New ESRA Conference Pisa 2009

ESRA Announcement

Between 19 and 22 November 2009, the University of Pisa hosted a highly successful Shakespeare and Conflict conference. Members from many European countries but also from Asia and the US agreed that the conference - organised by Carla Dente and Sara Soncini of the University of Pisa - was a truly memorable event, in terms of the papers given, the lively seminars in which many of us participated, and the social programme.

During the general meeting on the last day of the conference, the President of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Andreas Höfele, proposed to have the next ESRA conference coincide with the 2011 conference of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, to be held in Weimar (Germany), in April 2011. The members of ESRA accepted the proposal. The theme of the conference that the German Shakespeare Society and ESRA will be preparing together over the next eighteen months will be "Shakespeare's Shipwrecks."

At the Pisa gathering, the members of ESRA elected a new board:

Board Members:   
Ton Hoenselaars, Chair (Utrecht University)
Clara Calvo, Conference (University of Murcia)
Marta Gibinska, Treasurer (University of Cracow)
Keith Gregor, Secretary (University of Murcia)
Michael Dobson (Birkbeck, University of London)
Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame in London)
Sara Soncini (University of Pisa)
Andreas Höfele (University of Munich)

More information about the Weimar conference will soon be available on the website of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en.html).

With best wishes for the new year, on behalf of the entire board,

Ton Hoenselaars

We hope to welcome many of you as members of our new Association, online at the Discussion Group, and at our future conferences. Register with us at the website.
 
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us via the Secretary, Keith Gregor (gregork@um.es).

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