BSA 2019 at Swansea University
16th June 2018
The British Shakespeare Association and Swansea University
are delighted to announce that the 2019 annual conference of the British Shakespeare Association
will take place from:
17th to 20th July 2019
The theme is
‘race and nation’;
a Call for Papers will be released in due course.
We can already reveal the first plenary speaker to be
Kim F. Hall,
Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor Africana Studies at Barnard College, Colombia University.
Call for Conference Organizers: BSA 2021
16th June 2018
The British Shakespeare Association welcomes applications from institutions to host the British Shakespeare Association conference in 2021. This is the largest regular Shakespeare conference in the United Kingdom, bringing together researchers, teachers and theatre practitioners to share the latest work on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
The conference is the highest profile activity organised by the BSA, and draws delegates from around the world. The local organising team is a vital part of the BSA’s mission, and will receive full support from the BSA board, which has over a decade’s experience of overseeing these events. The conference team benefit from the full infrastructural support of the BSA, including its mailing lists, professional contacts and organisational advice.
Please contact Susan Anderson (susan.anderson@shu.ac.uk), the head of the BSA’s events committee, with any expressions of interest.
‘Why Shakespeare?’ Launching the BSA’s Performance and Media Branch
16th June 2018
In collaboration with the Actor’s Centre, the British Shakespeare Association is proud to present:
Why Shakespeare?
13 October 2018
The Actors Centre, 1A Tower St, London WC2H 9NP
Why do we keep producing and performing Shakespeare on stage, screen and film? What incentives and difficulties does Shakespeare present to you as an independent practitioner or member of a company, small or large? In your specialist role as a performer, designer, stage manager, fight director, dancer, director, producer, company manager, maker of film, television or screen games, does Shakespeare offer unique opportunities and challenges? Do you want to be in the room where Shakespeare happens? If so, why?
‘Why Shakespeare?’ is a free event combining practical workshops and interactive discussions to celebrate the launch of a new performance and media branch of the British Shakespeare Association. By exploring some of these questions, we aim to learn how the British Shakespeare Association might best support the community of performance practitioners, to whom we are offering free membership of the BSA.
Finally, longer term aim: to conduct a national survey of all the Shakespeare being produced in theatres / by touring companies across the country and to apply for funding to compile this information as an archive and go and interview practitioners as they are in production or rehearsing. Such an archive would then be of use to theatre historians as well as practitioners seeking advice / inspiration / caution!
More details will be published shortly…
