Programme
K= Keynotes
L= Plenary Roundtables
P= Panels
S= Seminars
W= Workshops
B= Book Launches and Digital Projects
Q= Shows Q&As
Enrollment for the seminars and workshops will open on 15 May 2025
and close on 15 December 2025.
Dates and rooms of panels, seminars, and workshops have been announced:
| K01 | Macbeth Visits Manipur: Merging of Politics and Indigenous Performance Traditions in Manipuri Shakespeare | Shormishtha Panja |
| K02 | Performing Othello, Performing Blackness | Jason Allen-Paisant |
| K03 | Stellar Shakespeare | Piero Boitani |
| L01 | Expending Spirit: Energy and Waste | Dympna Callaghan |
| Todd Andrew Borlik | ||
| Karen Raber | ||
| Chloe Preedy | ||
| Sophie Chiari | ||
| Charlotte Scott | ||
| L02 | From Fair Verona to the Great Globe Itself: Romeo and Juliet and the Reformation of Cultural Traditions | Mark Bayer |
| Carla Della Gatta | ||
| Mark Thornton Burnett | ||
| Taarini Mookherjee | ||
| Jytosna Singh | ||
| Yukari Yoshihara | ||
| L03 | Thinking through Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare’s (Re)Sources | Silvia Bigliazzi |
| Sonia Massai | ||
| Janice Valls-Russell | ||
| Tania Demetriou | ||
| Jason Lawrence | ||
| Sukanta Chaudhuri | ||
| Atsuhiko Hirota | ||
| Peter G. Platt | ||
| Hannibal Hamlin | ||
| B01 | Globe4Globe | |
| B02 | Skenè Series and the Shakespeare Festival at the Roman Theatre | |
| B03 | New Variorum Shakespeare | |
| B04 | New Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series | |
| B05 | Exploring Shakespeare’s Worldview: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes | Rebecca Goodheart |
| Josh Lubarr | ||
| Q01 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 1 | |
| Q02 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 2 | |
| Q03 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 3 | |
| Q04 | Macbettu: Interview with Alessandro Serra | |
| Q05 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 4 | |
| Q06 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 5 | |
| Q07 | Caesar’s Maze: Interview with Wu Hsing-kuo | |
| P01 | Asian Shakespeares | Jaecheol Kim |
| Yi-Hsin Hsu | ||
| Vanessa Lim | ||
| Yilin Chen | ||
| P02 | Comedians Sans Frontieres: Theatre Beyond Borders in Early Modern Europe | Laurie Johnson |
| Elizabeth E. Tavares | ||
Hana Ferencová Ann-Sophie Bosshard | ||
| P03 | Cosmopolitan Shakespeare | Robert Stagg |
| Margaret Tudeau-Clayton | ||
| Goran Stanivukovic | ||
| P04 | Ecophilia and Ecophobia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the Global South | Murat Öğütcü |
| Amrita Sen | ||
| Parviz Partovi | ||
| P05 | Fostering Critical Hope: Creative Engagements with Shakespeare in Times of Environmental and Political Crisis | Gretchen Minton |
| Kirsten Sandrock | ||
| Sandra Young | ||
| P06 | Grounding Shakespeare, Responding to Ecological Crisis: Land, Soil, and the Inappropriable | Carolyn Sale |
| Daniel Vitkus | ||
| Liz Oakley-Brown | ||
| P07 | “My Place, My Shakespeare: Making Decentred Shakespeare(s) Through Site-Based Digital Performance in Brazil, Ghana and India” | Henry Bell |
| Ben Crystal | ||
| Anirudh Nair | ||
| Stephen Collins | ||
| Marcella Marin | ||
| Neha Vyaso | ||
| Nii Kwartelai Quartey | ||
| P08 | Painted with Unnumber’d Sparks: Sign Language Translation Ideologies for Shakespeare’s Works | Crom Saunders |
