HOME
CONTACTS
HISTORY
SERVICES
CURRENT SEMINARS
SPECIAL EVENTS
LINKS
FAQ
COLUMBIA HOME

Shakespeare

This seminar explores issues of interest to current Shakespeare scholarship. Principal topics include the relation of play-script to performance, the implications of recent changes in textual study, the relevance of texts to the social and political world in which they were produced, and the impact of contemporary theory on Shakespeare criticism. A Bernard Beckerman Memorial Lecture is presented annually in honor of the seminar’s founder.

Seminar: #581
Founded: 1982

Seminar Administration

Co Chairs:
Irene Dash
Hunter College, CUNY
idash2@gmail.com

William Long
iska.alter@verizon.net

Rapporteur:
Adam Hooks
Columbia University
agh2108@columbia.edu

Meetings

September 8, 2006, 7:00, Faculty House, Carole Levin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Gilded with Ducats': Gender, Power, and Conversation in English Renaissance Drama and Culture" RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

October 13, 2006, 7:00 PM, Faculty House, Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University, Respondent: Naomi Liebler
"Taken By Faieres, Dancing with Hobby-Horses: Retinking Popular Culture in Midsummer Night's Dream" RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

November 10, 2006, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Chris Fitter, Respondent: Tom Pendleton
"The Stagecraft of Stealth: Shakespeare and the Negotiaton of Censorship" RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

December 8, 2006, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Speaker: Pat Parker, Respondent: Jean Howard
"Cutting Figures: Bloodletting, Castration/Circumcision, and the 'Lancelet' or Knife of The Merchant of Venice" RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

February 9, 2007, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Alan Stewart, Respondent: Maurice Charney
"Shakespeare's Letters" RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

March 9, 2007, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Tina Packer, Bernard Beckerman Speaker, Respondent: Katie Goodland
TBA RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

April 13, 2007, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Tiffany Alkan, Respondent : Corey Abate
"Pericles and the vexed place of Romance in post-Reformation England RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

May 11, 2007, 7:00pm, Faculty House, Paul Werstine, Respondent: Bill Long
TBA RSVP:agh2108@columbia.edu

POLITICS
LITERATURE, RELIGION AND THE ARTS
Studies in Religion
The Ancient Near East
The Study of the Hebrew Bible
The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
Shakespeare
Iranian Studies
Buddhist Studies
Religion in America
Romanticism and its Aftermath
Literary Theory
New Testament
Comparative Philosophy
Religion in New York
CULTURAL STUDIES
HISTORY
EDUCATION AND PUBLIC MEDIA
SCIENCE
REGIONAL STUDIES
SOCIETY
ALPHABETICAL LISTING