Program Schedule

Thursday, 1 April

10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Registration

Buses Depart for Backstage Tour of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Advance registration is necessary; numbers are strictly limited.

12:00 noon to 5:30 p.m.

Book Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PRESENTATIONS

Understanding the Work and Vitality of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Art on the World's Stage
Session Organizer: Barbara Gaines
Chair: Stuart Sherman (Fordham University)

Barbara Gaines (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Representatives of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater Company

Women and the Invention of Early Modern Law
Session Organizer: Karen Cunningham
Chair: Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago)

Karen Cunningham (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mothers of the Law

Theodora A. Jankowski (Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre)
Patriarchal Law and the Queering of Gender Roles

Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)
Daughters of Coke: Brilliana Harley and the Female Levellers

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
Othello: The Tragedy of the Moor
Directed by Zaib Shaikh (2008)

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Artisanal Knowledge and the Stage
Seminar Leaders: David J. Baker (University of North Carolina) and Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina)

Gendering Childhood in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leader: Jennifer Higginbotham (Ohio State University)

Genre and/as Culture
Seminar Leaders: Martine Van Elk (California State University, Long Beach) and Lloyd Kermode (California State University, Long Beach)

Making History: Archives and Anecdotes
Seminar Leader: Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College)

New Approaches to Hamlet
Seminar Leader: Hugh Grady (Arcadia University)

The Publics of the Public Stage, Part One
Seminar Leaders: Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) and András Kiséry (City College, New York)

Reading Faces and Bodies on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leaders: Sibylle Baumbach (Giessen University) and Michael Neill (University of Auckland)

Shakespeare 2.0
Workshop Leader: Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)

Shakespeare and Medieval Poetry
Seminar Leaders: Steele Nowlin (Hampden-Sydney College) and Dan Breen (Ithaca College)

Shakespeare and Race
Seminar Leaders: Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University) and Brinda Charry (Keene State College)

Shakespeare and Social Neuroscience
Seminar Leaders: Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) and Kirsten Uszkalo (Simon Fraser University)

Shakespeare and the Perverse
Seminar Leader: Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas, Austin)

Shakespeare without Chairs: Open-Space Pedagogies, Part One
Workshop Leaders: Carol Rutter (University of Warwick) and Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)

Shakespearean Comedy: The Trade in Words
Seminar Leader: Wes Folkerth (McGill University)

The Shakespearean Immaterial
Seminar Leader: James A. Knapp (Eastern Michigan University)

Shakespearean Theatrical Reconstructions
Seminar Leader: Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe)

Shakespeare's Female Icons
Seminar Leader: Francesca Royster (DePaul University)

Textual Collection in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leader: Leah Knight (Brock University)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

The Chicago Cultural Center
Open to all registrants for the 38th Annual Meeting and their guests. For security reasons, each guest must have an SAA name tag.

Friday, 2 April

8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Registration

Book Exhibits

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Continential Breakfast for Graduate Students
Hosted by the Trustees of the SAA.

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PLENARY PRESENTATION

Person, Property, and Entitlement
Session Organizer: Amanda Bailey (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Coppélia Kahn (Brown University)

Katharine Eisaman Maus (University of Virginia)
Princes and Prodigals

Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University)
The Law's First Subjects: Human Authority and Animal Entitlement in Early Modernity

Luke Wilson (Ohio State University)
When the Thing is the Use of the Thing, and When It's Not

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

PRESENTATIONS

Putting Philosophy on Stage: Thinking with Shakespeare
Session Organizer and Chair: Henry S. Turner (Rutgers University)

Paul A. Kottman (The New School)
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare

Michael Witmore (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Shakespeare, Sensation, and Renaissance Existentialism

Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine)
Hospitality and Risk in The Winter's Tale

Early Modern Erotics
Session Organizers: Will Fisher and Valerie Traub
Chair: James Kearney (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Jennifer Panek (University of Ottawa)
He-whores and the Masculity of Sexual Performance

Will Fisher (Lehman College CUNY)
"Love's Wealthy Croppe of Kisses": Tongue Kissing and the History of Sexuality

Valerie Traub (University of Michigan)
Shakespeare's Sex

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: Paul Yachnin (McGill University)
Open to all registrants for the 38th Annual Meeting.

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Becoming Indian in Early Modern Writing
Seminar Leader: Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington University)

Marlowe and Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Sarah K. Scott (Mount St. Mary's University) and M. L. Stapleton (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)

New Variations in Texts and Editing
Seminar Leader: Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University)

Performance is History: Intertheatricality, Part One
Seminar Leader: William N. West (Northwestern University

The Publics of the Public Stage, Part Two
Seminar Leaders: Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) and András Kiséry (City College, New York)

Resituating Romance: Comparative Contexts
Seminar Leader: Lauren Shohet (Villanova University)

Shakespeare among the Professors
Seminar Leader: Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews)

Shakespeare and Cheap Print
Seminar Leader: Simone Chess (Wayne State University)

Shakespeare and Donne
Seminar Leaders: Judith H. Anderson (Indiana University) and Jennifer C. Vaught (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)

Shakespeare and Emotional Realism on the Modern Stage
Seminar Leaders: Roberta Barker (Dalhousie University) and Cary M. Mazer (University of Pennsylvania)

Shakespeare and Global Capitalism
Seminar Leaders: Marcela Kostihová (Hamline University) and Nikolai Zakharov (Moscow Institute for the Humanities)

Shakespeare and World Cinema
Seminar Leader: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University, Belfast)

Shakespeare, Language, and Change
Seminar Leader: Alysia Kolentsis (Stanford University)

Shakespeare without Chairs: Open-Space Pedagogies, Part Two
Workshop Leaders: Carol Rutter (University of Warwick) and Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)

