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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: VIU Summer School | Global Shakespeare 2021
Application deadline: 15th March, 2021
The Summer School Global Shakespeare: Othello’s Venice in the World aims to gather an international cohort of graduate students for a week-long, multi-faceted exploration of one of the most timely topics in the interdisciplinary humanities: Shakespeare’s global contexts and futures. In order to provide focus and coherence, the play Othello, set in multicultural Venice, will be taken as a case study throughout the summer school. “Global Shakespeare” invites students to imagine alternatives to this increasingly fractured world. Using Shakespeare’s poetry and dramaturgy as a resource, it asks participants to consider how connections can be made across languages, religions, and nation-states.
Suitable for: Graduate students (MA and PhD) from various disciplines: Literary Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, History, Politics, Philosophy, Anthropology, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Art, Gender Studies, Queer Studies.
For further information visit the VIU website or send an email to summerschools@univiu.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, VIU will continue to monitor the situation; should it prevent international travel or the confirmation of the program on campus as scheduled, the activity will be moved online. Applicants and confirmed participants will be informed of any changes. The decision on whether it will be possible to hold the activity in person at VIU shall be made by the end of January/mid-February, and in any case at least 3 months prior to the start date.
Date: 16 February 2021