Thursday, November 3
2:45 – 4:00
Dilemmas of Despotism – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Robert Pierce
- Byron Bailey, “Blood and Sword and Fire: Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Henry V‘s Ethical Battleground”
4:15 – 5:30
Evolving Choices, Devolving Destinies – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Sandra Logan
- Derek Alwes, “Whose tragedy is this anyway? The Comic Structure of Hamlet“
- Joe Keener, “‘Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow?’: Oaths, Morality, and the Biocultural”
- Robert Pierce, “Hamlet and the Problem of Moral Agency”
5:30 – 6:45
Dinner on your own
7:00
Conference Welcome – Fairchild Auditorium: Studio 49
The American Collective Adaptation of Othello
Reception Immediately Following
Friday, November 4
9:00 – 10:15
Method and Madness – Snyder Hall C201 – Chair, Russell Bodi
- Alicia Andrezejewski, “‘I’ll lead’: Restoring the Jailer’s Daughter’s Agency in The Two Noble Kinsmen“
- James Lewin, “Hamlet‘s Hard-Boiled Ethics”
- Jennifer Royston, “Timon’s Portrait: The Counterfeit Flattery and the Failure to Adapt”
Subjection and Objection – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Stephen Deng
- Amrita Dhar, “The Ethics of Service in King Lear“
- Neal Klomp, “Beasts of Burden and Friends or, When Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony meet: the Ethics of Service Relationships in Julius Caesar“
- David Morrow, “The ethics of the Commonwealth in Henry VIII”
10:30 – 11:45
Wielding the Scepter – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Jyotsna Singh
- Abdulhamit Arvas, “God’s Phallus vs. Devil’s Phallus: The State, The Sovereign and the Witch in the Works of Bodin, King James I, and Shakespeare”
- David George, “Shakespeare’s Ethics: Personal and Literary”
- Robert Stefanik, “The Ethics of Surveillance: The Phoenix and Measure for Measure at the Court of James I”
Passing Time, Passing Space – Snyder Hall C204 – Chair, Jennifer Toms
- Allison Grant, “The Dangers of Playing House – Celia’s Subversive Role in As You Like It“
- Niels Herold, “‘Merry or sad shall’t be?’: Redeeming Time in Prison Shakespeare”
- Robert Jones, “‘Could I find out the woman’s part in me?’: The Actor’s Attitude towards Playing Women on the early Modern Stage”
11:45 – 1:45
Lunch on your Own
2:00 – 3:30
Keynote – Snyder Hall C204
- Bradin Cormack, “Ethics as Practice in Shakespeare”
3:30 – 4:45
Inchoate Character – Snyder Hall C201 – Chair, David George
- Jonathan Holmes, “‘Like Patience gazing on kings’ graves’: Dramatizing Patience as Endurance in Pericles“
- Gabriel Reiger, “‘Is man no more than this?’: King Lear and the Ethics of Identity”
- Rachel Zlatkin, “Remembering Gertrude”
Marriage Imperatives – Snyder Hall c203 – Chair, Megan Inbody
- Kathleen Davies, “‘In that Marriage, Strife Will Die Forever’: Contract, Colonialism, and Dynasty in The Tempest and The Forest Princess“
- Sandra Logan, “Queens of another country: Alien English Queens in Woodstock and Henry VI“
- Louis Martin, “Much Ado About Nothing: Desire, Double Standards, and Survival of the Fit”
Contingency and Conditionality – Snyder Hall C204 – Chair, William Kerwin
- Craig Dionne, “Lear’s Dark Ecology: Theorizing the “Screen” of Tragic Nostalgia and its Blank Voice”
- David Summers, “‘Much Virtue in If’: Peacemaking and Conditionality in As You Like It“
- Jeffrey Yeager, “‘How this World is Given to Lying!’: Orson Wells’ Deconstruction of Historiography in Chimes at Midnight“
4:45 – 6:45
Dinner on your own
7:00
Performance – Snyder Hall C20
- Pigeon Creek Shakespeare – Henry IV
Saturday, November 5
9:00 – 10:15
Veracity, Sincerity and Wit – Snyder Hall C201 – Chair, Geoffrey Johns
- Drew Haverin, “The Widow’s Test: Greene’s To Quoque and the Affirmation of Civic Virtues in Jacobean City Comedies”
- William Kerwin, “‘The foole to laugh, the wiser sort to learne’: Humor and Ethics in the Epigrams of John Harrington”
- Kristin Rutter, “Why So Serious?: The Reinvention of the Shakespearean Ethical Fool in Albion Tourgee’s A Fool’s Errand and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson“
Unsocial Networks – Snyder Hall C202 – Chair, Craig Dionne
- Jennifer Holl, “‘The tongues that durst disperse it’: Gossip and Intrigue in Henry VIII”
- Kyle Janke, “The Condition of Banishment: Community and Nature in As You Like It, Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus“
- Andrew Kranzman, “‘It is a holiday to look on them!’: Sentimentality and Actuality of Friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen“
Interpretation and Expectation – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Gabriel Rieger
- Joanna Grossman, “The Literal in The Merchant of Venice“
- Lindsey Jones, “Lexical Dichtomy and Ethics in Macbeth“
- Joseph Sullivan, “Don’t stop believing in an ending, unless you want to: Measure for Measure and The Sopranos“
10:30 – 11:45
Purposeful Ambiguities – Snyder Hall C201 – Chair, Andrew Kranzman
- Emily Detmer-Goebel, “‘Yet let Mother’s Doubt’: The limits of love in Richard III”
- Ken Hanssen, “‘A garment nobler than it covers’: Ethical Ambiguity in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline“
Rood Awakening – Snyder Hall C202 – Chair, Joseph Sullivan
- Russell Bodi, “Power Inequities and Forced Conversation”
- Hyosik Hwang, “The Protestant Ethic and Othello’s Double Damnation”
- Amber True, “Luther’s Good Christians in The New of Malta”
Body Langauge – Snyder Hall C203 – Chair, Sandra Logan
- Geoffrey Johns, “Crooked Manners, Crooked Shapes: Richard III and the Birth Metaphor”
- Colleen Kennedy, “The Nasal Ethics of Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderfull Yeare“
- Brandon Polite, “Tortured Calculations: Body Economies in Shakespeare’s Culture of Honor”
11:45 – 1:45
Annual Luncheon and Smith Prize Awards – Snider Dining Hall
2:00 – 3:30
Keynote – Snyder C20
- Emily Bartels, “Shakespeare’s ‘General Good'”