As part of the forthcoming Shakespeare and Race Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce a two-day symposium to be held in London on 25-26 October 2024.
The festival theme is ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?’ and aims to examine the contested space that Shakespeare occupies in the world of theatre, academia and the public sphere.
Paper submissions for individual 45-minute sessions are invited, which includes time for audience Q&A, engaging with the conference theme: ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?: Adaptation, Appropriation, Authority’.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Adaptation, appropriation, translation
- Early modern and modern-day performance
- Early modern theatre practices and print culture
- Gender and sexuality
- Disability and embodiment
- Race, colonialism and post-coloniality
- Canons and archives, formation and exclusion
- Education, activism, and global inequalities
- Audience reception and interaction (early modern to the present)
Proposals from any discipline and intersectional approaches are particularly welcomed. Please email abstracts (no more than 250 words) and a brief biographical note to Hanh Bui (hanh.b@shakespearesglobe.com) by Friday 26 July. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed in August.
The symposium will be free and open to the public.