09.30: Coffee (Temple Pavilion)
10.00: Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)
Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London):
‘As You Like It: Benjamin’s Comic Infinite’
11.00: Coffee (Temple Pavilion)
11.30 Chair: Richard Ashby (Royal Holloway)
Hyowon Cho (New York University):
‘Towards a “Critical” Historiosophy’
Jessica Chiba (Royal Holloway, University of London):
‘“From this day to the ending of the world”:
Messianic Time in Henry V’
13.00 Lunch (Bell Inn, Hampton)
14.30: Chair: Corin Depper (Kingston University)
Björn Quiring (Trinity College Dublin):
‘Hamlet’s Pregnant Silence’
Betty Schulz (Kingston University):
‘Hamlet, Baroque Sovereign? Walter Benjamin contra Carl Schmitt’
16.00: Tea (Temple Pavilion)
16.30: Chair: John Joughin
Philip Lorenz (Cornell University):
‘Baroque Files: The Breakaway of Sovereignty in Late Shakespeare’
17.30: Round Table Discussion
Kingston Shakespeare Seminar 