Programme announcement: Shakespeare Towards An End
In just seven weeks, delegates will gather at Spier Wine Farm outside Stellenbosch for the twelfth triennial congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, or SSOSA. The conference, co-hosted by the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, will explore the theme “Shakespeare Towards An End” (read the Call For Papers to find out more).
Conference convenors Chris Thurman and Sandra Young recently announced the programme for the event, which will take place from 24-27 May.
The full schedule, including tours, screenings, performances, social functions, meetings and more, can be viewed on Shakespeare ZA.
Here is the line-up of keynote speakers and panels (all sessions will be plenary):
Keynote 1
Ruben Espinosa
The Way to Dusty Death: Shakespeare and Tomorrow
Keynote 2
Jyotsna Singh
Lyric Voices, Cultural Translations, and Dialogues across Time and Space: William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984)
Panel 1: African Shakespeares: history, justice and identity
Ifeoluwa Aboluwade
Playing with the Un/Dead: Translation, Memory and the Politics of Identity in Femi Osofisan’s Wesoo Hamlet.
Stephen Collins
‘Tongo is a Prison’: Revisiting Hamile, the Tongo Hamlet
Marguerite de Waal
The End(s) of The Tempest in post-apartheid South Africa.
Lekan Balogun
Beyond and Now: Shakespeare, Dysphoria and National Catharsis
Odirin Abonyi*
Explicating Ogini Bernard’s Rukevwe and Julie: An adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
[* To be confirmed]
Panel 2: The Racialisation of Enslavement, Family, and Lineage in Shakespeare's Drama
Hassana Moosa
‘Have we not Hiren here?’: Racial Slavery and Narrative Tradition in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Othello
Lydia Valentine
‘Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile’: Race, Kinship and Degeneration in King Lear
Hanh Bui
‘Send the midwife’: The Birth of Blackness in Titus Andronicus
Panel 3: Facilitating student engagements with Shakespeare
Colette Gordon
Levelling the Playing Field: Social Reading, Shakespeare, and Others
Dyese Elliott-Newton
We Grieve for the Dead, We Grieve for the Living: Reflections on Legacy and Loss in Shakespeare and Shakur
Naomi Nkealah
Exploring gender relations in Shakespeare: Students’ perspectives on Shakespeare’s life
Marta Fossati
Re-appropriating Romeo and Juliet in a juvenile detention centre in Italy: A postcolonial approach
Panel 4: Imagining radical justice with Shakespeare
Lisa Barksdale-Shaw
‘[A]ll the treasons for these eighteen years / Complotted and contrived in this land’: Making Justice in Shakespeare’s Richard II
Frances Ringwood
Paulina’s inspiration for radical change in The Winter’s Tale
Lucy Wylde
Shakespeare in the Trans/Sphere
Anthony Guy Patricia
Forced Religious Conversion, LGBTQ+ Reparative Therapy, and The Merchant of Venice
Panel 5: Travelling (with) Shakespeare
Peter Holland
‘Is this the promised end?’; Travels with/in King Lear
Sarah Roberts
Of Passports, Papers, Persons: Journeys between through space and time
Henry Bell
The phenomenology of space and place in relation to the digital aspect of #lockdownshakespeare
Panel 6: Teaching Shakespeare in South African schools
Linda Ritchie
Translanguaging Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Shakespeare in South African Secondary Schools
Lauren Bates
Using Shakespeare to teach skills across the English Curriculum while grappling with violence in the South African context
Kirsten Dey
Making Space for Shakespeare in a Decolonised Curriculum: Macbeth as a Means to Discerning Duality
Panel 7: Translation, appropriation and allusion - versions of Shakespeare in South Africa
Giuliana Iannaccaro
Shakespeare and Mission Literature in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Zwelakhe Mtsaka
The Certainty of Ambiguity: Revisiting the Witches’ Equivocation in Macbeth via B.B. Mdledle’s isiXhosa translation
John Simango
Julius Caesar in Xitsonga
Anelisa Phewa
Translating Shakespeare’s sonnets into isiZulu
Panel 8: Ageing, death and the life hereafter
Marc Maufort
‘To the elements be free’: The Legacy of Shakespeare in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed
Fiona Ramsay
Dying with Shakespeare
Geoffrey Haresnape
‘Old Money’
Panel 9: Shakespeare’s travel companions / Against an end?
José Manuel González
Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Case in Transnational Literary Relations
Peter Merrington
Byatt, Bard and Coronations
Catherine Addison
‘The Play’s the Thing’: Shakespearean Drama as an End in Itself
Laurence Wright
Travelling Shakespeare Revisited
