Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference

"Shakespeare Recycled"

The Eleventh Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Assumption College, Worcester, MA.  The plenary speaker will be Brian Walsh, assistant professor of English in the Renaissance Studies Program at Yale University.

This year’s theme invites papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Explorations of Shakespeare’s work—such as his language and characterization—on stage and film;

• Analysis of Shakespeare’s works in adaptation, or as adaptation;

• Analysis of the ways Shakespeare’s works recycle or reuse sources, early modern textual materials, or early modern cultural ideas; and

• Discussions of Shakespeare’s work in modern life, culture and politics.

Proposals can be submitted online until March 16.  A link to register for the conference will be posted later.

The 2012 conference is sponsored by Assumption College, Colleges of Worcester Consortium, and The Hanover Theatre.

For more information, contact: Professor Allison Meyer at ae [dot] meyer [at] assumption [dot] edu.

The Tenth Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference took place on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at Clark University.  The plenary speaker was Barbara Mowat, director of research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and co-editor of the Folger Shakespeare Editions, who spoke on "Representing Shakespeare on the Page."  The 2011 theme, “Shakespearean Representations,” was approached from many directions, including explorations of the ways Shakespeare’s plays represent the culture and concerns of early modern England; analysis of the plays’ performance history on stage and in film and other media; discussions of novelist's and poets’ appropriations of Shakespeare and his dramas in their own work; and analysis of Shakespeare’s choices, including language, characterization and scenic design.  The 2011 conference was sponsored by Clark University and the Colleges of Worcester Consortium.