International Interdisciplinary Conference “William Shakespeare: Past, Present and Future”

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

“William Shakespeare: Past, Present and Future”

8-9 April, 2016

Vytautas Magnus University

Kaunas, Lithuania

The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (1564-1616). It is with this in mind that the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University invite academics and professionals to present their papers on one of the most quoted of the English writers. The most quoted for a reason: Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are not only an integral part of the literary, film or theatre studies – the author’s writings are now analysed among the scholars from various fields, providing modern academia with the bridges between different disciplines, establishing common grounds and paving a way for the interdisciplinarity of modern science. Thus, it is not surprising that Shakespeare’s plays are interpreted through a variety of angles, from King Lear as a re-enactment of the Oedipus complex to Merchant of Venice as a legal play.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, we welcome researchers from various disciplines, including (but not limited to) literature, linguistics, culture, history, politics, law, philosophy, sociology, psychology, cognitive sciences, etc.

Suggested topics:

  • Shakespeare in/and the Arts
  • Shakespeare across cultures/the globe
  • Shakespearean adaptations, appropriations, translations and transformations
  • Place in Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare in film and theatre
  • Shakespeare and Politics
  • Shakespeare and Law
  • Transtextual links with Shakespeare
  • Everyday Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare and History
  • Europe in Shakespeare’s days
  • Shakespeare in the Digital Age
  • Shakespeare and war
  • Shakespeare and memory
  • Shakespeare and psychotherapy.

The conference language is English (the mother tongue of Shakespeare!)

Length of presentations: 20 minutes

Conference fee: 50 EUR (30 EUR for PhD students)

Please send the application form (name and surname, affiliation, contacts, title of the paper and abstract of 1500 characters by 15 January 2016 to Emilis Kasparas, Department of English Philology, Vytautas Magnus University afk@hmf.vdu.lt or/and emiliskasparas@yahoo.com

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31th January 2016.

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