Programme

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Each day will feature:

Schedule

Monday 21 April
Main venue: Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe
8h-10h Registration
Institut du monde anglophone, 5 rue de l’École de médecine, 75006 Paris
11h-12h Inaugural conference: Yves Bonnefoy (Collège de France, member of PSL)
Pourquoi Shakespeare ?
12h-13h Plenary: Andreas Höfele (Munich)
Elsinore – Berlin: Hamlet
in the Twenties
13h-15h Buffet
15h-16h Roundtable 1 with stage director Luc Bondy and Georges Lavaudant, with Georges Banu
16h-17h Roundtable with stage director Thomas Jolly and his team, chaired by Leila Adham and Jean-Michel Déprats
17h-17h30 Pause
17h30-19h Masterclass with actors Philippe Calvario, Vincent Dissez and Émeric Marchand
19h30-22h Bateaux-mouches
or pre-screening of Othello (dir. O. Welles)
Tuesday 22 April
Venues: École des Mines-ParisTech and ENS
9h-10h30 Panel 3 A: Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964)
Panel 7: Telling Tales of / from Shakespeare: Indian Ishtyle
Panel 20: Moving Shakespeare: Approaches in Choreographing Shakespeare
Panel 24: Shakespeare’s World in 1916
10h30-11h Pause
11h-12h30 Panel 3 B: Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964)
Panel 17 A: Shakespeare and the Popular Culture within/Beyond the Asian Identities
Panel 27: Speaking ‘but in the figures and comparisons of it’? Figurative speech made literal in Shakespeare’s drama / page and stage
Panel 28 A: Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988
12h30-14h Lunch
14h-15h Plenary: Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht)
Great War Shakespeare: ‘Somewhere in France’
15h-15h30 Pause
15h30-17h30 Seminar 3: The Many Lives of William Shakespeare: Collaboration, Biography and Authorship
Seminar 6: Global Shakespeare as Methodology
Seminar 16: The Celebrated Shakespeare: public commemoration and biography
Seminar 20: ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together’: The Nature of Problem in Shakespearean Studies
Workshop 4: Shakespeare Theatre Needs Francophone Actors
19h30-22h Film-concert: Hamlet, Sven Gade. Score by Robin Harris
Wednesday 23 April
Venue: École des Mines-ParisTech
9h-10h30 Panel 13 A: Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination
Panel 15 A: Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory
Panel 17 B: Shakespeare and the Popular Culture within/Beyond the Asian Identities
Panel 28 B: Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988
10h30-11h Pause
11h-13h Seminar 9: Legal Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre
Seminar 12: ‘Green’ or Ecocritical Shakespeare: non-human nature as a character in his plays
Seminar 13: The Shakespeare Circle
Seminar 15: Shakespeare in French Film/France in Shakespearean Film
13h-14h Lunch
14h-15h Plenary: Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
Commemorating Shakespeare: From Westminster Abbey to Stratford-upon-Avon and beyond
16h-17h30 Panel 11: ’The Undiscovered Country – the Future’: Shakespeare in Science Fiction
Panel 15 B: Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory
Panel 31: Translations of Hamlet in Minority Cultures/Minor Languages
16h-18h Workshop 3: Textual and verse analysis in relation to performance: a workshop to read Shakespeare from the performer’s viewpoint
Journée théâtre (parallel sessions open to the public)
Location: Amphi Louis Liard (Sorbonne)
11h-12h Plenary: Joël Huthwohl (BnF)
Shakespeare dans les collections du départements des Arts du Spectacle de la BnF
12h-13h Plenary: Michèle Willems (Université de Rouen)
Avec ou ‘sans muselière’? Les traductions de Shakespeare, de Voltaire à François-Victor Hugo
15h-16h Interview with Christian Schiaretti, hosted by Jean-Michel Déprats
16h-17h Interview with Stuart Seide, hosted by Jean-Michel Déprats
17h-18h Interview with Angela Antonini and Paola Traverso on their performance of Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio
19h-21h Cocktail-Reception (venue details in welcome pack)
Thursday 24 April
Venues: École des Mines-ParisTech and Maison des Mines
9h-10h30 Panel 8: Shakespeare and ‘th’intertrafique’ of French and English Texts and Manners
Panel 13 B: Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination
Panel 21: Diplomacy, International Relations and The Bard in the Pre- and Post-Westphalian Worlds
Panel 26: Shakespeare in French Theory
Workshop 6: The archaeological contribution to Shakespeare studies
10h30-11h Pause
11h-12h30 Panel 1: Shakespeare in Brazilian Popular Culture
Panel 14 A: Shakespeare and Levinas
Panel 16: Shakespeare and Architecture
Panel 18: «As You Like It» : La psychanalyse à la rencontre de Shakespeare
12h30-14h Lunch
14h-15h Plenary: Michèle le Dœuff (CNRS)
Comme il nous plaira
15h-15h30 Pause
15h30-17h30 Seminar 2: Biology through Shakespeare
Seminar 7: ‘In this distracted globe’?: Cognitive Shakespeare
Seminar 19: Shakespeare and Global Girlhood
Seminar 21: Shakespeare Festivals in the 21st Century
Workshop 1: Argentina Shakespeare Association weblink
19h30-23h30 Opera / Theater: I Capuletti e i Montecchi, Bellini (Opera Bastille)
or Macbeth (run-through rehearsal), dir. Ariane Mnouchkine (Cartoucherie)

