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 will be announced in January 2026.
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 |
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B02 | Skenè Series and the Shakespeare Festival at the Roman Theatre |
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B03 | New Variorum Shakespeare |
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B04 | New Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series |
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B05 | Exploring Shakespeare’s Worldview: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes | Rebecca Goodheart |
Josh Lubarr | ||
Q01 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 1 |
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Q02 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 2 |
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Q03 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 3 |
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Q04 | Macbettu: Interview with Alessandro Serra |
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Q05 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 4 |
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Q06 | Verona Shakespeare Fringe Performance 5 |
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Q07 | Caesar’s Maze: Interview with Wu Hsing-kuo |
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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 | 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 | ||
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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 | ||
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 |
Andrew Hadfield | ||
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 | Marta Erica Arosio |
Sitti Asmah Federico | ||
Kitamura Sae | ||
Andrew Lih | ||
W04 | Shakespeare in Veneto: Unveiling Historical Heritage and Culture Acting Shakespeare Works | Ornella Naccari |
Joe Falocco |