Saturday, April 19th, 2008
9:00-5:00
Worcester State College, Worcester, MA
Schedule
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9:00 - 9:30
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Registration, Coffee, Continental Breakfast
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9:30 - 9:45
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Welcoming Remarks:
Dr. Maureen Shamgochian, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs, Worcester State College
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9:50 - 11:00
Session One
Sullivan Academic Center
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Panel A: Gender and the Unnatural (Room 307, Sullivan)
Moderator:
Dr. MaryLynn Saul, Worcester State College
- Samantha Keefe, Clark University: “Boy, Is That Unnatural!: Male Actors, Boy Actors, and Female Characters of
Twelfth Night.”
- Jacqueline Morrill, Worcester State College: “The Wicked Women of
Macbeth.”
- Haley Stefan, Worcester State College: “The ‘W’ in Witchcraft: Women’s Perceived Role in Society.”
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Panel B: Where We Are Is Hell (Room 302, Sullivan)
Moderator:
Dr. Virginia Vaughan, Clark University
- Julia Chesley, Plymouth State University: “Psychological Degradation: Supernatural Interference in
Macbeth and Dr. Faustus.”
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Patrick Cuff, Fitchburg State College: “Angels, Ghosts, and Devils: The Supernatural in
Hamlet and Doctor Faustus.”
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Michelle Mercure, Bridgewater State College: “The Spanish Tragedy and the Supernatural: Exploring the Coexistence of the Patriotic and the Subversive Interpretation in
The Spanish Tragedy.”
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11:10 - 12:20
Session Two
Sullivan Academic Center
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Panel C: Eternal Life, Eternal Damnation (Room 307, Sullivan)
Moderator:
Ms. Amber Vayo, Worcester State College
- Aaron Cutler, Brown University: “Theater of Change: Midsummer, Metamorphoses, and Immortality.”
- Steven Smyth, Worcester State College: “Shakespeare, Ghosts, and the Unconscious Mind.”
- Jaclyn Sylvia, College of the Holy Cross: “The Legacy of Doctor John Faustus of Wittenberg.”
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Panel D: Naturally Speaking (Room 302, Sullivan)
Moderator: Dr. Helen Whall, College of the Holy Cross
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Lisa Cronin, Suffolk University: “Fraudulence in Relation to Fluency: “The Question of Legitimacy through the Unnatural Use of the French Language in
Henry V.”
- Heather Martone, College of the Holy Cross: “The Supernatural, Natural, and Unnatural: Milk and Blood in
Macbeth.”
- Claire Marie Stancek, University of Toronto: “Talking to Whom?: Self-directed Curses and Invocations in
Richard III and Macbeth.”
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12:30 - 2:00
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Luncheon
1:00 Introduction to Speaker
Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Coppélia Kahn, Brown University, "'Against all rules of nature': categories
of difference in Othello."
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2:00 - 3:10
Session Three
Sullivan Academic Center
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Panel E: Haunted Screen (Room 307, Sullivan)
Moderator:
Dr. Lisa Gim, Fitchburg State College
- Marcy Colalillo, Fitchburg State College: “Throne of Blood and the Spider’s Web: Negotiating the Unnatural and Supernatural in Kurasawa’s Noh Version of
Macbeth.”
- Laurel Dejniak, Fitchburg State College: “Supernaturally Sexy Shakespeare: Archetypes of Female Power in
Macbeth.”
- Grahame Turner, Northeastern University: “Painted Devil or Demon Queller: Looking at
Macbeth from the Throne of Blood.”
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Panel F: Chaos Comes Again (Room 302, Sullivan)
Moderator:
Mr. Michael Lebrecque, Worcester State College
- Chanchala Gunewardena, Clark University: “The Physics of Lear.”
- Bonnie Stewart, University of Massachusetts-Boston: “ ‘O Falsely, Falsely Murdered!’ : The Unnatural Revivification of Desdemona.”
- Galen Tan, Tufts University: “Crafting the Storm: The Natural, The Unnatural, and The Supernatural in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.”
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3:15
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Refreshments
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3:30
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Presentation of the Conference Awards
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3:45 - 4:45
Blue Lounge, Student Center
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Performance from The Tempest by Actors’ Shakespeare Project
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