Summary
Day 1: Thursday 7 December 9:30am start: State Library of NSW (Mitchell Library entrance, Dixson Room)
Day 2: Friday 8 December 9:30am start: University of Sydney (Social Sciences Building, Rooms 105, 200, 210, 341, 650)
Day 3: Saturday 9 December 9:00am start: University of Sydney (Social Sciences Building + Rex Cramphorn Studio)
Panel chairs and room allocations to follow.
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ANZSA 2023 Full Program of Panels and Events
Day 1: Celebrating 400 Years of the First Folio (and other bookish topics)
Thursday 7 December at the State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library entrance
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration Dixson Room, Mitchell Library | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Welcome to Country from Uncle Allen Madden
Welcome to the State Library of NSW from Caroline Butler-Bowdon Welcome to Day 1 of ANZSA 2023 from Prof. Laurie Johnson, President of ANZSA |
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| 10.00-11.15 | Shakespeare Folios as Institutional Treasures
Maggie Patton, ‘Our great and valuable literary treasure’ Karen Attar, ‘From Barbican to Bloomsbury via the World: The University of London’s First Folios’ Helen Hopkins, ‘Shakespeare, the First Folio, and the Cultural Heritage Institution’ |
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| 11.15-11.45 | Morning Tea and announcement of the Lloyd Davis Prize | |
| 11.45-1.00 | The Folio and Genre
Brett Greatley-Hirsch, ‘Shakespearean genre within and beyond the First Folio’ Mark Houlahan, ‘King Lear beyond Genre: or What does Lear really, really want?’ David McInnis, ‘The extremity of both ends: Timon of Athens beyond all limits of genre’ |
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| 1.00-2.00 | Lunch | |
| 2.00-3.15
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Textual Afterlives: Public, Private, Performed
Susannah Helman, ‘Shakespeare and the National Library of Australia’s Rare Books Collection’ Liam Semler, ‘“My old treasure”: Shakespeare’s 2nd Folio (1632) held by the State Library of NSW’ Kate Flaherty, ‘Between the Actor and the Book: New Ventures across the Fault-line’ |
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| 3.15-3.30 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30-5.00 | Higher Degree Research Student and Early Career Researcher Masterclass with Prof. Ewan Fernie.
Macquarie Room This is for research degree students and early career researchers only. |
Shrinking, Fragmenting and Forgetting the Folio
Paul Salzman, ‘Shrinking the First Folio’ Huw Griffiths and Liam Semler, ‘Shakespeare in Fragments: the University of Sydney Folio Loose Leaves’ Hannah August, ‘Forget about the Folio – traces of affective reading in two early modern play quartos’ |
| 5-6 | Break | |
| 6-7 | ‘A Tale of Two Folios’
Public Lecture by Professor Ewan Fernie Library Auditorium, LG1, Macquarie Building |
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Day 2: Shakespeare Beyond All Limits
Friday 8 December at the University of Sydney Social Sciences Building, Science Rd
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration (for those who haven’t registered yet) | ||||
| 9.30-10.45 | Keynote: Richard Madelaine Memorial Lecture
Room: Lecture Theatre 200 ‘Ungendered Pasts, Racial Futures: Shakespeare at the Limits of Whiteness’ Associate Professor Urvashi Chakravarty Chair: Huw Griffiths |
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| 10.45-11.15 | Morning Tea | ||||
| 11.15-12.30 | Moral Frameworks
Room 105 Chair: Victoria Bladen Peter Richard, ‘’Charity, Liberality and the Imprint of Virtue in Timon of Athens’
Simon Haines, ‘The Merchant of Venice: liberal sadness and the quality of mercy’
Sam Milch, ‘Towards a taxonomy of history-defying claims about Shakespeare’ |
Understanding Hamlet Afresh
Room 210 (This panel extends to 12.45) Chair: Mark Houlahan Kishore Saval, ‘The Observed Observer: Echo, Narcissus, Hamlet.’
Nicholas Luke, ‘Not To Be – To Be: Hamlet, Kierkegaard, and the Eternal In Time’
Nicola Kelly, ‘Elsinore and the Limits of Revenge’ Kerrie Roberts, ‘Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen: Transcending Constraints on the Portrayal of Gertrude’ |
Shakespeare’s Fellows
Room 341 Chair: Brett Greatley-Hirsch Mark Bradbeer, ‘Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene on “the skirts of this wild wood” of As You Like It ’
Judy Hefferan, ‘“Out, damned spot”: The preternatural activities of Blood.’
