Daily Archives: 20 June 2016

Dunedin Australasian Rare Book School 2017 – Call For Applications

Dunedin Australasian Rare Book School
Central Library, the University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
30 January-3 February, 2017

The Dunedin Australasian Rare Book School will be held the week of 30 January to 3 February 2017. Full descriptions of the three papers on offer are linked below, and each provides details of an advance reading list.

The following papers will be offered in 2017 in Dunedin. Please follow the links for details about any of them.

Practical information:

All classes offer a list of advance readings that students are expected to complete prior to beginning the class.

Classes run 9–5 Monday through Friday, with an opening reception on Sunday evening, 29 January, and a closing reception late Friday afternoon. All classes include morning and afternoon teas and a public lecture on Wednesday evening by Professor Rosamond McKitterick of Cambridge University.

Tuition for the week is NZ$1000 (c. AUS$940; US$685; £470; €600). Applications close 1 November, 2016. For full information, and to apply, please visit: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/cfb/rbs2017

Extend Your Visit:

Why not combine attendance at ARBS with a NZ conference? Medievalists and Romanticists are both holding conferences at Victoria University of Wellington soon after ARBS concludes. For more details, see

 

Interpreting Shakespeare Professional Learning Day @ Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

Interpreting Shakespeare Professional Learning Day

Date: 28 July, 2016
Time: 9:30am–3:30pm
Venue: ACMI Cinema 2, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square Melbourne, Australia
Admission Cost: Teacher: $110 ($95 early bird registration closes 30 April 2016); Student teacher: $70
More info. and registration: https://www.acmi.net.au/education/teacher-programs/interpreting-shakespeare

In conjunction with La Trobe University, ACMI invites teachers to bring Shakespeare back to life in their classrooms by attending professional learning day Interpreting Shakespeare.

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, this one-day professional learning program offers teachers stimulating and thought-provoking approaches to reading and teaching Shakespeare texts. Focusing on moving image and theatrical interpretations of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, this all-day program offers a range of perspectives
to re-enliven this educational rite of passage.

Presenters include members of the English, Drama and Cinema programs at La Trobe, ACMI’s team of expert educators and special guest, Dr David McInnis, Gerry Higgins lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, University of Melbourne. Registration includes morning tea, lunch and resource pack.