Announcements
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.011 Wednesday, 11 January 2023
From: Jeff Wilson <
Date: January 11 at 12:56 PM EST
Subject: 500 Years of Looking for Richard III
Hi friends and fellow folks endlessly fascinated with Richard III,
I’d like to invite you to join us—in person or remotely—for a talk at UC Irvine.
The Kirk Davis Jr Annual Public Shakespeare Lecture
500 Years of Looking for Richard III, with Jeffrey Wilson ‘12 and Thomas Varga ‘17
Monday, January 30, 2023
4:00 pm PST
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Gateway 1030 or by Zoom
Event information here:
Remote registration:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fe0Lp06hQ9S-m3QMDk7JOg
I’ll be talking a bit about my recent book, Richard III’s Bodies. It will be a brisk jaunt through five centuries of fascinating history made accessible for non-scholars, so please do invite along students, friends, family, and folks in our communities.
All best,
Jeff
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.010 Wednesday, 11 January 2023
From: Meriem Pages <
Date: January 11 at 12:29 AM EST
Subject: Reminder: 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:
Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 14-15, 2023
Call for Papers and Sessions
We are delighted to announce that the 43rd Medieval and Renaissance Forum will take place in person on Friday, April 14 and Saturday April 15, 2023 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. The theme of this year’s conference, our fifth dedicated to the five senses, is Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, focusing on the sense of touch, the sensory, and affect. As always, we also welcome papers on any and every topic related to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance as well as papers on medievalism.
While we plan to hold the 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum in person with a limited number of virtual presentations, the entire event may have to be moved online should the safety of our participants require it.
We welcome abstracts (one page or less) from faculty, students, and independent scholars. Please include in your proposal: 1. a title for your paper, 2. your status (faculty, graduate, undergraduate, or independent scholar), 3. your affiliation (if relevant), and 4. full contact information, including email address. If you are an undergraduate student we ask that you obtain a faculty member’s approval and sponsorship.
Graduate students are eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award upon submission of their essays by April 1, 2023. The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will win $100 to be used for registration and/or travel expenses to the 44th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (travel expenses including but not limited to transportation to and from the conference and accommodations while in Keene). The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will be announced at lunch on Friday, April 14, 2023.
Please submit abstracts and full contact information on the google form available at:
https://forms.gle/SBLxvi9nVXzc2tt66
This year’s keynote speaker is Lauren Mancia, Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, who will speak on “(Reach Out and) Touch Medieval Monastic Devotion.”
Dr. Mancia focuses her research on the devotional and material culture of medieval European monasteries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. More recently, Professor Mancia has turned to the field of performance studies both to better understand medieval European monastic devotion and to innovate ways to perform that understanding for contemporary audiences. Professor Mancia’s first book, Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019/paper 2021), sheds light on medieval monastic practices of affective piety. Her second book, Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God is forthcoming in Spring 2023 from ARC Humanities/Amsterdam University Press.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2023
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2023
As always, we look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.005 Thursday, 5 January 2023
From: Scott Newstok <
Date: January 5 at 2:31 PM EST
Subject: Pearce Shakespeare Endowment — 2023 Law and Literature Speaker Series
http://www.rhodes.edu/shakespeare
The Pearce Shakespeare Endowment convenes Renaissance scholars researching law and literature to share their work on topics such as race, equity, disability, human rights, and the politics of majority rule.
