Events


Round table on the Shakespeare sermons at the Instituto Cervantes in London on 17 October 2024

We are delighted to share with you the photos and the recording of the presentation of our project and the round table on the Shakespeare sermons, with the participation of Revd. Dr. Paul Edmondson, Revd. Dr. Paul Fiddes and Prof. Graham Holderness, at the Instituto Cervantes in London on 17 October 2024. 

British Shakespeare Association 2024 Conference. Shakespeare’s Writing Lives.  De Montfort University, Leicester (26-28 June 2024)

Jonathan P. A. Sell “Charles Gildon’s The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton and Shakespeare as pulpit Divine” PANEL 4: Shakespeare and Religion / Shakespeare’s Religious Afterlives.

Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature Online Seminar (18 June 2024) 

Jonathan P. A.  Sell. Invited Lecture.  “How Shakespeare became the Englishman’s God: reading religion in eighteenth-century bardolatry”.

34th International SEDERI Conference. Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming. Salamanca (24-26 April 2024)
Luis Conejero. “Post-pandemic Shakespeare: Religious Influences in the Novel Station Eleven
Isabel Guerrero. “Shakespeare in the Abbey: ‘Civic Shakespeare’ in Promenade” 
Jonathan Sell. “A Quaker in Bridewell; or, Shakespeare’s Ferdinand and the Bawdy House Riots of 1668”

First Folio 400th anniversary at UNED.
UNED Commemorates the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

BSA 2023 Conference: “Re-locating Shakespeare,” University of Liverpool, 25-28 July, 2023
SEMINAR: Shakespeare – Convenor, Alex Thom
Luis Javier Conejero-Magro. “Religious Banishment in Shakespeare’s History Plays: Richard II’s Sin and Punishment” (Friday, 28 July, 2023, 10:00-12:00)

2023 European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Budapest, 6-9 July, 2023
Panel: “Changing perspectives on Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s religious afterlives”
Marta Cerezo. “The First Folio and St. Mary Aldermanbury (1923)”
Luis Conejero-Magro. “Analysis of Onomastic Allusions Within a Religious Context in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Isabel Guerrero. “The ‘Cathedral tour’: Space, religion and performance in Antic Disposition’s Henry V”

Jornadas Proyectos de Investigación I+D+i II.
Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas, Facultad de Filología (UNED), 17 May 2023
Marta Cerezo: Presentation of SHAKREL project (9.30h)
Marguerite Tassi. Lecture “Shakespeare’s Responsiveness to the Ancient Wisdom Traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism” (10.10h).

Full recording of the event on Canal UNED

33rd International SEDERI Conference. Early Modern English Culture in European Perspective. Valencia (3-5 May, 2023)
Marta Cerezo. “Shakespeare, Religion, and the Working Men’s College” and SHAKREL Project Presentation. 
Luis Conejero. “The Importance of the Biblical Iconography and the Literary Source in Two Spanish Translations of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost”.
Jonathan Sell. “Voltaire, the Quakers and eighteenth-century Shakespearean criticism”

45th International AEDEAN Conference, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, 16-18 November, 2022
Marta Cerezo, Antonio Ballesteros, Luis Conejero, Isabel Guerrero.
Round Table: “Shakespeare’s Religious Afterlives: Text, Reception and Performance.”