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The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon

Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare.

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For today's very special Open Day Thursday Seminar, we welcome Dr Daniel Swift, representing the quality speakers we have every week at our beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon campus✨

The talk is about that theatre called The Theatre in London, and Shakespeare's early career.

#danielswift #Shakespeare
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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London-based folk! Our Dr Jessica Chiba is giving a free talk on “‘Reason wonder may diminish’: Shakespeare and Aesthetic Freedom” at The London Aesthetics Forum next week.
📍Senate House
📅Thursday 27th November
🕟4:30pm
📝Sign up here: londonaestheticsforum.org?page_id=5012
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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For this week's Thursday Seminar, we are delighted to welcome back our alumnus José Perez Diaz, now an Associate Professor at @universityofleeds.bsky.social and joint chair of @bsashakespeare.bsky.social (pictured here with the Moroccan Ambassador, in front of whom he played Othello back in 2009)!
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Recently published!
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The State of Play, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social featuring a chapter by our own Dr Jessica Chiba🎉

Available here: bloomsbury.com/uk/midsummer...

#shakespeare #publication #publications #amidsummernightsdream #study
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This today!!!

Professor Tiffany Stern will be giving a talk on 'Shakespeare's Ballad Business' at Merton College, Oxford.

📆Tuesday 11th November
🕔5.15pm-7.15pm
📍T S Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford

The event is open to ALL, and includes refreshments 🥂
(so go go go!)
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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What's better than Professor Tiffany Stern talking about #ballads?

Professor Tiffany Stern talking about ballads, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. TODAY.

With Bill Barclay from The Globe Theatre

Check it out👇👇👇
#shakespeare #RutgersUniversity #music #earlymodernmusic #theglobe #lute
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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A lovely video featuring interviews with The Shakespeare Institute Players and Professor Michael Dobson during their recent visit to Fuzhou 🇨🇳
youtu.be/FMG7abbsHCM?si…#Shakespearer#tangxianzuz#fuzhouo#dramama
When Tang Xianzu's Peony Meets Shakespeare's Midsummer Night
YouTube video by 江西日报 JiangxiDaily
https://youtu.be/FMG7abbsHCM?si…
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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In this week's Thursday Seminar, Professor Sir Jonathan Bate of Arizona State University amusingly and insightfully thinks about the role of #AI in #Shakespeare research through an AI-generated Love's Labour's Won, complete with a student performance of Claude.ai's creative(?) work.
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Some more photographic records of the Shakespeare Institute Players' triumphant China tour of the Peony Pavilion!
#Shakespeare #china #TangXianzu #PeonyPavilion #intercultural #china
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The Shakespeare Institute Players are currently in China, touring English-translated extracts from The Peony Pavilion, a great classic written by #TangXianzu, #Shakespeare's Chinese contemporary! What an experience.
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!
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Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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📣Check out our brilliant Dr Erin Sullivan's new article, just published in 'Adaptation' (@adaptstudies.bsky.social)🎉🎉🎉
'Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest': academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

#Shakespeare #Adaptation #Ladybird #GretaGerwig #TheTempest #Publications
Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest
Abstract. The idea that audiences are a crucial part of the adaptation process is widely acknowledged, and yet research exploring reception as an engine of
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October 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The first Thursday Seminar of the term is traditionally given by the director of the Shakespeare Institute. How lucky we are to have Professor Michael Dobson talking about 'The Life of King Henry the Fifth: Shakespeare, Popular Memory, and Royal Memory' - we have a great turnout!
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Welcome to our new and returning students to a new academic year at The Shakespeare Institute!
We're looking forward to thinking about #Shakespeare with you all 🥰
#MA #ShakespeareInstitute #postgrad #postgraduate
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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📢CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED📢
The 'Shakespeare in a Polarised World' Conference, taking place in Brussels, March 2026, will be accepting abstracts until the 30th September (ignore date on website): waseda.jp/inst/brussels-…#cfpf#Shakespearer#conferencece
September 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here:
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre
From the Dark House to the Box Tree: Twelfth Night indoors and out | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🌻 Sunflowers -- a symbol of Ukraine, much celebrated in the poetry of Ivan Franko -- blooming in the Institute garden to mark our continuing partnership with Ivan Franko National University in Lviv 🇺🇦
August 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires, starting August 16 2026. Apply by October 1, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/search... #Skystorians
Search for an Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a Focus on Western Europe and/or its Empires San Marcos, Texas, August 16, 2026 - Deadline for submission/application: October 1, 2025 Position Description: The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires (period specialization open). Preference will be given to candidates with experience in Applied History/Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will be expected to teach survey courses in Western/world civilizations and specialized undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of Science & Technology, to direct graduate theses and serve on graduate committees, and to participate actively in departmental programs, service, and governance. This position is part of a cluster hire in the History of Science & Technology. Required Qualifications: A PhD in History or a related field (e.g., History of Science and Technology or European Studies) is required by the time of appointment. Candidates must demonstrate an active research agenda in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires. Preferred Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with experience in Applied History/Digital Humanities and to those who demonstrate an active research agenda with a scholarship record that complements the existing strengths of the History Department.
July 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...
Fixed Term Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies King's College London, September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026 Deadline for submission/application: July 27, 2025 The English department at King’s College London wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies on a fixed-term basis from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. The role will be on our AEP pathway, with an emphasis on teaching and educational scholarship. The successful candidate will have proven experience of university teaching, a record of published research appropriate to their career-stage, and also be able to undertake administrative and pastoral duties. They will be able to teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. These may include the level 4 modules Early Modern Literary Culture and the introductory first-year module Reading Poetry; the level 5 module The Film of the Play; and the level 6 module Shakespeare’s London (co-taught with our colleagues at Shakespeare’s Globe). They may also be asked to supervise MA dissertations for students on our MAs in Shakespeare Studies and Early Modern Literature: Books That Matter, as well as BA dissertations. The postholder will contribute, as personal tutor, to the pastoral care of students. They will be expected to undertake departmental administration as required. They will be responsible to the Head of Department. Further details are available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/120046-lecturer-in-shakespeare-studies. The deadline for applications is 27th July 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A wonderful evening! Tiffany and Laura (alumni relations) met great #Shakespeare Institute alumni and prospective students in New York🗽

With them was the fabulous alumna Diane Meyer Lowman, who has generously set up a #scholarship for international MA students:

www.birmingham.ac.uk/funding/post...
Group photo! Laura, Diana and Tiffany
July 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Professor Tiffany Stern will be in New York and looks forward to seeing Past, Present and Potential Future students! Everyone welcome! She's the best drinking companion + drinks are on us🍸
🗺️Manhattan, New York
📅Saturday 12 July 2025
🕧18:00-21:00
🖋️Register here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
Shakespeare Institute US networking event
Join our networking reception in New York to find out all about studying at Birmingham and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford Upon Avon.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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“When people are on the verge of tears anyway, tragedy goes to a different level”

Professor Michael Dobson quoted in @theguardian.com piece covering the remarkable Ukraine Shakepeare Festival 🇺🇦:
www.theguardian.com/.../shakespe....
#Shakespeare #ukraine #festival
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July 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Call for Papers. Conference: Shakespeare in a Polarized World.
Location and dates: WBO, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels. 6 – 9 March 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM