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      <description>Congratulations to PhD students who have won funding to support development events for the wider Institute community</description>
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      <title>CLAD funding for student projects</title>
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      <title>Adapting Shakespeare for a "dark corner" of the land</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>60th anniversary celebrations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Shakespeare Institute graduate appointed Lecturer at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan</title>
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      <description>Congratulations to Mariko Nagase!</description>
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      <description>Ewan Fernie and Paul Edmondson hosted a special webinar to mark the launch of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's first online course, which is free for all and features both Professor Fernie and Professor Dobson.</description>
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      <title>Shakespeare's Sonnets in context</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare/news/2011/russ-mcdonald.aspx</link>
      <description>Thursday seminar podcast.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'The Tempest', Verona and Internationalisation</title>
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      <description>December 2011 conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Tempest.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Virtual Manuscript Room</title>
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      <description>Karin Brown discusses the range of material available through the Virtual Manuscript Room.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Material Culture and Cultural Heritage of Shakespeare's England</title>
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      <description>AHRC Collaborative Doctorate 2010-2013</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Professor Michael Dobson reviews 'Anonymous' for The Guardian.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Disease unto Death: Sadness in the Time of Shakespeare</title>
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      <description>Thursday seminar podcast.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Shakespeare Institute students establish a scholarship in memory of alumna Dr Lizz Ketterer</title>
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      <description>Hamlet production was the first major fundraising event.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RSC visual artist Alan O'Cain presents his work on The Tempest</title>
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      <description>Thursday seminar podcast.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Podcast: Michael Dobson talks with RSC Director Lucy Bailey</title>
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      <description>Thursday seminar podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Uses of Poetry</title>
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      <description>One day forum hosted by Dr Kate Rumbold.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham's international centre for exploration of the work of Shakespeare and the drama of his time, is seeking to enhance its international prestige and reputation as the destination of choice for postgraduate study with the appointment of distinguished Shakespearean scholar, Professor Michael Dobson, as its new Director and Professor of Shakespeare Studies.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Seminar Series made available online</title>
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      <description>2011-12 Thursday Talks to be podcasted.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dig for Shakespeare live on BBC One</title>
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      <description>National Treasures Live on location on Wednesday 24 August.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Daily Telegraph obituary for founding Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Emeritus Professor Stanley Wells writes for the Oxford University Press blog.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Erin Sullivan wins Cultural History prize</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare/news/2011/cultural-history.aspx</link>
      <description>The Watchful Spirit: Religious Anxieties toward Sleep in Seventeenth-Century England</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Professor Kate McLuskie in panel debate.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 22:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Dr Erin Sullivan was invited to be a guest on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Podcast – Reclaiming St George</title>
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      <description>Professor Ewan Fernie talks about Redcrosse - a new poetic liturgy</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference hosted by the Shakespeare Institute</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A leading Shakespearean expert from the University of Birmingham is seeking to reaffirm Englishness and St. George</description>
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      <title>The Hakluyt Society First Series</title>
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      <description>The Library at the Shakespeare Institute has purchased the first series of the publications of the Hakluyt Society.</description>
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