27 April 2021 John Kani, South Africa's leading classical actor, receives the Pragnell Prize 2021 Join Professor Michael Dobson as meets the South African actor John Kani to award him the 2021 Pragnell Prize.
22 April 2021 Sir Henry Irving: why he matters and why he came to Bournemouth Join Professor Michael Dobson online as he discusses this lastingly influential actor-manager.
22 April 2021 It's a mystery The Shakespeare Institute's very own Professor Tiffany Stern will be appearing in a mini-documentary to be released tomorrow by Shakespeare's Guildhall Trust.
22 April 2021 Shakespeare's birthday celebrations 2021 23 April 2021 marks Shakespeare's 457th Birthday, and staff from the Everything to Everybody project, the Birmingham Stories campaign, and The Shakespeare Institute have lots of exciting activity taking place.
02 April 2021 Dr Robert Stagg interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford The Shakespeare Institute's Robert Stagg was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford about the astonishing cultural range of @LilNasX's new music video 'Montero'.
04 February 2021 King Charles II and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Recent PHd Student Dr José Pérez Díez will introduce this landmark book which features 34 plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
04 February 2021 World's Stage - a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare The Everything to Everybody project, led by Professor Ewan Fernie of The Shakespeare Institute, have launched "World's Stage" a series of seven new short films.
17 December 2020 MA Shakespeare and Creativity students are participating in the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival Our MA Shakespeare and Creativity students have produced 9 short films as part of the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival on Monday 21 December.
16 December 2020 Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, has been named as the 2020 winner of Romania's prestigious Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize.
15 December 2020 Stars and scholars worldwide line up to congratulate Shakespeare Institute graduands At an online ceremony from the hall of the Shakespeare Institute on 10 December 10, a selection of the Institute's distinguished honorary fellows paid tribute to the extraordinary resilience of our students
23 November 2020 Comparing notes about the state of Shakespearean scholarship and performance in Russia and in the UK before and during the current pandemic An online conference in collaboration with the Russian Shakespeare Centre.
12 November 2020 AHRC-Funded Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research AHRC-funded studentships are now available for 2021 entry through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.
Everything to Everybody A collaboration with Birmingham City Council will revive the fortunes of the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library