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances

9th World Shakespeare Congress (Prague, 2/28/2009; 7/17-22/2011)

The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress of the International Shakespeare Association in Prague will mark the next phase in a journey through four continents. Beginning in Vancouver, this international conference has travelled every five years since 1971 to share Shakespearian scholarship, performance, and pedagogy at another great site: Washington D.C., Stratford-upon-Avon, Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Valencia and Brisbane. The culturally rich city of Prague, a new setting for the Congress in central Europe, offers a wonderful opportunity to engage in dialogue about Shakespearian reception both here and throughout the world.

The location of the Congress in Prague, where Shakespeare's plays were most probably performed during his lifetime, provides the opportunity to approach Shakespeare's theatre in the context of cultural and political relations between Elizabethan and Jacobean England and Central Europe under the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II and later on the eve of the Thirty Years' War. Delegates will be able to trace the steps of Dr. John Dee, Edward Kelley, Edmund Campion, and Elizabeth Weston as they tour the Baroque theatres and Rosenberg castles of South Bohemia.

The Congress theme 'Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances' speaks to current debates about 'Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst' and 'Global Shakespeare'.

Proposals are now invited for the seminar, workshop and short paper (panel) sessions of the Congress.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be as detailed as possible and include a rationale as well as a list of problems or questions that the seminar, workshop or short paper (panel) session seeks to explore. They should include brief academic biographies of the proposed leaders and contributors of short papers.

Preference will be given to proposals which, in their subject matter, reflect the international nature of the Congress. Geographical diversity in group leadership is actively encouraged so that the two leaders of a seminar, for example, may come from different countries or continents.

Participants are encouraged to interpret 'Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances' geographically, historically, culturally, and to consider text and performance in a full range of media.

All proposals will be reviewed by members of the ISA Programme Committee.

Submission Deadline

Proposals of 500 words should be sent to Dr. Nick Walton, ISA Secretary, preferably by email at: <isa@shakespeare.org.uk> or to The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6QW, United Kingdom, to arrive by 28th February 2009.

Those submitting proposals should ensure that their membership of the ISA is current.
(TOP)

"Shakespeare in Asia"

The Shakespeare Association of Korea

International Conference

October 23-24, 2009

Seoul, Korea

Call for Papers

The Shakespeare Association of Korea invites papers for its 2009 international conference on "Shakespeare in Asia." The conference aims at bringing together scholars and teachers of English language and literature to discuss academic and theatrical issues particular to Shakespearean studies or performances in Asian countries. We are interested in examining Shakespeare's works in different national and cultural contexts around Asia. Topics of discussion may include (but are not limited to):

-Adaptations

-Postcolonialism

-Feminism

-Performances

-Teaching Methodologies

Proposals for 20-minute papers should include a 250-word abstract and a brief curriculum vitae with contact and affiliation information. Please send proposals to Dr. Woong-Jae Shin (Dept. of English, Kwangwoon University, wjshin@kw.ac.kr) or Dr. Seok-Ju Kang (Dept. of English, Mokpo University, cracow@mokpo.ac.kr) by February 28, 2009. We are prepared to pay an airfare subsidy of US$300.00 to each speaker. (TOP)

BOND《約/束》

BOND

 

A Bangzi Opera Adaptation of The Mearchant of Venice.

 

Taipei Stage
City Stage, Taipei Cultural Center

Date:
19:30 on 28 Nov. 2009
14:30 and 19:30 on 29 Nov. 2009
Price:
NT$1200、1000、700、500、300

Kaohsiung Stage
Sun Yat-sen Theater, National Sun Yat-sen University

Date:
19:30 on 18 Dec. 2009
19:30 on 19 Dec. 2009
14:30 on 20 Dec. 2009
Price:
NT$800、500、300

 

More details
Official HP: http://www.bengzi.org.tw (TOP)