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