| Andrew Morrill | ||
| Peter Novak | ||
| Janet Guest | ||
| Katherine Williams | ||
| P09 | Planet Kott: Opening up the Archives of the 20th-Century Shakespeare Critic | Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk |
| Zoltán Márkus | ||
| Nicoleta Cinpoeş | ||
| P10 | Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Globe around the Planet | Alex Baines |
| Angus Vail | ||
| Miles Gregory | ||
| P11 | Rescripting Shakespearean Worlds Through the New York Shakespeare Festival | Louise Geddes |
| Vanessa I. Corredera | ||
| Stephen Purcell | ||
| P12 | Shakespeare and Artificial Intelligence | Gabriel Egan |
| Anja Muller-Wood | ||
| Heejin Kim | ||
| P13 | Shakespeare and Eco-Romance | Katherine Steele Brokaw |
| Christina Wald | ||
| Elizabeth Freestone | ||
| P14 | Shakespeare’s Planetary Roots and Routes: African Oral Literature as a Re*source of Shakespeare’s Trans*Textuality | Susan Arndt |
| Ife Aboluwade | ||
| Michael Steppat | ||
| P15 | Shakespeare’s Sonic World: Sound Studies and Early Modern Theatre | Antonio Arnieri |
| Alexandra Siso | ||
| Lara Ehrenfried | ||
| P16 | Shakespearia: A Comparison Between Teenagers | Kamil Tukaev |
| Jonathan Salway | ||
| Solimano Pontarollo | ||
| P17 | Thinking Like a Planet – Shakespeare’s New/Old Ecologies | Joseph Campana |
| Jessica Rosenberg | ||
| Laurie Shannon | ||
| Danila Sokolov | ||
| P18 | ‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare, Language and Learning in Oceania | Joanna Erskine |
| Kyle Morrison | ||
| lorence Boulard | ||
| Claire Hansen | ||
| P19 | A Translational Approach to Shakespeare’s Transnational Sources | Iolanda Plescia |
| Laetitia Sansonetti | ||
| Alessandra Petrina | ||
| P20 | Revisiting the Galaxies of (post-) Soviet Shakespeare | Aleksei Semenenko |
| Michelle Assay | ||
| Natalia Khomenko | ||
| S01 | Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations | Sophie Chiari |
| Randall Martin | ||
| S02 | Antony and Cleopatra as Cosmos | Paromita Chakravarti |
| Eric S. Mallin | ||
| W. Reginald Rampone | ||
| S03 | Blue Shakespeares | Shaul Bassi |
| Steve Mentz | ||
| Dyani Johns Taff | ||
| S04 | Caliban and the (Inter-)Planetary: The In, the Out and the Beyond | Michela Compagnoni |
| Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik | ||
| S05 | Contemporary Shakespeare Fiction | Koel Chatterjee |
| Kinga Földváry | ||
| S06 | Crisis and Resilience in the Roman Plays | Pascale Aebischer |
| Lubaaba Al-Azami | ||
| Courtney Lehmann | ||
| Hassana Moosa | ||
| S07 | Dramaturgies of Disruption: Shakespeare in the Age of Algorithmic Alienation | Tai-Won Kim |
| Lingui Yang | ||
| Huimin Wang | ||
| Roberta Zanoni | ||
| S08 | The End(s) of Global Shakespeare | Alexa Alice Joubin |
| Dennis Kennedy | ||
| S09 | Geopolitical Dynamics in Shakespeare Adaptations: Perspectives on the New Cold War | Ananya Dutta |
| Hisao Oshima | ||
| Dong-ha Seo | ||
| S10 | International Shakespeares: Soft Power and National Cultural Identities | Helen A. Hopkins |
| L. Monique Pittman | ||
| S11 | Lunar Intersections | William C. Carroll |
| Pascale C. Drouet | ||
| S12 | More … than fancy’s images’: Shakespearean Characters in Their Context | Sandra Pietrini |
| Svenn-Arve Myklebost | ||
| Rachele Bassan | ||
