Shakespeare 450 : programme
The Société Française Shakespeare is organizing a week-long conference in Paris, 21-27 April 2014, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.
The programme includes plenary lectures, roundtables, workshops, seminars, panels, along with performances at various venues, theatres, concert halls, museums, libraries, artists’ studios and bookshops…
For more information : http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org/shake450/
The PDF programme of the Shakespeare 450 conference can be downloaded below.
Schedule
Monday 21 April |
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8h-10h |
Registration |
11h-12h |
Inaugural conference: Yves Bonnefoy (Collège de France, member of PSL) |
12h-13h |
Plenary: Andreas Höfele (Munich) |
13h-15h |
Buffet |
15h-16h |
Roundtable 1 with stage director Luc Bondy and Georges Lavaudant, with Georges Banu |
16h-17h |
Roundtable with stage director Thomas Jolly and his team, chaired by Leila Adham and Jean-Michel Déprats |
17h-17h30 |
Pause |
17h30-19h |
Masterclass with actors Philippe Calvario, Vincent Dissez and Émeric Marchand |
19h30-22h |
Bateaux-mouches |
Tuesday 22 April |
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9h-10h30 |
Panel 3 A: Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964) |
Panel 7: Telling Tales of / from Shakespeare: Indian Ishtyle |
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Panel 20: Moving Shakespeare: Approaches in Choreographing Shakespeare |
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Panel 24: Shakespeare’s World in 1916 |
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10h30-11h |
Pause |
11h-12h30 |
Panel 3 B: Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964) |
Panel 17 A: Shakespeare and the Popular Culture within/Beyond the Asian Identities |
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Panel 27: Speaking ‘but in the figures and comparisons of it’? Figurative speech made literal in Shakespeare’s drama / page and stage |
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Panel 28 A: Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988 |
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12h30-14h |
Lunch |
14h-15h |
Plenary: Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht) |
15h-15h30 |
Pause |
15h30-17h30 |
Seminar 3: The Many Lives of William Shakespeare: Collaboration, Biography and Authorship |
Seminar 6: Global Shakespeare as Methodology |
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Seminar 16: The Celebrated Shakespeare: public commemoration and biography |
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Seminar 20: ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together’: The Nature of Problem in Shakespearean Studies |
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Workshop 4: Shakespeare Theatre Needs Francophone Actors |
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19h30-22h |
Film-concert: Hamlet, Sven Gade. Score by Robin Harris |
Wednesday 23 April |
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9h-10h30 |
Panel 13 A: Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination |
Panel 15 A: Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory |
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Panel 17 B: Shakespeare and the Popular Culture within/Beyond the Asian Identities |
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Panel 28 B: Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988 |
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10h30-11h |
Pause |
11h-13h |
Seminar 9: Legal Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre |
Seminar 12: ‘Green’ or Ecocritical Shakespeare: non-human nature as a character in his plays |
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Seminar 13: The Shakespeare Circle |
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Seminar 15: Shakespeare in French Film/France in Shakespearean Film |
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13h-14h |
Lunch |
14h-15h |
Plenary: Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA) |
16h-17h30 |
Panel 11: ’The Undiscovered Country – the Future’: Shakespeare in Science Fiction |
Panel 15 B: Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory |
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Panel 31: Translations of Hamlet in Minority Cultures/Minor Languages |
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16h-18h |
Workshop 3: Textual and verse analysis in relation to performance: a workshop to read Shakespeare from the performer’s viewpoint |
Journée théâtre (parallel sessions open to the public) |
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11h-12h |
Plenary: Joël Huthwohl (BnF) |
12h-13h |
Plenary: Michèle Willems (Université de Rouen) |
15h-16h |
Interview with Christian Schiaretti, hosted by Jean-Michel Déprats |
16h-17h |
Interview with Stuart Seide, hosted by Jean-Michel Déprats |
17h-18h |
Interview with Angela Antonini and Paola Traverso on their performance of Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio |
19h-21h |
Cocktail-Reception (venue details in welcome pack) |
Thursday 24 April |
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9h-10h30 |
Panel 8: Shakespeare and ‘th’intertrafique’ of French and English Texts and Manners |
Panel 13 B: Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination |
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Panel 21: Diplomacy, International Relations and The Bard in the Pre- and Post-Westphalian Worlds |
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Panel 26: Shakespeare in French Theory |
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Workshop 6: The archaeological contribution to Shakespeare studies |
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10h30-11h |
Pause |
11h-12h30 |
Panel 1: Shakespeare in Brazilian Popular Culture |
Panel 14 A: Shakespeare and Levinas |
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Panel 16: Shakespeare and Architecture |
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Panel 18: «As You Like It» : La psychanalyse à la rencontre de Shakespeare |
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12h30-14h |
Lunch |
14h-15h |
Plenary: Michèle le Dœuff (CNRS) |
15h-15h30 |
Pause |
15h30-17h30 |
Seminar 2: Biology through Shakespeare |
Seminar 7: ‘In this distracted globe’?: Cognitive Shakespeare |
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Seminar 19: Shakespeare and Global Girlhood |
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Seminar 21: Shakespeare Festivals in the 21st Century |
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Workshop 1: Argentina Shakespeare Association weblink |
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19h30-23h30 |
Opera / Theater: I Capuletti e i Montecchi, Bellini (Opera Bastille) |
Friday 25 April |
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9h-10h30 |
Panel 2 A: Shakespeare and Science |
Panel 4: Secular Shakespeares |
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Panel 9: Bakhtinian Forays into Shakespeare |
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Panel 22: Shakespeare and Marlowe |
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10h30-11h |
Pause |
11h-12h30 |
Panel 2 B: Shakespeare and Science |
Panel 12: Crossroads: 21st century perspectives on Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology |
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Panel 14 B: Shakespeare and Levinas |
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Panel 19: ‘This Earth’ |
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12h30-14h |
Lunch |
14h-15h |
Plenary: Dominique de Font-Réaulx (Musée Delacroix) |
15h-16h |
Plenary: François Laroque (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle) |
16h-18h |
Seminar 1: Shakespeare on Film: The Romances |
Seminar 4: Early Shakespeare |
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Seminar 8: La fabrique du personnage shakespearien |
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Seminar 17: Shakespeare and Denotement |
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Workshop 2 : Shakespeare: Wherefore Art Thou: The places in his plays and the places that he knew |
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19h-22h |
Special screening of Les Enfants du Paradis (dir. M. Carné) at the Louxor |
Saturday 26 April |
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9h-10h30 |
Panel 5 A: Born before and after Shakespeare |
Panel 10 A: Shakespeare and Natural History |
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Panel 23: Shakespeare, Satire and ‘Inn Jokes’ |
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Panel 25: Shakespeare et les romans hispano-américains |
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10h30-11h |
Pause |
11h-12h30 |
Panel 5 B: Born before and after Shakespeare |
Panel 10 B: Shakespeare and Natural History |
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Panel 29: The ends and means of knowing in Shakespeare and his world |
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Panel 30: Shakespeare et le roman |
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12h30-13h30 |
Lunch |
13h30-14h30 |
Plenary : Sarah Hatchuel (Le Havre) |
14h30-15h |
Pause |
15h-17h |
Seminar 5: Shakespeare and the Visual Arts |
Seminar 10: Shakespeare and Slavic / East and Central European Countries |
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Seminar 11: “It’s Shakespearian!”: The critical fortune of a commonplace in France from 1820 to the present |
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Seminar 14: ’Many straunge and horrible events’: Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries |
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Seminar 18: Shakespeare, Middleton and fatherless lineage |
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Workshop 5: Working from cue scripts: An actor’s approach to performing duologues |
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18h-21h |
Réception, Prix du mémoire, and concert by the vocal ensemble “Notta Strana” (venue details in registration pack) |
19h-22h |
Theater : Othello, dir. Léonie Simaga (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier) |
Sunday 27 April |
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10h-12h |
General Assembly of the Société Française Shakespeare |
Museum visits (Musée Delacroix, Musée Victor Hugo…) |
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12h-14h |
Lunch |
14h-18h |
Visit and performance at the Basilique St-Denis |
This conference is supported by numerous sponsors and partners, including :
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Direction Générale de l'Enseignement Supérieur, Rectorat de l’Académie de Paris, Société Française Shakespeare;
Théâtre de l'Odéon, Musée Delacroix, Maisons de Victor Hugo Paris/Guernesey, Opéra de Paris, Comédie-Française, BnF Arts du spectacle, Centre des Monuments nationaux, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Centre National du Costume de Scène, Festival d'Avignon, Maison Jean Vilar, French Debating Association;
Editions Thierry Marchaisse, Shakespeare and Company, Librairie Le Coupe-papier, Cahiers élisabéthains, Bloomsbury Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press;
Fondation Hermès, Aéroports de Paris, Ville de Paris, British Council;
Paris Sciences Lettres PSL, Université de Caen ERIBIA, Université du Havre GRIC (EA 4314),Rennes 2 ACE (EA 1796),Picardie – Jules Verne CERCLL (EA 4283),Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle PRISMES (EA 4398),Paris IV – Sorbonne VALE (EA 4085),Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense CREA (EA 370) et HAR (EA 4414),IRCL / Montpellier III Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Age Classique et les Lumières (UMR 5186), École Normale Supérieure membre de PSL, Mines ParisTech membre de PSL;
King's College London, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Rose Theatre, Bankside, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, European Shakespeare Research Association, Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Fundación Shakespeare Argentina, Centro Estudos Shakespeareanos Brazil, Shakespeare Society of Japan, International Shakespeare Association;
Jour2Fête, Carlotta Films…