Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023

Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ

registration free but required – Eventbrite page

Provisional Schedule

Session 1

10:00  Katrin Truestedt (ZfL Berlin), ‘Politics of Appearing: Pulcinella & Ophelia Are Dead’

11:00  coffee break

Session 2

11:30 Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, U of London), ‘Unnatural Means: Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Dialectical Task of Becoming Unromantic’

12:15  Jessica Chiba (Birmingham), ’This is not [Shakespeare], he’s some other where: absent presence in Shakespeare films’

1:00  lunch

Session 3

2:00  Paul Kottman (The New School), ‘Churches, theaters, museums, shopping malls, subways and buses: Rohmer and Shakespeare’

2:45  Inma Sánchez García (Edinburgh), ‘Exit Romeo: Queer Temporalities and the Contemporary LGBTQ Romeo and Juliet Short Film’

3:30  tea break

Session 4

4:00  Mark Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Shakespeare / Cinema / Asia: Encounters Across Time and Space’

5:00  Roundtable

5:30  end