Day 1
09:30 Registration opens TFTI Foyer
11:15 Plenary Screening - Grand Theft Hamlet SST
13:15 Lunch RCH Atrium
WORKSHOP - SRR
Leader: Evey Reidy (University of Roehampton)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: CJ Turner-McMullan (University of Bath Spa)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Erin Kelly (University of Victoria)
Peter Groves (Monash University). “Stage-direction in shorthand”: Text and Performance in Shakespeare
Clare-Louise Rhys-Jones (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham). Isabella’s Exclamatio-Percontatio: How understanding the dialogic rhetoric in Measure for Measure can unlock new performance choices.
PANEL - RCH 004
Chair: Maria Shmygol (British Shakespeare Association)
Lukas Erne (University of Geneva). Shakespeare as Lyric Poet
Andy Reilly (University of Geneva). Preparing an Edition of The Poem’s and Songs in Shakespeare’s Plays
Charlotte Potter (University of Geneva). Reframing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry
15:45 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
16:30 - BB
Including Purim plays and a Q&A with director Perry Mills and the cast
19:30 - Revels Office ECR and PGR Social
Early career researchers and postgraduate students are welcome to join an informal gathering for dinner and/or a drink in central York, organised by the Revels Office, an international research group for early modernists. Please contact anouska.lester[@]york.ac.uk if you'd like to join.
Day 2
09:00 Coffee TFTI Foyer
09:30 - Parallel Session #2
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: Perry Mills (Edward’s Boys) and Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
Leader: Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick), Rebecca Marie MacMillan (Impromptu Shakespeare)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - Foley Suite
Leader: Andrea Smith (University of Suffolk)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
SEMINAR - RCH 004
Convenors: Ann-Sophie Bosshard, Lukas Arnold, Timothy Holden, Jifeng Huang (University of Zurich)
Participants: Sabina Laksowska-Hinz (University of Warsaw), Rebecca Halliwell (Lancaster University), Emily Lagace (Trinity College Dublin)
PANEL - TFTI 109
Chair: Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Li Lan Yong (National University of Singapore). Live Shakespeares in Asia
Ted Motohashi (Tokyo University of Economics). Acting as Spirits
Ha Young Hwang (Korea National University of Arts). Make-Believing Shakespeare: Shakespeare For Young Audiences
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University) and Roweena Yip (National University of Singapore). Reading Gender in Performance between East and West
11:30 - SST
12:30 Lunch RCH Atrium
*note earlier start time of 13:15 for Hamlet Cantabile screening
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: Rob Myles (director)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - BB
Leader: Melissa Merchant (Murdoch University)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - Foley Suite
Leader: Andrea Smith (University of Suffolk)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - RCH 004
Convenor: Jane Raisch (University of York) and Dave Harper (University of York)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
SEMINAR - LRR
Convenors: Brian Cummings (University of York) and Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Participants: Vittoria Forliti (University of York), Ben Humphrey (University of York), Raffaella Sero (University of Cambridge), Meredith Beales (University of British Columbia), Kinga Földváry (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Annegret Schäffler (LMU, Munich), Shuangting Chen (University of Warwick), Hanna Gęba (University of Warsaw)
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Iman Sheeha (Brunel University)
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota). New Annes: Analyzing the Annethology (2023)
Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford). Judith Shakespeare's Substacks
Ailsa Grant Ferguson (University of Brighton). Re-Sounding Susanna Shakespeare
Ailsa Grant Ferguson (University of Brighton) with Lucy Phelps (actor). “Embodying” Susanna: an interview and readings
SCREENING - TFTI 109 - (13:15 start)
Curator: Roweena Yip (National University of Singapore)
Chair: Ted Motohashi
Discussant: Jessica Chiba
Hamlet Cantabile is a ‘Nanjang’, a farcical story, which deals with tragedy with the playful attitude of ‘Unfortunately, I am still alive, in this idiotic world!’ Four jesters play with bits and pieces left behind by the dead Hamlet. Using masks, puppets, and other assorted objects, while singing bizarre and grotesque songs, the jesters evoke the inner world of Hamlet and the people around him. This production is a hallmark “Tuida” style work, as it is based on the company’s own distinct methods developed through a continuous process of actor training that incorporates movement meditation, body/voice work and dynamic use of puppets, masks and other objects.
15:00 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
15:30 Parallel Session #4
WORKSHOP - BB
Leader: Emily Snyder (University of Birmingham)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - RCH 004
Convenor: Jane Raisch (University of York) and Dave Harper (University of York)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
PANEL - TFTI 109
Chair: Julie Raby
Shuo Niu (University of York). From Lamb to Lin: The First Translations of Shakespeare into Chinese
Jenny Wong (University of Birmingham). The Feminist Making of Cantonese Operatic Version of The Merchant of Venice in China
Saffron Vickers Walkling (York St John University). Shakespearean Identity and Cultural Translation: Hamlet in Lao She’s Mr. Ma and Son
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Alison Findlay
Xin Ying Lim (University of Hull). Virtue and Emotional Erasure in Early Modern Virginia and The Merchant of Venice
Alison Sorbie (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada). Minerva’s ‘Academe’ and the Wilton Community as Commonwealth: Mary Sidney’s Influence in Shakespeare’s Early Plays
Lisa Templin (Mount Saint Vincent University). “Voyces Within”: Resignifying the Unchaste Female Voice in Middleton’s A Mad World, My Masters
Katherine Young (Independent Scholar). The Shrew, Tamed?