Ties that Bind: Queering Shakespearean Social Contracts
Seminar Leaders: Katheryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University) and Julie Crawford (Columbia University)

What is the History Play? Part One
Seminar Leader: Brian Walsh (Yale University)

The Word against the Word: Shakespeare and Scripture
Seminar Leader: John Parker (University of Virginia)

6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

The Improvised Shakespeare Company

8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
Mickey B
Directed by Tom Magill for the Educational Shakespeare Company (2006)
Post-Screening Discussion led by Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University, Belfast) and Amy Scott-Douglass (Georgetown University)

Saturday, 3 April

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PRESENTATIONS

Feminism and Shakespearean Adaptation
Session Organizer: Celia R. Daileader
Chair: Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Celia R. Daileader (Florida State University)
Kissing a Negress: Racial Hermaphroditism in Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Jennifer Drouin (University of Alabama)
Nationalism, Feminism, and the Politics of Recognition in Normand Chaurette's The Queens

Melissa J. Jones (Eastern Michigan University)
Alter Egos/Alter Eros: Shakespeare and Henry VIII in Popular Culture

Shakespeare and the Extended Mind
Session Organizer: Gail Kern Paster
Chair: Linda Charnes (Indiana University)

John Sutton (Macquarie University)
Embodied Cognition in the TIme of Shakespeare: Ghost Gestures and Anachronic Traces

Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago)
Cognitive Ecologies and the Extended Mind in Early Modern England

Gail Kern Paster (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Seeing the Spider: Cognition and Jealousy in The Winter's Tale

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS
Workshop Leaders: Robert Young and Michael LoMonico (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Open to all registrants for the 38th Annual Meeting and their guests.

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

PRESENTATIONS

Global and Temporal
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submission Committee 2010
Chair: Ruth Morse (University of Paris)

Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University)
"Wine and sugar of the best and fairest": Canary and Canaries in Windsor

Eric V. Spencer (College of Idaho)
Faith, Finitude, and Philosophy: A Hermeneutic Winter's Tale

Poetics of Song and Tapestry
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submissions Committee for 2010
Chair: Marion O'Connor (University of Kent, Canterbury)

John H. Astington (University of Toronto)
Venus in Silks

Andrew Mattison (University of Toledo)
Literary Listening: Shakespeare , Pater, and Poetic Song

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PRESENTATIONS

Market, Crisis, and Trauma
Session Organizer: Donald Hedrick
Chair: Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)

Douglas Bruster (University of Texas, Austin)
Shakespeare and Representational Inflation

Valerie Forman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Developing New Worlds: Crises of Neoliberalism in the Seventeenth Century?

Donald Hedrick (Kansas State University)
Something for Nothing/Nothing for Something: Theater, Market Trauma, and the Cultural Logic of Early Modern Entertainment Value

Reading in the Kitchen
Session Organizer: Diane Purkiss
Chair: Nina Levine (University of South Carolina)

Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough University)
Shakespeare and the Language of Food: Discoveries and Conclusions

Diane Purkiss (Keble College Oxford)
Why is Bread so Distressful?

Ken Albala (University of the Pacific)
The Tudor Kitchen as Theater: Translating Cooking Texts into Food Performance

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
Mickey B
Directed by Tom Magill for the Educational Shakespeare Company (2006)

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Close Reading without Readings
Workshop Leader: Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley)

The Common
Seminar Leader: Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta)

Developing Performance Activities for Teaching Measure for Measure
Workshop Leader: Edward L. Rocklin (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

The Great Critics?
Seminar Leader: Richard Strier (University of Chicago)

Law and Marriage
Seminar Leader: Loreen L. Giese (Ohio University)

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Early Modern Contexts
Seminar Leader: Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame)

Performance is History: Intertheatricality, Part Two
Seminar Leader: William N. West (Northwestern University)

Renaissance Posthumanism
Seminar Leaders: Joseph Campana (Rice University) and Scott Maisano (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Shakespeare and Systems of Rehearsal
Seminar Leaders: Christian M. Billing (University of Hull) and Adam J. Ledger (University of Hull)

Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration
Seminar Leaders: Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht University) and Clara Calvo (University of Murcia)

Shakespeare and the New Media
Seminar Leaders: David Lee Miller (University of South Carolina) and Doug Reside (Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities)

Shakespeare: Immigrants and Aliens
Seminar Leaders: Rubin Espinosa (University of Texas, El Paso) and David Ruiter (University of Texas, El Paso)

Shakespeare in Transit
Seminar Leader: Robert Shaughnessy (University of Kent)

Shakespeare's Sonnets in Context
Seminar Leader: Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)

Staging the Blazon
Seminar Leaders: Deborah Uman (St. John Fisher College) and Sara Morrison (William Jewell College)

Who Hears? Shakespeare's Stage and Screeen Audiences
Seminar Leader: Laury Magnus (United State Merchant Marine Academy)

What is the History Play? Part Two
Seminar Leader: Brian Walsh (Yale University)

6:00 to 10:00 p.m.

OPEN HOUSE
Timothy O'Tooles Pub
(622 North Fairbanks Court)
http://www.timothyotooles.com/map.html
Sponsored by The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: Life, Works, World, and Legacy

Join the Editors, contributors, and fellow SAA members, any time during this evening Open House in the restaurant district, for food, drink, visuals, and previews.

9:00 to 11:00 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
Othello: The Tragedy of the Moor
Directed by Zaib Shaikh (2008)

Post-Screening Discussion led by Avraham Oz, University of Haifa.

10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

The SAA / Malone Society Dance
Open to all registrants for the 38th Annual Meeting and their guests. Tickets may be purchased at the door.