While this speaker series is free and open to the public, please register in advance for each virtual event via the links below.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Elsky, Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College: <
Thursday, Jan. 26, 12:30-1:45 CST
Cassander Smith (The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa), “Black Legend as Legal Rhetoric in Early British Encounters with Sub-Saharan Africa”
https://rhodes.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUucOitqTooHtFi3C4tsi1BgyAF6nLt1872
Thursday, Feb. 23, 12:30-1:45 CST
Penelope Geng (Macalester College), “Disabled by Law: Property and Ablenationalism in Seventeenth-Century Law and Literature”
Bernadette Meyler (Stanford University), “Coriolanus and the History of Majoritarianism”
https://rhodes.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctdOGupjgoGNCX1OPDk6iSf2tfAwpCxQuo
Tuesday, March 28, 12:30-1:45 CST:
Penelope Anderson (Indiana University Bloomington), “A Poetics of Human Rights: The Case of Cymbeline”
Alison Chapman (The University of Alabama at Birmingham), “‘For with his own laws he can best dispense’: Equity and Interpretation in Samson Agonistes”
https://rhodes.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtfumhrjMqGNVAyDsS8JW7PFra0sm1clyH
Thursday, April 13, 12:30-1:45 CST:
Keynote Address Lorna Hutson (Merton Professor of English Literature, Merton College, Oxford University), “Neptune’s Sway: Law in the ‘Island Nation’ Fiction, 1550-1700”
https://rhodes.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld-GqrjsrHNNLBRomc1q9jXV_D21isyqhh
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.002 Tuesday, 3 January 2023
From: Edward Pechter <
Date: January 3 at 10:14 AM EST
Subject: Research Seminar Posting
Research Seminar on “The Afterlives of Richard III”
The English Research Institute at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, is delighted to announce the first of its English Research Seminars for 2023, on 18 January 2023 at 2 pm. The seminars take place online and are free but booking is essential.
Our speaker is research student Robyn Whalley of Nottingham Trent University. Robyn is first-year Midlands Four Cities Funded Collaborative Doctoral Award Holder at Nottingham Trent University and De Montfort University, working in collaboration with the King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester.
Robyn studied her Masters at the University of St Andrews in Romantic and Victorian Studies and was previously the Learning and Interpretation Supervisor at Nottingham Castle. Her primary research interests for this project are the presentation of controversial individuals in museum and heritage spaces, the ways in which multimedia presentations of Richard III have shaped his reputational legacy and, more specifically, how and why King Richard III continues to inspire admiration, aversion and debate long after his death in 1485.
The title of Robyn’s talk is “Richard III's Afterlives: Adaptation and Heritage”
This talk will form an introduction to Robyn’s interdisciplinary exploration of the multimedia legacies of King Richard III within the context of Museum Studies and Perpetrator Studies. Focusing on the experience of researching the project at this early stage, this seminar will cover a brief overview of how Robyn came to the project, touching on her research aims and why someone with a background in Romantic and Victorian Studies is suddenly working on a controversial medieval king. This will be followed by an exploration of the background and importance of the application of Perpetrator Studies to museum spaces as well as the exciting opportunities which working collaboratively alongside an organization such as the King Richard III Visitor Centre can provide for public engagement. You can see the full programme of our English Research Seminars for the year at
http://cts.dmu.ac.uk/events/ERS-2022-2023
To book your attendance at this seminar please send to Gabriel Egan <
Your name
Your email address
The title(s) of the seminar(s) you wish to attend
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.297 Saturday, 31 December 2022
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: December 27 at 3:24 PM EST
Subject: William Carroll: Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History
This is a talk with William Carroll of Boston University about his recent book: ‘Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History’: https://youtu.be/iAdLiTAkWYA.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.293 Saturday, 24 December 2022
From: Edward Pechter <
Date: December 23 at 3:15 PM EST
Subject: Call for Papers
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the journal ‘Shakespeare’ (the organ of the British Shakespeare Association, published by Routledge) on the Topic of “The Shakespeare First Folio: 1623 to 2023”
The guest editors of the journal ‘Shakespeare’, Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin) and Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University), invite papers for a special issue on the topic of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. The special issue will appear in late 2023 to coincide with the book’s 400 anniversary. The special issue is open to any study that focuses on the significance, understanding, and reception of this important book in its own time and/or at any time between 1623 and now.
