Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy is a five-day, free, online event which seeks to share, celebrate, and reinvigorate approaches to the teaching and study of Shakespeare's plays.  

Bringing together contributions from international scholars, teachers, students, and our multilingual communities to investigate Shakespeare's plays and their place in our classrooms.  Exploring a range of mediums including translations, the Everything to Everybody collection, and British Sign Language in the classroom as exciting opportunities to teach, study, and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.

Revisiting and building upon international scholarship, research, and education, Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy aims to challenge perceptions and address the contextual complexities of language and race, creating a dialogue between the past and the present to include and inspire our current and future scholars, students, teachers.

Day 1: Monday 15th February 2021
5.45pm (UK) Introduction: Wendy Lennon(English teacher, PhD student at the Shakespeare Institute and Founder of Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy) 

Opening address: Professor Farah Karim-Cooper (Globe and King's College, London)

6.00pm (UK) Reading Shakespeare & the Racial Blind Spot with Dr Ian Smith (Lafayette)

7.30pm (UK) Anti-Racist Shakespeare with Dr Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd, California) & Dr Nedda Mehdizadeh (UCLA)

Day 2:  Tuesday 16th February 2021
10.30am (UK) Dr Xine Yao (UCL) & UCL Graduate students

2.00pm (UK) Dr Eoin Price (Swansea) & Dr Nandini Das (Oxford) in conversation with Wendy Lennon

6.00pm (UK) Writing, Publishing & Teaching with Dr Sarah Olive (York) and Dr Gillian Woods (Birbeck)

8.00pm (UK) Pedagogy with Dr David Sterling Brown (Binghamton, New York)

Day 3: Wednesday 17th February 2021
6.00pm (UK) Everything to Everybody: Exploring the Collection with Dr Islam Issa, Tom Epps & Lucy Kamenova

Day 4:  Thursday 18th February 2021
6.00pm (UK) Professor Michael Dobson(Shakespeare Institute) in conversation with Dr Joyce Green Macdonald (Kentucky)

Day 5: Friday 19th February 2021
10.30am (UK) Signing Shakespeare with Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Shakespeare Institute)

2.00pm (UK) Scholars of Colour: Our Graduate Experience with Shani Bans (UCL), Wendy Lennon (Shakespeare Institute), Nour El Gazzaz (Royal Holloway) and Hassana Moosa(King's College, London)