The 2023 Shakespeare Association of Korea International Conference
Day 0
26 October, Thursday
18:00-20:00
Reception Dinner @Hoam Faculty House
Day 1
27 October, Friday
9:00-9:30
Opening Speeches @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Shakespeare Association of Korea Presidential Address: President Hyon-u Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
⦁ Congratulatory Remark: President Oh Se-jung (Seoul National University)
9:30-10:30
Keynote Speech 1 @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley College):
“Once More unto the Breach: Shakespearean Universality Revisited”
Moderator: Hyon-U Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
Discussant: Roweena Yip (National University of Singapore)
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15
Panel Session 1: “Transposing Shakespeare in Korea” @Shin-Yang Library Room #302
Chair: Hyo Sik Hwang (Chungbuk National University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Dong-ha Seo (Korea Military Academy):
“Two Faces of the Keijo Higher Commercial School’s Hamlet”
⦁ Presenter 2: Sunghee Pak (Yonsei University) & Sue Hyun Jie (Yonsei University):
“Transposing Shakespeare: Moving Shakespeare in Love (2014) to the Korean Stage”
Discussant: Seunghee Bahng (Kookmin University), Hyeyoung Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Panel Session 2: “Relocating Shakespeare on Intercultural Stages” @Shin-Yang Library Room #309
Chair: Youngjoo Lee (Jangan University)
⦁ Presenter 1: James Tink (Tohoku University)
“‘Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair’: Grotesque Shakespeare”
⦁ Presenter 2: Hisao Oshima (Kyushu University):
“Dialect, Gender, Race and Diaspora in Chong Wishing’s Singing Shylock (2023)”
⦁ Presenter 3: Jan Creutzenberg (Ewha Womans University):
“Retelling, Replaying, Representing Shakespeare: Recent Pansori Adaptations in South Korea"
Discussant: Yehrim Han (Korea National Open University)
Panel Session 3: “Transposing Shakespeare in Asia: Shakespeare Reception History in the Colonial Japanese Era" @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Chair: Hyon-u Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Helena Shin (Waseda University):
“Strange Laws of a Strange Land: Early Korean Translations of the Trial Scene in The Merchant of Venice“
⦁ Presenter 2: Gongsu Na (Young Nam University):
“Shakespeare's Reception and Translation in Korea: Focusing on the Japanese Colonial Period“
⦁ Presenter 3: Daniel Gallimore (Kwansei Gakuin University)
“Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Tempest Translation and the Aesthetic of Wakanyō”
Discussant: Cho Seung (Gachon University), Seon Young Jang (Kongju National University)
12:15-13:15
Lunch
13:15-14:45
Panel Session 4: “Digital Revolution and Shakespeare“ @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Chair: Hyunjoo Kim (Jungwon University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Jungman Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies):
“Shakespeare in Zoom, a New Normal of Theatrical Contact: ‘Shakespeare on Zoom’ and ‘The Show Must Go Online’ Projects“
⦁ Presenter 2: Heejin Kim (Kyungpook National University)
“Deep Learning Shakespeare's Folio and Quartos”
⦁ Presenter 3: Yehrim Han (Korea National Open University):
“Issues of Liveness in Digital Theatre”
Discussant: Jae-hee Cho (Kyungpook National University), Chiyon Yu (University of Seoul)
Panel Session 5: “Cultural Proximity and Distance in Shakespeare” @Shin-Yang Library Room #309
Chair: In-Hwan Doh (Keimyung University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Hsiang-chun Chu (National Changhua University of Education):
“Alliance with the Audience through Direct Addresses: From Interiority to Social Networking”
⦁ Presenter 2: Scott Shepherd (Chongshin University):
“The Seoul Shakespeare Company: English-language Amateur Shakespeare in Korea”
⦁ Presenter 3: Youmi Jung (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
“Cut, Pasted, Illustrated, and Decorated: Remaking Shakespeare in Extra-Illustrated Books”
Discussant: Yeung Ah Kim (Hansung University), Jessica Chiba (University of Birmingham)
Panel Session 6: “Shakespeare’s Interdisciplinary Humanities“ @Shin-Yang Library Room #302
Chair: Sang-Hyun Kim (Semyeong University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Ja Young Jeon (Sogang University):
“Skins and Kins: Costume’s Attraction and Distance in The Witch of Edmonton“
⦁ Presenter 2: Vanessa Lim (Seoul National University):
“Politic Deliberation in Troilus and Cressida”
⦁ Presenter 3: Jaihong Ha and Mikyung Park (Kyonggi University):
“The New Natural Law Theory of J. Finnis and Shakespeare's All is Well That Ends Well“
Discussant: Yuri Ji (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Eunjoo Shin (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
14:45-16:15
Panel Session 7: “Transatlantic Reimagination of Shakespeare" @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Chair: Dongchoon Lee (Daegu University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Sarah Temmar (University of Montpellier III):
“Romeo and Juliet (2016) across the Mediterranean: Temporal, Spatial and Cultural Tensions“
⦁ Presenter 2: Tom Gorman (Coventry University):
“’We Commit No Crime to Use One Language in Each Several Clime’: A Telemetric Transnational Pericles“
⦁ Presenter 3: Yi-Hsin Hsu (National Taiwan University)
“Reconsidering the Early Shakespeare Reception and Performances in Korea before and during the Japanese Colonial Period”
Discussant: Sue Hyun Jie (Yonsei University), Sunghee Pak (Yonsei University)
Seminar Session 1: “Shakespeare and Intermediality“ @Shin-Yang Library Room #309
Chair: Bomin Kim (Seoul National University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Kakali Adhikary
“Shakespeare's Travel to India and Transposition to Society”
⦁ Presenter 2: Sambhabi Ghosh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
⦁ Presenter 3: Zehra Haliloğlu (Humboldt University)
⦁ Presenter 4: Artemis Preeshl (University of Madras)
“Shakespeare’s Female-Identified and Gender-Fluid Characters during the Roman Political Transition”
Workshop: “Metaverse Shakespeare” @Humanities #14 Theatre
Presenter: Hyon-u Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:15
Plenary Speech 1 @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University):
“What’s Hecuba to him?’ Acting, Impersonation, and Identity“
Moderator: Dong-ha Seo (Korea Military Academy)
Discussant: Boram Choi (Korea National University of Arts)
17:15-18:00
Plenary Speech 2 (Online) @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University):
“How Far Is Shakespeare's Language from That of His Contemporaries?”
