Programme 

8:00 - 9.00am

Conference Registration and Refreshments

9:00 - 9:15am

Welcome

9:15 - 10:30am

Keynote Address - 'Entertaining Asia in Midsummer Night's Dream'

Prof Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech)

10:40 - 11:30 am

Panel 1 - Environmental Encounters: Creating and Disrupting Difference

Alya Hussain (Independent), Ecophobia, Environmental Toxicity, and the Migrant ‘Other’ in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Tempest

Dr Frances Ringwood (University of Zululand), Visions of healing: tracing the influence of hallucinogenic substances from the Near-and Middle-East on Medieval dream narratives

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Panel 2 - Colonial Logics in Premodern English Literature and its Afterlives

Dr Eduardo Ramos (Arizona State University), 'Richard I’s territorial ambition in Robert Mannyng of Brune’s Chronicle'

Dr Nora Galland (University of Bretagne Occidentale), 'Theatre of the Spectre: Haunting, Memory, and Trauma in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost and Shakespeare's Hamlet

Amelia Ali (Emory University), '"Blue Veins”: Orientalism, Blackness, & the Geography of Shakespeare's Imperial Lovers'

1:00 - 1:45 pm

Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 pm

Panel 3 - Cross-cultural Texts: Circulation, Translation, and Reception

Dr Rhema Hokama (University of Washington), 'Protestantism in the Global Renaissance: How a late medieval Arabic tale came to colonial America and the Dutch Republic'

Prof Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (University of Caen Normandie), 'European translations of Mubaššir’s Maxims and Wise Sayings and appropriation of his memory of ancient Greece (13th-15th centuries): new encounters between ‘East’ and ‘West’'

Dr Lea Puljcan Juric (Fordham University), Bartol Đurđević’s Turk in English Translation

3:15 - 4.30pm

Panel 4 - Patterns in Performance: The Ottomans on Stage

Dr Munire Zeyneb Maksudoglu (University of Sussex), 'Safe-conduct letters as the emblem of global order and sovereignty'

Dr Murat Öğütcü (Adıyaman University), 'Shakespeare’s Contemporaries in Ottoman Türkiye'

Dr Philip Goldfarb Styrt (Ambrose University), 'The Ottomans as a Normal Empire in Christopher Marlowe'

4:45 - 5.45pm

Panel 5 - Religious Encounters: Shakespeare and Islam

Safaa Falah Hasan Alsaragna (Istanbul Gelisim University, Karabuk University),'Ibn Khaldun's Asabiyya and Cyclical History in the Rise and Fall of Powers: The Case in Shakespeare's Macbeth'

Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr Salman Al-Azami (Liverpool Hope University), 'Seeking Sycorax: The Tempest's Islamic Ghosts from Shakespeare to Dhaka Theatre (2012)' 

9:00 - 10:45am 

Visit to Castle of Good Hope (In Person Only)

11:15am - 12:30pm

Panel 12 - Writing Routes: Early Modern Travel and Encounter Across Asia

Dr Unita Ahdifard (Kwantlen Polytechnic University),'"The Pleasure of Knowing Things Remote”: William Daniel’s Travels from England to Surat'

William Perry (University College Dublin), 'The Possibilities of Encounter: Travel and Space in Early Modern English Accounts of Isfahan'

Dr Nia Deliana (Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia), 'Sailing through Multipolar Waters:

Archipelagic Actors in Forrest 1792 Account'

OR

11:15 am - 12:45 pm

Othello Workshop - Play the Knave, Virtual Shakespeare Game Demo and Teaching Workshop

Lauren Bates (Educasions)

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Panel 13 - The Premodern Now: Public Encounters

Dr Eva Momtaz (University of Birmingham), Eve Between Fiction and Faith: Paradise Lost in the Hands of the Modern Muslimah

Emma Sacco (University of Cape Town) and Thalén Rogers (Univeristy of Cape Town), ‘Surviving Textualisation: Pedagogic Radicalisation in South Africa through One Thousand and One Nights’

Caroline Fleischauer (University of the Free State), 'Difference, Ignorance, and Teaching Beyond Dichotomy: Methods for Examining Islam as the “Dark Foil” to Christianity in The Song of Roland'

1:00 - 1:45 pm

Lunch

1:45 - 3:00pm

Panel 14 - Adapting Othello: Difference and Desire

Dr Önder Çakırtaş (Bingöl Universit), 'Matter and Meaning: Objects, Race, and Islam in Richard Twyman’s Othello'

Dr Aisha Hussain (University of Salford), '“These moors are unchangeable in their wills” (Othello, I.iii): Reframing the

Racialization of Islam and Muslims in Ola Ince’s Othello' (2024)

Dr Hassana Moosa (University of Cape Town), 'Hiren the Fair Greek, Othello, and Racial Slavery on the Early Modern English Stage' 

3:15 - 4:30pm

Panel 15 - Gender, Power and Cultural Representations of Royalty

Chandini Jaswal (Independent), 'Revisiting the Mughal Zenana— As It Was: Challenging the Narrative of the Space of the Mughal Harem by Analysing Visual and Material Culture'

Niyanta Sangal (University of Maryland), 'Tracing Gender Variance in Dryden's Aurengzebe and Mughal Art'

Kirsten Vitale Engel (University of Connecticut), 'Performing Monarchy through Magnificence'

4:30 pm - 5:15pm

Kahvehane/Coffeehouse: Open Session on New Projects and Work in Progress