British and Irish Studies at IUPUI

Be sure to attend the History of Cardenio: Spain and England, Then and Now symposium at IUPUI on April 27-28.  The speakers and events are listed below.  For more information and to register, visit http://historyofcardenio.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/93/

Friday April 27, 2012

5:30pm  Pre-performance lecture

• Gary Taylor, “Working Together: Theater, Collaboration, and Cardenio”

7:00pm      Performance: The History of Cardenio

10:00pm            Post-performance talk-back

Saturday April 28, 2012

9:00 – 10:15am            Cervantes and After

Chair: Gary Taylor

• Roger Chartier, “Cardenio before “Cardenno”: From Cervantes’ historia to Guillén de Castro’s comedia”
• Eduardo Olid Guerrero, “Cervantes’ The English Spanish Lady and the history of Elizabeth I in Spain”
• Joyce Boro, “‘Bum-fidled with a bastard’ or Blessed with a Baby: Fletcher’s The Chances and Cervantes’ novela De la señora Cornelia”

10:15 – 10:45am            Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00pm            Considering John Fletcher

Chair: Suzanne Gossett

• Vimala Pasupathi, “Fletcher’s Martial Ethos”
• Huw Griffiths, “Shall I never see a lusty man again?”: John Fletcher’s Men, 1617-1715″
• Christopher Hicklin, “Fletcher’s Double Falsehood”

12:00 – 1:00pm            Catered lunch

1:00 – 2:15pm            Adaptors and Adaptations

Chair: TBD

• Carla Della Gatta,  ”Is Spanishness in the Script?: Embodying Duende in The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2011 Cardenio“
• Douglas Lanier, “‘We might recover all our loss again’:  Fantasies of Lost Shakespeare Found in Popular Fiction.”
• Adam Hooks, “Genuine Shakespeare”

2:15 – 2:45pm            Coffee break

2:45 – 4:00pm            Roundtable on Research and Performance

Moderator:             Terri Bourus

• Joe Cacaci
• Chris Marino
• Regina Buccola

4:00 - 6:00pm          Break for dinner

6:00pm     Concert: Spanish Guitar Music

• John Alvarado, Lecturer, Music and Arts Technology, IUPUI

7:00pm      Performance: The History of Cardenio

10:00pm            Post-performance talk-back

NOTE: EVENT CANCELLED

On April 26, the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI and Hoosier Bard Productions will present The History of Cardenio, a play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.  Please join us for pre-theater drinks and a conversation with the play’s Director, Terri Bourus, and its Editor, Gary Taylor.

This is a no-host event presented by the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office of International and Cultural Affairs, the Indianapolis-Northamptonshire Sister Cities Committee, and the British and Irish Studies Group at IUPUI.

The play starts at 7pm, just across the street in the new IUPUI Campus Center Theater.  Tickets are $35 (General Admission) and $15 (Students).  Tickets may be picked up at the box office one hour before each performance.

To order your tickets online from the IUPUI Alumni Association ticket office, visit
https://secure.imodules.com/s/1377/event.aspx?sid=1377&gid=2&pgid=967&cid=2467

Parking

You can park at the North Street Garage, which is closest to the IUPUI Conference Center Hotel, or at the Vermont Street Garage, which is closest to the IUPUI Campus Center Theater.

The North Street Garage is located at 819 W. North St.

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The Vermont Street Garage is located at 1004 W. Vermont St.

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Directions to Conference Center Hotel (850 W Michigan St, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202)

From I-65, North or South, take Exit 114 to Martin Luther King Jr. /West St South to Michigan St. West on Michigan to University Blvd (less than half-mile). Turn right (north) on University Blvd to North St (one block). Turn right (east). Entrance to University Place Indianapolis Hotel is on right.

From I-70, West and Airport, take Exit 79A. Turn north (left) at the light and follow street until it turns into West St. Take to Michigan St. Turn west (left) onto Michigan. Turn right (north) on University Blvd to North St (one block). Turn right (east). Entrance to University Place Indianapolis Hotel is on right.

From I-70, East, turn onto I-65 from the north (need to get into far left lane of I-70) and take Exit 114 to Martin Luther King Jr. /West St South to Michigan St. West on Michigan to University Blvd (less than half-mile). Turn right (north) on University Blvd to North St (one block). Turn right (east). Entrance to University Place Indianapolis Hotel is on right.

From I-74, West, take Crawfordsville Road exit, continue on Crawfordsville Road to 16^th St. turn right (south) on Capitol to Michigan Street, west to University Blvd. Turn right (north) on University Blvd to North St (one block). Turn right (east). Entrance to University Place Indianapolis Hotel is on right.

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Click here to purchase tickets from the IUPUI Alumni Association ticket office.

Sunday, April 15, 2012
2:00 pm
“Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money”
at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library:  Central Library

Adults are invited as Dr. Sheryl Craig, teacher of English at the University of Central Missouri, will explore how Jane Austen’s career as an author in Regency England coincided with a series of economic recessions resulting in a major economic depression, a banking crisis, and the grudging public acceptance of paper money and debased coins. This presentation will clarify some economic and political references that readers of Austen’s novels tend to overlook or misunderstand that reveal the author’s interest in political economics and her familiarity with the ideas of leading economists of her era.

