Daily Archives: 3 September 2015

Shakespeare and Our Times – Call For Papers

“Shakespeare and Our Times”
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
April 14-16, 2016

Conference Website

An interdisciplinary, international conference on the significance of Shakespeare in the early twenty-first century

Plenary speakers:

  • Jonathan Dollimore, Independent Scholar of Early Modern Studies and Shakespeare, Editor of Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
  • Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Author of Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism
  • Leah Marcus, Edwin Mims Professor of English, Vanderbilt University

What does William Shakespeare mean to us today, and what traces of his thinking can still be seen in our lives? In the context of a week-long, multi-faceted investigation of Shakespeare’s continued presence in our cultural landscape, this three-day conference will probe contemporary manifestations of the Bard. To mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death we will seek his footprint as we question the legacy of the early colonial mindset in the twenty-first century. Why does this figure among all others endure so persistently? At stake are questions of global imperialism and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, gender, and Shakespeare’s extended influence in what were, for him, newly-emerging colonial locales. How, then, is Shakespeare performed, translated, analyzed today?

Abstracts and panel proposals welcome on these and other topics:

  • Shakespeare and Popular Culture
  • Gender/Sexuality in Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare and the Idea of the Posthuman
  • Shakespeare’s Cities
  • Shakespeare and International Relations
  • Shakespeare and the Sciences
  • Why Shakespeare? Shakespeare for Whom?
  • Shakespeare and Disaster Management
  • Shakespeare and Contemporary Censorship
  • Translating Shakespeare
  • The Rhetoric of Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare and America, Shakespeare in America
  • Shakespeare’s Music
  • Staging Shakespeare, Filming Shakespeare, Now
  • Shakespeare and Language
  • Theorizing Shakespeare in the Twenty-First century

250-word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers, or 3-paper panel sessions can be submitted online at http://goo.gl/forms/Cd582zZpa1 by September 15, 2015. Advanced graduate students welcome to apply.

Inquiries about the conference can be sent to:

Franklin Research Grants – Call For Applications

Since 1933, the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. In 2014–2015 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $491,700 to 97 scholars, and the Society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year’s competition. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. The Society does not pay overhead or indirect costs to any institution, and grant funds are not to be used to pay income tax on the award. Grants will not be made to replace salary during a leave of absence or earnings from summer teaching; pay living expenses while working at home; cover the costs of consultants or research assistants; or purchase permanent equipment such as computers, cameras, tape recorders, or laboratory apparatus.

Eligibility: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the Society is especially interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate.

Award: From $1,000 to $6,000.

Deadlines: October 1, for a January 2016 decision for work in February 2016 through January 2017
December 1, for a March 2016 decision for work in April 2016 through January 2017

Full information and access to the application portal is available at www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin