15th Annual CSU Shakespeare Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifteenth Annual California State University Shakespeare Symposium
CSU Long Beach, 90840, Saturday November 4, 2006

Abstracts for 15-minute papers are invited for the Fifteenth Annual California State University Shakespeare Symposium.

Papers may discuss, but are not limited to:
Shakespeare and theory;
Shakespeare in a global environment;
Shakespeare and non-print media (including film);
Shakespeare and performance; Shakespeare and the internet;
Shakespeare after 1623; Shakespeare’s contemporaries;
Shakespeare and the playing companies;
Shakespeare and the visual arts;
Shakespeare and London;
Shakespeare and the question of Britain;
Royal Shakespeare;
Shakespeare’s theaters;
Transmission of play-texts;
Editing Shakespeare.

There will also be one or more pedagogy roundtables, depending on submissions (organized around genre, topic, or method), to discuss teaching Shakespeare at two-year and four-year colleges in survey and specialized courses.

Please send 200-300 word abstracts with a title and clear thesis or working argument and a 1-page resume by Saturday September 16, 2006 to:

Lloyd Kermode at lkermode@csulb.edu
Associate Professor, Department of English
Co-Director, CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

(Abstracts submitted before September 1 will beacknowledged by return. Abstracts submitted between September 1 and September 16 will all be acknowledged on September 16.)