Seminar (SAA): From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs
The Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting will be held in Denver, Colorado from Wednesday, 1 April to Saturday, 4 April 2026. This seminar will be held virtually. Online registration opens on 1 January 2026 and closes on 15 March 2026.
Proverbs offer fertile ways of thinking about questions of shared history and cross-cultural understanding; the relationship between classical and popular culture; rhetoric and pedagogy; authorship, style, and creativity; and adaptation, appropriation, and afterlives. We welcome papers that consider proverbs, sayings, and/or commonplaces in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, their nature and transmission, and how to undertake effective research on early modern proverbs today.
Laura Estill, St. Francis Xavier University
Richard J. Meek, University of Hull
Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture 