NVS Conference: “The Winter’s Tale” & “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
A New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) Conference:
"The Winter's Tale & A Midsummer Night's Dream"
on Feb 10-11 in GLAS 311.
Supported by a Symposium and Small Conference grant from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Additional support provided by the Department of English, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the John & Sara Lindsey Chair.
Speakers will include:
Katie Adkison (TAMU)
Roberta Baker (Dalhousie)
Katherine Steele Brokaw (UT Austin)
Urvashi Chakravarty (Toronto)
Jessica Chiba (Shakespeare Institute)
Mario DiGangi (CUNY)
Ruben Espinosa (ASU)
Margaret Ezell (TAMU)
Peter Holland (Notre Dame)
Sujata Iyengar (Georgia)
Curry Kennedy (TAMU)
Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin)
Alexandra LaGrand (TAMU)
Rory Loughnane (Kent)
Laura Mandell (TAMU)
Kris May (TAMU)
Gordon McMullan (KCL)
David Nicol (Dalhousie)
Lena Orlin (Georgetown)
Eric Rasmussen (Nevada)
Melissa Sanchez (UPenn)
Whitney Sperrazza (TAMU)
Robert Stagg (TAMU)
Goran Stanivukovic (SMU)
Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute)
Bryan Tarpley (TAMU)
Dorothy Todd (TAMU)
Katayoun Torabi (TAMU)
Valerie Traub (Michigan)
Nancy Warren (TAMU)
Paul Werstine (UWO)
February 10
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Welcome and introduction (Troy Bickham, Robert Stagg)
New Variorum Shakespeare: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’
Chair: Laura Mandell
Discussants: Roberta Barker, Kris May, David Nicol, Lena Orlin, Eric Rasmussen, Bryan Tarpley, Dorothy Todd, Katayoun Torabi, Paul Werstine
11:30 AM
Text, Editing, History, Theater History
Chair: Eric Rasmussen
Discussants: Peter Holland, Tiffany Stern, Paul Werstine
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Lunch
Gender, Sexuality, Desire
Chair: Robert Stagg
Discussants: Mario DiGangi, Eric Rasmussen, Melissa Sanchez, Valerie Traub
3:30 PM
Genre, Style, Art, Artifice
Chair: Melissa Sanchez
Discussants: Katie Adkison, Mario DiGangi, Curry Kennedy, Whitney Sperrazza, Robert Stagg
February 11
10:00 AM
Earliness, Lateness, Time [zoom only]
Chair: Jessica Chiba
Discussants: Urvashi Chakravarty, Rory Loughnane, Gordon McMullan, Goran Stanivukovic
11:30 AM
Power, Hierarchy, Hospitality, Environment
Chair: Margaret Ezell
Discussants: Katherine Steele Brokaw, Ruben Espinosa, Sujata Iyengar, Peter Kirwan, Lena Orlin, Valerie Traub
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Lunch
Performance
Chair: Alexandra LaGrand
Discussants: Katherine Steele Brokaw, Peter Holland, Sujata Iyengar, Peter Kirwan
3:30 PM
Miscellaneous discussion session
Chairs / initiators: Ruben Espinosa, Tiffany Stern, Nancy Warren
5:00 PM
Closing remarks (Robert Stagg, Paul Werstine)