Shakespeare, Race, and the Practical Humanities Symposium
April 19 7:00pm
Opening Night Lecture
IS IT PRACTICAL TO TALK ABOUT SHAKESPEARE AND RACE?
Whitmore
Michael Witmore
Director Folger Shakespeare Library

April 20 7:00pm

Shakespeare, Race, and the Practical Humanities Symposium
CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK SHAKESPEAREAN: OR, A TALK ABOUT PRODUCTIVE GRAPPLING
Whitmore
Ayanna Thompson
Professor of English
George Washington University

SEEKING THE PRACTICAL IN THE CONTEMPORARY

Peter Erickson
Visiting resident scholar Northwestern University’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

RESPONDENT

Kim F. Hall
Lucyle Hook Chair of English and Professor of Africana Studies Barnard College

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  • Symposium 2017
  • Schedule
    • Lecture Abstracts
  • Presenter Bios
    • Keith Hamilton Cobb
    • Michael Witmore
    • Ayanna Thompson
    • Peter Erickson
    • Kim F. Hall
  • Readings
  • Directions

Directions

All symposium events will take place in Colton Chapel (#36 on the Campus Map.) Visitor parking is available at the Markle Hall parking deck (#2).

Directions

Hotels and Dining

April 19 - 4:30pm
Performing Shakespeare
THE THING IS THE THING: PLAYING AND NOT PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WHILE BLACK
Keith Hamilton Cobb
Actor/Playwright
April 19 - 7:00pm
Opening Night Lecture
IS IT PRACTICAL TO TALK ABOUT SHAKESPEARE
AND RACE?
Michael Witmore
Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
April 20 - 7:00pm
Paper Panel
CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK SHAKESPEAREAN: OR, A TALK ABOUT PRODUCTIVE GRAPPLING
Ayanna Thompson
Professor of English
George Washington University
THE POWER OF PRACTICALITY IN SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Peter Erickson
Visiting resident scholar Northwestern University’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
SPEAK THIS YEARNING
Kim F. Hall
Lucyle Hook Chair of English
and Professor of Africana Studies
Barnard College

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