Event Media Archive - British Shakespeare Association

Fantasy Shakespeare and Women: A Conversation

19th November 2023

Speakers: Varsha Panjwani, Sarah Olive and Chloe Gong

The New York Times bestselling author, Chloe Gong, is one of the most exciting voices in Fantasy novels and she takes inspiration from Shakespeare. Her ‘Secret Shanghai’ series was a YA Fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet and she has just adapted Antony & Cleopatra for her Adult Fantasy trilogy, ‘Flesh and False Gods’. In Gong’s hands, Shakespeare’s women characters have become forces to reckon with. At this online event Gong read a short excerpt from her latest book, Immortal Longings, followed by an interview with Sarah Olive (Aston University), lead editor of the peer-reviewed international journal, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. The event is a collaboration between the British Shakespeare Association and the Women & Shakespeare Podcast which has featured both Gong and Olive as guests.

A recording of the event is available HERE.

BSA 2023 Conference

10th November 2023

The BSA’s 2023 conference on the theme of ‘Relocating Shakespeare’ took place at the University of Liverpool, 25th – 28th July.

The BSA Board of Trustees is immensely grateful to the institutional organisers and hosts of our 2023 conference, Dr Esme Miskimmin (University of Liverpool), Dr Katie Knowles (University of Liverpool), and Professor Emerita Elspeth Graham (Liverpool John Moores University), without whose tireless work the event could not have taken place. A more detailed statement about the conference is available here.

We are delighted to share a selection of plenary sessions and a compilation video of the event (the latter was recorded by James McCay).

BSA Roundtable on the First Folio

23rd April 2023

This roundtable was recorded on 21st April 2023 to coincide with a forthcoming special issue on the First Folio of the BSA’s Shakespeare journal.

Speakers:

Gabriel Egan

Patricia Badir

Chris Laoutaris

Eric Rasmussen

Jyotsna G. Singh

See also: Chris Laoutaris Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio (William Collins)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeares-Book-Intertwined-Lives-Behind/dp/0008238383

Paul Edmondson, Aaron Kent, Katherine Scheil, and Chris Laoutaris, Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare (Broken Sleep Books)
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/anne-thology

All the proceeds from the latter book go towards funding Shakespeare Birthplace Trust education projects.

‘Types of Titus’: Titus Andronicus and Social Justice

25th March 2023

This roundtable examined Titus Andronicus as a play historically implicated in the nexus between racial discrimination, sexual violence and political division. With a particular emphasis on the 2023 production held at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the roundtable featured a series of short provocations upon Titus in the context of social justice from scholars and practitioners, followed by a brief panel discussion.

Roundtable organisers: Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter) and Emily Louisa Smith (Université de Genève).

Speakers: Georgia Fulton (Université de Genève), Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe / King’s College London), Harry McCarthy (University of Cambridge), Chloe Preedy (University of Exeter), Maria Shmygol (University of Galway), Emily Smith (Université de Genève) and Victoria Sparey (University of Exeter).

This event took place on Friday 24 March 2023.