Symposium: ‘Shakespeare the Irishman’ – 14 April 2023

A one-day symposium as part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin will host a one day symposium under the title ‘Shakespeare the Irishman’ from 9am to 5pm on Friday 14th April.

The symposium is hosted by Prof Andy Murphy of Trinity’s School of English and it will feature papers from Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews, UK), and from Mark Burnett, Emer McHugh and Molly Quinn-Leitch (Queens University Belfast); Patrick Lonergan and David O’Shaughnessy (University of Galway); Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University); Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) and Marc Caball (University College Dublin).

The event is open to the public and is free to attend, but registration is required. See eventbrite for tickets.

The symposium is part of a week-long series of events at Trinity celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, including an exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library, an online exhibition, and a public lecture by Prof Andy Murphy on the history and significance of the First Folio and of Trinity’s own copy of the volume on Wednesday 12th April. Attendance at the lecture is open to the public free of charge, but registration is required.

Symposium Program:
9:00-9:15 Introduction & welcome – Andy Murphy
9:15-10:00 Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth): ‘”This earth shall have feeling”: Looking for (Irish) Roots in Shakespeare’s Richard II’
10:00-10:45 David O’Shaughnessy (Galway): ‘Shakespeare and Irish Patriotism: Thomas Sheridan’s Coriolanus (1752)’
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Marc Caball (UCD) & Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library): ‘Tralee, 1756: Shakespeare on the Atlantic Edge’
11:45-12:30 Molly Quinn-Leitch (QUB): ‘The Presence of Shakespeare Material Traces in Victorian Belfast (1837-1901)’
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Neil Rhodes (St Andrews): ‘Shakespeare and Yeats’
2:15-3:00 Patrick Lonergan (Galway): ‘Hamlet the Irishman’
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Emer McHugh (QUB): ‘Siobhán McKenna’s “Experimental Version” of Hamlet, or, Some Reflections on Writing About Irish Shakespeare Performance’
4:00-4:45 Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB): ‘Ireland’s Shakespeare: Cinematic Histories/Social Justice’
4:45-5:00 Close

Shakespeare’s First Folio in the Folger Shakespeare Library (This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)

Talk: “The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare: Four Hundred Years of the First Folio” – 12 April 2023

As part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays – the ‘First Folio’ – Prof Andy Murphy of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin will give a public lecture at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute on the history of the volume and why it is so important. Trinity holds the only copy of the First Folio on the island of Ireland and Prof Murphy will also speak about the particular features of the Trinity copy, including examining some of the peculiar marks and inscriptions to be found in the book.

The event is open to the public and is free to attend, but registration is required – see eventbrite here.

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Public talk: “Racialising Mortality in Early Visual Culture and the Shakespearean Stage” by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper – 3rd December 2019

“Racialising Mortality in Early Visual Culture and the Shakespearean Stage”

by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper

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Tuesday 3rd December 2019, at 5pm, 

in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

 

As part of the Whitfield Visiting Lecture Series, Trinity’s School of Creative Arts and Department of Drama are proud to present Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Higher Education and Research, Shakespeare’s Globe, UK) speaking on death, race, and beauty.

Dr Farah Karim-Cooper

Dr Karim-Cooper’s talk will focus on the representations of death that participate in the development of Renaissance ideals of beauty, virtue and racial superiority in Western Europe. It will pose questions such as: How are Early modern ideas of mortality shaped by encounters with non-white bodies and cultures? And how does Shakespearean tragedy allude to the iconographic polarities of racial distinction when staging death and dying?

Dr Karim-Cooper oversees the Higher Education programme and leads Research and scholarship at Shakespeare’s Globe. She is Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London and co-convenes the King’s/Globe joint MA in Shakespeare Studies. She was the 2013 Lloyd Davis Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland, a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and Chair of the Globe Architecture Research Group that led the research into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. She is frequently a keynote speaker and panellist at national and international conferences on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, early modern culture and theatre practice. Farah curated the Shakespeare and Race Festival in August 2018. Her research interests are theatre history, feminism, critical race theory and performance. Farah is the author of Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, revised edition (EUP, 2019), The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Titus Andronicus: The State of Play (Bloomsbury, 2019). She is currently working on a book on Shakespeare, Race and Death and editing The Duchess of Malfi for the Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (forthcoming 2020).

Dr Karim-Cooper’s talk will be followed by the launch of Shakespeare’s Body Language: Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage, written by Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (Assist. Prof. in Drama, Trinity College Dublin) from 6pm in the Samuel Beckett Theatre Foyer, TCD.

