European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference
“Shakespeare and Myth”
Montpellier, France
26-29 June, 2013
List of Seminars:
- Early Modern Nature: Shakespeare, Science and Myth
- The Early Modern Reception of Shakespeare in Print and Manuscript: The Rise of Shakespearean Cultural Capital?
- Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance
- “Myth” in Relation to Truth, fable, history, legend, folklore
- Myth, Romance and Historiography
- Mythical Performance and its Afterlife
- Mythologies of Childhood
- Protean Shakespeare: Adapting, Tradapting, Performing Early Modern Plays
- Shakespeare and Classical Mythology: European Perspectives
- Shakespeare, Myth and Asia
- Shakespeare and the Myth of the Feminine
- The Shakespeare Myth Reloaded: Demythologizing and Re-mythologizing Shakespeare Today
- Staging the Shakespeare Myths, 2000-2012
- Translating Myths and Mythologizing Translations
Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) by 1 October 2012 to the convenors of the seminar you choose. Full details of all seminars and contact details for seminar convenors can be found on the website. All participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by 1 November 2012. The deadline for accepted seminar participants to send their completed paper is 1 April 2013. Information about plenaries, registration costs and other practical aspects will be given in due course.