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ICYMI: the #Shax2025 plenary papers are available online! Watch this year's three brilliant papers on the SAA Youtube channel, linked here and in our bio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mux...
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Missing the energy of #Shax2025? Watch the 2025 presidential speech on SAA's YouTube channel and relive the memories on demand.
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Can you believe it’s been two weeks since Boston? Use the hashtag #Shax2025 to share your pics and stay connected with other conference attendees!
I set up this account right before #RSA2025 + #Shax2025, thinking I’d post my way through them—but between 2 conferences, 6 archives, + dozens of old and new friends, there was no time. It’s good to see so many #earlymodern historians + literary scholars here, though. Thanks for sharing your work.
Me (Nora Williams), Pete Kirwan, Ray Proctor, and MJ Kidnie gathered together before our panel
All conferences should be followed by a week of holiday... jumping late on the bandwagon to celebrate #shax2025! A special thank you to my fellow panelists @drpetekirwan.bsky.social, MJ Kidnie, & Ray Proctor -- it's an honour to share space and think with you all
🧵14/14 Of course, in between #shax2025 & #rensa2025 events were the incidental conversations, introductions, coffees, political commentaries, drinks, generous offers from established scholars, exciting news, commiserations, & much laughter. Thank you, all & sundry, until next time, hopefully soon!
🧵13/? It was then an absolute delight to watch MFA actors in a rapid-fire, playful yet pensive & extremely funny rendering of Cyril Tourneur's 'The Atheist's Tragedy', co-sponsored by @shaxbull.bsky.social and SAA, also for #shax2025.
🧵12/? My final formal venture for #shax2025 was the panel on learning's ends, chaired generously by @lucycmunro.bsky.social. Catherine Nicholson [not a relative, but a delight to meet, finally!], @alanstewart50.bsky.social & @adamzucker.bsky.social spoke beautifully on kinds of endings & on hope.
🧵10/? On Sat morning, I heard the #shax2025 Playgoing & Privilege panelists Simon Smith, @eoinprice.bsky.social, Lauren Robertson & Miles Grier's respective work, chaired by Erika Lim. Together, they offered us such compelling work: each fruitful in their own right & richly generative in tandem.
🧵9/? In the afternoon, I heard the #shax2025 plenary panel on 'Sweet Master Shakespeare'. Kim F. Hall & @oldfortunatus.bsky.social spoke on the violence behind what are now our field's rare books, & @bkadams.bsky.social prompted us to reflect on how we contend with such controversy in our work.
🧵8/? Midway through this day, much of the #shax2025 contingent went to the annual luncheon, where we could congratulate prize winners, connect, & also be reminded by @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social of how our work speaks to & is significant in the fact of many social fractures in our world.
🧵6/? Day two began with a cracker of a #shax2025 panel: @selsky.bsky.social and Penelope H. Geng organised 'Reimagining Law and Literature', through which we heard (among other things) about legislation &/in literatures concerning the environment, race, enslavement, gender, property, & citizenship.
🧵5/? The final scholarly treat for the afternoon was listening in during Darryl Chalk & @lostplayhouse.bsky.social's #shax2025 seminar: Re-weirding &/as Re-wilding in Shax. Notable mentions during this included @ohwowbee.bsky.social on what animals eat in Winter's Tale & Sophie Chiari on "wastes".
🧵4/? Next was a #shax2025 panel: Theatrical Labour [no, I will not apologise for my spelling!] & the Audience. With @norajw.bsky.social , Peter Kirwan, M. J. Kidnie, & John R. Proctor III, we thought together about the limits of and sensitivities necessary in good dramaturgy & stagecraft.
🧵3/? I then had the delight of participating in @alex-thom.bsky.social cial's #shax2025 seminar on early modern displacement. We had a strong Shakespearean focus, but conversation extended to Dekker and Marlowe, Montaigne's essays, trade routes, generic categorisation & literary certainty.
🧵2/? Before specified scholarly undertakings took place, I popped in to the @nvshakespeare.bsky.social ky.social breakfast hosted through #shax2025 to hear more about their fabulous contribution within digital humanities (long may it continue!) now hosted with A&M Texas.
It was a whirlwind of odd travel hiccoughs to get back to Sydney from the combined #shax2025 and #RenSA2025 in Boston. Having shaken off only about half of the jetlag, here are some thoughts and thank yous: (🧵1/?)
Thanks to everyone on the #Shax2025 Grieving in Shakespeare's World panel for a fascinating seminar! Kaara & I really enjoyed meeting everyone & thinking in new ways about grief, loss, memory & memorialisation (and of course Hamlet, which featured quite a bit)! @saaupdates.bsky.social
Grey Squirrel with a nut, under a tree on Boston Common
Detail of the Poe statue in Boston, showing the tell-tale heart atop an open book
Yellow flowers on a tree against the sky, with a partial view of a Boston brownstone apartment in the background
The House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, MA, viewed through trees with green buds just visible
Well springtime in Boston and Salem has been delightful! Came here for #Shax2025, stayed to enjoy the public art, history, good food, and wildlife, and heading home now with a full heart and invigorated mind.
this was one of the most rewarding and generative seminar experiences I’ve ever had at #shax2025: and it was my first time leading a seminar too! Grateful to all my participants and auditors (incl the inimitable Edel here): we may have been last thing on a Saturday but it was so totally worth it ❤️
Back from Boston and #Shax2025. Heartfelt thanks to @ellierycroft.bsky.social and @harrymccarthy.bsky.social for a super-generative ‘Performing Bodies’ seminar. And I did break out of the Prudential Center on my last day!
I had the BEST time at #Shax2025 in boston. thank you everyone who showed up for the NextGenPlen & to everyone who came up to me to chat about stage blood, bladders, & other things!
Also, every single student I’ve talked to today has asked about the conference, so either I just never shut up about #Shax2025 or they are adorably aware and considerate.
A most excellent time at RSA SAA in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 🪶 Looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication? This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to review your work: sel.rice.edu/submission-g...
I chatted with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about monsters and monster-making in the sixteenth century, on the Talking Tudors #podcast! If you weren't able to get to my monster panel at #RenSA2025 #Shax2025, this might appeal.
💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH
Now that #shax2025 is over, I would like to extend gratitude to the Shakespeare community - you peeps make it all worthwhile 🤗💚
Though we are but a journal's bluesky account, we had an excellent time learning from you all at #Shax2025 and #RenSA25, even during short chats in glass tunnels. Send us your expanded papers! Already looking forward to San Francisco and Denver...
Survived my first #Shax2025 — oh, how I wish spring break were two weeks long, however!