Would-be contributors are invited to take stock of our knowledge of this book on its 400th anniversary and to share new work that sheds light on its creation, reception, significance, and history. All approaches—bibliographical, theatrical, editorial, critical, economic, linguistic, political, historical, theoretical, or statistical—are welcome. Thus contributions might include studies of: particular Folio plays and variants; the responses of four centuries of readers and performers (and how these intersect with gender, race, disability, and class); the activities of collectors and archivists; the work of publishers, printers, editors; the publication and reception of facsimiles; the Folio as the subject of digitalization; and national, colonial, and postcolonial perspectives.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
* The First Folio as a bibliographical event
* The shaping of readerly expectations and the publication of Shakespeare
* The absence of the poems from the First Folio
* Who made the First Folio?
* How has our understanding of this book changed since the last centennial, when the New Bibliography had begun to dominate the study of early Shakespeare texts?
* How much do play titles and/or genre matter, and to whom?
* “Without it we would lack half of Shakespeare’s plays”—is that true?
* To what extent is a play’s reception shaped by the company it keeps in a collection?
* Censoring plays on stage and in print—evidence from the First Folio
* The relationship of Shakespeare’s First Folio to Ben Jonson’s 1616 Folio and/or other books
* How the First Folio prioritizes narratives of single-authorship over collaboration
* Is the language of the First Folio post-Shakespearian?
* The First Folio and the marketplace for books
* First Folios over the centuries, including within the history of editing
* First Folio fetishization: academic, economic, performative as material object, as cultural artefact
Contributions should be scholarly research articles between 5000 and 8000 words long, styled by the Language Association (MLA) rules regarding references, and must not have been published elsewhere before (although reworked papers from conferences are acceptable). Contributions should be sent as emailed attachments to Miranda Fay Thomas <
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.292 Tuesday, 13 December 2022
From: Darren Freebury-Jones <
Date: December 13 at 6:00 AM EST
Subject: Book Announcement: Shakespeare’s Tutor
I am delighted to announce the publication of my book, Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd, with Manchester University Press. The book is available here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526164742/
Shakespeare’s Tutor adds to the critical and scholarly discussion that seeks to establish the early modern playwright Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon, and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama through influence, collaboration, revision, and adaptation. The book reveals the remarkable extent to which Shakespeare was influenced by his dramatic predecessor and aims to revolutionise our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development.
The book has been discussed this week in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper and on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ show on December 12th and was the subject of that show’s ‘Thought for the Day’ on December 13th. My interview with Radio 4 can be heard from the 2 hour 54 mark here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g2xd
I also speak about some of the research behind the book in this lecture available for a limited time on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIi73yiCPU
Darren Freebury-Jones.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.291 Sunday, 11 December 2022
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: December 10 at 7:19 AM EST
Subject: Peter Holland: Speaking of Shakespeare
This is a talk with Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame about Peter’s recent book, ‘Shakespeare and Forgetting.’
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.286 Monday, 5 December 2022
From: Thea Buckley <
Date: December 5 at 7:58 AM EST
Subject: Book series online launch invitation
Please sign up here to attend the free online launch of the Shakespeare and Adaptation series, 9 December 2022. All are warmly invited.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.281 Monday, 28 November 2022
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: November 26 at 6:45 AM EST
Subject: Speaking of Shakespeare: Michael Dobson
This is a talk with Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, located in Stratford-upon-Avon. Here Michael talks about the Shakespeare Institute’s programs and mission and also about his recent work on Shakespeare in national repertories across the globe.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 33.280 Thursday, 24 November 2022
From: Robert Stagg <
Date: November 22 at 4:48 PM EST
Subject: Book Launch
Dr Robert Stagg (Shakespeare Institute / St Anne’s College, Oxford) will be in conversation with Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute) about his new book ‘Shakespeare’s Blank Verse: An Alternative History’ in the Hall of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday 29 November. The conversation will be broadcast via Zoom. Those wanting the Zoom link, which will be circulated a few days before the event, should register via the Eventbrite page here: