{"id":289,"date":"2013-03-07T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2013-03-14T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:26:12","slug":"2007-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2007-appropriating-shakespeare\/2007-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 – Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 11th<\/span><\/h1>\n

noon-5:15pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Conference Registration –\u00a0Student Union 3rd Floor<\/span><\/h4>\n

1:00-6:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Publishers\u2019 Exhibits –\u00a0Student Union 314<\/span><\/h4>\n

1:00-2:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Student Welcome Reception –\u00a0Student Union 308<\/span><\/h4>\n

2:15-3:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Session A: Appropriation and Non-Shakespearean Renaissance Writing –\u00a0Chair, Kara Northway, Xavier University –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  • Patrick McGuire, University of Akron, \u201cThe Nature of Revision: The 1597 and 1602 Additions to The Spanish Tragedy\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Stephen Rowe, Concord University, \u201cMarlowe\u2019s Geography: Cartographic Sources of Tamburlaine the Great\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Justin Thurman, Southwestern University, \u201cThe Printed Voice \/ La Voix Imprim\u00e9e\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    3:45-5:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Session A: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Shakespeares –\u00a0Chair, William Proctor Williams, University of Akron –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • Russ Bodi, Owens College, \u201cIra Aldridge as Aaron the Moor\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Charles Conaway, University of Southern Indiana, \u201cThe Very Staple Commodity of the Stage\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Penelope Quade, University of Akron, \u201cCaging Catharine: Tragically Taming a Kate in David Garrick\u2019s Catharine and Petruchio\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Session B: The \u201cLanguages\u201d of The Merchant of Venice –\u00a0Chair, Eric Birdsall, University of Akron –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
        \n
      • Sara Coodin, McGill University, \u201cCiting scripture for his own purpose: Shylock as Jacob in The Merchant of Venice\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Paul Yachnin, McGill University, \u201cDog-Words: Shylock and the Languages of Inhumanity\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Myrna Wyatt-Selkirk, McGill University, \u201cPerforming The Merchant\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        5:15-6:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

        Session A: Politics, Sex, and Sources –\u00a0Chair, Gabriel Reiger, Gettysburg College –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
          \n
        • Katey Roden, Washington State University, \u201cReified Rhetoric: Quintilian\u2019s Phantasiai and Female Speech in Measure for Measure\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Byron Nelson, West Virginia University, \u201c\u2018Roast Meat for Worms\u2019: Prostitution, Disease and Corruption in Shakespeare and Wilkins\u2019 Pericles\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Michael Modarelli, University of Tennessee Knoxville, \u201cReading Oikos and Polis in Shakespeare\u2019s Troilus and Cressida\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Session B: Plays in Performance –\u00a0Chair, Charles Conaway, University of Southern Indiana –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
            \n
          • Johnathan D. Boyd, Texas State University, \u201cNew Perspectives at the RSC: Nancy Meckler\u2019s Directorial Vision\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Adam Miller, University of Akron, \u201c\u2018But by the yea and no of general ignorance\u2019: Plebeians and Patricians in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Rachel Stevenson, University of Akron, \u201cWe are Yet but Young, Indeed: Observations on Filming Macbeth\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            7:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

            Macbeth, a film directed by University of Akron students Ryan and Rachel Stevenson –\u00a0Honors College Lounge<\/span><\/h4>\n

            Friday, October 12th<\/span><\/h1>\n

            8:00am-5:15pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

            Conference Registration –\u00a0Student Union 3rd Floor<\/span><\/h4>\n

            9:00am-8:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

            Publishers\u2019 Exhibits –\u00a0Student Union 314<\/span><\/h4>\n

            9:00-10:15am<\/span><\/h3>\n

            Session A: Aural\/Visual Shakespeares –\u00a0Chair, Joseph Ceccio, University of Akron –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
              \n
            • Joy C. Frank-Collins, Marietta College, \u201cMamas Don\u2019t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Andronici: An Examination of Common Themes in Senecan Elizabethan Tragedy and Contemporary American Country Music\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Amelia Bitely, Marietta College, \u201c\u2018A Tale Told By an Idiot\u2019: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Lisa A. Stuchell, Marshall University, \u201cApplying or Implying William Shakespeare: Shakespeare as the Entrepreneur of the Visual and Auditory Language\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Session B: Questions of Religion –\u00a0Chair, Robert Pierce, Oberlin College –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
                \n
              • Laurie Ellinghausen, University Missouri-Kansas City, \u201c\u2018I am not what I am\u2019: Othello and the Experience of the English Renegade\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Paul Kane, Concord University, \u201c\u2018Love and Be Silent\u2019: Cordelia as a Puritan\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Makilah Witt, Wheaton College, \u201cAffirmation and Subversion of Moral Themes in The Merchant of Venice\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Chris Sabatelli , Independent Scholar, \u201cBottom\u2019s Dream: A Parody of Biblical Proportion\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Session C: Novelizing Shakespeare –\u00a0Chair, Shannon Dobranski, Georgia Tech –\u00a0Student Union 316<\/span><\/h4>\n
                  \n
                • Jonathan Kamholtz, University of Cincinnati, \u201cA Person Must Have Character; Novelizing Character in Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                • Patrick Lawrence, New York University, \u201cThe Comedic Devices of Tragedy: Inter-Generic\u00a0Dialogic in Hardy and Shakespeare\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                • Kate Rumbold, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, \u201c\u2018So common-hackney\u2019d in the eyes of men\u2019: Banal Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  10:30am<\/span><\/h3>\n

                  Plenary Address:\u00a0Christy Desmet, University of Georgia, \u201cShakespeare and Convergence Culture: From Facebook to YouTube\u201d –\u00a0Student Union Theatre<\/span><\/h4>\n

                  12:00-1:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                  Lunch –\u00a0Student Union Ballroom<\/span><\/h4>\n

                  2:15-3:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                  Session A: Assimilation or Oppression?: A Discussion of Modern Socio-political Concerns in Othello and its Film Adaptation –\u00a0Chair, Lisa K. Stein, Ohio University-Zanesville –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
                    \n
                  • Lisa K. Stein, Ohio University-Zanesville<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Crystal Gearhart, Ohio University-Zanesville<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Teresa Henderson, Ohio University-Zanesville<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Christina Fulk, Ohio University-Zanesville<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

