renaissance

We are pleased to announce that the 30th SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies) Conference will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-10 May 2019.

Seeking papers or presentations of scholarly argument and projects/teaching strategies that bring Shakespeare into an Indigenous context or an Indigenous context to the study of Shakespeare.  Panel will be proposed for the 2019 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference, to be held in Hamilton, New Zealand at the University of Waikato campus, 26-29 June 2019.

Please send 250 word abstract of 15-20 minute presentation, including argument or context, any specific Shakespeare plays or texts included in your work, and a one-page abbreviated c.v. that focuses on relevant qualifications as well as academic position (or equivalent), current institution, and degrees and/or other relevant information.

It is a critical commonplace that Shakespeare in many ways relied on and produced various forms of translations – translations of foreign words, translations of literary texts, translations from one medium into another, to name but a few. Over time, Shakespeare’s works themselves have become some of the most widely translated texts in world literature. As of today, his works have been translated into more than 100 languages. Moreover, his plays and poems have travelled across time and space, and they have been re-translated time and again in order to adapt them for contemporary audiences. More often than not, such translations also raise questions about the original works and their socio-cultural as well as literary contexts.

We seek submissions to a seminar on Gender Switching and Queerness in Web-Native Shakespare at the upcoming ESRA conference (http://www.ircl.cnrs.fr/francais/sos2019.htm) in Montpellier, France, in June 2019. We welcome papers exploring the interpretive possibilities generated by queer and gender-switched casting in web series and other digitally-native media adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. By shifting the means of production and distribution beyond traditional mainstream media channels, new digital platforms like YouTube, Tumblr, and Netflix offer a creative process through which more people can adapt Shakespeare in their own image.

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Texts:

Controversies in Reading, Writing, Editing, and Printing

Please circulate widely.

In addition to conveying controversial ideas, books themselves have both committed and inspired mad, bad, and dangerous behaviour. The production and consumption of printed matter can be subversive, destructive, or downright criminal. Studying books as material objects reveals controversies that are fascinating in their own right, regardless of the subject matter between their covers.