Conferences
Questions?
Please reach out to our conference organizers at afterwerstine@gmail.com for assistance.
Conference Program, Location & Parking
Program
DAY/TIME |
SESSION |
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Thursday, May 1 |
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4:30-7:00 pm | CATERED RECEPTION Garron Lounge / King's University College |
Friday, May 2 |
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9:30-11:20 am |
PANEL 1: ACCEPTING UNCERTAINTIES Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
James Purkis, “Werstine and Greg” Brandi Adams, “Editing through Discomfort and Uncertainty” Blake Robertson, “‘I haue plodded in ployden & can find no lawe’: Textual Confusion and Its Value in Thomas of Woodstock” Alan Galey, “The Textual Mystery of Everything: Applying Shakespearean Textual Scholarship Beyond Shakespeare” |
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11:20-11:45 am | COFFEE & TEA Vitali Lounge Extension / King's University College |
11:45-1:15 pm | PANEL 2: AUTHORS AND COLLECTORS Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
Misha Teramura, “Disappearing Acts: The Loss (and Survival) of Manuscript Playbooks” Scott Schofield and Ian Rae, “In Search of a Forgotten Collector: John Davis Barnett and His Collection of Shakespeareana” Heidi Craig, “Shakespeare Etc.: Listing Shakespeare’s Contemporaries” |
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1:15-2:15 pm | LUNCH Garron Lounge / King's University College (for conference attendees) |
2:15-3:45 pm | PANEL 3: EDITOR AS MEDIATOR Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
Rebecca Niles, “‘What mighty contests rise from trivial things’: Editing Shakespeare, and the Critics Who Love to Hate It” Jessica Tooker, “Interpretive Praxis in ‘The Scottish Play’” Eric Rasmussen, “Imaginary Commentators” |
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6:00 pm | CONFERENCE DINNER Idlewyld Inn (for conference attendees – this event is capped at 50, so please register early at the conference website) |
Saturday, May 3 |
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9:30-11:00 am | PANEL 4: DIGITAL SPACES Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
Janelle Jenstad, “Shakespeare, Digital/Typographical Markup, and Interface Design” Eric Johnson, “Modern Readers and the Editor as Engineer” Kathy Torabi and Rob Stagg, “The New Variorum Shakespeare” |
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11:00-11:15 am | COFFEE & TEA Vitali Lounge Extension / King's University College |
11:15-12:45 pm | PANEL 5: ARCHIVAL INNOVATORS Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
Sonia Massia, “Diverse Editing in the Archive” Ashley Howard, “Where to Begin?: Amateurs and Future Shakespeare Editors” M. L. Stapleton, “The Sorrows of Sir Thomas Hanmer” |
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12:45-1:30 pm | LUNCH Garron Lounge / King's University College (for conference attendees) |
1:30-3:00 pm | PANEL 6: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS Vitali Lounge / King's University College |
Zachary Lesser, “The Merciless Who?” Ian Lancashire and Freya Abbas, “Language Policy in The Tempest and Jamestown” Jim Marino, “Two Benvolios: Repertory Revision in Doctor Faustus and Romeo and Juliet” |
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3:00 pm | CLOSING REMARKS M. J. Kidnie |
Location
Shakespeare After Werstine will be held at King's University College at 深夜福利站, 266 Epworth Ave, London, Ontario, N6A 2M3. The opening reception on Thursday evening will be hosted in the Garron Lounge, with paper presentations the following two days in the Vitali Lounge.
Parking
Parking for this event is free at King's University College.