13 February 2020 More than £1m funding to reconnect Birmingham with its Shakespeare heritage A £1.7 million project to re-connect Birmingham's communities with the city's Shakespearean heritage launched today.
12 February 2020 'Everything to Everybody' brings Birmingham's unique Shakespeare heritage back to life 'Everything to Everybody' - a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council - will revive the fortunes of the city's almost-forgotten Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library.
10 February 2020 David Troughton in conversation Professor Michael Dobson asks about a distinguished career in Shakespearean theatre.
02 January 2020 What We May Be An exhibition and interactive event celebrating identity, in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
05 December 2019 The first great Shakespeare Library - A forgotten Birmingham story Listen to Shakespeare Institute's Professor Ewan Fernie discussing how the first great Shakespearean was in Birmingham
18 November 2019 Working with Shakespeare on stage and screen Professor Emeritus Russell Jackson in conversation with Michael Dobson, on the stories behind some of the draft shooting scripts, photographs of set designs, hand-annotated rehearsal texts of Shakespeare.
31 July 2019 Shakespeare Professor elected Fellow of the British Academy Professor Tiffany Stern, a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her research in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
22 July 2019 Finding new ways to help deaf young people access Shakespeare The RSC and the University of Birmingham have been exploring how rehearsal room techniques can help deaf young people understand and enjoy Shakespeare.
11 July 2019 Shakespeare and Creativity MA students performed two new plays at The Other Place As part of their Shakespeare and Creativity MA, students from the University of Birmingham have presented two new plays in response to Shakespeare at The Other Place.
05 July 2019 Module Focus: Shakespeare in Asia Students studying on our Shakespeare Institute distance learning programmes have the unique opportunity to study the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.
06 June 2019 Week long workshop with RSC Director Iqbal Khan Shakespeare Institute students talk about their experience of attending a week long workshop with RSC Director Iqbal Khan looking at the provocation "What is a modern history play?"
Emancipating the Anthropocene through eco-Shakespeare performance: the global Cymbeline project 27Oct
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