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I'Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissance’
9th World Shakespeare Congress in Prague
The International Shakespeare Association
July 17-22, 2011
The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress 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’.
The deadline for registration in a seminar or workshop is March 15, 2010.
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/files/ISANewsletterDec07.pdf (TOP)
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I'Shakespeare in Culture’
4th Conference of the NTU Shakespeare Forum
The NTU Shakespeare Forum
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
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 (TOP)
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