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
Calling all Shutterbugs!
BritGrad 2013 is looking for a photographer. Could it be you? It’s a fantastic chance to get involved in BritGrad, have some fun, and capture the experience for posterity. Last year’s photography by Jon Harvey was really enjoyable and added a lot to the afterlife of the conference and is something we are looking to … Read more
Registration is open!
Friends, postgrads, countrymen…lend us your abstracts! We come to open BritGrad registration. The research that men do lives after them, The best is often entered in their papers, So let it be with BritGrad. (What are you waiting for? Get registering now! See the CFP and poster for more details.) … Read more
BritGrad 2013 News!
Hello all, We’re very pleased indeed to announce that BritGrad 2013 will convene June 6-8. Mark your calendars now! In other news, we have a new committee about to plan another excellent conference, chaired this year by Cathleen McKague. For more info on the core and sub-committees, head over to the About Us section of … Read more
CFPs: SI Review; ESRA summer conference; Bangor/BSA conference
1. JOURNAL CFP Shakespeare Institute Review, Issue 2: ‘Shakespeare and the superhuman’ The journal’s second issue has pushed back the submission deadline to 31 October 2012. Head on over to the website here, to see how high the bar was set in the first issue, and to answer any style questions you may have. Full CFP can be … Read more
Two New CFPs
It’s the last week to register for BritGrad, so once that abstract is in, have a think about responding to one of these fine CFPs – one a conference in Spring 2013, the other a new journal from the Shakespeare Institute. 1. The School of English, University of St Andrews will host Bonds, Lies, and Circumstances: … Read more
The Lizz Ketterer Memorial Award
BritGrad 2011 saw the inauguration of the Lizz Ketterer Memorial Award, a prize for the most promising abstract submitted to the conference as chosen by the panel and the fellows of the Institute. I was honoured to be asked to present it to Elizabeth Sharrett, who, thanks to the kind efforts of the BritGrad committee, … Read more
Guest post: Daisy Garofalo, BritGrad 2011 chair
A wise man once wrote that “brevity is the soul of wit.” A not-so-wise man once showed how true that statement is! I often find that I cannot say enough good things about BritGrad; however, in Shakespeare’s honor, I will try to be relatively brief. My name is Daisy Garofalo and I was the Chair … Read more
Peter Holland returns to BritGrad
We are delighted to announce that the originator of BritGrad will join the 2012 conference to give a plenary session! Professor Holland instigated the conference during his tenure as Director of the Shakespeare Institute (1997-2002). Today he is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre … Read more
