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Shakespeare and Držić: Uncanny Affinities
26 March 2014, 2:00 pm–6:00 pm
Event Information
Location
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Room 432, SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of William
Shakespeare’s birth, UCL SSEES, the Croatian Embassy and the Department for
Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University
of Zagreb are organising a round table entitled "Shakespeare and Držić: Uncanny
Affinities" bringing together experts and academics from Croatia
and UK to discuss influences, interaction, comparison and similarities of style
of the two prominent writers who belonged to the same literary period.
Programme
| 14:00 Registration |
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14:15 Welcome address - Dr Bojan Aleksov, Lecturer in Modern Southeast European History (UCL SSEES) - HE Dr Ivan Grdešić, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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14:30 First panel - Professor René Weis, Department of English, University College London - Lecturer Kristina Grgić, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb - Discussion |
| 15:30 Intermezzo |
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- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Držić plays read by British and Croatian theatre actors 15:45 Coffee break |
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16:00 Second panel
- Professor Lada Čale Feldman, PhD, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb - Professor Neema Parvini, School of English and Languages, University of Surrey - Professor Tomislav Brlek, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb -
Discussion |
| 17:30 Intermezzo |
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- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Držić plays read by British and Croatian theatre actors 17:50 Closing remark - HE Dr Ivan Grdešić, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |