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Discussion published by Brian M. Phillips on Tuesday, September 6, 2016
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Object and Adaptation: The Worlds of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Act 3
A Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Their Deaths and a
Comparative Study of Their Enduring Influence
Citation: Brian M. Phillips. Object and Adaptation Conference. H-Cervantes. 09-06-2016. https://networks.hnet.org/node/28771/discussions/142507/object-and-adaptation-conference
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October 13-14, 2016
UB Center for the Arts
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of both William
Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the pre-eminent authors
of poetic drama and of narrative in the western tradition and the subjects,
this year, of world-wide celebration.
Our Conference, which began this past spring with a consideration of the
“Object” of this interest—the texts of these authors and their survival—now
continues with their “Adaptation”: their enduring reputation and influence
in scholarship, in performance, in education, in popular culture, in politics
and policy, in the imagination.
To the initial talks by Oxford University First Folio scholar Emma Smith,
“From the Barbican to Buffalo: Why Shakespeare’s First Folio Matters”
(Act 1, March 28), and by University of Pennsylvania historians of the book
Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier, “Shakespeare’s Desk” and
“Publishing Shakespeare and Cervantes in Seventeenth Century” (Act 2,
April 6), we now add the following Act 3: talks, commentaries,
performances, and a concluding roundtable which explore the influence
and adaptation of the works of Shakespeare and Cervantes not just in
drama and narratology but also in religious and political aesthetics, animal
studies and ecocriticism, humoralism and affect theory, globalisms, and
Citation: Brian M. Phillips. Object and Adaptation Conference. H-Cervantes. 09-06-2016. https://networks.hnet.org/node/28771/discussions/142507/object-and-adaptation-conference
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experimental poetry.
Here in America the backbone of these celebrations is the nationwide tour
of 18 of the known 233 Shakespeare First Folios mounted by the Folger
Shakespeare Library. But Buffalo did not have to bid for a place on the
Folger travelling tour, since we own two sets of all four 17th-century
Shakespeare Folios (1623, 1632, 1663, 1685), one at the downtown Buffalo
and Erie County Public Library, and the other at UB Special Collections.
On October 4th at the B&ECPL they will be united for the first time ever as
part of a wide-ranging exhibit which will remain up for the rest of the year,
and celebrated there on Thursday, October 13th, from 5-7 pm, in a free
“Shakespeare Jubilee,” which will double as the reception for our
Conference.
All events are free and open to the public, but we do ask that you register
if
you
intend
to
stay
for
the
lunches:https://objectandadaptation.wordpress.com/register/. Explore this
web-site to find a detailed description of the Conference and its
participants and the “Shakespeare Jubilee,” and come join us on October
13th and 14th!
Citation: Brian M. Phillips. Object and Adaptation Conference. H-Cervantes. 09-06-2016. https://networks.hnet.org/node/28771/discussions/142507/object-and-adaptation-conference
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Additional sponsors: UB Dean of Undergraduate
Education, UB Department of English, UB Department of
History, UB Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, UB Libraries, UB Early Modern Research
Workshop, UB Performance Research Workshop, UB
Academies, UB Honors College, UB Gender Institute, UB
2020 Strategic Strength in Cultures & Texts, The Buffalo
& Erie County Public Library, SUNY Buffalo State
For more information on the year-long Shakespeare commemorative
activities
in
the
Buffalo-Niagara
region,
also https://buffalobard.wordpress.com/
Citation: Brian M. Phillips. Object and Adaptation Conference. H-Cervantes. 09-06-2016. https://networks.hnet.org/node/28771/discussions/142507/object-and-adaptation-conference
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