Forum Series No. 2, Nanjing-Birmingham-Yilin Shakespeare Centre, China

Workshop on Shakespeare and the Spatial Paradigm

9-10 June 2018

IAS, Gulou Campus, Nanjing University

Saturday, 9 June

9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks:  WANG Shouren, Michael Dobson,  Yuan Nan

9:10-9:40 Prelude: The Spatial Turn in Shakespeare Studies

Michael DOBSON and CONG Cong: A Brief Introduction

9:40-10:10 Invited Talk: Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

HAO Tianhu: The Geography of Difference in Pericles and Foure Prentises of London  (30 minutes including Q & A)

10:10-10:30 Photo Taking and Tea Break

10:30-12:50  Session I: Structural/Topological Space

Stage Space/Setting/Locality

Linguistic/Poetic Space

1. Tiffany STERN: The Geographies of Shakespeare’s Stage and Page (30 minutes)

2. ZHU Xuefeng: The Theatrical Topology of Tyranny in Richard III (Base on Christina Wald’s Paper) (20)

3. LIU Yang: Shakespeare’s Enclaves (Based on Andreas Mahler’s paper) (20)

4. ZHU Wenzhi: Thickets and Beaches: Evoking Place in the Stories of King Lear (Based on Werner Bronnimann’s paper) (20)

5. Chris LAOUTARIS: Shakespeare among the Rebels: The Playwright, the Countess and the Battle for London’s Blackfriars (30)

6. CHEN Xing: The Lady Shall Say Her Mind Freely: Shakespeare and the S/Pace of Blank Verse (Based on margaret Tudeau-Clayton’s paper) (20)

12:50-1:50 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Session II: Early Modern Geographies

                      Geopolitical Space

                      Social/Gendered Space

1. Michael DOBSON: Sending Shakespeare to Coventry: Space, Time and the Places of English History  (30)

2. CONG Cong: Hybrid Spaces in Antony and Cleopatra (Based on Elisabeth Bronfen’s paper, translated by ZHOU Jin) (20)

3. ZHAO Xiaoyi: The Sea in Pericles  (Based on Bernhard Klein’s paper) (20)

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 Q & A and General Discussion

Sunday, June 10

9:00-10:30 Session III: Cultural Spaces/Contact Zones

The Material World/Cultural Imaginary

1. SONG Zhenghao: Universals in the Bush: The Case of Hamlet (Based on Dominique Brancher’s Paper) (20)

2. FAN Hao: The German Hamlet: Ghostly Encounters in the Space of the Stage and the Novel (Based on Alexander Honold’s paper) (20)

3. DAN Hansong: “One Cannot Act Hamlet, One Must Be Hamlet”: The Acculturation of Hamlet in Russia (Based on Thomas Grob’s paper) (20)

4. CONG Cong: Hamlet’s Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in US American and Canadian Narrative Fiction (Based on Gabriele Rippl’s paper, translated by CHEN Dawei)

5. CONG Cong: Local Habitations: Hamlet at Helsingor, Juliet at Verona (Based on Balz Engler’s paper)

10:30-11:40 Q & A and General Discussion

11:40-12:00 Epilogue: Wrapping up and Moving forward

12:30 Lunch