Events
Plenary lecture. Luis Conejero. “Shakespeare in the Time of Collapse: Exploring Redemption and Faith in Station Eleven (2014)”.
Round Table. Antonio Ballesteros, Marta Cerezo, Luis Conejero, Isabel Guerrero. “Shakespeare, espiritualidad y cambio social”.
47th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, 6-8 November 2024
Paper. Marta Cerezo, “The Shakespeare sermons (1897-1927): A Religious Re-writing of Shakespeare’s Life.”
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.
Presentation of SHAKREL and papers by: Jonathan P. A. Sell, “The bull-feast, the bard, and the dangers of enthusiasm: William Shirley on David Garrick (1758)” (read by Marta Cerezo) and Luis Conejero. “From Kyd to Shakespeare: Exploring Religious Intertextuality through John of Gaunt’s Iberian Odyssey”
Plenary Lecture. Luis Conejero. “Echoes of Faith Tracing Religious Intertextuality in John of Gaunt’s Spanish Adventure in Early Modern Literature”. Madrid Early Modern Seminar (MadEMS), 10 October 2024
Folger Community Scholars Fall 2024 Lecture Series, 27 September 2024
Guest Lecture (online). Luis Conejero. “John of Gaunt’s Spanish Sojourn: Uncovering Religious Layers in Early Modern English Drama”
III Sederi International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies. Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, 25-27 September 2024
Plenary Lecture. Marta Cerezo, “The Shakespeare Sermon (1810-2024): The Homiletic Genre as an Invaluable Site of Shakespeare’s Reception”
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
Guest Lecture. Jonathan P. A. Sell. “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.”
Religion & Society in Britan (ReSBri) Seminar. Royal Society of Arts’ House, London, 27 October, 2022.
Guest lecture. Marta Cerezo. “Shakespeare, religion and the 19th Century”.