7th Biennial Asian Shakespeare Association Conference 

EXTENDED DEADLINE—CFP: Shakespeare Between Worlds: Portals and Pathways

DATE: June 12-14, 2026

LOCATION: Hong Kong

Shakespeare exists across and between multiple worlds today. After centuries of circulation in Asia, Shakespeare inhabits all locales and cultural formations in ever-changing forms, but is contained by none. Neither completely virtual nor concretely embodied, long dead yet very much alive, inhabiting past, present and future in equal measure, Shakespeare continues to thrive in the act of playing, teaching and thinking. Recent Asian Shakespeare scholarship has critically reflected upon, yet ultimately celebrated such cross-cultural, international, world-wide flourishing, bringing together new arrangements, forms and collaborations of Shakespeare’s work across art, performance and cultures.

Unlike even a decade ago, however, it seems no longer self-evident that the portals and gateways that Shakespeare has opened in Asia and around the globe, connecting geographical locations, cultural sensibilities, political spheres of influence, forms of artistic expression and evolving media, will remain open. In light of recent challenges, the Asian Shakespeare Association invites Shakespeare scholars to Hong Kong to contemplate recent developments as well as long-standing issues in Shakespeare Studies in Asia and beyond and to reaffirm the value of keeping the conversation going. Organized in conjunction with the Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio’s Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival, “Shakespeare Between Worlds: Portals and Pathways” will bring together scholars, students and practitioners of Shakespeare for an exciting event that will combine scholarly activities with the opportunity to witness world-class international Asian Shakespeare performances.

In this spirit, we invite papers that examine Shakespeare’s existence between worlds, in portals and pathways. Topics of interest may include, but are explicitly not limited to:

— Cartography: borders, margins, frontiers
— Pathways: traffic, movement, migration
— Portals: history, temporality, transportation

— Networks: relationships, structures, capital, exchange
— Adaptation: interpretation, appropriation, animation, reception
— Mediality: virtuality, augmentation, remediation, artificial intelligence

— Performance: reality, embodiment, liveness
— Movement: theatricality, gesture, dance
— Acoustic: rhetoric, music, architecture

— Interculturality: dialogue, conversion, conflict
— Language: translation, hybridization, localization
— Education: pedagogy, ideology, interdisciplinarity

— Discourse: power relations, censorship, cultural transfer
— Diversity: gender, race, class, sexuality, disability
— Equity: decoloniality, justice, activism, audience, inclusivity

We look forward to seeing you all in Hong Kong in 2026!

About the ASA

The Asian Shakespeare Association (ASA), a non-profit, non-government organization founded in 2013 with its headquarters in the Philippines, is dedicated to researching, producing, teaching, translating, and promoting Shakespeare from Asian perspectives. Its hundreds of members come from more than forty countries. The ASA holds biennial conferences in Asian locations and has been to Taipei (2014), New Delhi (2016), Manila (2018), Seoul (2020), online (2022) and Iloilo (2024). Papers originated from the ASA conferences have been published as two books, Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel (Routledge, 2017), Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare (Routledge, 2020), a special issue “Intersections in Shakespeare” of Shakespeare Review (2022), and a special issue “Shakespeare in Asian Currents” of Shakespeare (2025).

Contact
Submissions and queries should be sent to admin@asianshakespeare.org. For conference updates, please
visit AsianShakespeare.org

 

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