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In association with The University of Hull, the BSA is proud to present…

Shakespearean Transformations: Death, Life, and Afterlives

University of Hull, 8-11 September 2016: www.hull.ac.uk/bsa2016

Keynote speakers:

Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick)

Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)

Michael Neill (University of Auckland)

Claudia Olk (Free University of Berlin)

Barrie Rutter (Northern Broadsides)

Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford)

Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Remember me!’ commands the ghost of Hamlet’s father at a moment in English history when the very purpose of remembrance of the dead was being transformed. How does the past haunt the present in Shakespeare? What do Shakespeare’s works reveal about the processes of mourning and remembrance? Shakespeare breathed new life into ‘old tales’: how do his acts of literary resuscitation transform the material he revived and what it signifies? This major international conference will investigate the ways in which Shakespeare remembered the past and we remember Shakespeare.

The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death offers us a timely opportunity to reflect upon the continuation of his life and art diachronically, spatially from the Globe across the globe, and materially on stage, page, canvas, music score, and screen. How does Shakespeare continue to haunt us? The second strand of the conference focuses on Shakespeare’s literary, dramatic, and transcultural afterlives. The conference thus also seeks to explore the various ways in which Shakespeare’s ghost has been invoked, summoned up, or warded off over the past four centuries.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Shakespeare and death

Speaking to/of and impersonating the dead in Shakespeare

Shakespeare, religion, and reformations of ritual

Shakespeare and memory/remembrance

Shakespeare and time: temporality/anachronism/archaism

Shakespeare and early modern conceptions of ‘life’

Emotion and embodiment in Shakespeare

Performing Shakespeare: now and then

Transcultural Shakespeare

Critical and theoretical conceptions of/engagements through Shakespeare

Textual resurrections: editing Shakespeare

Rethinking Shakespearean biography

Enlivening Shakespeare teaching

Shakespeare in a digital age

The conference will be held in the official run-up to Hull’s year as the UK’s City of Culture in 2017. The programme will include plenary lectures, papers, seminars, workshops, and performances at Hull Truck and the Gulbenkian Centre. There will also be special workshops and sessions pedagogy.

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes), panels (90 minutes), or seminars/workshops (90 minutes) on any aspect of the conference theme, broadly interpreted. Abstracts (no more than 200 words) should be sent to bsa2016@hull.ac.uk by 15 December 2015.

Postgraduate bursaries are available.

Participants must be members of the British Shakespeare Association at the time of the conference. Details of how to join can be found here: www.britishshakespeare.ws

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