Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
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, the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University, the University of Texas at Austin and EarthShakes).
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.
Download a copy of the program here.
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Pacific (GMT -7) | Eastern (GMT -4) | UK (GMT + 1) | Queensland/ ACT (GMT +9) | Session | Speakers |
7 am Sept 12 | 10 am Sept 12 | 3 pm Sept 12 | Midnight Sept 13 | Welcome Plenary 1 | Michelle Terry (Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe) and Guy Jones (New Writing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe) - Welcome Elizabeth Freestone - Rehearsing repair: adapting rehearsal room practice to address environmental justice |
08:00 | 11:00 | 16:00 | 01:00 | Session 1 Adapting Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies | Rob Conkie - Past the hope of comfort: Cymbeline + Eco Melancholia Kathryn Santos Vomero - “Like the flower of this earth”: José Cruz González’s Invierno and the Reawakening of the Samala Language Gretchen Minton - 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 - A Tempest in the Lagoon Sulaiman R. Khan - There’s no regeneration without Disability liberation Ashley Sarpong - Developing a Shakespearean Pedagogy for Environmental Justice |
10:00 | 13:00 | 18:00 | 03:00 | Session 3 Theatrical Structures and the Environment | Alex Baines - Sustainable Materiality in Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres Lowell Duckert - Snow Globes Dawn Tucker - 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 - Environmental Wrath in Edward II Monica Maffia - Impending doom, intervention of Nature and good business in Ben Jonson’s “Mercury vindicated from the Alchemists at Court” Chloe Preedy - 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 - Teaching Environmental Justice Through Shakespearean Performance: Reflections on Shakespeare in Yosemite Annalisa Dias - Dramaturgies of Decomposition Steve Mentz - “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 - Renaissance Cosmocriticism and Celestial Justice in Shakespeare and Beyond Daniel Vitkus - Before It’s Too Late: Eco-Crisis, Urgency, and Presentism in Shakespeare Studies Carolyn Sale - Constraining the Vicious |
16:00 | 19:00 | Midnight Sept 13 | 09:00 | Session 7 Animal Justice | Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare |
17:00 | 20:00 | 01:00 | 10:00 | Session 8 Performance and Water II | Adrianna Santos - Teaching Water Justice through Borderlands Shakespeare Appropriations Claire Hansen - Bad water: Shakespeare and Australia’s inland blue |
18:00 | 21:00 | 02:00 | 11:00 | Session 9 Histories of Indigeneity and Colonialism | Todd Borlik - Caliban as Ecological Indian Katherine Gillen - Colonized Knowledge and Environmental Justice in Titus Andronicus
Florence Boulard - Roméo et Juliette in Kanaky–New Caledonia |
19:00 | 22:00 | 03:00 | Noon | Session 10 Creative ecological Activism | William Floyd Wolfgang & Ángel Nuñez - A Problem Play for a Global Solution: Eco-Troilus and Cressida on the Community Stage Adam Washiyama Shulman - “Love alters not” – to love an altered globe through Shakespeare’s sonnets Jo Bloom and Charlie Mayer - Come You Spirits |
20:00 | 23:00 | 04:00 | 13:00 | Screenings of Eco-adaptations | Premiere of As You Like It film, 2025, Shakespeare in Yosemite (1-2.30pm*) Oguta Island (Nnamdi Kanaga) (2:30-3pm*) Cymbeline Anthropo-scenes (students of Theo Black) (3-3:45pm*) Scenes from the Climate Era (Alys Daroy) (3:45-5pm*) La tempestad Función (Monica Maffia) (5-6pm*) *GMT+9 times (Australian east coast) |
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 - Embodying Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Thomas Nashe’s Last Will and Testament
Laurie Johnson - Hot Topics: On Cultural History, Climate Crisis, and Using “Proxy” Evidence Una McIlvenna - Disaster Ballads and Early Modern Drama |
03:00 | 06:00 | 11:00 | 20:00 | Session 12 Eco-Theatrical Adaptation | Asher Noor - Two feuding households, one failing planet: Tragedy, waste, and environmental justice in Romeo & Juliet Alys Daroy & Paul Prescott - Book Launch of Shakespeare, Ecology, and Adaptation Monika Smialkowska - 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 - Shakespeare’s ruins and remains Randall Martin - Staging early and late Anthropocene As You Like It Elizabeth Schafer - “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 - From land to sea: South African Shakespeares and environmental crisis Kirsten Sandrock - Hurricanes, Atlantic Travel, and Global Justice in King Lear Craig Dionne - Environmental Uncanny |
06:00 | 09:00 | 14:00 | 23:00 | Session 15 Plants, Trees, Soil Farewell | Theo Black - BIOphelia Liz Oakley-Brown - Shakespearean Soil Imaginaries: Creative Encounters with Climate Emergencies Katie Brokaw, Gretchen Minton, Claire Hansen - Farewell |
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