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ESRA Conference Panel: He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects – Call For Papers

European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference, Gdansk, 27-30 July, 2017
http://esra2017.eu/

Call for papers: ‘He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects’
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa

Lisa Hopkins and Domenico Lovascio invite proposals for papers for their seminar ‘He Do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The Use of Regional Accents and Dialects’. Shakespeare has helped shape English and has been translated into many European languages. What happens, though, when he or his contemporaries are performed in dialect or in regional accents? In England, Northern Broadsides deliberately eschew Received Pronunciation in favour of northern accents; in Italy, Cesare Deve Morire used Neapolitan rather than standard Italian. Sometimes particular accents become synonymous with particular meanings or approaches, as with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s rooted conviction that a Scots accent is funny. This seminar is interested in any production, film, or theatre company, in or from any European country, which (to paraphrase Pound’s proposed title for The Waste Land) does Shakespeare or any of his contemporaries in different voices. Possible approaches may include (but are not limited to):

  • use of accent or dialect in a film or stage production of Shakespeare
  • use of accent or dialect in a film or stage production of any of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
  • comparison of approaches to Shakespeare with approaches to one or more of his contemporaries
  • use of a particular accent or dialect across several productions
  • particular companies which specialise in the use of dialect or accent, e.g. Northern Broadsides
  • political implications of the use of accent or dialect
  • is there such a thing as a non-accented production?
  • the relationship between Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries and the history of any particular accent or dialect

Abstracts (250-300 words) and biographies (150 words) by Friday 27 January 2017; papers (8-10 pages, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spacing, 2.5cm margins) by Friday 26 May 2017. Please send proposals and enquiries to both seminar leaders:

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies 2017 – Call For Papers

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies 2017
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
March 9–11, 2017

Conference Website

Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 16th annual meeting at the University of Notre Dame, March 9–11.

Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across the disciplines. Every conference features approximately thirty papers on any aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Vagantes travels to a new university every year, highlighting the unique resources of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Out of consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee.

The 2017 conference will feature a variety of exciting keynote speakers and events. Mary Franklin-Brown, Associate Professor of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota, will present on her current research. David Gura, Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts in Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library, will speak about his recent work on Arnulf of Orléans’ commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In addition, the conference will feature tours of Special Collections, the Basilica, and the Snite Museum of Art, and workshops on a variety of topics. Attendees will also be encouraged to avail themselves of the University’s world-renowned Medieval Institute Library.

Conference presenters residing outside the Michiana area who are unable to secure funding from their home institutions are eligible to apply for a travel honorarium to be issued as a reimbursement. See the Vagantes website for further details: www.vagantesconference.org/travel-awards.

Graduate students in all disciplines are invited to submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words on any medieval topic along with a 1-2 page C.V. to organizers@vagantesconference.org by November 2, 2016.