ROUNDTABLE - SST
Chair: Ollie Jones (University of York)
Participants: Ben Blyth (University of Calgary), Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent), Steve Purcell (University of Warwick), Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
17:30 Performance/Readings
PERFORMANCE - BB
Improvised one man show by Dr Stephen Longstaffe
READING - SST
The York International Shakespeare Festival presents Codename Othello by Olga Annenko, translated into English by Daria Moskvitina
Day 3
09:00 Coffee TFTI Foyer
WORKSHOP - BB
Leader: Steve Purcell (University of Warwick)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - RCH Immersive Lab
Leader: Peter Kuling (University of Guelph)
Peter Kuling will join remotely at 14:00 and 16:00
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
SEMINAR - LRR
Convenor: Lizzie Conrad Hughes (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) and Valentina Vinci (ShakeScene)
Participants: Hyosik Hwang (Chungbuk National University, Korea), Hannah Wilson (King's College London), Aline Davies Moreira (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
ROUNDTABLE - RCH 003
Chair: Jakub Boguszak
Jakub Boguszak (University of Southampton)
Elizabeth Freestone (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Kiki Lindell Tersmeden (Lund University, Sweden)
PANEL - RCH 004
Chair: Henry Bell (University of the West of Scotland) and Ben Crystal (actor)
Collins Seymah Smith (Act for Change, Ghana) and Nii Kwartelai Quartey (theatre practitioner). Handkerchiefs, fishing nets and Shakespeare: exploring adaptation and decentered digital practice in James Town (Ghana)
Neha Vyaso (BraveSpaces, Creative India). Pericles on the Fisher Shores of Mumbai
Chris Thurman (University of the Witwatersrand). Setting the (Blue) Stage: A littoral view of South African Shakespeares
Sam Houston (performer and dramaturg). ‘It was pishin’ doon, man’, how improvisation and chorus work de-centred the linguistic codes towards Scottish English in the narration of Pericles in Pericles on the Seas (2022)
ROUNDTABLE - SST
Chair: Nicoleta Cinpoeş (University of Worcester)
Participants: Philip Parr (YISF), Saffron Vickers Walking (York St John University), Nicoleta Cinpoeş (University of Worcester), Skylar Mabry (YISF), Nick Jones (community actor)
11:00 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
11:30 - SST
Chair: Sarah Dustagheer
12:30 Lunch RCH Atrium
13:30 Parallel Session #6
*note earlier start time of 13:15 for Loss of Balance screening
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: Gary Watt (University of Warwick)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - RCH Immersive Lab
Leader: Peter Kuling (University of Guelph)
Peter Kuling will join at 14:00
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
SEMINAR - LRR
Convenor: Alex Thom (University of Leeds)
Participants: Daniel Vitkus (University of California, San Diego), Eric Dunnum (Campbell University), Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin), Coen Heijes (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Kat Hipkiss (Bath Spa University and University of Bristol), Jennifer E. Nicholson (University of Sydney)
Respondent: Diana Henderson (MIT)
PANEL - BB
Chair: Abigail Heller
Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University). “Be both at once, or else we fail”: Shakespeare Adaptation and Appropriation in The Perfect Opera
Leo Doutlon (director). Shakespeare as cyberpunk sketch: using genre as an adaptation tool
Emma Scott (actor). “More Hamlet than Macbeth”: gendered expectations and academia in the York Shakespeare Project’s Macbeth
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Andrea Smith (University of Suffolk)
Joseph F. Stephenson (Abilene Christian University, Texas). Tricks, Debts, and Two "Dutch" "Ladies": The Genealogy of A Very Popular Plot in Renaissance and Restoration Plays.
Bridget Foreman (playwright, University of York). Bones of Contention: a dramatic interrogation of Richard III
Shuyu Liu (University of Nottingham). The Motive and the Cue (2023): Exploring Theatre History in Relation to Theatre Present in Shakespeare Practice
SCREENING - TFTI 109 (13:15 start)
Curator: Hanna Gęba (University of Warsaw)
Followed by a Q&A
15:00 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
15:30 Parallel Session #7
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: Michael Cordner and Ollie Jones (University of York)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
WORKSHOP - RCH Immersive Lab
Leader: Peter Kuling (University of Guelph)
Peter Kuling will join at 16:00
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
PANEL - BB
Chair: Kinga Földváry (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Nicoleta Cinpoeş (University of Worcester). “For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”: Romeo & Juliet – dramma per musica in and from Ukraine
Veronika Schandl (Pázmány Péter Catholic University). “Say what the play treats on”: Politics in three contemporary adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Budapest
Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal). Willful silence: Reviewing Terra Amarela’s signed Richard III
PANEL - TFTI 109
Chair: Thea Buckley (British Shakespeare Association)
Yehrim Han (Korea National Open University). The Political Economy of Shakespeare Studies in Korea
Vanessa Lim (Seoul National University). Teaching Korean Shakespeare
Scott Shepherd (Chongshin University). Am I allowed to do Hanguk Shakespeare?
