‘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
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
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
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #3
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #3: Jonathan Slinger We hope you are all as excited as we are to hear that Jonathan Slinger is one of our plenary speakers for BritGrad 2013. Slinger graduated from RADA in 1994 and since then has made a big name for himself on TV, radio, and the stage. … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #2
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #2: Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson In the second post in our series, we turn now to Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, who we’re happy to announce will be leading a site-specific drama workshop for all delegates, as part of their ‘Staging Places’ project. Read on for more details: … Read more
CFP: Reanimating Playbooks symposium
It’s shaping up to be a busy spring in Stratford! A month before our conference convenes, the Shakespeare Institute will host a one day symposium on editing, Renaissance plays, and performance. Check out the CFP below – the deadline is two weeks today. Info on registration for auditors will be released in just a few … Read more
