British Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2005
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Programme : Panels - Seminars - Workshops
BSA Newcastle 2005 Programme
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Thursday 1st September | Friday 2nd | Saturday 3rd | Sunday 4th
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Thursday 1st September
Registration open 1.30pm-5.00pm, Herschel Building Foyer
Postgraduate event 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Bedson Teaching Centre (BTC), LG35
2.00pm – 3.15pm Dr Leon Litvack (Queen's University of Belfast), 'What next, Doc?' - postdoctoral research and wider academic contexts relating to employment
3.15pm – 3.45pm Coffee, tea and biscuits
3.45pm – 5.00pm Sarah Stanton (Cambridge University Press), ‘Publish or Be Damned’ - a quick lesson in how to get started, make contacts and avoid pitfalls in the business of getting published. This will include writing proposals and presenting work to academic publishers
6pm – 7.15pm Lord Mayor’s reception, Civic Centre, Newcastle *** Please note that the dress code for this event is SMART CASUAL - Please no jeans / beachwear ***
9.00-11.00pm Screening of the Derry Film Initiative’s Hamlet, Herschel Building, Curtis Auditorium, followed by Q&A with director Stephen Cavanagh and Tony Doherty, chaired by Dr. Adrian Streete (Queen's University Belfast)
Friday 2nd September 2005
Registration open 8.30am-11.00am, Herschel Building concourse
Throughout the day 'I
am Romeo'
by SiteSpecified - During the day, an actor and a cameraman will be searching
the conference for people to take on the role of either Romeo or Juliet and
deliver a line from Shakespeare's play either to camera, or to the actor. We
will be endeavourring to capture as many people saying a line as possible, as
individuals or groups . The following day it will be edited, and then on the
Sunday morning it will be shown on a monitor, so that the delegates can see
themselves partaking of the Shakespeare expereience...
9.30am-10.30am Plenary, Herschel
Building, Lecture Theatre 1
Dympna Callaghan, (Syracuse University), 'Art and Life in The Comedy of
Errors and Hamlet', chaired by Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle University)
10.30am – 11.00am Tea / Coffee, Herschel concourse
11.00am-12.30pm Parallel sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Royal Shakespeare Company, Rehersal Approaches
to Shakespeare: A Practical Workshop, focusing on Hamlet and Othello
(part 1), BTC, LG38
with Mary Johnson (RSC)
It is as difficult as Golf: A workshop
on Shakespearean Verse Speaking, BTC, G37
with Abigail Rokison (Cambridge) and actors James Wallace and Sarah Tansey
Adventures in the Archive: Looking at productions
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, BTC, LG35
with Sylvia Morris and Karin Brown (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library)
SEMINARS:
Shakespeare and Music, BTC, LG37
convened by Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham)
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of
Translation in Early Modern England, BTC, G35
convened by Liz Oakley-Brown (Canterbury Christ Church University )
PANELS:
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets, Herschel,
LT 1
Women at the margins of Culture,
Herschel LT 2
12.30pm-2.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm - 3.30pm Parallel Sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Royal Shakespeare Company, Rehearsal Approaches
to Shakespeare: A Practical Workshop, focusing on Hamlet and Othello
(part 2), BTC LG38
with Mary Johnson (RSC)
Mixing Metaphor 2: Using Commedia dell’
Arte to Explore the Self-Conscious Rehearsal in Shakespeare’s The
Merchant of Venice, BTC G35
convened by Gabrielle Malcolm & Ellen Loudon (Edge Hill College)
Touchstone: A Midsummer Nights Dream,
BTC LG34
SEMINARS:
Shakespeare and Ecology, BTC LG35
convened by Kevin De Ornellas (Queen's University, Belfast) and Gabriel Egan
(Loughborough University)
Shakespeare’s Lewd Interpreters,
BTC LG37
convened by Mark Dooley (Teesside)
PANELS:
Stillness and motion on the early modern
stage, Herschel LT1
convened by P.A. Skantze (Glasgow University)
Rematerializing Shakespeare: authority
and representation on the early modern English stage, Herschel LT2
3.30pm – 4.00pm Tea / Coffee, Herschel concourse
4.00pm - 5.30pm Plenary, Herschel,
LT1
Roundtable discussion on physical theatre/movement in Shakespearean performance,
chaired by Stuart Hampton-Reeves (Central Lancashire), with John Russell Brown,
Ann Thompson (KCL), Peter Reynolds (Roehampton), Sophie Middlemiss and Tom Secretan
