As we are in Phase 4 (see our timeline) in our research project "Shakespeare in Central Europe after 1989" supported by the Visegrad Fund, the editors at Theatralia are finalizing the special issue which is to present the studies, participants look forward to disseminating their research findings and discussing them with like-minded colleagues at the final symposium on 18-19 March, 2021. We are looking forward to seeing there everyone interested in the special Post-Socialist microclimate of the Central European region. Please remember to register here for the symposium before 17 March 4pm CET.
The symposium would have taken place in person, hosted by PPCU in Budapest; however, due to the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic the only option of a scholarly gathering is in the virtual space. The organizers, Zsolt Almási, Kinga Földváry and Gabriella Reuss have done all in their might to ensure that the dissemination of the results is being done in the widest possible circle, that the symposium, with over a dozen respondents and four roundtable sessions will be as lively as possible online, and that project participants, respondents and interested audiences will enjoy two particularly remarkable Hungarian theatre productions streamed with English subtitles.
When selecting our respondents we took pains to include a heterogeneous audience, e.g. from PhD students to internationally established professors, from both the fields of theatre and literature, theatre critics and practitioners, journalists as well as scholars from the field of arts and humanities.
The participants have condensed their findings and their personal research process into short videos which are available from the project homepage from 14 March 2021 thus enabling all our future audiences to be able to familiarize and spend unlimited time with the individual researches. In parallel, the sessions are arranged in a way to highlight the common frameworks and themes explored during the previous phases of the project, that is, they are arranged according to the three parts of the Theatralia special issue. Download our programme from here.
