Programme

09:30 Registration opens TFTI Foyer

10:45 Welcome SST

11:15 Plenary Screening - Grand Theft Hamlet SST

13:15 Lunch RCH Atrium

14:15 Parallel Session #1

WORKSHOP - SRR

Very Small Trouble: Exploring Early Modern Performance and People Through Contemporary Playwriting

Leader: Evey Reidy (University of Roehampton)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - SST

Mapping embodied knowledge of Shakespeare 

Leader: CJ Turner-McMullan (University of Bath Spa)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

PANEL - RCH 003

Text and Performance: Verse and Rhetoric

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

Recovering the Lyric Poetry in Shakespeare’s Plays

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

Gala Performance: Edward’s Boys, The Interlude of Godly Quene Hester

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. 

09:00 Coffee TFTI Foyer

09:30 - Parallel Session #2

WORKSHOP - SST

Haman and Hot Potatoes: staging the story of Esther in 2025

Leader: Perry Mills (Edward’s Boys) and Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - LRR

"My very walk should be a jig": Empowering Students with Impromptu Shakespeare

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

Sounding Shakespeare (first session 10:15-11:00)

Leader: Andrea Smith (University of Suffolk)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

SEMINAR - RCH 004

Practising Methodologies

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

Annotating Digital Asian Shakespeare Performances

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

11:00 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer

11:30 - SST

Plenary talk: Amy Leach (director, Leeds Playhouse) in conversation with Mark Love-Smith

12:30 Lunch RCH Atrium

13:30 Parallel Session #3

*note earlier start time of 13:15 for Hamlet Cantabile screening

WORKSHOP - SST

Ruffians

Leader: Rob Myles (director)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - BB

Double Falsehood Doubled: Exploring New Horizons in Pedagogy and Practice

Leader: Melissa Merchant (Murdoch University)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - Foley Suite

Sounding Shakespeare (second session 13:30-14:15, third session 14:15-15:00)

Leader: Andrea Smith (University of Suffolk)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - RCH 004

Shakespeare and Role-Playing... in Games: Learning About Shakespeare Through Games as Performance (Part 1)

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

Shakespeare and Gesture

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

“Split[ting] the Rock of the Past”: Creative Writing, Autoethnographic Practice, and the Shakespeare Family Women

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)

Hamlet Cantabile

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

Augmenting Shakespeare: Queering Queen Mab

Leader: Emily Snyder (University of Birmingham)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - RCH 004

Shakespeare and Role-Playing... in Games: Learning About Shakespeare Through Games as Performance (Part 2)

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

Chinese Shakespeare: Translation, Adaptation, and Cultural Interpretation

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

Clamorous Voices

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

Original Practices - What’s Next?

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

Shakespeare on the Spot

Improvised one man show by Dr Stephen Longstaffe

READING - SST 

Codename Othello

The York International Shakespeare Festival presents Codename Othello by Olga Annenko, translated into English by Daria Moskvitina

09:00 Coffee TFTI Foyer

09:30 Parallel Session #5

WORKSHOP - BB

Diagrammatic Shakespeare

Leader: Steve Purcell (University of Warwick)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - RCH Immersive Lab

Macbeth VR Experience (throughout the day)

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

Paratexts and Documents of Performance

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

Coordinated casting in Shakespeare: matchmaking and pragmatism

Chair: Jakub Boguszak 

Jakub Boguszak (University of Southampton)

Elizabeth Freestone (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Kiki Lindell Tersmeden (Lund University, Sweden)

PANEL - RCH 004

‘Hark, do you hear the sea?’: the littoral in Shakespeare as a site for linguistic and cultural resistances and de-centred practice in Ghana, India, Scotland and South Africa.

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

York International Shakespeare Festival

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

Plenary: Emma Whipday (University of Newcastle) 'The Dramaturgy of the Single Mother in Early Modern England'

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

"Playing up in school": Rhetorical Practice in Speech, Gesture, Movement, and Space

Leader: Gary Watt (University of Warwick)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

WORKSHOP - RCH Immersive Lab

Macbeth VR Experience (continues)

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

Shakespeare in Theory, Theory in Practice

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

Shaking Shakespeare: Reflections and Theorisations on Shakespearean Hybridisations

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

Creative Reinterpretations

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)

Loss of Balance (TBC)

Curator: Hanna Gęba (University of Warsaw)

Followed by a Q&A

15:00 Coffee Break TFTI Foyer

15:30 Parallel Session #7

WORKSHOP - SST

Shakespeare's Rivals

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

Macbeth VR Experience (continues)

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

New Challenges for Performance Criticism

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

Hanguk Shakespeare: What, Why, Who?

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

Rot, Crisis and Precarity: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene

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

"The Opposition of Your Person": Female and Non-Binary Representations of the Prince of Denmark

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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19:00 Conference Dinner

Merchant Adventurers' Hall, city centre

09:00 Parallel Session #8

WORKSHOP - SST

To Breathe or Not to Breathe 

Leader: Bryn Holding (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Participants: For details on how to participate, please see the Workshops page

PANEL - TFTI 109

Shakespearean Crossroads

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

Shakespeare Global Pedagogy

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

Dramaturgical Relocations

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

Plenary: Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), 'Shakespeare and Lecoq'

Chair: Kat Hipkiss (Bath Spa University and University of Bristol) 

12:00 Lunch RCH Atrium

13:00 Parallel Session #9

PANEL - BB

Early Modern Scholars of Colour: New Research

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

Teaching Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare Adaptations

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

Plenary Roundtable 

Odds and Ends: Practical Variation in Guildhall Performance Spaces

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

Closing Remarks

Maria Shmygol and José Pérez Díez, BSA Chairs