| S13 | The Natures of Shakespeare, Ecological Shakespeare, or Environmental Shakespeare | Melissa Croteau |
| Stephen O’Neill | ||
| Victoria Bladen | ||
| S14 | New Worlds of Words: Shakespeare’s Language, Near and Far | Emily Louisa Smith |
| Carla Mazzio | ||
| S15 | Perfect Body, Perfect World’: Proto-Eugenics and Fantasies of the Human in Early Modern Utopia | Lindsey Row-Heyveld |
| Hanh Bui | ||
| S16 | The Planetary and the Sacred in Asian Shakespeares | Ted Motohashi |
| Yong Li Lan | ||
| S17 | Planetary Plenitude: Nature and Multiplicity in Shakespeare | Rocco Coronato |
| Huw Griffiths | ||
| S18 | Planetary Poets | Paul Edmondson |
| Claudia Olk | ||
| S19 | The Rhetoric of Ecology and Racial Difference on Page & in Performance | Nora Galland |
| Anita Raychawdhuri | ||
| S20 | Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet | John Stone |
| Deanne Williams | ||
| S21 | Shakespeare and the Musical Planet | Alina Bottez |
| Michelle Assay | ||
| David Fanning | ||
| S22 | Shakespeare and the New Psychoanalysis | Catherine Bates |
| James W. Stone | ||
| S23 | Shakespeare in the Cloud(s) | Maria Elisa Montironi |
| Reto Winckler | ||
| S24 | Shakespeare in the Global Musical Opera: From Stage to Sound | Elena Biggi Parodi |
| Adriana De Feo | ||
| Elena Abbado | ||
| S25 | Shakespeare, Spirituality, and Universal Spaces for Encounter | Marta Cerezo |
| Marguerite Tassi | ||
| S26 | Shakespeare’s Sonic Galaxies and Constellations of Emotional Response | Jennifer Linhart Wood |
| Maddalena Pennacchia | ||
| S27 | Shakespeare’s Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations | Gemma Kate Allred |
| Benjamin Broadribb | ||
| Edel Semple | ||
| S28 | The Skirts of the Forest: Re-placing Arden | Tom Bishop |
| Sophie Lemercier-Goddard | ||
| William N. West | ||
| S29 | Sport on Stage: Playing across Difference | Jade Standing |
| Jonathan Koch | ||
| S30 | Storms, Tides, Floods: Shakespeare and the Power of Climate | Susanne Wofford |
| Christian Billing | ||
| S31 | Theorizing Global Shakespearemes | David Nee |
| Jason Eng Hun Lee | ||
| S32 | There is no world without Verona walls’: Exile in Shakespeare, Now and Then | James M. Sutton |
| Stephanie E. Chamberlain | ||
| Jane Kingsley-Smith | ||
| S33 | Vindicta mihi! The Performance of Revenge from Classical and Italian Drama to Shakespeare | Michele Marrapodi |
| Graham Holderness | ||
| S34 | Without Words: Dance Adaptations of Shakespeare | Lynsey McCulloch |
| Emily Winerock | ||
| S35 | World, Fate, Time, and Space in Shakespeare’s Sonnets | Avraham Oz |
| Jyotsna G Singh | ||
| Camilla Caporicci | ||
| W01 | The Distributed Performance of ‘Character’ in Antony and Cleopatra | David Schalkwyk |
| Elena Pellone | ||
| W02 | Found in Translation: Elevating the Global Accessibility of Shakespeare in Research and Practice | Lue Douthit |
| Jonathan Hope | ||
| CJ Ochoco | ||
| Ben Spiller | ||
| W03 | Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre Wikipedia Editing | |
| Kitamura Sae | ||
| W04 | Shakespeare in Veneto: Unveiling Historical Heritage and Culture Acting Shakespeare Works | Ornella Naccari |
W05 | Rewilding Shakespeare: Creative Methods in Pedagogy and Performance | Alys Daroy |
| Joshua Zeunert | ||
| Myriam Di Maio | ||
| Theo Black |