This program, to be held in the Clowes Auditorium at Central Library, is sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of North America.

http://www.imcpl.org/events/detail/?event_id=2970&schedule_id=27091

March 29, 2012 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
IUPUI Campus Center
420 University Blvd
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis,Indianapolis,IN 46202

Abstract:

Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey, or Hellfire Club, in a variety of ways.  The 4th Earl of Sandwich, Francis Dashwood, and John Wilkes, all early members of the group, publicized their libertine behaviors — drunkenness and hyper-masculine sexuality in particular.  They suggested that the grounds of West Wycombe manor, the parish church, and even the local chalk mines had been locations of the monks’ debauchery.  Over generations, the grounds became associated with ghost lore, satanism, and more.  This talks shows how secrets, gossip, and rumors were central to elite identity formation in the eighteenth century and why they have remained important for locals, tourists, filmmakers, and descendants in the centuries since then.

Jason M. Kelly is the author of The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightnment (2010) and an Associate Professor of British History at IUPUI.

Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University, will be giving a presentation titled Transnational Black Poetics: Caribbean Connections and Disconnections. Dr. Boyce Davies has written extensively on the topic of Caribbean and African women in literature, and she has also served in leadership roles in the African Literature Association and the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. This presentation will take place in the Campus Center, room 307, from 6:30pm-8:00pm on Thursday, March 29.

Sponsored by The Committee on African and African American Studies.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, The Africana Studies Program at IUPUI, The Office of International Affairs, The Women’s Studies Program, and the African Studies Program at IU Bloomington.

The School of Liberal Arts Sabbatical Speaker Series

Professor Paul Mullins, Anthropology “Difference, Desire, and Small Things: The Archaeology of Victorian Bric-a-Brac”

Parlors throughout the 19th-century Atlantic World were flooded with modest decorative goods like figurines, and a vast range of American and British homes were filled with ceramic animals, famous people, and artistic motifs.  This discussion examines these goods from a range of households often considered “outside” consumer society.

Friday, February 24, 4:30-5:30 PM, CE 268

RSVP: libarsvp@iupui.edu with Mullins talk in the subject line.

Sponsored by IU School of Liberal Arts. A School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI 40th Anniversary Event

IUPUI TO STAGE A RARE LOST PLAY BY SHAKESPEARE AND FLETCHER TO OPEN IUPUI THEATER

(http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/shakespeare/productions/)

On April 19, 2012, IUPUI will celebrate the opening of its brand new, state-of-the-art, 248-seat theater, located in the IUPUI Campus Center (420 University Blvd), by inviting the Indianapolis community to witness the performance of a literary mystery that has intrigued scholars for centuries: William Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s “lost play”, The History of Cardenio.

The seven performances (April 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, and 28) mark both the first North American production, as well as the world premiere of a complete staging with professional actors, of Gary Taylor’s creative and scholarly reconstruction of Cardenio. Shakespeare and Fletcher based their play on Miguel de Cervantes’ Spanish masterpiece, Don Quixote, often described as the first modern novel. Their English play was an instant success, performed before the court of King James I in early 1613, and before the Ambassadors from the Duke of Savoy, ancestor of the royal family of modern Italy, in June of the same year. But though historians have long known about these accounts of Cardenio‘s early performances, no complete text of the play has survived to be viewed by modern audiences, and it is often regarded as irretrievably “lost.”

But The History of Cardenio is only partially lost: many of the play’s fragments survive as a complex and enticing mystery that scholars have been attempting to resolve for centuries. IUPUI’s grand opening production will combine IUPUI students with professional actors from the Indianapolis performing arts community to demonstrate the way that a collaboration between theater researchers and performers can provide incisive solutions to long-standing critical and textual problems. Cardenio will be directed by Dr. Terri Bourus, IUPUI Associate Professor of English Drama, an Equity actor who is also Director of the IUPUI-hosted New Oxford Shakespeare project.

The New Oxford Shakespeare is an international research project, commissioned by Oxford University Press, headed by Taylor with general editor Bourus, and general editor John Jowett, Ph.D, deputy director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon. The New Oxford Shakespeare combines the history of text technologies with the history of performance, and the project, when completed, will create a Shakespeare edition in multiple media formats for the twenty-first century. Earlier this year, Bourus founded Hoosier Bard Productions, the performance arm of the New Oxford Shakespeare. Young Hamlet, Hoosier Bard’s production of the first edition of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy, performed to sold-out houses at the Indianapolis Fringe in February 2011.

Sarah Neville, an editing research associate with the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, will present “The Unpublished Virtues of the Earth: Early English Botany and the Medical Marketplace of Shakespeare’s London” from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the IUPUI Campus Center, room 148.

This event is a part of the Spring 2012 Seminars in Medical Humanities and Health Studies speakers series.

For more information, visit liberalarts.iupui.edu/mhhs or download the event flier.

Questions to Kelly Gascoine at 317-278-1669 or kgascoin@iupui.edu.