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.
Access a full list of abstracts.
View all speaker biographies.

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