“TEACHING SHAKESPEARE”
AN OPEN SYMPOSIUM TO BE HELD AT
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,
OCTOBER 17TH-18TH, 2014
PROGRAM
All sessions will be held in Haldeman 041.
Friday, October 17th
4:00 PM Peter Saccio (Professor of English, Emeritus, Dartmouth College): “Shakespeare for a Shadow Audience.” A Leon Black Chair Lecture. Haldeman 41.
8:00 PM
Welcome: Carolyn Dever, Provost, Dartmouth College
Keynote speaker: Marjorie Garber (Harvard)
“Shakespeare 451”
Saturday, October 18th
8.30-9.30 AM, Continental breakfast, Haldeman 041 Lobby
9:30 – 11:30 AM
Panel 1: Teaching Shakespeare, Past and Future
Chair: Jonathan Crewe, Leon Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies
Stephen Orgel (Stanford)
“The Ego and the IT”
Gina Bloom (UC Davis)
Videogame Shakespeare
Kim Hall (Barnard College)
“’Are You Familiar With the Bard?’ Shakespeare in African American Culture
11.30-1.15, Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Panel 2: Teaching Shakespeare, Here and Now
Chair: George Edmondson, English Department
Andrew Daniel (Johns Hopkins)
“The Beast Without A Heart: Shakespeare, Interpretation, and the Dream of a General Public”
Robert Matz (George Mason)
“’They did make love to this employment’: Career-Ready Hamlet”
William Stockton (Clemson)
“Shakespeare Among The Fundamentalists”
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Panel 3: Performance and/as Pedagogy
Chair: Laura Edmondson, Department of Theater
James Loehlin (U.Texas at Austin)
“Incremental and Immersive Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare through Performance.”
Brett Gamboa (Dartmouth College)
“Mining The Gaps”
Ralph Cohen (Mary Baldwin)
“Teaching Shakespeare at the Intersection of Text and Script”
5:15 – 6:30 PM
Concluding Group Discussion (Audience Participation Welcomed)
“Partners in Teaching Shakespeare”
Chair: Thomas Luxon, Professor of English and founding director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
Laura Braunstein, Librarian for English, Dartmouth College Library
Morgan Swan, Special Collections Librarian, Dartmouth College Library
Jasmine Sachar ’16, English major, Dartmouth College
John Galton, Hanover High Teacher of English, retired.
7.00 PM, Participants’ Dinner, Hanover Inn
ALL ARE WELCOME: NO REGISTRATION OR ADMISSION COST
SPONSORED BY THE LESLIE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES, THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, AND THE LEON BLACK CHAIR OF SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES