In 2025, Globe4Globe returns with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours, this Symposium follows on from the 2021 Globe4Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency Symposium.
The Globe4Globe 2025 symposium draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare’s works relate to ideas of environmental justice - historically and in the present. The Symposium will feature voices from across the globe working at the intersection of Shakespeare, performance and environmental justice.
Register to participate in this exciting event, and hear from the world's leading minds on topics including the depiction of environmental issues in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, climate justice, intersectional justice, environmental justice in theatre practice, outdoor, site-specific and place-based Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, ecocritical and ecofeminist readings of Shakespeare, and environmental education.
Plenary speakers include:
Elizabeth Freestone - "Rehearsing repair: Adapting rehearsal room practice to address environmental justice"
Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe - "Paulina, Hermione and Perdita: Ecofeminism, Post-Academia"
Madeline Sayet - "Rotten Policy: Shakespeare's Political Ecologies"
Sandra Young - "An Ordinary Storm: Attending to climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession through 'wild adaptation'"
View the full program below or download here!
There is no cost to register for Globe4Globe 2025.
Event organisers:
Katie Brokaw (The Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin)
Claire Hansen (Senior Lecturer in English, The Australian National University, Canberra)
Gretchen Minton (Professor of English, Montana State University)
This event is supported by Shakespeare's Globe, the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University, the University of Texas at Austin and EarthShakes).
You can learn more about the event and register for free here.