‘Provincial Shakespeare Performance’: fully funded PhD studentship
‘Provincial Shakespeare Performance’ fully funded PhD studentship, University of Nottingham/British Library – closing date 7 June 2013 The University of Nottingham School of English and The British Library AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Provincial Shakespeare Performance The British Library and the School of English at the University of Nottingham are seeking to award one fully funded PhD studentship to … Read more
Smile, You’ll Be On Camera
BritGrad 2013 now has a resident shutterbug! We’re delighted to announce that Jenna Owen will be our official photographer at this year’s conference. Jenna is currently completing her MA in Shakespeare and Theatre here at the Institute, and will also be delivering a paper at the conference: ‘“Do you stand for me”: re-evaluating the ‘play … Read more
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CAKE!
Have we got your attention? Good. BritGrad is holding a bake sale this Sunday, 19th May, in the Parish Centre across from Holy Trinity Church at 11.45am. If you’re in the Stratford vicinity, we hope you’ll join us and sample some delicious treats. If you’d like to prepare some yummy baked goods for the sale, … Read more
The Lizz Ketterer Memorial Award 2013
Since 2011, BritGrad has presented the Lizz Ketterer Memorial Award to the most promising abstract entered for that year’s conference, chosen anonymously by fellows at the Shakespeare Institute. This award was established in memory of SI alumna Dr Lizz Ketterer, who passed away two years ago. [An excellent piece about Lizz and the award, written … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #5
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #5: Christie Carson We are delighted to announce another plenary speaker: Christie Carson! She will join us to deliver a plenary titled ‘Influencing Editors, Influencing Performers: the Page to Stage relationship’. Dr Carson is Reader in Shakespeare and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has co-edited The … Read more
Crossing The Border of Eternal Peril, or, A Very Important Notice
STOP! Who would cross the Border of Eternal Peril must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see: What is your name? What is your quest? What is your nationality? On a more serious note, we would like to inform all delegates – presenters and auditors alike – that this year all … Read more
Travel bursary form now available
Bursary Forms Now Available! Interested in one of our lovely bursaries? The application form is now on the blog for all of you lovely people to fill in! Remember that we must receive your complete applications before Wednesday 22nd May, and you must have registered to present a paper at this year’s conference by last … Read more
Money, Money, Money (It’s A Grad Student’s World)
BritGrad is delighted to announce that we have a small number of bursaries available for delegates. Thanks to the generous support of the Society of Renaissance Studies and the University of Birmingham’s CLAD (Centre for Learning and Development), we can offer a select number of bursaries to students intending to present at the conference, which … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #4
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #4: Jonathan Dollimore This just in: we’re happy to announce that Professor Jonathan Dollimore will be leading a plenary session at BritGrad! All of us on the BritGrad committee are delighted to welcome him to the Institute this June, where he will deliver a talk tentatively titled ‘On Human … Read more
CFP: ‘Playing Games’ a Graduate Conference at UCL
‘Playing Games’ – Department of English Language and Literature, University College London Graduate Conference – 24 May 2013 Play, writes Roger Caillois (Man, Play and Games, 1961), is an activity that is free and non-productive, unfolds in a circumscribed time and place with an uncertain conclusion, is rule-governed and ‘accompanied by a special awareness of … Read more
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