Date/Time
Date(s) - 17 Oct 2014 until 18 Oct 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Darthmouth College
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Open Symposium: “Teaching Shakespeare”
October 17th-18th, 2014
Dartmouth College
Shakespeare’s preeminence in the Anglophone canon has long made teaching his works a central and distinct undertaking of English Departments and of literary educators more generally. This symposium will bring together preeminent Shakespeareans, representing different academic generations and institutions, to reflect on the history and current fortunes of this major enterprise: they will bring to bear their own extensive experience as teachers of Shakespeare as well as their knowledge of the field and its history. While this topic may be of primary interest to teachers and students of Shakespeare, the teaching of Shakespeare remains a centerpiece of education in the humanities from middle school through college. The symposium is therefore meant to appeal to educators and students throughout the humanities and even beyond them, since so many non-humanities students nevertheless study Shakespeare.
Keynote speaker: Marjorie Garber (Harvard)
Panel 1: Teaching Shakespeare, Past and Future
Stephen Orgel (Stanford), Fran Dolan UC Davis), Kim Hall (Barnard College)
Panel 2: Teaching Shakespeare, Here and Now
Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins), Bob Matz (George Mason), Will Stockton (Clemson)
Panel 3: Performance and/as Pedagogy
James Loehlin (U.Texas at Austin) , Brett Gamboa (Dartmouth), Ralph Cohen (Mary Baldwin)
A concluding round-table will include high school teachers and students among others.
ALL ARE WELCOME: NO REGISTRATION OR ADMISSION COST
Funded by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Leon Black Chair of Shakespearean Studies, the Dean, Dartmouth College