                    Session B. Madness and Mentalities –\u00a0Chair, Russ Bodi, Owens College –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
                      \n
                    • J. Michael Drew, Ohio University, \u201cOthello and the Language of Doubt\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • \u00a0Hsiang-Chun Chu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, \u201cDivided Selves: Madness and Images in Michael Almereyda\u2019s Hamlet\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • Veena P. Kasbekar, Ohio University-Chillicothe, \u201cThe Madness of King Lear: A Psychiatric Approach\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Session C: Changing Audiences, Changing Issues –\u00a0Chair, Laurie Ellinghausen, University Missouri-Kansas City –\u00a0Student Union 316<\/span><\/h4>\n
                        \n
                      • Jason M. Demeter, University of Akron, \u201c\u2018This is a theatre of assault\u2019: Amiri Baraka\u2019s Dutchman and a Civil Rights Othello\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Amy Scott-Douglass, Denison University, \u201cReality Shakespeare: Screen Representations of Prison Theatre Programs: Shakespeare Behind Bars and HBO\u2019s Oz \u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Grant Williams, University of Pittsburgh, \u201cCrossing the Boundaries in Kushner and Shakespeare\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        3:45-5:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                        Session A: International Shakespeares –\u00a0Chair, Patrick Chura, University of Akron –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
                          \n
                        • Orpheus Allison, Shanghai Normal University, \u201cShakespeare in the English as a Second Language Classroom\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                        • Anna Lindh\u00e9, Lund University, \u201cNarratives of Land: King Lear in Sweden and America\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                        • Veronika Schandl, Peter Pazmany Catholic University of Hungary, \u201c\u2018A certain convocation of politic worms\u2019: Hamlet in Communist and Post-Communist Hungary\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          Session B: Shakespeare and Technological Dimensions –\u00a0Chair, Peggy Russo, Penn State-Mont Alto –\u00a0Student Union 316<\/span><\/h4>\n
                            \n
                          • Curtis C. Breight, University of Pittsburgh, \u201cSharp Weapons in a Madman\u2019s Hands: Shakespeare\u2019s Richard as Cyborg-Killer in Screamers.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                          • Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University, \u201c\u2018Liking Shakespeare\u2019: Sources, Analogues, and Word Links\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                          • Michael W. Young, LaRoche College, \u201cAs Deep as a Black Hole, as Wide as a Time Vortex: Shakespeare meets Doctor Who\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            5:15-6:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                            Session A: Influence of the Source –\u00a0Chair, Edmund Taft, Marshall University –\u00a0Student Union 316<\/span><\/h4>\n
                              \n
                            • Zachary Ferrell, Marshall University, \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Sonnets and the Uses of Platonism\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • Karen T. Miller, University of North Dakota, \u201cPlatonic Philosophy in Measure for Measure\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • Joe Sullivan, Marietta College, \u201cShakespearean Sideshadow: Contingency in Troilus and Cressida\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • Paul Weinhold , University of Dallas, \u201cLove\u2019s Resilience: Shakespeare\u2019s Linguistic Alternative to Bandello\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              Session B: Film Comedy Adaptations –\u00a0Chair, Jim Casey, Allegheny College –\u00a0Student Union 313<\/span><\/h4>\n
                                \n
                              • Dan Mills, Georgia State, \u201c\u2018I thought frailty\u2019s name was Carl\u2019: Mystery Science Theater, Shakespeare, and the End of Post-Modern Canonization\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Shannon P. Dobranski, Georgia Tech University, \u201cKilling with Kindness: Adapting the Shrew\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Julie Aronson, University of Akron, \u201c\u2018And I for no woman\u2019: Option, Agency, and the Influence of Mythology in Shakespeare\u2019s As You Like It\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                6:45-8:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Editorial Board Meeting –\u00a0Student Union, Location TBA<\/span><\/h4>\n

                                6:45-8:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Reception –\u00a0Sponsored by the Edwin Mellen Press –\u00a0Student Union 335<\/span><\/h4>\n

                                Saturday, October 13th<\/span><\/h1>\n

                                8:00am-2:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Conference Registration –\u00a0Student Union 3rd Floor<\/span><\/h4>\n

                                8:00am-12:00<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Publishers\u2019 Exhibits –\u00a0Student Union 314<\/span><\/h4>\n

                                8:00am<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Business Meeting –\u00a0Student Union, Location TBA<\/span><\/h4>\n

                                9:00-10:15am<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Session A: Talking Their Way Out of Trouble: Drama and the Uses of Language –\u00a0Chair, David George, Urbana University –\u00a0Student Union 310<\/span><\/h4>\n
                                  \n
                                • Benjamin V. Beier, University of Dallas, \u201cSkilled Speech and Fear of the Lord as the End of Tragedy in Cymbeline\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • K. E. Birdsall, University of Akron, \u201cTurning Them Inside and Out: Beatrice’s (Sub)version of Renaissance Ideals\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • Natalie Severt, Miami University, \u201cRehabilitation in The Tempest\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                  Session B: Adapting Tragedy to Film –\u00a0Chair, Lisa K. Stein, Ohio University-Zanesville –\u00a0Student Union 312<\/span><\/h4>\n
                                    \n
                                  • Jim Casey, Allegheny College, “Green-Eyed Monsters: Jealousy and Surveillance in O”<\/span><\/li>\n
                                  • Chad Meredith, Owens, \u201cIago Without the Intrigue\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                  • Gabriel A. Rieger, Gettysburg College, \u201cWill It Please You Eat?\u201d: Finding Shakespeare in Peter Greenaway\u2019s The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                    Session C: Out, out, damned spotlight!: Ninth Grade Macbeth –\u00a0Student Union 316<\/span><\/h4>\n