It tilts heavily towards the present; and the older periods are spotted, in their panels, with talks relating something very old to something very new (neo-Victorian fiction, new productions of C16 plays).

aedeangasteiz.com/programme/

#disciplinarity
#C18

(AEDEAN is the national English Studies association.)

Perhaps fewer than 10% of the literature talks are on pre-1600 topics, about 15% on the 19th century, and 75% on everything after 1900.

from the early modern period to the present day, d) Shakespeare’s role in the dialogue between English-speaking diasporas and Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the territories where they settled.

wsc2026.org/seminars-works…

b) Spanish, Portuguese, and Luso-Hispanic influences on the work and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, c) other forms of dialogue about Shakespeare and the performance of Shakespeare on the Iberian peninsula and in the broader Luso-Hispanic world....

Description: This seminar welcomes work exploring all aspects of Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic world, including a) the reading and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Spain, Portugal, and the Luso-Hispanic world,

a seminar on "Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet" (see below)—and there are still some spaces available. The deadline has been extended to the 15th of December. Hope to see you there !

S20.
Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet

Organisers: John Stone, Deanne Williams

On another leaf in the same book, he signed his name in English using the Spanish/Catalan naming custom: two surnames joined by a conjunction!

#bicultural
#binational

Northrop Frye would be listening!

If I had deep pockets in US higher ed, I'd be scrambling to set up satellite institutions abroad.

Un fort aplaudiment! (In the absence of euskera, I'm saying it in Catalan.)

#IcanreadthenumbersbutImnotgoodatmath

But seriously, I just stopped squinting and moved on!