SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF EASTERN INDIA

Conference and After

India is a vast country with a noble cultural and historical heritage. It is a country which is surrounded by the Himalayas in the east, vast deserts in north-west, the sea in the south. You can also go down the memory lanes by visiting the ancient Buddhist sites or the great palaces of the Mughals and the Indian Maharajas or you may go mediating in the silence of the snow-capped Himalayas. If you feel like visiting different places of India , we might arrange lectures at universities near your place of tourist interest and the respective university will be glad to take you around the places of your tourist interest.

If you have any queries , please feel free to write to Amitava Roy, President , SSEI : ipslind@cal2.vsnl.net.in  Phone : 91-33-24662688

 Subir Dhar:  Secretary  :dharal@69@vsnl.net Phone : 91-33-23590845

 Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay: Convener,World Shakespeare Conference 2008:  debnarayan@gmail.com

Telephone : 91 33 24554181

FIFTH WORLD SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE, 13-16 DECEMBER 2008

Shakespeare in the Globe and Globalized Shakespeare

First World Shakespeare Conference was organised by the Shakespeare Society of Eastern India in December 2000. Encouraged by the huge participation of delegates from India and abroad, the Second World Shakespeare conference was organised on 1-4 December 2002. It was attended by nearly 400 delegates. Holger Klein( Salzburg ), Manfred Draudt( Vienna ), B Fraser (Scotland) , Lili Bita ( Greece ), Catherine Henze (USA ), Sheila Cavanagh ( USA), Brian Russo (USA ) , Robert Zaller ( USA ), Krystyna Kujawinska ( Poland) et al were among the scholars participating in the conference. Delegates came from all corners of India—East, West, North, South, Central and North-East.

Shakespeare Society of Eastern India also organized its Third World Shakespeare Conference on 5-8 December 2004 and it was again attended by a large number of Shakespeare scholars from different parts of India and abroad. SSEI organized its Fourth World Shakespeare conference on 30 December 2006---03 January 2007.

Recent trend of Shakespeare Studies is to largely reinterrogate the iconic version of the Elizabethan poet and dramatist, thereby dismantling the traditional stereotyping of cultural texts. Shakespeare as a British poet served to hegemonize an imperial model of critical reading. But reinterpretations of Shakespeare throughout the world seem to deflect traditional readings of Shakespeare. British Shakespeare has been therefore transformed into multiple Shakespeares. In the emerging terrain of culture studies, alternative re-readings of Shakespeare have subverted the traditional critiquing of Shakespeare. This year’s conference will be held on 13-16 December, 2008 and it   will negotiate the problematics associated with readings of Shakespeare in terms of multiple cultural variants in a global context. Central theme  of the World Shakespeare Conference 2008 will be Shakespeare in the Globe and Globalised Shakespeare . It will therefore seek to address the following issues :

• Oriental Shakespeares
• Shakespeare in Translations/Adaptations/Appropriations
• Shakespeare in Film
• Shakespeare in Stage Performance
• Future Shakespeares
• Shakespeare from the Margin
• Shakespeare and Culture Studies
• Subaltern Shakespeare
• Political Shakespeare
• Shakespeare in the Asia Pacific
• Euro-American Shakespeare
• Shakespeare in South-East Asia

Send your abstract in not more than 300 words toDeb Narayan Bandyopadhyay : debnarayan@gmail.com

Subir Dhar : dharal69@vsnl.net

Deadline for sending the abstract is 30 June 2008