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2023 Marco Symposium

19th Annual Symposium

“The Canon of Shakespeare at 400″

March 24-25, 2023

 

This year’s Marco Symposium explores 400 years of Shakespeare since the publication of the First Folio. The Symposium will take place March 24-25, 2023, in the West Wing (Third Floor), Haslam Business Building, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The symposium is free and open to the public.

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Symposium Schedule

 

Friday, March 24, 2023

9:00am: Coffee and Registration
9:30am: Welcome

9:45-11:15am: Session 1
Patricia Ahkimie, “Editing Othello”
Zachary Lesser, “To the Weyard Sisters (Again)”

11:30am-12:30pm: Shaheen Collection at Rare Books, Hodges Library

12:35-1:30pm: Lunch

1:45-3:15pm: Session 2
Marvin McAllister, “Intertheatrical Shakespeare and African Tragedians; How Ridiculous and Sublime”
Elizabeth Rivlin, “The Education of Everybody: Shakespeare and the Great Books Canon”

Keynote Lecture

Friday, March 24, 2023 at 5pm
Strong Hall 101, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Headshot photo of a woman with short hair in a black shirtEmma Smith, University of Oxford 

“How a Folio Became the First Folio: Shakespearean Cultures in the Age of Slavery”

 

Saturday, March 25, 2023

9:30am: Coffee

10:00-11:30am: Session 3
Jeff Masten, “Marlowe’s First Folio”
Claire M. L. Bourne, “Milton’s First Folio & the Problem of Provenance”

11:45-12:45pm: Lunch

1:00-2:30pm: Session 4
Erin E. Kelly, “For All Time: Shakespeare, Anniversaries, and Fantasies of Timelessness”
Jeffrey Knight, “Shakespeare’s Shelf Life”

3:00-4:15pm: Closing Roundtable with Respondent Eric Rasmussen