Kylie Teoh, ‘Surveillant Sensescapes in The Changeling: An ecological approach to decoding the logic of anxious masculinities’
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Magical Valencies Among Early Modernists
Room 650 Chair: Anthony Patricia Darryl Chalk, ‘“The uttermost that magic can perform”: Conjuring Manuscripts and The Devil’s Charter’
Kyu-Won Kim and Anna Stewart-Yates, ‘“A strange perfection”: Exploring the theatricality of the witches in The Witch and Macbeth’ |
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| 12.30-1.30 | Lunch
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| 1.30-2.45 | Beyond Words
Room: lecture theatre 200 (This panel extends to 3.00) Chair: Caitlin West Julian Lamb, ‘Dissolving Felicity: Performatives in Antony and Cleopatra’ Peter Groves, ‘Beyond limits: Shakespeare’s Transformation of the Drumming Decasyllabon’ Anna Kamaralli, ‘Looking Inside the Silenus in Shakespeare’ Tessa Morrison, ‘Bejewelling Shakespeare’s Women’ |
Future Shakespeare Now
Room 105 Chair: David McInnis Victoria Bladen, ‘Shakespeare for the Posthuman Future’ Hannes Rall and Emma Harper, ‘Contemporary approaches to old problems: re-interrogating works of Shakespeare for the demands of immersive media’ Reto Winckler, ‘Computational Shakespeare – Shakespeare’s Language as Computer Code in the Shakespeare Programming Language’ |
Riffing and Burlesquing
Room: 210 Chair: Kate Flaherty Jennifer Clement, ‘Middlebrow Shakespeare: No Bed for Bacon, Tradition, and Parody’ Melissa Merchant and Sarah Courtis, ‘“There’s a double meaning in that”: Bogan Shakespeare and Double Access Audiences’
Laurie Johnson and Anne-Maree Wicks, ‘Neil Gaiman’s “Weird” Walking-canon: “Shakespeare” in Midsummer’ |
Traditions of Song and Dance
Room: 341 Chair: John Severn Kathryn Roberts Parker, ‘Representation of Morris Dancing in Early Modern Playhouses’ Yeeyon Im, ‘Shakespeare, Tradition and Transculturality in Changgeuk Lear’
Qian Chen, Hamlet in Chinese Traditional Opera |
Storms and Passions
Room: 650 Chair: Paul Salzman Kirk Dodd, ‘The invention of Leontes’ “Affection” in The Winter’s Tale’ Samuel Webster, ‘The Tempest in its afterlife: cuts, revisions, and potential sources’ Barbara Taylor, ‘Humming water, murky dens: Sea-room and Purgatory in Pericles and The Tempest’ |
| 2.45-3.15 | Afternoon Tea | ||||
| 3.15-4.30 | Film for Finding New Audiences
Room: lecture theatre 200 Chair: Laurie Johnson Cathryn Flores, Ricardo/Richard II: Film Scoring Bilingual Shakespeare Jessica Paterson, ‘The devil damn thee black (and white): the natural, unnatural and artificial in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Wai Fong Cheang with Su-Jen Lai, Feng-Yi Chen and Yuyen Chang, ‘Horses, the Wooden O and Film: Shakespeare’s Animals in 1 Henry IV’ |
Remaking Expectations
Room: 105 Chair: Julian Lamb Lucy Eyre, ‘Is adaptation a process of reimagining the limits of Shakespeare, or reclaiming his sense of justice and diversity?’ Robert Lublin, ‘Shakespeare is Dangerous’ Roberta Kwan, ‘Beyond boredom: Shakespeare, attentiveness, neighbourliness, and social justice’ |
Queering (Re)visions
Room: 210 Chair: Alys Daroy John Severn, ‘“Damnable both-sides rogue!”: Parolles, classical microsources and queer dramatic textures in All’s Well That Ends Well’ Anthony Patricia ‘“I lay with Cassio lately…”: Interpretation of Iago’s Dream’ Huw Griffiths, ‘The Afterlives of a Queer Pirate: Reading Antonio through Early Modernity’ |
Testing the Limits of the Text-Performance Relationship
Room: 341 Chair: Simon Haines Rebekah Bale, ‘The Urgency of Theatre: Shakespeare, Sony Labou Tansi and Pushing the Boundaries of Performance’ Elissa Wolf, ‘Shakespeare’s Asides’ Ruth Lunney, ‘What does a soliloquy? Hamlet and the limits of definition’ |
Performance Today
Room: 650 Chair: Darryl Chalk Lucy Boon, ‘Beyond fidelity: a study of creative process when queering early modern drama’ Caitlin West, ‘Clearing out the archive: contemporary Australian performances of Shakespeare’ Jo Bloom and Charles Mayer, ‘Shakespeare, reclaiming magic by Come you Spirits’ |
| 4.30-5.00 | Move to the outdoor venue for the performed reading | ||||
| 5.00-6.30 | Performed Reading of Salt Waves Fresh
