British Graduate Shakespeare Conference

A huge thank you to our Day Two Opening Plenaries, Dr. Maggie Rose and Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall!

A beautiful series of presentations from some of our delegates yesterday! Thank you to everyone who presented yesterday, and we cannot wait to see the next round today!

Beyond grateful for Sir Gregory Doran for being our first Plenary Speaker at BritGrad!

Today we are delighted to welcome Maggie Rose to BritGrad. Maggie taught at Milan University, where she held the chair of British Theatre Studies and Performance. Her new play, Two Sisters, explores the lives of Judith and Susanna Shakespeare ✨

We can’t wait to welcome YouTube star Ruby Granger to BritGrad this Saturday as a plenary speaker ✨ Tickets still available bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

Our workshop with @mngupbooks.bsky.social and Michelle Michel covers the challenges and evolving trends in academic publishing ✨Get your tickets here bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

This fascinating workshop from @folger.edu
will introduce attendees to English secretary hand. Come along if you would like to learn more with Dr Heather Wolfe and Dr Sara Schliep ✨ Tickets here bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

Join @tamarabatty.bsky.social and @mattbruce007.bsky.social for this exciting workshop with @unibirmingham.bsky.social CAL Academic Writing Advisory Service at BritGrad next week ✨ Tickets here bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

In our next workshop, @benbroadribb.bsky.social
and @norajw.bsky.social are presenting a practical guide to getting published! Tickets still available here bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

We have some incredible workshops lined up for BritGrad 2025, starting with Dr Alex Thom who will be speaking on strategies and timelines for the pursuit of funding ✨

Our next plenary speaker is...Dr Peter Kirwan ✨ Dr Kirwan specialises in the textual and performance afterlives of early modern plays and will be speaking about reviewing Shakespeare at BritGrad. Tickets here! bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

Announcing our next plenary speaker... Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall ✨ Abigail is Associate Professor in Shakespeare and Theatre and Deputy Director (Education) of
@shakesinstitute.bsky.social and will be speaking about the Stratford Roundhouse. Tickets here! bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

Our next plenary speaker is....Professor Roberta Barker ✨ Roberta is joining us to speak about casting early plays at BritGrad. Find your tickets here! www.britgrad.com/copy-of-regi...

Our next plenary speaker is... Dr Martin Wiggins!

Dr Martin Wiggins is the author of British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute. Listen to him speak about casting early plays with, tickets available here www.britgrad.com/copy-of-regi...

✨Introducing Our First Plenary Speaker✨

Sir Gregory Doran!

Join Caroline Burgon for an insightful and engaging conversation with Sir Gregory Doran, acclaimed director and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Get your tickets here www.britgrad.com/copy-of-regi...

And with that #britgrad2024 is over. We celebrated with a party, and Shakespeare themed cocktails of course 🍹 Massive well done to Matthew Mullin for winning the 2024 abstract prize for his fantastic paper: Refashioning Disability Identity in Early Modern Theatre

Don't forget to get your tickets for the party tonight! Feat: For one night only, at the BritGrad 2024 party, William Shakespeare will be rising from the dead in his final form: as a Drag King 👑 #britgrad2024
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britgrad-2...

What better way to close out #britgrad2024 than with Dr Will Green, Dr Anna L Hegland and Dr Sam Jermy on their publication: The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024. @drwillgreen.bsky.social

Special mention to AJ Goga, who wins the #britgrad2024 prize for best pun.

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Panel 28: 'You have witchcraft in your lips': Cursing, Spellcasting, and Casting Out Genderqueer Supernaturality has been appropriately filled with a mysteriously self-opening door in the
@ShakesInstitute
Reading Room. Marie Corelli is that you? #britgrad2024

Panel 24: 'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds': Spirits and Souls in Renaissance Literature was absolutely brilliant, thank you so much to our panelists for sharing their research with us! #britgrad2024

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We cannot believe it is the final day of #britgrad2024. Best of luck to everyone presenting today!

Panel 19: From Seascapes to Islandscapes Forestscapes: The Environmental and Human Geographies of the Early Modern World was a rich discussion of, amongst other things, how we can use Shakespeare, Fletcher & other EM playwrights to help us tackle the climate crisis. #britgrad2024

🪶 BritGrad Day 2 is in full swing! What is your mood doing into day 2? William Shakesbear, Bearjamin Jonson, or Christobear Marlowe? #britgrad2024

Thank you so much to Abigail Rokison-Woodall & Ed Woodall for joining us this morning and speaking on their new book Shakespeare and Lecoq! #britgrad2024

#britgrad2024 Day One concluded with an outstanding talk by Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty on Fictions of Consent: Race, Slavery, and Property in Early Modern England. How lucky are we! @UrvashiChakrav

Panel 10: Fluids and Fluidity: Aqueous Emotions, Bodies, and Genders in Shakespearean Poetry and Drama was overflowing (no pun intended) with intriguing explorations of the fluidity of gender, humours, and the excess of nature and emotions. #britgrad2024

Panel 5 update: Jess who has covid joined virtually not in-person #britgrad2024 is a place for infecting each other merely with all things early modern (MINUS THE PLAGUE)

TO CLARIFY: she was with us virtually, not in person! Probably should have mentioned that 😅

Panel 5: ‘He that wears the crown’: Kingship & the Politics of Nationhood in Shakespeare’s English History Plays has begun! Special mention to Jess Snellings, who shared a fab presentation despite having Covid! The plague didn't stop Shakespeare & it won't stop Jess #britgrad2024