Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands

Spring Conference to be held in San Antonio, TX

The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva is pleased to announce an upcoming conference, “Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands,” taking place March 7–9, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas at the campuses of Texas A&M University–San Antonio and Trinity University. The conference will explore the place and potential of Shakespeare in the cultural production of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands and, more broadly, the ways in which canonical Western texts are adapted, resisted, transformed, and appropriated in the Borderlands and in other spaces with complex colonial histories. Scholarly papers, visual arts, creative pieces, workshops, panels, and performances from Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous Studies, Theater Studies, History, Folklore Studies, and Translation, Adaptation and Appropriation Studies, will be presented, and the work of theater artists who are also active scholars wil also be included.

Program and Presenters:  Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands | Conferences | Texas A&M University-San Antonio (tamusa.edu)

Anticipated Schedule: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 7–9, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.

Apply (for graduate student travel funds): November 13, 2023

Questions? Feel free to contact the organizers directly at borderlandsshakespeare@gmail.com.

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