MIAMI CONFERENCE

SCHEDULED PAPER SESSIONS

• "Not the New Criticism: Historicizing Shakespeare's Language," the Plenary Session with Sylvia Adamson (University of Manchester), session organizer Lynne Magnusson (University of Waterloo), and Russ McDonald (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).
• "Antiquarianisms: Past, Present, and Future," with Hugh Grady (Beaver College), Jonathan Gil Harris (Ithaca College), Henry S. Turner (Columbia University), and chair and session organizer Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University).
• "Beyond Branagh: New Screen Shakespeare," with Donald Hedrick (Kansas State University), session organizer Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire), Lisa S. Starks (University of South Florida), and chair Kenneth Rothwell (University of Vermont).
• "Feminist Historiography and Shakespeare's London: Rewriting Women's History," with session organizer Margo Hendricks (University of California, Santa Cruz), Karen Newman (Brown University), and chair John Michael Archer (University of New Hampshire).
• "Knowing Bodies: Towards an Historical Phenomenology," with Anton Bosman (Amherst College), Joan Pong Linton (Indiana University), Marie Plasse (Merrimack College), Jesse G. Swann (University of Northern Iowa), Julian Yates (University of Delaware), and chair and session organizer Bruce R. Smith (Georgetown University).
• "Making Electronic Shakespeares," with Michael Best (University of Victoria), Gregory Crane (Tufts University), Jessica Hodge (Ardenonline), and chair and session organizer Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto).
• "Middleton: Men, Women, and Money," with John Jowett (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), session organizer Gary L. Taylor (University of Alabama), Valerie Wayne (University of Hawaii), and chair Susan Frye (University of Wyoming).
• "Performance as Critical Practice," with Margot Jefferson (The New York Times), session organizer Kate D. Levin (City College, CUNY), Joseph Roach (Yale University), and chair Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College).
• "Retracing the Spirit: Shakespearean Reminiscences of Premodern Devotion and Postmodern Religion," with Philippa Berry (Cambridge University), session organizer Lowell Gallagher (UCLA), Paul White (Purdue University), and chair Donna B. Hamilton (University of Maryland, College Park).
• "Shakespeare and Contemporary Post-Colonial Drama," with Nandi Bhatia (University of Western Ontario), Adrian Keirnander (University of New England in Australia), Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University), and chair and session organizer Richard Paul Knowles (University of Guelph).

MAKING YOUR PLANS FOR MIAMI
The following information is provided to those making requests for funding support to attend the Miami meeting of 2001.

The 29th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America opens at noon on Thursday, 12 April, with paper sessions, a first group of seminars and workshops, and the traditional Opening Reception. Formally scheduled programs conclude with a last group of seminars and workshops on Saturday, 14 April, at 6:00 p.m. As always, the conference will end with the bang of the SAA/Malone Society Dance. The January 2001 bulletin will provide a detailed schedule of paper sessions, seminars, workshops, and evening events. The meeting registration fee, payable upon receipt of the January bulletin, is $75.00.

All conference registrants must be members in good standing of the SAA. Membership dues are assessed by the calendar (not the academic) year. Thus, those whose membership is not current must pay 2000 dues when pre-registering for the seminars and workshops announced in this bulletin. With the January bulletin, 2001 dues will also be payable. Membership dues are scheduled by annual income, as shown on page 10 of this bulletin.

The Hotel-Intercontinental Miami features spectacular views of Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami, a heated pool and landscaped jogging track above street level, and luxury fittings and service. Room rates are $110.00 for single and double occupancy; applicable taxes are 12.5%. Hotel reservation materials will be included in the January bulletin.

MONTRÉAL IN Y2K
REPORT FROM THE 28TH ANNUAL MEETING
The Plenary Session for the 2000 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America celebrated its site, with three papers developing the theme of "Theorizing Adaptation: Shakespeare in Canada." Montréal's vibrant French-language theatrical tradition provided a rare opportunity to hear Shakespeare in translation in North America. Peines d'amour perdues (in Maurice Roy's new rendition of Love's Labor's Lost) was directed by Manon Vallée in a luminous, visually stunning production. Also among the local attractions was Canadian humorist Rick Miller, delivering a rapid-fire version of Macbeth in the voices of over sixty characters from the television cartoon, "The Simpsons." Redpath Hall, on the campus of McGill University, was the site of the lively Opening Reception generously hosted by McGill.

In her Presidential Address during the Annual Luncheon, Jean E. Howard spoke to the "worldliness" of Shakespeare studies today, as his texts involve us in both multiple aspects of early modern culture--from religious and political controversy to legal and medical history--and many facets of contemporary culture--from the film industry to on-line learning. Her remarks theorized the broad range of paper sessions, seminars, workshops, and other events offered in the name of "Shakespeare" at the 28th Annual Meeting. These included such historicist seminars as "Queenship and English Renaissance Drama," "Literary and Social Practices of Courtship and Marriage in Early Modern England," and "Split Subjects: Nation and Reformation on the Early Modern Stage." There were also such seminars on big-time Shakespeare as "The Afterlife of King Lear," "Shakespeare and Musical Theater," and "Playing with the Bard: Shakespeare for Children at the Millenium." In the latter vein was a special screening of Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, set in high-tech New York in the year 2000 and, in a surprise addition to the program, introduced and discussed by the director himself. As always, there were seminars and workshops on teaching at various levels and with various methodologies, as well as a special session for area secondary-school teachers. Listing some of the genres Shakespeare did not write in, Ms. Howard also emphasized that Shakespeare is not a synedoche for early modern culture, that we must continue to broaden our view of his time to attempt an understanding of it--the business of many SAA meetings to come.

The memorable programs and activities of the Shakespeare Association meeting for the year 2000 were made possible by the persons and institutions listed below. But the meeting will probably be remembered first for an event outside their control: the Sunday blizzard that made traveling hazardous for many SAA members, kept others in Montréal for an extra night, and forced the cancellation of Monday classes throughout the continent. The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, a gracious host throughout, welcomed the stranded back from the airport for another, unexpected evening of good fellowship.

Outgoing Trustees: James C. Bulman (Allegheny College), Frances E. Dolan (Miami University), Russ McDonald (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).

Program Committee for 2000: Chair William C. Carroll (Boston University), Susan P. Cerasano (Colgate University), Elizabeth Hanson (Queen's University), William B. Worthen (University of California, Berkeley).

Local Arrangements Committee: Co-Chairs Michael D. Bristol (McGill University) and Leanore Lieblein (McGill University), with Thomas L. Berger (St. Lawrence University), Dianne Fagan (McGill University), Wes Folkerth (McGill University), Nini Pal (Marianopolis College), Kevin Pask (Concordia University), Kenneth S. Rothwell (University of Vermont), Roger Williams (Marianopolis College)

Sponsors of the 2000 Meeting: McGill University, Bishop's University, Carleton University, Champlain College, Colgate University, Concordia University, Dartmouth College, Le Moyne College, Marianopolis College, Middlebury College, University of Montréal, University of Ottawa, Queen's University, St. Lawrence University, St. Michael's College, Vanier College, Vassar College, University of Vermont.

Additional Support for the 2000 Meeting: Miramax Films,University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Conference Administration: SAA Program Coordinator Lee Tydings, with Jackie Hopkins and Julie Morris.