Keynote Lectures
Stephen Greenblatt
(Harvard University)

Opening Keynote Lecture
Survival Strategies:
Shakespeare and Renaissance Truth-Telling
Chair: Keir Elam (University of Bologna)
He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare. He was named the 2016 Holberg Prize Laureate. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and has been elected to membership in the Italian literary academy Accademia degli Arcadi.
Silvia Bigliazzi
(University of Verona)

Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centres in Shakespeare’s Rome
Chair: Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Andrew Hiscock
(Bangor University)

Shakespeare and his World:
Testing Us to Our Very Limits
Chair: John Gillies (University of Essex)
Loredana Scaramella
(Silvano Toti Globe Theatre – Stage Director)

‘O brave new world’:
Dis-placing Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome
Chair: Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)