We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD, conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.
Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.
This year’s conference takes as its theme ‘Shakespeare in Spirit’ in all its senses in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including (but not limited to):
- Shakespeare and religion
- Shakespeare and adaptation
- Shakespeare and spiritualism
- Uncanny Shakespeare
- Race and religion in early modern Europe
- Ghosts and haunting in early modern literature
- Ritual and staging practices in early modern Europe
- Magic and the supernatural in early modern Europe
Please send proposals (250 words max.) for papers (20 mins), panels (3–4 papers of 15–20 mins each), and small workshops, with speaker biographies (100 words max. each) to Jennifer Clement <j.clement@uq.edu.au> by 04 April 2025 (recently extended). Jennifer will also be happy to respond to questions about the conference.
Registrations now open!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the July 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association conference, ‘Shakespeare in Spirit’, is now open for early bird registration by clicking this link.
Please note that registration includes your membership fee. For waged/institutionally supported delegates, the total early bird amount is $430; for unwaged/unsupported delegates, the total early bird amount is $300. The early bird rate will run until 2 June.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Please check this website for periodic updates and information on hotels and restaurants.