Shakespearean Reverie Symposium |
Symposium schedule
Thursday 6 October 2011
- 8.30am–9.00am Registration
- 9.00am–9.30am Symposium Opening
- Welcome to Country
- Greeting by Deborah Tranter (Director, Cobb & Co Museum)
- Professor Bill Lovegrove (Vice Chancellor, University of Southern Queensland)
- Professor Peter Goodall (Dean, Faculty of Arts)
- Professor Chris Lee (Director, Public Memory Research Centre)
- 9.30am–10.30am Paper Session 1
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Chair: Mark Houlahan
- Victoria Bladen, “Love, Power, and Altered States in Shakespeare Retold’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- Nicholas Tan, “Love, Irrationality and Coercion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Venus and Adonis”
- 10.30am–10.45am Morning Tea
- 10.45am–12.00am Keynote Speaker: Mary Floyd-Wilson
- 12.00am–1.00pm Lunch
- 1.00pm–2.00pm Paper Session 2
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Chair: Bernadette Cochrane
- Colin Yeo, “Magic and Ordering “Reverie”: The influence of King James’ Daemonologie on Shakespeare’s Prospero”
- Fiona Martin, “‘The dream’s here still’: Reveries of death and regeneration in Cymbeline”
- 2.00pm–2.30pm Afternoon Tea
- 2.30pm–4.00pm Paper Session 3 (panel)
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Chair: David McInnis
- Joanne Tompkins, “The Use of Virtual Reality Models in Capturing the Spatiality of Early Modern Venues”
- Richard Fotheringham, “Using Virtual Modelling to Examine Renaissance Staging Options”
- Matthew Delbridge, “Training the Actor for Performance Capture”
- 4.00pm–5.30pm Launch of Rapt in Secret Studies
Friday 7 October 2011
- 9.00am–10.30am Seminar: Rosemary Gaby and Rebecca Scollen
- Rosemary Gaby, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Southern Stars”
- Rebecca Scollen, “USQ Shakespeare in the Park Festival: Past and Future”
- 10.30am–11.00am Morning Tea
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'Acting Tips from Shakespeare' Professional Development Workshops with Bernadette Pryde will be conducted in the remaining three sessions on Friday, between 11.00am-4.30pm, with breaks for lunch and afternoon tea as per the symposium schedule. Limited places are still available in these workshops for delegates wishing to register. These workshops are not open for observers – participants only.
- 11.00am–12:30pm Paper Session 4
- Chair: Marcus Harmes
- Brett Hirsch, “‘Rousing the Night Owl’, or From Jew to Puritan in 500 Years or Less”
- Laurie Johnson, “Satire, Keen and Critical”: Or, How Hunsdon’s Men Bested the Master of the Revels
- David McInnis, “A Lord and His Three Sons: A Play in Which Tarlton Took a Part”
- 12.30pm–1.15pm Lunch
- 1.15pm–2.45pm Paper Session 5 (parallel)
- Chair: Laurie Johnson
- Lachlan Malone, “Hellish Enfleshment: Anatomizing Pope Alexander’s ‘Body of Sin’ in Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter”
- Jessica Gordon, “Cosmic Menses: Transgressive Blood on the Early Modern Stage”
- Jenny Smith, “The Functions of Lunacy and Dreams up to A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- Chair: Victoria Bladen
- Michael Beh, “Creating Oberon: An Australian Christmas Shakespeare Extravaganza”
- Richard Gehrmann, “Shakespeare, Afghanistan, and Reverie During Wartime”
- Mark Houlahan, “‘Nice Day for a White Wedding’: Theseus I: Theseus II”
- 2.45pm–3.00pm Afternoon Tea
- 3.00pm–4.00pm Paper Session 6
- Chair: Brett Hirsch
- Darryl Chalk, “‘Make Me Not Sighted like the Basilisk”: Vision, Contagion, and Alteration in The Winter’s Tale”
- Bernadette Cochrane, “Reverie, Ribaldry, and Revenants: The Structural Fantasy of The Winter’s Tale”
- 5.00pm until late Symposium Drinks and Shakespeare in the Park Festival performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday 8 October 2011
- 9.00am–10.15am Special Session: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scott Alderdice, Christine Strahan, Chris Hunter, Sasha Janowicz)
- 10.15am–10.40am Morning Tea
- 10.45am–12.00am Keynote Speaker: Paul Yachnin
- 12.00am–1.00pm Lunch
- 1.00pm–2.30pm Paper Session 6 (parallel)
- Chair: Rose Gaby
- Kelly Dudgeon, “Natural and Supernatural: Reverie and the Uncontrollable Female Body in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth”
- Amy Hilhorst, “‘I Cry’d to Dream Again’: Repression of Reverie in The Tempest.”
- Lindsay Henderson, “Owen Glendower – magician and prophet or politician and warrior: the challenge for Welsh identity”
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- Chair: Darryl Chalk
- Marcus Harmes, “‘O, let me view his visage, being dead’: decapitation and the legitimating of power in early modern England”
- Daniel Timbrell, “Contemplating Masculine Victory at Chess in Middleton’s Women Beware Women and Shakespeare’s The Tempest”
- Ashleigh Pyke, “Reverie as Meditative Reflection: The Uncanny in Hamlet”
- 2.30pm–3.00pm Afternoon Tea
- 3.00pm–4.30pm Seminar: Brett Hirsch and David McInnis
- Brett Hirsch, “Expanded and Electrified: The Digital Renaissance Editions and the Canon”
- David McInnis, “Lost Plays in England, 1570-1642”
Contact: Laurie Johnson 0402 120 356
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