or Tartuffe, dir. Luc Bondy (Odéon)
Friday 25 April
Venue: École des Mines-ParisTech
9h-10h30 Panel 2 A: Shakespeare and Science
Panel 4: Secular Shakespeares
Panel 9: Bakhtinian Forays into Shakespeare
Panel 22: Shakespeare and Marlowe
10h30-11h Pause
11h-12h30 Panel 2 B: Shakespeare and Science
Panel 12: Crossroads: 21st century perspectives on Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology
Panel 14 B: Shakespeare and Levinas
Panel 19: ‘This Earth’
12h30-14h Lunch
14h-15h Plenary: Dominique de Font-Réaulx (Musée Delacroix)
Les origines théâtrales de la photographie
15h-16h Plenary: François Laroque (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
The plague of custom’. Shakespeare’s ambivalent anthropology
16h-18h Seminar 1: Shakespeare on Film: The Romances
Seminar 4: Early Shakespeare
Seminar 8: La fabrique du personnage shakespearien
Seminar 17: Shakespeare and Denotement
Workshop 2 : Shakespeare: Wherefore Art Thou: The places in his plays and the places that he knew
19h-22h Special screening of Les Enfants du Paradis (dir. M. Carné) at the Louxor
or Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio (dir. Angela Antonini and Paola Traverso)
Saturday 26 April
Venues: École des Mines-ParisTech and ENS
9h-10h30 Panel 5 A: Born before and after Shakespeare
Panel 10 A: Shakespeare and Natural History
Panel 23: Shakespeare, Satire and ‘Inn Jokes’
Panel 25: Shakespeare et les romans hispano-américains
10h30-11h Pause
11h-12h30 Panel 5 B: Born before and after Shakespeare
Panel 10 B: Shakespeare and Natural History
Panel 29: The ends and means of knowing in Shakespeare and his world
Panel 30: Shakespeare et le roman
12h30-13h30 Lunch
13h30-14h30 Plenary : Sarah Hatchuel (Le Havre)
The Shakespearean Films of the 1990s: Afterlives in transmedia
14h30-15h Pause
15h-17h Seminar 5: Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
Seminar 10: Shakespeare and Slavic / East and Central European Countries
Seminar 11: “It’s Shakespearian!”: The critical fortune of a commonplace in France from 1820 to the present
Seminar 14: ’Many straunge and horrible events’: Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Seminar 18: Shakespeare, Middleton and fatherless lineage
Workshop 5: Working from cue scripts: An actor’s approach to performing duologues
18h-21h Réception, Prix du mémoire, and concert by the vocal ensemble “Notta Strana” (venue details in registration pack)
19h-22h Theater : Othello, dir. Léonie Simaga (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier)
or Macbeth (run-through rehearsal, Cartoucherie)
or I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Opera)
Sunday 27 April
10h-12h General Assembly of the Société Française Shakespeare
Museum visits (Musée Delacroix, Musée Victor Hugo…)
12h-14h Lunch
14h-18h Visit and performance at the Basilique St-Denis