2026 Schedule

Friday, 12 June

8:00-9:00
Registration

9:00-9:30
Welcome

9:30-10:30
Keynote Speech 1: “Come idhar”: “Tradapting” Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:40
Panel 1: Shakespeare in the Digital Era
Panel 2: Shakespeare in Classroom and Community
Panel 3: Popular Shakespeares
Panel 4: Remaking Hamlet

12:40-13:40
Lunch

13:40-15:00
Panel 5: Shakespeare on Screen
Panel 6: Economy, Politics, and Law
Panel 7: Posthuman Portals and Pathways in the Anthropocenic Shakespeares
Panel 8: National(ist) Shakespeares

15:00-15:30
Coffee Break

15:30-16:50
Symposium 1: Cinematic, Digital, and AI Shakespeare
Symposium 2: Referencing Shakespeare
Symposium 3: Shakespeare and Popular Culture

16:50-18:50
Welcome Reception

20:00-
Performance: Hamlet
Performance: Shakespeare Dance Theatre

Saturday, 13 June

9:00-9:30
Graphic Shakespeare Competition Award Ceremony

9:30-10:30
Keynote Speech 2

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:40
Panel 9: Unsex Me Here
Panel 10: Genres
Panel 11: Cross-Cultural Adaptations
Panel 12: Rewriting Shakespeare, Shakespeare Rewriting

12:40-13:40
Lunch

13:40-15:20
Panel 13: Language and Rhetoric
Panel 14: Positioning Shakespeare
Panel 15: Staging Shakespeare
Panel 16: Developing Collaborative and Comparative Research in Asian
Shakespeare

15:20-15:50
Coffee Break

15:50-17:30
Symposium 4: Translating and Teaching Shakespeare
Symposium 5: Women / Gender
Symposium 6: Intercultural Shakespeare
Symposium 7: Interpreting Shakespeare

20:00-
Performance: Hamlet 
Performance: Ophelia, An Object Study 
Performance: Shakespeare Dance Theatre

Sunday, 14 June

9:00-11:00
Workshop 1: Re-generating Macbeth: A GenAI Adaptation Workshop

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-12:30
Keynote Speech 3

12:30-13:00
General Meeting and Group Photo

13:00-14:00
Lunch

15:00-18:00
Optional Museum Visits

20:00-
Performance: Ophelia, An Object Study
Performance: Shakespeare Dance Theatre