Moderator: Eonjoo Park (Jeonbuk National University)
Discussant: Woo Soo Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
20:00-21:10
Performance: Macbeth's Lady Shaman @Humanities #14 Theatre
Day 2
October, 28, Saturday
9:00-10:30
Panel Session 8: “Issues of Gender in Shakespeare“ @Humanities #14 Room #102
Chair: Seong-kwan Cho (Kyung Hee University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University):
“Transposing Shakespeare and Transing Gender: Performativity and the Trans Lens” (Online)
⦁ Presenter 2: Roweena Yip (National University of Singapore):
"You Should Be Women”: The Weird Sisters in Two Macbeth Productions"
⦁ Presenter 3: Unyoung Park (Kyungpook National University):
“The Faithful Adaptation with the Modernization: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015)”
Discussant: Youmi Jung (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Kyung Jin Bae (Hoseo University)
Panel Session 9: “Shakespeare in Asia” @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Chair: HyoChun Park (Kangnam University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Manabu Noda (Meiji University):
“In the Name of the Nameless: Shakespeare, Kabuki, and Arena Rock in Hideki Noda’s A Night at The Kabuki Inspired by Romeo and Juliet”
⦁ Presenter 2: Amir Hossain (IBAIS University):
“Teaching-cum-Practicing Shakespeare through Multimedia Projector in Bangladeshi Universities”
⦁ Presenter 3: Min-Hua Wu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
“Translating Shakespearean ‘Royal We’ in Hamlet: From Liang Shih-chiu to Perng Ching-Hsi”
Discussant: Seunghyun Hwang (Incheon National University), Beau La Rhee (Jeju National University)
Seminar 2: “Cultural Mobility of Shakespeare” @Humanities #14 Room #103
Chair: Vanessa Lim (Seoul National University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Li Dan (Sun Yat-sen University):
“Localizing Hamlet in China: Sacrificial Rituals in The Banquet”
⦁ Presenter 2: Nizar Zouidi (University of Gafsa):
“Homecoming and Narrative World(Re-)making in Shakespearean Tragedies and Comedies”
⦁ Presenter 3: Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech)
“Race and Belonging in Jiehae Park’s Shakespearean Adaptation”
10:30-11:15
Plenary Speech 3 (Online) @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: David McInnis & Margaret Havrey (University of Melbourne):
“In States Unborn and Accents yet Unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous Performance”
Moderator: Heegoo Lee (Jungwon University)
Discussant: Yi-Hsin Hsu (National Taiwan University)
11:15-12:00
Plenary Speech 4 @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: Jongsook Lee (Seoul National University)
"Shakespeare in Meiji Japanese Discourses on Modernity"
Moderator: Tai-Won Kim (Sogang University)
Discussant: Yeeyon Im (Yonsei University)
12:00~13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:30
Panel Session 10: “Project ASIA: Archiving Shakespeare Performances” @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Chair: Michael Dobson (University of Birmingham)
⦁ Presenter 1: Yong Li Lan (National University of Singapore)
⦁ Presenter 2: Jessica Chiba (University of Birmingham)
⦁ Presenter 3: Alvin Lim (National University of Singapore)
⦁ Presenter 4: Suematsu Michiko (Gunma University)
Discussant: Scott Shepherd (Chongshin University)
Panel Session 11 (Online): “Shakespeare and Cultural Translation” @Humanities #14 Room #103
Chair: In-Hwan Doh (Keimyung University)
⦁ Presenter 1: Ernesto A. Pang Jr.
“Shylock Goes to Divisoria: Transplanting Shakespeare in Urban Manila for a High School Production”
⦁ Presenter 2: Rani Drew (Independent Artist)
“'Shakespeare Re-Done: The Three Act Hamlet"
⦁ Presenter 3: Na-Young Seo
“Shakespeare and K-drama: Challenging the Traditional Gender Roles”
Discussant: Ja Young Jeon (Sogang University), Jungjin Yi (Jeonju National University of Education)
14:30-15:30
Keynote Speech 2 @Humanities #14 Auditorium
⦁ Presenter: Gary Taylor (Florida State University)
“The History of Shakespeare's Histories”
Moderator: Heejin Kim (Kyungpook National University)
Discussant: Tai-Won Kim (Sogang University), Eonjoo Park (Jeonbuk National University)
15:30-15:40
Coffee Break
15:40-16:30
Round Table @Humanities #14 Auditorium
Gary Taylor (Florida State University)
Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley College)
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
Michael Dobson (University of Birmingham)
Yong Li Lan (National University of Singapore)
Hyon-u Lee (Soonchunhyang University)
Moderator: Tai-Won Kim (Sogang University)
16:35-18:00
Performance: Pansori Hamlet @Humanities #14 Theatre
18:00-
Closing Remark, Gala Dinner @Rak Gu Jung Restaurant