En nordisk Hamlet
Hamlet and the North: Origins, Exchanges and Appropriations
12-13 November, 2021(Zoom)
Co-hosted by the Early Modern Seminar at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
and the Nordic Shakespeare Society
For the Zoom link, please contact Per Sivefors: per.sivefors@lnu.se
Times are for Sweden, Central European Time Zone, GMT+1
12 November
10.30 Per Sivefors, Introduction and words of welcome
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote 1: Michael Dobson, “Still Out of Joint After All These Years: Time and Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century”
Lunch
13.00 – 13.30 Peter Andersson, “An English Clown in Denmark: Will Kemp and Hamlet’s Disapproval of Clowns”
13.30 – 14.00 Laura Holme-Hoske, “The Creation of Elsinore: A Literary Excavation of the Home of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
14.00 – 14.30 Jyrki Nummi, “Distant Cousins and Companions in (mis)Fortune? Aleksis Kivi’s Kullervo and Hamlet”
Break
15.00 – 16.00 Keynote 2: Nely Keinänen, “The First Female Hamlet in the Nordic Countries, or the Rise and Fall of Elli Tompuri”
16.10 – 16.40 Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, “The rest is not silence but belongs to me”: Re-Imagining Fortinbras in Poland
16.40 – 17.10 Kiki Lindell, “(There is) Nothing Like a Dane: Gertrudes at Elsinore Castle”
13 November
10.00 – 10.30 Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, “Few and Brief Additions”: Bishop Bjurbäck and Hamlet
10.30 – 11.00 Marianne Solberg, “Hamlet as a Core Figure in a Nordic Political Game: A New Aesthetic in the Danish Autocracy”
11.10 – 12.10 Keynote 3: Richard Wilson, “Hanseatic Hamlet: Shakespeare and the Merchant of Hamburg”
Lunch
13.15 – 13.45 Christina Sandhaug, “A Scandinavian Acquaintance: Introducing Hamlet to Norwegian Readers”
13.45 – 14.15 Elisabeth Lutteman, “‘Snatches of old tunes’: Swedish Translations of Hamlet’s Borrowed Songs”
Break
14.30 – 15.30 Keynote 4: Philip Lavender, “Hamlet’s Antics in Denmark, England and Iceland”
Break
15.45 – 16.15 Anna Swärdh, “‘Who’s there?’ Västanå Theatre’s Hamlet (1996)”
16.15 – 16.45 Mette Hildeman Sjölin, “‘|Y]oung Hamlet’: A Hamlet for Swedish Children”
17.00 – 17.30 Summing up