Shakespeare Electronic Conference, SHK 7.0798. Friday, 8 November 1996.
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Date: Friday, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:13 GMT
Subject: Shakespeare and Ireland
S H A K E S P E A R E A N D I R E L A N D
A Conference at Trinity College, Dublin
21 to 23 March 1997
THURSDAY 20 MARCH
4.00 - 6.00 Registration: Arts Building, Trinity College, main concourse
Note: all of the conference events will take place in the Ernest Walton
Theatre (room 2039), Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated.
FRIDAY 21 MARCH
9.15 Opening of Conference: welcoming address.
9.30 - 10.30 Plenary Speaker 1: Philip Edwards (University of Liverpool),
'Shakespeare, Ireland, Dreamland'.
11.00 - 1.00 Paper Session 1: Imperial Politics
Richard Abrams (University of Southern Maine), ' "English
Egypt": The Topicality of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra'
Patricia A. Cahill (Columbia University), ' "We Had Beene Safe
in Ireland"; Masculinity, Captain Thomas Stukeley, and the
Disciplines of War'.
Bernhard Klein (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit=E4t,
Frankfurt), 'Shakespeare and the Map of Ireland'.
Emma Smith (All Souls College, Oxford) ' "These Irishmen, some
say, are great dissemblers": Irishness as Disguise in
Renaissance Drama'.
2.30 - 3.30 Plenary Speaker 2: Ania Loomba (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi), 'Shakespeare and the Location of Culture'.
4.00 - 5.30 Paper Session 2: Colonial Perspectives
Jacqueline Belanger (University of Kent at Canterbury), ' "The
wonderful philosophic impartiality in Shakespeare's
politics": Shakespeare, Coleridge and Ireland'.
Elizabeth Fowler (Yale University), 'Scenes of Colonial
Jurisprudence'.
Thomas Herron (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ' "Where is
Duncan's body?" Plantation Politics and Irish Saints in
Shakespeare's Richard II and Macbeth'.
SATURDAY 22 MARCH
9.30 - 10.30 Plenary Speaker 3: Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin),
'Yeats and Shakespeare'.
11.00 - 1.00 Paper Session 3: Theatre History and Ireland
Chris Morash (Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth), 'Shakespeare
and the Shape of Irish History'.
Peter Raby (Homerton College, Cambridge), 'Harriet Smithson
and the interpretation of Shakespearean roles'.
Richard Schoch (University of Birmingham), ' "Chopkins Late
Shakespeare": the Bard and his Burlesques, 1811-1859'.
Patrick Tuite (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Parading
Along the Parish Boundaries: Identifying Institutions of
Erasure in the Theatre of Seventeenth Century Ireland'.
2.30 - 4.00 Paper Session 4: Coming to Terms with Shakespeare
Margot Gayle Backus (St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY),
'McGuinness and the Exorcists: Shakespearean Gothicism in
Contemporary Irish Dramaturgy.
Eugene O'Brien (University of Limerick), 'Patrick W.
Shakespeare and the Politics of Irish Identity'.
Kiernan Ryan (New Hall, Cambridge), ' "Dreaming of Things to
Come": the Burden of the Bard in Wilde, Shaw and Joyce'.
4.30 - 6.00 Henry V Seminar (tabled papers)
Jean Feerick (Univesity of Pennsylvania), 'Henry V and
national identity'.
Cherrie Gottsleben(Northeastern Illinois University), 'The
Colonizing of Myth'.
Ted Motohashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University), ' "Remember
Crispin": Henry V and the Politics of Memory'.
Andrew Murphy (University of Hertfordshire), 'Editing Ireland:
Henry V '.
SUNDAY 23 MARCH
9.30 - 11.00 Paper Session 5: Shakespeare, Canon and Postcoloniality
Claudia W. Harris (Brigham Young University), 'The Tempest as
Political Allegory'.
Christina Hunt Mahony (Catholic University of America),
'Shakespeare and Dowden'.
Ramona Wray (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Shakespeare and
the Sectarian Divide: Teaching the English Renaissance in
(Post) Post-Ceasefire Belfast'.
11.30 - 1.00 Contemporary Theatre Practice Session 1: Acting Shakespeare in
and out of Ireland.
2.30 - 4.30 Contemporary Theatre Practice Session 2: Producing
an Irish Shakespeare.
A number of outstanding theatre professionals have accepted invitations to
participate in these two sessions on contemporary theatre practice, subject to
other commitments. It is not possible at this stage to confirm the names of
those taking part.
This academic programme does not include details of social activities,
receptions, exhibitions and theatre events being planned in association with
the conference.
Registration Fee. The registration fee should be received by 1 March 1997,
after which a late fee will apply. The fee should be sent by personal cheque
or by banker's draft in one of the following currencies only, payable to
"Trinity College Dublin", and posted with the slip below (by airmail, where
appropriate) to:
Norah Crummy, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
by 1 March 1997 after 1 March 1997
FULL FEE
Irish 40 pounds 45 pounds
Sterling 40 pounds 45 pounds
US dollars 65 dollars 75 dollars
STUDENT FEE*
Irish 10 pounds 15 pounds
Sterling 10 pounds 15 pounds
US dollars 17 dollars 25 dollars
*Students must send with the fee a photocopy of a current student card or
other document certifying full-time enrollment in a college or university.
Accommodation. The conference hotel is the new Bewley's Hotel, 19/20 Fleet
Street, Dublin 2, a short walk from the front gate of Trinity. All rooms are
equipped with private bath, telephone, TV, and tea/coffee-making facilities.
Conference registrants should make their own bookings directly with the hotel
NO LATER THAN 1 FEBRUARY 1997, quoting the reference "Trinity College". The
special rates, which include full breakfast and taxes, are =A355 for a single
room and =A375 for a double.
Telephone +353 1 670 8122
Fax +353 1 670 8103
Because of the time of year no rooms in Trinity College will be available.
Those who wish alternative accommodation may contact Dublin Tourism, who will
book rooms in guest houses and other hotels. Website: http://www.visit.ie
Telephone +353 1 605 7777
Fax +353 1 605 7787
email
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Arrival in Dublin. Taxis from Dublin Airport to city centre cost about
=A312-14. Alternatively, a frequent express bus is priced at =A32.50, and
deposits passengers a ten-minute walk from Bewley's Hotel and Trinity. Further
information about the conference is available from Norah Crummy by telephone on
+353 1 608 2301 or by fax on +353 1 671 7114. Postal address as below.
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Registration Form
Must be received by 1 March 1997 to avoid the late fee
Name
Mailing Address
Telephone
Fax
email address
Institutional affiliation (for name badge)
Cheque or draft enclosed, payable to "Trinity College Dublin" in the amount
of ___________
(Students must include proof of status)
Send to: =20
Norah Crummy
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
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