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Posted 23 July 2021 World Shakespeare Congress 2021 Shakespeare Institute faculty and PhD students were extensively involved in this year's virtual World Shakespeare Congress, hosted by the University of Singapore.
Posted 23 July 2021 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust appoints Shakespeare Institute Director to its Board Professor Michael Dobson joins the board as one of the trustees that make up the charity's governing body.
Posted 23 July 2021 Everything to Everybody: Bringing the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library to the World Professor Michael Dobson in video conversation with Professor Ewan Fernie about the £1.7 million project 'Everything to Everybody'.
Posted 15 June 2021 Successful launch of the Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance is a global network established by the Shakespeare Institute with the aim of uniting those working with Shakespeare from around the world and from across the social spectrum.
Book Launch: Jimmy Packham's Gothic Utterance and Hannah Murray's Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction 27Oct
Visiting Speaker: E. James West (York): 'A Monument to Negro Enterprise': The Black Press and Chicago's Literary Landscapes in the 1920s. 10Nov