{"id":14487,"date":"2025-12-22T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dae.mcu.edu.tw\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:27:03","slug":"call-for-papers-2026-wenshan-x-tsa-international-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dae.mcu.edu.tw\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/call-for-papers-2026-wenshan-x-tsa-international-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers-2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted by:\u00a0<\/strong>NCCU Department of English, Taiwan Shakespeare Association<\/p>\n

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>November 29, 2026<\/p>\n

Venue:\u00a0<\/strong>National Chengchi University\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shakespeare\u2019s works continue to inhabit what Stephen Greenblatt calls a \u201ccirculating energy system,\u201d an ever-renewing sphere in which texts, performances, and interpretations travel across borders and epochs, sustaining the playwright\u2019s presence in world culture. Tiffany Stern\u2019s seminal research further reminds us that Shakespeare should be understood not as a fixed authorial entity but as an ongoing \u201cprocess\u201d\u2014a dynamic constellation of scripts, fragmentary documents, performance traces, and editorial interventions that resist the notion of a stable text. Michael Dobson likewise observes that modern Shakespeare is the product of centuries of reinvention, shaped not only by actors and editors but also by national agendas, pedagogical traditions, and global readerships. Harold Bloom\u2019s concept of the \u201cinvented human\u201d underscores Shakespeare\u2019s unparalleled imaginative reach,\u00a0 while\u00a0 Jonathan Bate\u2019s emphasis on Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cmetamorphic adaptability\u201d illuminates the playwright\u2019s capacity to thrive in new media and cultural forms.<\/p>\n

To broaden participation across historical periods, this conference extends its scope to explore Shakespeare from the 16th<\/sup>\u00a0century to the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century,\u00a0 inviting scholars of Renaissance literature, Long Eighteenth Century studies, Victorian\/19th<\/sup>-century reception, Modernism and Modern Shakespeare, and contemporary adaptation, digital humanities, cultural studies, and global circulation. We welcome papers addressing Shakespeare\u2019s influence, reception, resonance, reinvention, translation, and remediation centuries of literary, historical, philosophical, and media transformations.<\/p>\n

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Topics may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare in the 16th<\/sup>-17th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries: Text, Stage, Print Culture<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 18th<\/sup>-Century Shakespeare: Restoration, Editing, Enlightenment Thought<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 19th<\/sup>-Century Shakespeare: Romantic Aesthetics, Victorian Reception, Global Expansion<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 20th<\/sup>-Century Shakespeare: Modernism, Film, Politics, Theory, Pedagogy<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 21st<\/sup>-Century Shakespeare: AI, Digital Humanities, New Media & VR Performance<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare Translation across Centuries<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Global Shakespeare & Cross-Cultural Circulation<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare in Asia \/ Taiwan<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Adaptation Across Media (stage\/film\/music\/game\/opera)<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare in Classroom and Curriculum Innovation<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Canon Formation & Cultural Memory<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Posthuman, Ecocritical, Anthropocene Shakespeare<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Sonnets and Contemporary Poetic Rewriting<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare and Empire, Mobility, Migration<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare and Law \/ Ethics \/ Gender \/ Affect<\/p>\n

l\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\uf077 Shakespeare and Performance Studies, Festival Cultures<\/p>\n

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Keynote Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n