Editor’s note: This is the first foray into our new Asides series, occasional discussion starters about current issues in Shakespeare studies.  We invite your input using our comments feature.  If you have an idea for Asides, please contact voices@theshakespearestandard.com. Last week, we came across Matt Kubus’ account of the International Shakespeare Conference (ISC) in...
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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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New Utah Shakespearean Festival Artistic Director David Ivers talks about their current summer season and his plans for the future.
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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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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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The Shakespeare Centre in partnership with the universities of Warwick and Nottingham Trent will host a conference between September 11 and 12, 2010, titled “Writing about Women in Shakespearian Performance.” Speakers will include Penny Downie, Laurie Maguire, John Peter, Carol Rutter, and Anne Ogbomo. Registration costs £65 and includes tickets to a performance about...
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Instructors Elizabeth Edmondson and Coreen Gorbett Schaefer of Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills, Ohio, recently presented “Shakespeare Meet Wiki: Creating Relevance in the 21st Century Classroom” at the Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts Conference in Worthington, Ohio.  At the conference, the teachers shared ideas for bridging the gap between digital media outside...
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