Programme:

Day 1 Monday 9th July

10.00 – 10.15  Welcome –  Dr Victoria Bladen and Prof Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

10.15 – 10.30 – Outline of the work of the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières (IRCL) – Prof Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

10.30 – 11.30 Introduction to Shakespeare – Dr Victoria Bladen

11.30 – 12.30 Shakespeare and the History Play – Prof Andrew Hiscock (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

12.30 – 1.30    Lunch

1.30 – 2.00      Introduction to Henry IV Part 1 – Dr Victoria Bladen

2.00 – 4.00      Henry IV Part 1: playreading [For playreading sessions, we read through the play together; all students and scholars are invited to be part of this. You are welcome to bring your own sword or crown!]

Day 2 Tuesday 10th July

10.00 – 11.00 Shakespeare’s Insults – Prof Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

11.00 – 12.30 Henry IV Part 1: playreading

12.30 – 1.30    Lunch

1.30 – 2.00      The Publishing History of Shakespeare's Henriad  - Daniel Yabut (PhD candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL)

2.00 – 2.30      The Immortality Problem: Religion, Death and Post-Mortal Existence in Shakespeare's Plays  - Fiona Wells-Lakeland (PhD candidate, University of Waikato in New Zealand)

2.30 – 4.00      Henry IV Part 1: playreading

Day 3 Wednesday 11th July

10.00 – 10.30 Introduction to Henry V – Prof Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

10.30 – 12.30 Henry V: playreading

12.30 – 1.30    Lunch

1.30 – 4.00 Excursion to Montpellier Art Gallery (http://museefabre.montpellier3m.fr/)

Day 4 Thursday 12th July

10.00 – 11.00 Shakespeare and Gender - Prof Andrew Hiscock

11.00 – 11.30 Hamlet on the Russian Ballet stage - Natalia Shabalina (PhD candidate, Vaganova Ballet Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia)

11.30 – 12.30 Shakespeare’s sonnets and exploring Iambic Pentameter – Dr Victoria Bladen [In this workshop you will have the opportunity to try writing a quatrain in iambic pentameter to build towards a sonnet.]

12.30 – 1.30    Lunch

1.30 – 2.30  Shakespeare Festivals in the South of France  - Prof Florence March (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL) 

2.30- 3.30    Henry V: playreading

3.30 – 4.30   Unruly Wombs in Shakespeare and Fletcher – Dr Ursula Potter (University of Sydney)

Day 5 Friday 13th July

10.00 – 11.00 Henry V on Screen – Prof Sarah Hatchuel (University of Le Havre)

11.00 – 12.30 Henry V: playreading

12.30 – 1.30    Lunch

1.30 - 2.30   Combats, Truth, and Masculine Identity – Assoc Prof Jennifer Low (Florida Atlantic University)

2.30 – 4.00      Henry V: playreading

Evening activity: Dinner -  venue and cost to be advised. Partners and friends welcome. Participants may wish to read their quatrains or sonnets to the group at the dinner!