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April 16, 2016
SHAKESPEARE + CANADA SYMPOSIUM
21-23 April 2016
All keynotes and panels to be held in Freiman Hall, School of Music, University of Ottawa
All performances to be held in Academic Hall, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, April 21
9:00 am - 5:00pm Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Welcome -- Dean, Faculty of Arts (to be confirmed)
Opening remarks: Kathryn Prince and Cynthia Sugars (University of Ottawa)
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Address: Daniel Fischlin (U of Guelph). “The Truth About Stories
About Shakespeare ... In Canada.” - Intro. Irena Makaryk (University of Ottawa)
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10: 30 – 12:15 Panel 1: Shakespeare, Nation, and the National Repertoire:
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Wes Pearce (University of Regina). “Romeo and/et Juliette: Reflections upon
„Canadiana‟ Shakespeare, Theatrical Practice and Identity.”
Patricia Badir and Vin Nardizzi (University of British Columbia). “Shakespeare in
the Park: 1916/2016.”
Amanda Montague (University of Ottawa). “Adapting Affects: Shakespearean Affects
as Tools of Interdisciplinary Exchange."
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch. Sonnet competition winners reading. Awards presented by Nini Pal and
Jennifer Panek (University of Ottawa)
1:30 – 3:15 Parallel Sessions:
Panel 2a: Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare:
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Peter Kuling (Wilfrid Laurier). “Queer History Plays at the Stratford Shakespeare
Festival.”
Virginia Vaughan (Clarke University). “Reimagining Shakespeare‟s Miranda in
Canadian Fiction.”
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Sarah Mackenzie (University of Ottawa). “Performing “Indigenous Shakespeare”
in Canada: Death of a Chief and The Tempest.”
Panel 2b: Shakespeare and Canadian Society:
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Dana Colarusso (Trent University). “Exploring Shakespeare‟s Exceptionality and the
effects of Shakespeare Consciousness on Canadian Society.”
 Erica Sheen (University of York, UK). “Putting the Prince of Denmark back
into Hamlet: John Peters Humphrey reads Shakespeare.”
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 – 5:00 Panel 3: Canadian Editors of Shakespeare. Panel leader and participant:
Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick)
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Paul Werstine (University of Western Ontario)
Helen Ostovich (McMaster University)
Michael Best (University of Victoria)
5:30-7:00 Cocktail dînatoire (ticketed, open to public, fundraiser for Performing Arts Lodge,
sponsor TBA)
7:00 Evening performance (ticketed, open to public): Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Thiessen.
Presented by Bear & Co., featuring Eleanor Crowder, directed by Diana Fajrajsl.
FRIDAY, April 22
9:00 - 10:30 Plenary Panel: The Stratford Festival (Pat Quigley, former Director of
Education and other speakers from the Festival; names to be determined in light of 2015-16
season) led by Andrea Gammon (Director of Education, Stratford Festival)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 Panel 4: The Stratford Festival:
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Ian Rae (University of Western Ontario). “Stratford, Shakespeare, and J.D. Barnett”
Todd Quick (Purdue University). “The Stratford Effect”
Ted McGee (University of Waterloo). “ 'Theatre is not a nursing home': Merchants of
Venice of the Stratford Festival”
Robert Ormsby (Memorial University). “Leon Rubin‟s Dream and Twelfth Night at
the Stratford Festival”
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12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Keynote Address: Annie Brisset (U of Ottawa), “Shakespeare et le nationalisme
québécois”
2:30 - 3:45 Parallel Sessions:
Panel 5a: Shakespeare au Québec:
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Jennifer Drouin (University of Alabama). “Shakespeare au/in Québec: A bilingual,
open-access anthology and database.”
Roxanne Martin (Université Laval). « Le peintre et le costumier : La nuit des rois de
Shakespeare à travers les costumes d‟Alfred Pellan et ceux de François Barbeau. »
Maxime Vachon (Université Laval). « La Tempête chez les habitants de l‟île »
Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire (Université Laval). « Shakespeare enseigné comme
philosophe politique : genèse d‟une réception particulière à Québec »
Panel 5b: Landmarks in Canadian Scholarship:
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Richard Cavell (University of British Columbia). “Shakespeare: McLuhan: Media”
Garry Sherbert (University of Regina). “‟The absence of a Shakespeare in Canada‟:
Frye‟s Canadian Green World.”
Troni Grande (University of Regina). Northrop Frye, Shakespeare, and the “Cultural
Lag” of Canadian Stratford
3:45 - 4:00 Coffee break
Parellel sessions:
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4:00 - 5:00 Roundtable 1a: Shakespeare, Québec et la francophonie canadienne
(participants to be determined) – Led by Sylvain Schryburt
4:00 – 5:00 Roundtable 1b: Shakespeare Research in a Digital Age: Laurence
Huot, Margaret Ashburner, Camille McAllister, Ann Hemingway (University of
Ottawa)
4:00-5:00 1c: “From the spine”: A Conversation with Monique Mojica and Sorouja
Moll about Shakespeare, Indigenous Theatre, and Death of a Chief.” Monique Mojica
Sorouja Moll (University of Waterloo). Moderator: Sarah MacKenzie (University
of Ottawa)
5:00 – 7:00 Cocktails and Dramatic Reading of We Petty Men (Lawrence Aronovitch)
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SATURDAY, April 23
9:30 -10:30 Keynote: Susan Coyne (Playwright, Actor, Screenwriter) -- Intro. Cynthia Sugars
(Event open to the public).
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15 Panel 6: “Cheer Up, Hamlet”: Spectres and Spectacles in Slings and Arrows -- Led by Daniel Fischlin (University of Guelph)
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Andrew Bretz (University of Guelph). “‟Drawing Them Up Out of Their Seats:
Theatrical Commercialization in Early Modern Theatre Practice and Slings and Arrows”
Don Moore (University of Guelph). “Race, National Identity, and the Hauntological
Ethics of Slings and Arrows
Kailin Wright (St Francis Xavier) “‟Who‟s There?‟ Slings and Arrows’ Audience
Dynamics.”
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Roundtable 2: Performing Shakespeare (Opera Lyra, Company of Fools, St.
Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Salamander, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Bear & Co.,
Company of Adventurers) – Led by Kevin Orr
2:15 – 3:30 Roundtable 3: Reviewing Shakespeare productions. J. Kelly Nestruck (The
Globe and Mail), Patrick Langston (The Citizen), Robert Cushman (The National Post)
4:00 – 6:00 Reception. Shakespeare Birthday Celebration