The #Shakespeare #Academy 2026 is inviting applications for their upcoming #Bochum academy on #Shakespeare and #Truth. Find all details below 👇🏼

Thanks to all participants, keynote speakers, workshop practitioners, Shakespeareans and attendants from near and far for a fantastic 2 day workshop on #Shakeapeare, #Ecocriticism and #Education. It was such a pleasure and inspiration to have you all in #Wuerzburg!

#CfP: Join the #Shakespeare Seminar 2026 on "Shakespeare and Truth" and submit your abstracts (300 words) by 15 December. You'll find the call for papers here: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/wp-content/u...

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Registration for our #Shakespeare #workshop on #GreeningTheGlobe is still possible until 27 November 2025. Visit www.domschule-wuerzburg.de/kuferweb/web...

The full programme of #GreeningTheGlobe 🌱 includes talks by Felix Sprang, Max von Blanckenburg, Carsten Albers, Maria Eisenmann and Kirsten Sandrock. We will also be seeing #RichardII 👑 and #Romeo&Juliet ❤️ at Würzburg. All welcome! www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/anglistik/ac...

Join us for our upcoming conference on 13-14 November on #Shakespeare, #Ecocriticism and #Education @uni-wuerzburg.de, in collaboration with the #Domschule, the #Mainfrankentheater and the #Chambinzky Theater in #Würzburg. For more information, visit www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/anglistik/ac...

Happy Birthday to our former president, Tobias Döring, and all the very best from all of us! It was a joy to celebrate with you at #LyrikKabinett!

Final day of #ESRA 2025 and it's time to thank #RuiCarvalhoHomem and his team for organizing such a fruitful, welcoming and inspiring conference on #Shakespeare and #Time. It was fantastic to meet and reunite with so many Shakespeare colleagues from around the world!

Thank you to all contributors to #ESRA Seminar 17 on 'The Temporal Affordances of #Shakespeare's #Drama - Time, Space and the Senses' for their highly productive papers, responses and discussion questions. It was a pleasure to meet in person in #Porto after our fruitful exchanges online.

Congratulations to #DSG member and #Shakespeare Seminar co-convenor #JonasKellermann for organizing such a fantastic panel on 'Shakespeare's Queer Afterlives' at #ESRA 2025. Such important papers and questions on queer temporalities, Shakespeare adaptations and the politics of (queer) hope!

#ESRA2025 on #Shakespeare and Time is opening now in #Porto with a keynote by Michael #Dobson. Several #DSG members are participating in ESRA 2025 with seminars and panels. Stay tuned for details and updates.

It was an enormous pleasure to participate in this panel to discuss 'Otello', 'Othello', and otherness. Many thanks to the organisers and everyone who attended. Can't wait to see Verdi's 'Otello' at @staatsoper-stgt.bsky.social. #StgtOtello www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/spielplan/a-...

The Martin Lehnert Prize 2025 goes to #EmilySmith from University of Geneva for her brilliant thesis on „‚The Play’s the Thing’: Underspecification in Shakespearean Drama“. Congratulations, Emily! Many thanks to Felix Sprang for a beautiful laudatio and to the jury!

A huge thank you to all speakers and participants for a fabulous conference on #popularCultures! Thank you, #Weimar, for making us feel so welcome! We’re very grateful to @stadtweimar.bsky.social, @stadtbochum, @thueringen.de, @klassikstiftung.bsky.social & @dfg.de for your support!

Our conference on #Shakespeare and #PopularCultures is in full swing with two fantastic talks by Douglas Lanier and Christina Wald. #ShakesPop @stadtweimar.bsky.social

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Congratulations, Dame #HarrietWalter, to being awarded the #German #Shakespeare Prize 2025. 🎉 Thank you for coming to #Weimar this evening, and also to #PhyllidaLloyd for such a fantastic, deeply moving laudatio.

Tonight Dame Harriet Walter will receive the #ShakespearePrize of the German Shakespeare Foundation. Looking forward to celebrate with her and Phyllida Lloyd in Weimar @haab-weimar.bsky.social tonight! zeit.de/news/2025-04..., shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/wp-content/u... #ShakesPop #ShaxRules

Only a couple of days and our conference #Shakespeare and #Popular #Culture opens in #Weimar! Our fantastic lineup of speakers includes Lena Steveker who will be speaking on Shakespeare in Civil War pamphlets. 📝

We are all looking forward to #Zeno #Ackermann's talk on #Shakespeare's #sonnets in #popular #music, taking place a week from now in #Weimar 🎸🎤📀 See you there soon!

9 days to go! On April 24th, the German Shakespeare Prize will be awarded to Dame #HarrietWalter! Join us at @haab-weimar.bsky.social for the award ceremony (#PhyllidaLloyd will be there as well!) - and register for our conference on #Shakespeare and #PopularCultures (April 25th-27th, Weimar) today!

'Shakespeare & Schule' is a regular, highly popular part of our spring conferences, looking at the intersections of #Shakespeare & #school. There is a fantastic lineup of speakers this year, so check out the conference program: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de

And another upcoming spring conference highlight: Gina Bloom will be speaking on #teaching #Shakespeare with #videogames 🌱 Come and listen, or interact with a video installation in #Weimar @ginabloom5.bsky.social

Re-connecting with fellow Shakespeareans at #Shax2025 & looking forward to having a drink with good old Will later on! Kudos to @saaupdates.bsky.social for putting together a fantastic programme (as always).

Another highlight we are looking forward to is Christina Wald's talk on The #Tempest and #popular #post-apocalypse. To find out more, join us for our spring conference in #Weimar!

Our spring conference 'Shakespeare and Popular Culture' is approaching quickly🌷🪻🌼As one of many highlights, Diana Henderson will be giving a talk: 'On Whose Authority? Reshaping Shakespeare - and Expertise - in a Time of Populist Resistance'. To find out more, go to shakespeare-gesellschaft.de

Join us for our annual conference at #Weimar to explore #Shakespeare and #PopularCultures. You'll find the programme here: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/wp-content/u... Hope to see you there! #Shakespop

*Out now* 'Shakespeare and Seriality' edited by Christina Wald & Elisabeth Bronfen explores seriality in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations throughout multiple centuries and art forms. Available open access via Bloomsbury Collections: bit.ly/3X7loH6

We're just days away from the March 1 reg deadline for #Shax2025. Don't miss out! Register at linktr.ee/saaupdates Please note: any member who feels unsafe or unable to travel to Boston may request and be granted without question a full refund of registration fees prior to the conference.

In view of the upcoming German general election, Stefan Schneckenburger, member of the DSG steering committee, recommends (re)reading Shakespeare. For more information, see FAZ's 'required reading for democrats': www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... @faznet.bsky.social

Mark your calendars for our upcoming conference on #Shakespeare & #PopularCultures (25-27 April).We have a fantastic line-up of speakers, incl. Zeno Ackermann, Gina Bloom, @dianahenderson.bsky.social, Douglas Lanier,Christa Schuenke,Lena Steveker,Christina Wald,and many more. Stay tuned for details!

Today: our first Shakespeare webinar. Join us online, free, to work through the entire canon of plays and poems over 41 sessions. See out the 47th presidency with us 👇 www.english.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...

Interested in doing research on #Shakespeare in #Weimar? In collaboration with @klassikstiftung.bsky.social, we invite applications for the #ShakespeareStipendium 2025. Find details on how to apply here: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/aktuelle-aus...

"That time offer’d sorrow; This, general joy." (Henry VIII, 4.1.7-8) We've moved places to start afresh here on Bluesky. Are you interested in Shakespeare and would like to meet more Shakespeare enthusiasts? Follow us and join the DSG today! shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/gesellschaft...