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Shuo Niu (University of York)
Melissa Merchant (Murdoch University) (presenting), Alys Daroy and Laura Skates. Carnivorous Shakespeare: Cross-pollinating Shakespeare's Villains with Threatened Plants
Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University). ‘Rotting’, ‘Reverence’ and Cymbeline’s Creative Engagements with Climate Emergencies
Helen Smith (University of York). What is Rotten in the State of Denmark?
PANEL - RCH 004
Chair: Sheila T. Cavanagh
Jasmine Seymour (Queen Mary, University of London). A Woman Against Oppression: Siranush as Hamlet
Charlotte Groombridge and Elliot Huxtable (Canterbury Shakespeare Festival). "Oh what a piece of work is man"
Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University). "Nor Woman Neither": Maxine Peake, Cush Jumbo, and the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company Presenting Hamlet
18:00 Reception at Thin Ice Press
The York Centre for Print, Peasholme Green, YO1 7PW
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Day 4
09:00 Parallel Session #8
WORKSHOP - SST
Leader: Bryn Holding (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page
PANEL - TFTI 109
Chair: Joseph Stephenson (Abilene Christian University, Texas)
Shenhao Bai (Columbia University) and Ivan Rybko (Independent Scholar). “Inferential Walks” in Hamlet: Participation and Pedagogy of a Global Classic
Jarrod DePrado (University of Connecticut). "Inexplicable Dumbshows and Noise": Shakespearean Knowledge as a Social Isolator in Modern Adaptations
PANEL - RCH 003
Chair: Scott Shepherd
Eliso Pantskhava (Akaki Tsereteli State University). Pedagogical Approaches to Shakespearean Studies in Georgian Higher Education: A Multi-University Analysis
Jonathan Sharp (University of Tübingen, Germany). Shakespeare as a Foreign Language: Performative Approaches to Exploring Shakespeare at a German University English Department
PANEL - RCH 004
Chair: Vik Sivalingam (University of the West of Scotland)
Zeidy Zady Canales Violante (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). More than a thousand words: Silencio, an adaptation of Othello, as an interrogation of embodiment, disability, violence, and power.
Virginia Burnett (Universidad de Puerto Rico). Shakespeare in Paradise: Reimagining the Bard in the Caribbean
10:30 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
11:00 - SST
Chair: Kat Hipkiss (Bath Spa University and University of Bristol)
12:00 Lunch RCH Atrium
13:00 Parallel Session #9
PANEL - BB
Chair: Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
Lubaaba Al-Azami (University of Manchester). Shakespeare’s Indian Dream
Hassana Moosa (University of Cape Town). Racial Slavery and Prospero’s Spirits in The Tempest
Lydia Valentine (Shakespeare’s Globe). Staging Blackness in Indoor Playhouses
PANEL - TFTI 109
Chair: Hannah Wilson (King's College London)
Abigail Heller (Colorado State University). Learning how to navigate chaos and uncertainty from the Bard in the American high school
Kav Raghunandan (Leeds Beckett University). Doing Racial Literacy through comic book adaptations of The Tempest
Matthew Roberts (University of Kent). Hamlet: From 'East-Ham-Let' to 'Hamlet-in-Hounslow'
PANEL - SST
Chair: Xin Ying Lim (University of Hull)
Emma de Beus (Queen's University Belfast). Fat Ham: Hamlet Refracted in Blackness, Queerness, and the American South
Cato Rooryck (Ghent University). Seeing the Unseen: The Problem of Macbeth’s Weyward Sisters – From Margins to Center (and Back?)
Meena Venkataramanan (Brown University). “O Fool, Fool, Fool!”: Reimagining Shakespeare’s Othello as Racial Satire After Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
Yu Yan (Fudan University). “Mjal Yong”: Improvising Tibetan Romeo and Juliet
14:30 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer
15:00 - SST
Chair: Ollie Jones
Laurie Johnson (University of Southern Queensland). Location, Location, Lost: When Performance Matters in Guildhall History
Ben Blyth (University of Calgary). Laboratory Lichfield: Site-Responsive Reflections on Playing, Playgoing, and Props in Lichfield Guildhall
Jonathan Clark (FAS Heritage York). Laying the Past Bare: Arrangement of the Performance Space at King’s Lynn
Katherine Giles (University of York). Common Halls? Civic and Dramatic Performance in York Guildhalls
Siobhan Keenan (De Montfort University, Leicester). Size Matters: Playing Early Modern England’s Diverse Guildhalls
16:30 - SST
Maria Shmygol and José Pérez Díez, BSA Chairs