Shakespeare and Držić: Uncanny Affinities
26 March 2014, 2:00 pm–6:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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UCL SSEES
Location
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Room 432, SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW
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On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, UCL SSEES, the Croatian Embassy and the Department for Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb are organising a round table entitled "Shakespeare and Držić: Uncanny Affinities" bringing together experts and academics from Croatia and UK to discuss influences, interaction, comparison and similarities of style of the two prominent writers who belonged to the same literary period.Ìý
Programme
14:00 Registration |
14:15 Welcome addressÌý - Dr Bojan Aleksov, Lecturer in Modern Southeast European History (UCL SSEES)Ìý - HE Dr Ivan GrdeÅ¡ić, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
14:30 First panelÌý - Professor René Weis, Department of English, University College London - Lecturer Kristina Grgić, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Ìý- Discussion |
15:30 Intermezzo |
- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Držić plays read by British and Croatian theatre actorsÌý 15:45 Coffee break |
16:00 Second panel Ìý - Professor Lada ÄŒale Feldman, PhD, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Ìý- Professor Neema Parvini, School of English and Languages, University of Surrey Ìý- Professor Tomislav Brlek, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Ìý- Discussion |
17:30 Intermezzo |
Ìý- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Držić plays read by British and Croatian theatre actors 17:50 Closing remarkÌý - HE Dr Ivan GrdeÅ¡ić, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |