Shakespeare enthusiasts will have the opportunity to hear various perspectives about the world-famous playwright at two University of Queensland public lectures this week.
International and national scholars will discuss How Do We Teach Shakespeare in the 21st Century? on Wednesday, October 2 at 4pm at the St Lucia campus’ new UQ Centre.
A performance by the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble will open the seminar, where Australian Humanities Teacher of the Year (1999), Associate Professor Lloyd Davis from UQ’s School of English Media Studies and Art History, will discuss the excitement of teaching Shakespeare in the new millennium.
Prize-winning Shakespeare teacher Professor Nancy Hodge from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, United States, will join Dr Davies in the discussion, as will several leading Queensland secondary school teachers.
The seminar will be followed by Reconstructing Classic Productions of Shakespeare at 8pm in the UQ Centre.
President of the International Shakespeare Association, Professor Jill Levenson from the University of Toronto, Canada, will talk about what she discovered while researching classic Shakespeare performances in an effort to reconstruct the “giants of the 20th century stage”.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the lectures. They will be held in association with UQ’s Australian Drama Studies Centre and the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association as part of Shakespeare in the 21st Century: A Work in Progress Colloquium 2002.
The colloquium (an academic conference or seminar) will coincide with the first visit by the International Shakespeare Association planning committee for the next World Shakespeare Congress, which will be held at The University of Queensland in 2006.
Held every five years, the congress is the largest gathering of scholars concerned with international and multi-cultural perspectives on William Shakespeare.
Media: for further information, contact Associate Professor Richard Fotheringham (telephone 07 3365 3327, email: r.fotherington@uq.edu.au) or Joanne van Zeeland at UQ Communications (telephone 07 3365 2619 email: communications@uq.edu.au).
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