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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

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Fri, 12 Sep, 10am - Sat, 13 Sep, 10am EDT

Event description

In 2025, Globe4Globe returns with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours, this Symposium follows on from the 2021 Globe4Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency Symposium.

The Globe4Globe 2025 symposium draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare’s works relate to ideas of environmental justice - historically and in the present. The Symposium will feature voices from across the globe working at the intersection of Shakespeare, performance and environmental justice.

Register to participate in this exciting event, and hear from the world's leading minds on topics including the depiction of environmental issues in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, climate justice, intersectional justice, environmental justice in theatre practice, outdoor, site-specific and place-based Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, ecocritical and ecofeminist readings of Shakespeare, and environmental education.

Plenary speakers include:

  • Elizabeth Freestone - "Rehearsing repair: Adapting rehearsal room practice to address environmental justice"

  • Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe - "Paulina, Hermione and Perdita: Ecofeminism, Post-Academia"

  • Madeline Sayet - "Rotten Policy: Shakespeare's Political Ecologies"

  • Sandra Young - "An Ordinary Storm: Attending to climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession through 'wild adaptation'"

View the full program below or download here!

There is no cost to register for Globe4Globe 2025.

Event organisers:

  • Katie Brokaw (The Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin)

  • Claire Hansen (Senior Lecturer in English, The Australian National University, Canberra)

  • Gretchen Minton (Professor of English, Montana State University)

This event is supported by Shakespeare's Globe and the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University.

GLOBE4GLOBE 2025 PROGRAM:

We are delighted to announce the program! Please carefully check program timings according to your timezone. We have indicated this on the schedule below.

You can also download a copy of the program here.

Pacific (GMT -7)

Eastern (GMT -4)

UK

(GMT + 1)

Queensland/

ACT

(GMT +9)

Session

Speaker

Title

7 am

Sept 12

10 am

Sept 12

3 pm

Sept 12

Midnight Sept 13

Plenary 1

Elizabeth Freestone

Rehearsing repair: adapting rehearsal room practice to address environmental justice

08:00

11:00

16:00

01:00

Session1

Adapting Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies

Rob Conkie

Kathryn Santos Vomero

Gretchen Minton

Past the hope of comfort: Cymbeline + Eco Melancholia

“Like the flower of this earth”: José Cruz González’s Invierno and the Reawakening of the Samala Language

No Winter's Tale: An Ecological Adaptation

09:00

Noon

17:00

02:00

Session 2

Pedagogies and Intersections of Environmental Justice

Shaul Bassi & Maddalena Pennacchia

Sulaiman R. Khan

Ashley Sarpong

A Tempest in the Lagoon

There’s no regeneration without Disability liberation

Developing a Shakespearean Pedagogy for Environmental Justice

10:00

13:00

18:00

03:00

Session 3

Theatrical Structures and the Environment

Alex Baines

Lowell Duckert

Dawn Tucker

Sustainable Materiality in Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres

Snow Globes

The Mountain Rose Project: Shakespeare, Timber, and Environmental Justice in the American Southwest

11:00

14:00

19:00

04:00

Session 4

Early Modern Environments beyond Shakespeare

Vin Nardizzi

Monica Maffia

Chloe Preedy

Environmental Wrath in Edward II

Impending doom, intervention of Nature and good business in Ben Jonson’s “Mercury vindicated from the Alchemists at Court”

The Day the Theatre Cracked: Earthquakes and Early English Drama

Noon

15:00

20:00

05:00

Plenary 2

Rebecca Laroche & Jennifer Munroe

Paulina, Hermione, and Perdita: Ecofeminism, Post-Academia

13:00

16:00

21:00

06:00

Session 5

Performance and Water I

Katie Brokaw

Annalisa Dias

Steve Mentz

Teaching Environmental Justice Through Shakespearean Performance: Reflections on Shakespeare in Yosemite

“A Naughty Night to Swim In”: Rough Water Swimming in Shakespeare and the Anthropocene

14:00

17:00

22:00

07:00

Plenary 3

Madeline Sayet

Rotten Policy: Shakespeare’s Political Ecologies

15:00

18:00

23:00

08:00

Session 6

Presentism and Futurism

Tiffany Jo Werth

Daniel Vitkus

Carolyn Sale

Renaissance Cosmocriticism and Celestial Justice in Shakespeare and Beyond

Before It’s Too Late: Eco-Crisis, Urgency, and Presentism in Shakespeare Studies

Constraining the Vicious

16:00

19:00

Midnight Sept 13

09:00

Session 7

Animal Justice

Karen Raber

Gigi Pinwill

Barbara Taylor

Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals

Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares

They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare

17:00

20:00

01:00

10:00

Session 8

Performance and Water II

Adrianna Santos

Claire Hansen

Lily Narbonne

Teaching Water Justice through Borderlands Shakespeare Appropriations

Bad water: Shakespeare and Australia’s inland blue

Outdoor Shakespeare and Looking at Our Relationship with Land in North America

18:00

21:00

02:00

11:00

Session 9

Histories of Indigeneity and Colonialism

Todd Borlik

Katherine Gillen

 

Florence Boulard

Caliban as Ecological Indian

Colonized Knowledge and Environmental Justice in Titus Andronicus

Roméo et Juliette in Kanaky–New Caledonia

19:00

22:00

03:00

Noon

Session 10

Ecological Activism

William Floyd Wolfgang & Ángel Nuñez

Adam Washiyama Shulman

A Problem Play for a Global Solution: Eco-Troilus and Cressida on the Community Stage

“Love alters not” – to love an altered globe through Shakespeare’s sonnets

20:00

23:00

04:00

13:00

5 HOUR BREAK

Screenings of Eco-adaptations

As You Like It, Shakespeare in Yosemite

1 am Sept 13

4 am Sept 13

09:00

18:00

Plenary 4

Sandra Young

An Ordinary Storm: Attending to climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession through “wild adaptation”

02:00

05:00

10:00

19:00

Session 11

The Little Ice Age

Lukas Arnold

 

Laurie Johnson

Una McIlvenna

Embodying Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Thomas Nashe’s Last Will and Testament

Hot Topics: On Cultural History, Climate Crisis, and Using “Proxy” Evidence

Disaster Ballads and Early Modern Drama

03:00

06:00

11:00

20:00

Session 12

Eco-Theatrical Adaptation

Asher Noor

 

Alys Daroy & Paul Prescott

Monika Smialkowska

Two feuding households, one failing planet: Tragedy, waste, and environmental justice in Romeo & Juliet

Book Launch of Shakespeare, Ecology, and Adaptation

Environmental Justice and Modern Adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest

04:00

07:00

Noon

21:00

Session 13

Staging and Reading Sustainability

Sophie Chiari

Randall Martin

Elizabeth Schafer

Shakespeare’s ruins and remains

Staging early and late Anthropocene As You Like It

“You do assist the storm”: Tempests, Sustainability, and Eco-Performance History

05:00

08:00

13:00

22:00

Session 14

Land and Language

Chris Thurman

Ellie Lewis

Craig Dionne

From land to sea: South African Shakespeares and environmental crisis

“This wild surrounding waste”: Waste and Utility in the Wildlands of Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle

Recapitulation in Hamlet: Shakespeare’s Environmental Uncanny

06:00

09:00

14:00

23:00

Session 15

Plants, Trees, Soil

Theo Black

Hannah Leigh

Liz Oakley-Brown

BIOphelia

Women as Trees as Timber: Ariel’s “wooden slavery”

Shakespearean Soil Imaginaries: Creative Encounters with Climate Emergencies

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