CALL FOR PAPERS

The BSA Board of Trustees is proud to host the 2021 British Shakespeare Association virtual conference on the theme of Shakespeare In/Action.

The conference will explore new ways of putting Shakespeare into action, looking at the intersections between Shakespearean texts and performances, disciplinary innovation, and the multiple ways in which these interact with history, politics and culture. The focus on innovation is particularly relevant since the closure of theatres due to the coronavirus epidemic, and we address this in the conference title: Shakespeare In/Action. Using a virtual platform, the conference invites academics, practitioners, and educators from across the world to consider how we might utilise new interdisciplinary approaches in order to develop innovative ways of performing, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare.

Participation in this year’s online conference will be open to members of the British Shakespeare Association. To join or renew your membership, please visit: https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/members/join-the-bsa-or-renew-membership/

The Conference Committee will contact all those who have already submitted proposals to the previous CfP last year. Please note: submissions of proposals for new sessions, individual papers, and submissions to seminar sessions are now closed. 

It is still possible to sign up for one of two interactive workshops at this year’s conference:

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS

It is possible to sign up for participation in an interactive online workshops at this year’s conference. These two-hour sessions will be held as ‘live’ online events during the conference, giving participants an opportunity to engage directly in exercises and prompts pertaining to the workshop theme. There is a cap of 15 participants per workshop. Please note:workshops will be open to auditors at the workshop leaders’ discretion and may be recorded.

To apply to take part in this workshop, email the workshop facilitators directly with an expression of interest and a short biographical note by 30^th June 2021.

More information about the conference and the schedule will be posted here in due course. The BSA’s Conference Committee can be contacted at [email protected]