An eco-activist adaptation of Twelfth Night by Gretchen E. Minton Directed by Claire Hansen, Anna Kamaralli and Gretchen Minton with actors from Bell Shakespeare. |
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| 7.00 | Conference Dinner
Gillespie Hall, St Andrew’s College, University of Sydney |
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Day 3: Shakespeare and Education (and more)
Saturday 9 December at the University of Sydney Social Sciences Building, Science Rd
| 8.45-9.00 | Registration (for Saturday Education day tickets) | ||||
| 9.00-10.15 | Virtual Workshop
Room: lecture theatre 200 Chair: Liam Semler Steve Rowland and Amiti Bey Time Out of Joint ‘Prison reflections on Shakespeare’ |
Joyful Performance
Room: 105 (This panel extends to 10.30) Chair: Claire Hansen Sean O’Riordan, ‘Shakespeare is Good for You’ Julia Richards, ‘“We must have you dance”: Reimagining Dance in Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’ Jennifer Nicholson, ‘“I would prefer not to”: Facilitating critique of ugly feelings in secondary Shakespeare lessons’ Gretchen Minton, Salt Waves Fresh Q&A |
Workshop
Room: 210
Laura Turchi and Kimiko Warner-Turner
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
‘Teaching Romeo and Juliet and Promoting Social Justice’
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Dreaming Beyond Limits
Room: 341 Chair: Roberta Kwan Bríd Phillips, Sessina Figueiredo, Bahareh Afsharnejad and Sonya Girdler, ‘Re-Imagining A Midsummer Night’s Dream through a non-Ableist Lens’ Roweena Yip, ‘Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Global Narrative’ Philip Tarvainen and Marinela Golemi, ‘Shakespeare in Colour: Fluorescent Ecologies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ |
New to Shakespeare
Room: 650 Chair: Lauren Weber Sarah Barnard, ‘Teaching Shakespeare in the Primary School’ Kath Lathouras, ‘Shakespeare wrote sonnets too! Kate Murphy, ‘Differentiating Shakespeare: Classroom activities for diverse learners’ |
| 10.15-10.45 | Morning Tea | ||||
| 10.45-12.15 | Plenary Workshop: Shakespeare Adaptation Without Limits
Room: Rex Cramphorn Studio This is in the John Woolley Building, entrance on Manning Road Chair: Anna Kamaralli This workshop will be conducted jointly by adapted performance and drama teaching specialists from 3 Australian theatre companies:
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| 12.15-1.45 | Lunch and AGM for ANZSA Members. AGM will begin at 12.45 in Lecture Theatre 200
Lunch will be provided for everyone on this day |
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| 1.45-3.00 | Keynote
Room: Lecture Theatre 200 ‘Volumes that I Prize Above My Dukedom’: Shakespeare Libraries, Shakespeare Scholarship and a Vocation Beyond Limits Prof. Ewan Fernie Chair: Liam Semler |
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| 3.00-3.30 | Afternoon Tea | ||||
| 3.30-4.45 | University Shakespeare
Room: 105 Chair: Kirk Dodd Melissa Merchant, Rahul Gairola and Alys Daroy, ‘Negotiated Assessment in University Shakespeare’ Elizabeth Offer, ‘Much Ado About Accessibility: Making Shakespeare’s Language Accessible to a Tertiary Student Audience’ Sarah Armstrong, ‘The [W]ill is Infinite’: Emotional Empathy and the Place of Shakespeare in Medical Education’ |
Workshop
Room: 210 Patrice Honnef,
‘Let them speak – Reimagining, reinventing and reconceiving representations.’
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Reaching everyone
Room: 341 Chair: Jennifer Nicholson Cheryl Taylor and Kezia Perry, ‘A Shakespeare Pressbook’ Kohei Uchimaru, ‘Anthologising ‘Shakespeare for Children’ in Secondary-School EFL Textbooks in Modern Japan’ Lauren Weber, ‘Reading time and space through Shakespeare criticism’ |
Taking Shakespeare everywhere
Room: 650 Chair: Hannah August Laura Turchi, ‘Romeo and Juliet and the Limits of La Frontera’ Joanna Erskine, ‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores – Bell Shakespeare in remote Australian schools’ Claire Hansen and Florence Boulard, ‘Shakespeare in Oceania: Adapting Romeo and Juliet in Kanaky-New Caledonia’ |
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| 4.45-5.30 | Thank you and close of conference (Seminar Room 650) | ||||