Irish Renaissance Seminar
26th April 2016
The BSA is proud to sponsor the following seminar. Attendance is free for all.
This event is part of a larger series, more details here: http://www.britishshakespeare.ws/shakespeare-lives-across-the-island/
Shakespeare Lives across the Island: Conversations and Celebrations
7th May 2016, Old Staff Common Room, QUB
12pm Lunch (courtesy of School of English)
1pm – 2pm Plenary One Chair: Ramona Wray (QUB)
Prof. Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University and Fulbright/Global Shakespeare Centre Distinguished Chair), ‘The Curiosity of Nations: Communities of Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century’
2pm – 3:15pm Paper Session Chair: Edel Lamb (QUB)
Shakespeare on Film and in Performance
Emer McHugh (NUI Galway), ‘Irish Shakespeare on the Margins and in the Mainstream: The Case of Druid Shakespeare’
Dr Edel Semple (UC Cork), ‘Men, Women and the Nation in Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth’
3:15 – 3:30pm Coffee
3:30 – 4:30pm Plenary Two Chair: Romano Mullin (QUB)
Dr Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University), ‘“It is the digital, / The digital above us, govern our conditions”: Shakespeare, (Mis)Quotation and Digital Cultures’
4:30 – 5:15pm Roundtable: Belfast Tempest Chair: Mark Burnett (QUB)
Belfast Tempest is a stunning adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest staged in the giant industrial cathedral that is T13. It combines 3D holographic sound, actors, dancers, a choir of Belfast voices and community groups from across the city. The roundtable features Andrea Montgomery, Director (Terra Nova), and cast member Ilana Gilovich (QUB)
5:30pm Reception and Launch of the British Council/QUB Exhibition, ‘Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen’, Queen’s Film Theatre
7pm Dinner at French Village, Botanic Avenue (self-funding, but School of English to provide drinks to accompany dinner)