Other Participants so far: Frances Barker (Essex) Thomas Berger (St Lawrence) Barbara Bowen (City of New York) Beth Brand (Wits) Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary and Westfield) Jonathan Burton (City of New York) Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg) Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse) Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago) Carli Coetzee (Cape Town) Derek Cohen (York, Canada) Ann Cook (Vanderbilt) Jonathan Dollimore (Sussex) John Drakakis (Stirling) Colin Gardner (Natal) Stephen Gray, Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion) Kim Hall (Georgetown) Carolyn Hamilton (Wits) Geoffrey Haresnape (Cape Town) Terence Hawkes (Wales) Margo Hendricks (Santa Cruz) Mark Heywood (Wits) Mark Houlahan (Waikato New Zealand) Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits) Jean Howard (Columbia) Peter Hulme (Essex) David Johnson (Natal) Leon de Kock (Unisa) Kyung-Won Lee (Yonsei Korea) Windsor Leroke (Wits) Arthur Little (UCLA) Robert Maclaren (Zimbabwe) Stoffel Mahlabe (University of the North-West) Shelley Malka (Wits) Donald Moerdijk (ENS de Fontenay St Cloud Paris) P W Mwikisa (Botswana) Martin Orkin (Wits) Avraham Oz (Haifa) Jean Peterson (Bucknell) Debbie Posel (Wits) Marcus Ramogale (University of the North) Aimara de Cunha Resende (UFMG Brazil) Denis Salter (McGill) David Schalkwyk (Cape Town) Efraim Sicher (Ben Gurion) Alan Sinfield (Sussex) Mark Singer (Buffalo) Jyotsna Singh (Southern Methodist) Bruce Smith (Georgetown) Kelwyn Sole (Cape Town) C M Thosago (University of the North) Joanne Tompkins (La Trobe) Nic Visser (Cape Town) Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia) Lawrence Wright (Rhodes) Charles Whitney (Nevada)

Seminars
Seminar 1: `Nation', Travel, Empire
Leader: John Drakakis

How are we to study `nation', `travel', `empire' in the Shakespeare text, and within our own `post'-colonial/neo-colonial condition? How do we connect notions of `nation', nationalism, travel and empire in theory and in practice to our own conditions of pedagogy and research?

Seminar 2: Reading global literatures within `post-coloniality'/neo- colonialism
Seminar Leader: Windsor Leroke

Does `"post"-coloniality' have any meaning in a South African context? What parts of this theory - if any - are `exportable' and why? How are material conditions including those involving academic work within `post'-colonial environments to be a factor in the study of the metropolitan text? How are we to re-appropriate or re-read metropolitan texts? How has the Shakespeare text been appropriated in Africa? In what ways is the Shakespeare text to be used in the future? What kinds of readings might be appropriate? Can the Shakespeare text survive?

Seminar 3: Empire/Difference: `Race', Gender, Sexuality, Religion
Seminar Leader: Barbara Bowen

How are we to study `race', gender, sexuality, religion within the `post'-colonial/neo/colonial condition? What does `difference' mean outside the North-American and European metropolis? What constitutes `religion' in the Shakespeare text? Against what is it constructed? How does the text construct `other' religions?

Seminar 4: Shakespeare in Education
Seminar Leaders: Thomas Berger and Colin Gardner

What pedagogy and what methodologies are appropriate within the `post'-colonial situation? To what extent will such a pedagogy force a reconsideration of `main-stream' teaching?

Workshop on Southern African and South Asian Studies
Workshop Leader: Isabel Hofmeyr

Several position papers will be presented at this session for discussion.

Abstracts of papers should be submitted to the Seminar Leader c/o Martin Orkin (please see address below) by the Conference Registration date 25 February 1996 at the very latest. Papers will be circulated well in advance of the seminar which will itself be devoted to discussion.

Conference Registration Date: 25 February 1996

Fees Delegates registering by 25 February 1996 R200
Students registering by 25 February 1996 R100
Delegates registering late, after 25 February R300
Students registering late, after 25 February R150

The main hotel accommodation will be at the Rosebank Hotel situated in Rosebank. The cost of the hotel will be at a discounted price of approximately R378 for a single room per night and R423 for a double room per night. In addition to the Rosebank Hotel, bed and breakfast accommodation will be available in suburbs reasonably close to the University, although not within walking distance. The price for such accommodation averages at around R90 for a single room per night and R180 for a double room per night.

Please send all abstracts, registration fees, requests for accommodation and any other enquiries to

Martin Orkin
Conference Co-ordinator
Africa/Shakespeare Committee
University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3
PO Wits
2050 South Africa

Tel: 011 447 2075
Fax: 011 403 7309
e-mail: 071MRO@muse.arts.wits.ac.za

[JM 12 October 1995]