Heythrop College and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, will host an international conference titled “The Power of the Word: Poetry, Theology and Life” between June 17 and June 18, 2011. The keynote speakers will be Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin), Helen Wilcox (University of Bangor), M. Paul Gallagher (Gregorian University, Rome),...
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Shakespeare at Kalamazoo will sponsor two sessions at the 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies to be hosted by Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, between May 12 and May 15, 2011. They have issued the following call for papers: We welcome individual paper proposals for a session on “Shakespeare’s Middle Ages” and a...
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As reported in the past, the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress: Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, between July 17 and July 22, 2011. Rebecca Totaro (Florida Gulf Coast University) has issued the following Call for Papers for Seminar No. 14, “‘Must I remember?’: Trauma and Memory in Early...
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The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress: Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, between July 17 and July 22, 2011. Michele Marrapodi (University of Palermo) has issued the following Call for Papers for Seminar No. 3, “Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition.” This seminar aims to place Shakespeare’s...
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The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) will host its 2010 conference between November 18 and November 21, 2010, at the Renaissance Hotel, Seattle-Downtown. ASTR’s Shakespearean Performance Research Group has issued the following call for papers: The Shakespearean Performance Research Group provides an ongoing home for the study of Shakespearean performance within ASTR. For...
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Johann Gregory (Cardiff University) has issued a call for papers for a panel at the Renaissance Society of America conference. To consider Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” speech an audience must think about what the future might have in store. Like many other Shakespearean moments, Hamlet reflects on past experience and ponders...
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A meeting of the Renaissance Society of America will be held in Montreal between March 24 and March 26, 2011. A call for papers on the general topic “Renaissance Studies and New Technologies” has been issued: For the past nine years, the Renaissance Society of America program has featured a number of sessions that...
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Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, has issued a call for papers for a special issue titled “Shakespeare and Fletcher.” Submissions may include essays of approximately 6,000 words (including notes); review-essays of 2,000-3,000 words; or reviews of 1,000-1,500 words. Topics might include: Studies of the collaborative plays, Henry VIII, Cardenio and The...
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Shakespeare, a peer-reviewed journal guest edited by John Norton, is accepting articles concerning aspects of sport, athletics, and exercise in the works of Shakespeare for its 2011 issue “Shakespeare and Sport”. Articles should be 6,000 words (including notes). We are looking for a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches to Shakespeare and sport,...
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The “Shakespeare In (and Out of) Love” area at the 2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television has released the following Call for Papers. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee between November 11 and November 14, 2010. For more information, go to www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory. Third Round...
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