The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.570 Wednesday, 23 December 2015
From: Laura Estill <
Date: December 23, 2015 at 11:58:06 AM EST
Subject: CFP: Shakespeare in Shanghai Conference
“Shakespeare in Shanghai Conference—Translation, Transculturation and Global Perspectives”
12 and 13 March 2016, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Call for Papers
To remember the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, we invite papers on Shakespeare and his contemporaries from many points of view, including translation, transculturation and global perspectives. We welcome papers of 15 to 20 minutes from scholars in all disciplines and from an interdisciplinary point of view. Is Shakespeare a writer in English, a figure in Chinese Literature and culture, a global author or all three? What is the relation between text and context, performance and reading, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Shakespeare and his afterlife in times and interpretations to the present? The conference will be pluralistic and welcomes you to bring your own vantage to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially as they relate to him. We welcome work from scholars in all fields, not simply those who work in literature, drama and film, and researchers worldwide as well as in China and Asia. This conference is part of the commitment of Shanghai Jiao Tong University to Shakespeare Studies and, more generally, to Humanities and to its School of Foreign Languages, which is active in many areas including Literature, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Culture and Linguistics.
Please send a paper or abstract by 11 January 2016 to
We hope to respond expeditiously.