Shakespeare and Our Times Conference, Day 1
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- Date/Time
- 04/14/2016 9:30 AM EST - 5:30 PM EST
- Location
- Webb University Center
- Description
- 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Plenary I Hampton Room, 1317 Webb Center 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Shakespeare and Gender I Hampton Room, 1317 Webb Center - Benjamin Gross Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Marginalized Puns in “The Merchant of Venice” - Ranjita Pati BJB (Autonomous) College, Utkal University, India The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to “Julius Caesar” - Alyssa Wynans Belmont University, Tn. Shakespeare Online: Comedic and Analytical Responses to Gender and Sexuality in “Twelfth Night” on Tumblr 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Panel A – Shakespeare and Family Matters Newport News Room, 1316 Webb Center - Yun Chen National ChengChi University, China Losing the Immortal: Iago’s Vengeance for Honor in “Othello” - Sarah Appleton Old Dominion University The Daughters Respond: Women Authors’ Revisions of “King Lear” - Maya Mathur University of Mary Washington, Va. Family Dynamics in Vishal Bhardwaj's “Omkara” 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Panel B – Shakespeare and the Politics of Otherness Hampton Room, 1317 Webb Center - Azra Daniel Francis Independent scholar Shakespeare's Jew Code - Violet Strawderman Old Dominion University Welcome to The Freak Show: Disability, Deformity and Darkness in Shakespeare - Elise Denbo Queensborough Community College, CUNY, N.Y. Yorick: ‘Eyed-Awry’ 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Panel A – Shakespeare and People of Color Newport News Room, 1316 Webb Center - Valentina Rapetti Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy Wonder and Horror: Othello’s autobiographical narrative in Toni Morrison’s 'Desdemona' - Eric L. De Barros Clark University, Ca. “My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls”: Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus,” “Black” Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education - Kelsey Vint Old Dominion University Dark Femininity: Abjection at the Intersection of Race and Gender in Shakespeare’s Dramas 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Panel B – Shakespeare and “Haider” Hampton Room, 1317 Webb Center - Bhawna Vij Arora Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India Arriving at the East: The Cinematic Journey of Shakespeare's Work from "Hamlet" to "Haider" - Charu C. Mishra KG College of Arts and Science, India Adaptation of Shakespeare in Recent Bollywood Movies Part of Shakespeare 400 Years After: A Public Event.
