{"id":22018,"date":"2016-02-19T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22018"},"modified":"2016-02-19T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T06:48:24","slug":"apsu-hosting-state-conference-commemorating-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/19\/apsu-hosting-state-conference-commemorating-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-death\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU hosting state conference commemorating 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – No one knows how he died. John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, believed the playwright became sick following a drinking binge with friends. The author C. Martin Mitchell hypothesized that a cerebral hemorrhage took the life of the English language\u2019s greatest writer.<\/p>\n

The Internet is full of theories, ranging from syphilis to cocaine abuse, on the death of William Shakespeare, but if you\u2019re simply interested in facts, all we know is that the 52-year-old bard died in 1616, making this year the 400th<\/sup> anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n

\"Tennessee<\/a>

Tennessee Philological Association (TPA) conference to be held at Austin Peay February 25th-27th. Conference will commemorate 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare\u2019s death.<\/p><\/div>\n

Later this month, the Tennessee Philological Association (TPA)\u2014a statewide association of language and literature scholars\u2014will commemorate this anniversary during its 111th<\/sup> conference at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

The academic meeting, scheduled for February 25th-February 27th in APSU\u2019s Morgan University Center, will feature professors, college students and independent scholars from across the state presenting their research on topics such as \u201cShakespeare: Body and Place\u201d and \u201cShakespeare: Archetypes and Structures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TPA, founded in 1905, rotates hosting a conference in one of Tennessee\u2019s three regions every year. In 2013, Dr. Mickey Wadia, APSU professor of English and TPA executive board member, looked at a calendar and realized the next Middle Tennessee meeting would take place in 2016. That\u2019s when the Shakespeare scholar began lobbying for his institution to host that event.<\/p>\n

\u201cAPSU was selected because I asked for the meeting on our campus to do a statewide celebration of the 400th<\/sup> death anniversary of William Shakespeare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In addition to paper presentations, the conference will host a special panel at 4:00pm on Friday, February 26th, titled \u201cAssessing Shakespeare\u2019s Relevance in the 21st<\/sup> Century.\u201d That event, which is free and open to the public, will feature Wadia, along with Dr. Rusty Jones, Murray State University English professor; Dr. John Parker, Lipscomb University English professor; and Denice Hicks, artistic director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Friday night, during our banquet, we\u2019re doubling our entertainment by having Red River Breeze play (Renaissance-era music) during the dinner,\u201d Taylor Emery, chair of the conference planning committee, said. \u201cWhen they finish playing, Darren Michael, APSU associate professor of theatre, and a few of his students, will present a short Shakespearean piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

Language and literature scholars interested in other subjects will also attend the meeting to discuss topics such as 20th<\/sup> Century American literature or linguistics and pedagogy.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have been appropriate for the theme to be anything but Shakespeare this year, but the TPA does not limit submissions to the annual theme,\u201d Dr. David Major, APSU English professor and TPA vice president, said. \u201cIf the theme is the novel, we still have people who present on poetry, people who present on film.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, Major and Emery noted, APSU usually has a significant number of graduate students who participate in the annual conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage our English graduate students to give papers at this,\u201d Emery said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very friendly conference. It let\u2019s them get their feet wet.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the TPA or this year\u2019s conference, visit the association\u2019s website at www.apsu.edu\/tpa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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