Symposium: Who Owns Shakespeare? Adaptation, Appropriation, Authority
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This two-day Symposium will see a range of talks on the question: Who Owns Shakespeare? Adaptation, Appropriation, Authority. Researchers will consider the contested space that Shakespeare occupies in the world of theatre, academia and the public sphere.
Join us as emerging and established voices in the field of early modern studies offer the latest research on topics from translation to performance, theatre practices to print culture.
The 2024 Shakespeare and Race Festival is supported by two anonymous foundations.
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Free
This event is on-site – please meet in the main foyer.
Running time 2 days (10.00am – 5.00pm)
This event will have a photographer present.
Part of Shakespeare & Race Festival
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SPEAKERS
SCHEDULE
Friday 25th October
9.00-10.00
Registration
10.00-10.15
Welcome
10.15-11.00
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)
‘Can We Have A Word About Our Shakespeare?’
11.15-12.00
Kyle Grady (University of California, Irvine)
‘The Tempest and Black Futurity’
12-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.45
Sponsored Panel: Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network (EMSOC)
Lydia Valentine (King’s College London)
‘Fair-Faced Breeders’: Kinship and Racial Property
Oliver Lewis (University of Roehampton)
‘Navigating Parallel Hierarchies of Difference: Archival Fragments and Performing Laughter’
Anandi Rao (SOAS, University of London)
‘Colonial Translation or Anticolonial Writing Back: The Case of Sitaram’s Jangal Mein Mangal (The Tempest, 1915)
15.00-15.45
Wendy Lennon (University of Oxford)
‘Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy’
15.45-16.15
Tea/Coffee break
Meet the Authors — with Lubaaba Al-Azami (Travellers in the Golden Realm); Koel Chatterjee
(Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West); and Ambereen Dadabhoy
(Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds)
Talk to a Publisher — with Jade Grogan, Commissioning Editor, The Arden Shakespeare
16.15-17.00
Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban)
‘Reading Shakespeare’
Saturday 26th October
9.30-10.00
Registration
10.00-10.15
Welcome
10.15-11.00
Hanh Bui (Shakespeare’s Globe)
‘What I talk about when I talk about anti-racist Shakespeare’
11.15-12.00
Lily Freeman-Jones (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Skin-to-Skin: Racial Prosthetics and Structures of Feeling in Early Modern Drama’
12.00-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.15
Jamie Paris (University of Manitoba)
‘Shakespeare and the Canadian Indian Residential School System’
14.30-15.45
Workshop: The Global Early Modern Stage (GEMS) Database
Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent)
Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex)
15.45-16.15
Tea/Coffee break
16.15-17.00
Lubaaba Al-Azami (University of Manchester)
‘Shakespeare’s Pursuit of the Globe’
