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Shakespeare in Culture
The Fourth Conference of the NTU
Shakespeare Forum
National
Taiwan University, Taipei
November 26-28, 2009
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* Conference Program Download (Updated November 16)
Click *HERE* for the Registration Package including Conference Program.
Click *HERE* for the Registration Form in MS Word.
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
Joseph 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.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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‘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)
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"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》

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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) |
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