British Shakespeare Association

This page contains announcements from the BSA about our conference, events and activities. We also welcome advertisements for Shakespeare-related events and publications that may be of interest to our membership, which will be posted in the ‘Non-BSA News‘ section.

CFP: Shakespeare and Versification

14 Sep 2020

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Call for Submissions: ‘Shakespeare and Versification’ At the start of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), Mr M’Choakumchild drills his pupils in ‘the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling’. The list continues, as a mixture of tedium and threat,...

Teaching Shakespeare 20: Call for Papers

03 Jul 2020

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Teaching Shakespeare is an international, cross-sector magazine for educators and students that is freely available online via the British Shakespeare Association’s Education section of its website. It has a readership of over 1,000 in more than 60 countries — thanks to your...

2021 Honorary Fellowships Committee

01 Jun 2020

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Do you have an interest in identifying and honouring those individuals who have made a substantial contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare as creatives or as scholars? The Honorary Fellowships committee is seeking to recruit two new members to take up a committee role...

Celebration in Seclusion

23 Apr 2020

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Message from Chair Dear Members, I hope, first and foremost that you are all well. It feels rather strange celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday over the next three days in the midst of a global pandemic which has created emotions from one end of the scale to the other –...

Birthday Lectures

23 Apr 2020

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What was Shakespeare Really Like? Birthday lectures by Professor Stanley Wells. From Shakespeare’s Birthday (23 April), Professor Stanley Wells is making available a series of four, new public lectures: ‘What Was Shakespeare Really Like?’ These are commissioned...

2020 BSA Conference Update

23 Mar 2020

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Dear Members, In response to the very fast-moving public health crisis at a national and international level, our Events team have met with staff in Surrey and decided to cancel the BSA conference planned for July 16-18 in 2020. We are very sorry to have to do this, as many of...

CFP: Shakespeare and the Jews: A Global Exploration

20 Mar 2020

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In 1992, James Shapiro discussed ‘Shakespeare and the Jews’ in the James Parkes Lecture at the University of Southampton, a lecture that would form one of the cornerstones of his ground-breaking book of the same title. Thirty years later, in 2022, the journal Shakespeare pays...

BSA New Trustee: Minuting Secretary

21 Jan 2020

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The Board of Trustees of the British Shakespeare Association wishes to appoint a new Trustee to take up a position on the Board in Spring 2020. Trustees work voluntarily (with reasonable expenses reimbursed) to further the aims of the BSA across its four main constituencies of...

Nominations for 2020 BSA Honorary Fellowships

24 Sep 2019

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An Invitation from the Chair of the BSA Fellowship Committee: The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. This year, 2019, the Fellowship was given solely to Professor John Drakakis, for his outstanding work and lifetime’s achievement in the...