SCAENA Conference 2008 (Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Performance and Adaptation) will take place next week, 18-20 July, at Anglia Ruskin University. Full details and programme are available on the conference website.
Keynote papers will be given by Catherine Belsey, Judith Buchanan, Peter Holland, Ann Thompson and Stanley Wells.
Pascale Aebischer (English, Exeter) will give a paper entitled: ‘”John Webster: Do we have a chance to interview him later on?”: Mike Figgis’ Hotel (2001) and the Preposterous Aesthetic of the Contemporary Jacobean Film’
Michael Mangan (Drama, Exeter) will be speaking on ‘Poaching from the poacher: Shakespeare, adaptation and pedagogy’.