Plenary Speakers

• Emeritus Professor Michael Neill (University of Auckland)
• Professor Stephen Orgel (Stanford University)
• Professor Tiffany Stern (Oxford University)

Call for papers

The theme of this colloquium is designed to complement the new national Australian Shakespeare Festival. Held in a location Shakespeare and his contemporaries could hardly imagine: a city within a "South Sea of discovery," Shakespeare's Spaces encourages you to think about Shakespeare's attitude to locality and localities, large and small. Ranging from the representation of locale within the plays, to playing spaces past and present, to location - including different media(s) - and its bearing on production, participants are invited to explore Shakespeare's places and spaces as physical or intellectual locations in the present, in the past, or in 'a world elsewhere'.

Proposals for 20 minute papers should be submitted for consideration by the programme panel by May 30th 2010. 

For details, and a link for submissions, please go tohttp://www.australianshakespearefestival.com.au/spaces.htm

Location

Plenaries and short-paper sessions will be held at the University of Tasmania's waterfront Centre for the Arts at Hunter Street, Hobart, within close walking distance of all Australian Shakespeare Festival events. Salamanca Place nearby is a thriving centre for eating, entertainment and shopping.

Sponsors

The Australian Shakespeare Festival colloquium is supported by the Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania.