YSLS 2023 Celebrating Shakespeare
Saturday, October 28, 2023
- Shakespeare’s texts and textuality
- Mythologies, origins, and traditions
- Shakespeare’s politics and economies
- Hybridity, monstrosity, and belonging
- Rationality and irrationality
- Community and alienation
- Race, racism, and modern rewrites
- Health and trauma in the plays and poems
- Spiritual growth and religious experience
- Renaissance lifestyles and identifications
- LGBTQ+ in Shakespeare
- Child and young adult characters
- Laughter, comedy, and tragicomedy
- Adaptation, receptions, and legacies
- Family (parent/child; sibling rivalry, etc.)
- The power of love
- Nature or the natural world
- Fate versus self-determinism
- Nationalism and geography
- Leadership questions
- Women in Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s sources
- Creative interpretations or revisions
- Strategies/ tips for teaching Shakespeare
Sessions will be organized in 1-hour blocks with 45 to 50 minutes of presentations and 10 to 15 minutes for discussion. We seek proposals for individual 10- to 15-minute presentations or preset panels of 3 to 4 presenters. Educators are also invited to facilitate a relevant 45-minute workshop. Creative approaches and special panels are welcome; please contact the conference email (ysls@su.edu) for more information.
Student participants may submit only one abstract for academic presentation and one for creative writing. Teachers may submit one proposed educator workshop.
Submissions will be accepted from July 1 – September 29, 2023 (deadline was extended from September 1, 2023). Accepted presenters will be required to register in advance.
Sessions will be organized in 1-hour blocks with 45 to 50 minutes of presentations and 10 to 15 minutes for discussion. We seek proposals for individual 10- to 15-minute presentations or preset panels of 3 to 4 presenters. Creative approaches and special panels are encouraged; please contact the conference email (ysls@su.edu) for more information. Each conference participant may submit only one abstract for academic presentation and only one for creative work.
Submissions will be accepted from July 1 – September 29, 2023 (deadline was extended from September 1, 2023). Accepted presenters will be required to register in advance.