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CFP – The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception – conference at Trinity College Dublin 2020

Trinity College Dublin 24-25 April 2020 Proposals for papers are invited for a conference on The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception, which aims to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for researchers with an interest in the history of the senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Keynote Speaker: Professor […]

via Appel à contribution – The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception — RMBLF.be

Conference at Trinity Dublin: Borderlines XXIII programme

We’ve finalised the programme for Borderlines Conference 2019, held at Trinity College, Dublin. Click the link for the Borderlines Programme to see the range of fantastic papers set to be presented. Looking forward to seeing you all at the end of the month! Borderlines Committee

via Borderlines XXIII Programme — Borderlines XXIII

Seminar Series: Centre for Early Modern History, TCD

Upcoming talks in the Centre for Early Modern History at Trinity this term:

16 Feb	Hannah Murphy (University of Oxford), ‘How to be a Burghermeister in Sixteenth-Century Germany’.
9th Mar	Howard Louthan (University of Florida), ‘Poland and the Challenge of Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Europe’.
12th March	Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge), ‘Dressing up during the Renaissance and Reformation’. Annual Centre for Early Modern History Annual Lecture. This lecture begins at 6.30 pm.
18th Mar	Dan Edelstein (Stanford), ‘On the Spirit of the Rights’. This seminar will start at 5.30pm in the Long Room Hub.

Podcasts: Centre for Early Modern History, TCD

The ongoing seminar series from the Centre for Early Modern History has now made some of their talks available as podcasts through Soundcloud, recorded at Trinity’s Long Room Hub.

David O’Shaughnessy (TCD), “Bit by some mad whig”: Charles Macklin, Man of the World’, available here.

Susan Flavin (TCD), ‘Consuming Elites: Diet and Nutrition in Sixteenth-Century Ireland’, available here.

More in the series available here.

Podcasts: Trinity Staff Post-graduate seminars

Trinity’s ongoing series of staff post-graduate seminars now has podcasts available for this term’s papers by Dr. Brendan O’Connell (TCD) on The Book of the Governor, and Dr Jesse Lander (Notre Dame) on Hamlet & Horripilation.

For the full schedule of talks, see staffpostgraduate14.wordpress.com

Talk: Hamlet, Horror, and Horripilation

The TCD School of English Staff–Postgraduate Seminar Series welcomes Dr Jesse Lander from the University of Notre Dame for a paper entitled ‘Hamlet, Horror and Horripilation’, on Wednesday 5 November at 5 15 pm in the Arts Block, room 3025.

This paper argues that horripilation—having one’s hair stand on end—assumes a peculiar significance in Shakespeare’s drama as the bodily response to supernatural soliciting. Locating horripilation both theatrically and culturally, I consider the way in which this basic, biological response receives a particular post-Reformation inflection. Drawing on sermon material, I suggest that horripilation is part of a more general cultivation of anxiety encouraged by Calvinism. In the theater, horripilation is evidence that the staging of the supernatural served to elicit a range of particular affective responses. In contrast to approaches that focus on questions of belief (or unbelief) and confessional theology, attention to the connection between special affects and the supernatural presents the theater as a distinctive site that resists disenchantment through the cultivation of both horror and wonder.

For full abstract see here.

Seminar Series: Centre for Early Modern History, TCD

Trinity College Dublin Centre for Early Modern History
Seminar Series 2014-15
Seminars take place on Mondays at 4.00pm in the Neill/ Hoey Lecture Theatre of the Long Room Hub, TCD.

Michaelmas Term

13 October Joseph Clarke (TCD), ‘“What was God doing in the eighteenth century?”: The Politics of Providence in Revolutionary France’.
20 October Kathleen Middleton (TCD), ‘Mainstreaming the Martyrs: Confessional History Writing in Hanoverian Scotland’.
3 November Reading Week
10 November Patrick Little (History of Parliament Trust, London), ‘The Politics of Preferment: the Marquess of Ormond and the Appointment of Bishops, 1643-1647’.
17 November Rei Kanemura (QUB), ‘Defining Scotland: The 1603 Union of the Crowns and the Politics of Union Negotiations, 1604-8’.
24 November Peter Boyle (TCD), ‘Eighteenth-Century Trinity: a Quarrelsome Provost’.
1 December Máire Kennedy (Dublin City Public Libraries), ‘Irish Booksellers and the Circulation of Enlightenment Ideas through Print’.
8 December David O’Shaughnessy (TCD), “Bit by some mad whig”: Charles Macklin, Man of the World’.

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Hilary Term

19 January Edoardo Tortorolo (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale), ‘(More) Connected Worlds: the Eighteenth Century from a Global Perspective.’
26 January Timothy Watt (QUB), ‘Taxation Riots and the Resistance to the Fiscal-Military State in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland’.
2 February Susan Flavin (TCD), ‘Consuming Elites: Diet and Nutrition in Sixteenth-Century Ireland’.
9 February Emma Hart (St. Andrews), ‘From Field to Plate: Livestock Markets and Economic Cultures in Britain’s Atlantic World Before 1783’.
16 February Hannah Murphy (Oxford), ‘How to be a Burghermeister in Sixteenth-Century Germany’.
23 February Reading Week
2 March Silvia Evangelisti (Univeristy of East Anglia), title tbc.
9 March Howard Louthan (University of Florida), ‘Poland and the Challenge of Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Europe’.
12 March Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge), ‘Dressing up during the Renaissance and Reformation’. Annual Centre for Early Modern History Annual Lecture. N.B. this lecture begins at 6.30 pm.
18 March Dan Edelstein (Stanford), ‘On the Spirit of the Rights’. N. B. This seminar will start at 5.30pm in the Long Room Hub.

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For further details of the Centre’s activities, please contact Joseph Clarke at joseph.clarke@tcd.ie