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Shakespeare and Dr啪i膰: Uncanny Affinities
26 March 2014, 2:00 pm鈥�6:00 pm
Event Information
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Organiser
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UCL SSEES
Location
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Room 432, SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW
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On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare鈥檚 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 Dr啪i膰: 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.听
Programme
| 14:00 Registration |
14:15 Welcome address听 - Dr Bojan Aleksov, Lecturer in Modern Southeast European History (UCL SSEES)听 - HE Dr Ivan Grde拧i膰, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
14:30 First panel听 - Professor Ren茅 Weis, Department of English, University College London - Lecturer Kristina Grgi膰, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 听- Discussion |
| 15:30 Intermezzo |
- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Dr啪i膰 plays read by British and Croatian theatre actors听 15:45 Coffee break |
16:00 Second panel 听 - Professor Lada 膶ale Feldman, PhD, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 听- Professor Neema Parvini, School of English and Languages, University of Surrey 听- Professor Tomislav Brlek, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 听- Discussion |
| 17:30 Intermezzo |
听- Excerpts from Shakespeare and Dr啪i膰 plays read by British and Croatian theatre actors 17:50 Closing remark听 - HE Dr Ivan Grde拧i膰, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |