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<i>It's 2024, Why Shakespeare? [a symposium]</i> Explores Shakespeare's Contested but</div>
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Enduring Legacy.</div>
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Many of his plays can be viewed as misogynistic and celebrating a colonial world view and</div>
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contain moments of intense homophobia, classism, antisemitism, and racism and yet</div>
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each year Shakespeare is the most produced playwright in Canada, the United States and</div>
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Great Britain.</div>
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From <b>October 31 to November 1</b> join the University of Regina Theatre Department for
<i>It's</i></div>
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<i>2024, Why Shakespeare? [a symposium]</i>to find out why. This event will coincide with the</div>
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department's production of Shakespeare's<i> As You Like It</i>. The symposium aims to</div>
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problematize traditional perceptions of Shakespeare by exploring his legacy(s) in literature,</div>
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performance and cultural capital.</div>
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Inspired by scholarly research and discussions with the department, I<i>t's 2024, Why</i></div>
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<i>Shakespeare? [a symposium]</i> will delve into the complexities and contradictions</div>
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surrounding Shakespeare's works in 2024. Highlights include keynote addresses by <b>
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<b>Peter Kuling</b> (University of Guelph) and <b>Dr. Martine Kei Green Rogers </b>
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Theatre, De Paul University, Chicago), discussions with award winning playwrights
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<b>Macdonald</b> (<i>The Romeo Project, Blow Wind, Iago Speaks</i>) and <b>Kate Besworth</b></div>
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(Done/Undone) and admission to the opening night of and reception for<i> As You Like It</i>.</div>
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For more information, please contact Wes Pearce wes.pearce@uregina.ca</div>
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For further details AND to register please visit <a href="https://whyshakespeare2024.ca/" id="LPlnk" title="https://whyshakespeare2024.ca/">
https://whyshakespeare2024.ca/</a></div>
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Special thanks to our funders - U of Regina Conference Fund, Faculty of Media, Art, and</div>
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Performance, Humanities Research Institute, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre and the</div>
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Wes D Pearce, MFA</div>
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The University of Regina and its federated colleges are on Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 — the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda peoples, and the homeland of the Michif/Métis nation.</div>
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I recognize that, as an institution founded by settlers, I benefit from being on this land. We are grateful for the privilege to learn, teach, and work here. </div>
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"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead....The world only spins forward". Tony Kushner
<i>Perestroika</i></div>
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