(Cambridge Student Actors - currently performing in 'Macbeth - The Hour' at
the Edinburgh Festival)
Publisher’s Reception hosted by Thomson and Conference dinner at the Old Assembly Rooms, Westgate Road
Saturday 3rd September 2005
Registration open 8.30am-11.00am, Herschel Building concourse
9.30am-11.00am Parallel Sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Royal Shakespeare Company, Rehearsal Approaches
to Shakespeare: A Practical Workshop, focusing on Hamlet and Othello
(part 1) [repeat], BTC LG38
with Mary Johnson (RSC)
Arden Theatre Company, BTC G35
Shakespeare for all: ‘Name what part I am for, and proceed’,
BTC G37
with James Stredder
SEMINARS:
Shakespeare and the Exotic, BTC LG35
convened by Joan Fitzpatrick (Northampton University) and Jane Kingsley-Smith
(Hull University)
Shakespeare in the Marketplace, BTC
LG37
convened by Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University) and Julia Briggs (De Montfort
University)
PANELS:
Reading repertories, Herschel LT1
Shakespeare across Media and Cultures,
Herschel LT2
Subjects and histories, Herschel LT3
chaired by Allyna Ward (Newcastle University)
11.00am
– 11.30am Tea / Coffee, Herschel concourse
11.30am – 1.00pm Parallel Sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Royal Shakespeare Company, Rehearsal Approaches
to Shakespeare: A Practical Workshop, focusing on Hamlet and Othello
(part 2) [repeat], BTC LG38
with Mary Johnson (RSC)
Union City, BTC G37
Electronic resources for studying Shakespeare,
BTC G35
with Moira Goff (British Library), Christie Carson (RHUL) and Suzanne Worthington
(RSC)
SEMINARS:
‘And thus I give my sensual race the
rein’: Shakespeare and Sensuality, BTC LG35
convened by Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (Potsdam University) and Anja Müller-Wood
(Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz)
Back to the Stained Field: Alternative
Political Shakespeares and the Question of Theory, BTC LG37
convened by James Loxley (Edinburgh University) and Mark Robson (Nottingham
University)
PANELS:
Shakespeare and film in the Twenty-First Century,
Herschel LT1
Writing Action / Writing for Actors, Herschel
LT2
Violence, masculinity and the state, Herschel
LT3
1.00pm – 2.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm - 4.00pm Parallel Sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Teaching Pericles, BTC G35
with Peter Reynolds
Why Love Shakespeare? Reading the Sonnets,
BTC LG37
with William Sutton
Touchstone: Macbeth, BTC
LG34
SEMINARS:
Shakespeare and Oral Culture, BTC
LG35
convened by Neil Rhodes (St Andrew’s University)
The undiscovered text, BTC
G37
convened by Eric Johnson
PANELS:
Shakespeare and the transition from Catholicism
to Protestantism, Herschel LT1
chaired by Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University)
Women’s appropriations of Shakespeare,
Herschel LT2
chaired by Mark Dooley (Teeside University)
Performances and audiences, Herschel
LT3
4.00pm - 4.30pm Tea
/ Coffee, Herschel concourse
Publisher’s
Reception hosted by Palgrave
4.30pm Plenary, Herschel LT1
Michael Dobson (Roehampton), ‘Amateurs’, chaired by Mike Pincombe
(Newcastle University)
Immediately followed by General Meeting of the BSA
6.30pm Publisher’s Reception hosted by Routledge to launch the BSA’s new journal, Shakespeare
Sunday 4th September 2005
9.30am-11.00am Parallel Sessions
WORKSHOPS:
Playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Shakespeare
and Stoppard, BTC G37
with actors James Wallace and Nick Rowe
BOSS Theatre Company, BTC LG34
First Folio workshop, King Lear,
BTC LG38
with Kelly Hunter
Staging the Spirits, BTC G35
with Chris Wellings (Cambridge Shakespeare Company)
SEMINARS:
Shakespeare and the Representation of Women’s
Speech, BTC LG35
convened by Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) and Alison Thorne (Strathclyde
University)
Shakespeare on Location, BTC LG37
convened by Reina Green (Mount St Vincent University)
PANELS:
Bears and fairies: Shakespeare and the invention
of the non-human, Herschel LT1
convened by Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
Eighteenth-century Shakespeare: stage
and page, Herschel LT2
chaired by Michael Dobson
11.00am-11.30am
Tea / Coffee, Herschel concourse
11.30am-1.00pm Plenary, Herschel
LT1
Roundtable discussion, 'Relaunching Shakespeare', chaired by John Drakakis,
with Kate McLuskie (Shakespeare Institute), Sam West (Sheffield Crucible Theatre),
Olga Kubinska (University of Gdansk), Philip Bradley (Newcastle Young People's
Theatre)
2.00pm- 4.00pm Silent
Shakespeare film screening at the Tyneside
cinema
