# Talks ### Jane, Julia, and a Genealogy of Public Humanities at UC Irvine University of California, Irvine ![Jane, Julia, and a Genealogy of Public Humanities at UC Irvine](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Jane%2C%20Julia%2C%20and%20a%20Genealogy%20of%20Public%20Humanities%20at%20UC%20Irvine.png?h=833604c5&itok=vvBguZwY) [### Public Humanities Launch Party ](https://cassyni.com/events/i6wnaqCov2dzbDSajkHDF)Cambridge University Press ![Launch Party](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Public%20Humanities%20Launch%20Party.png?h=c5ac9827&itok=qQsVcq3V) ### Building Public Humanities (with Zoe Hope Bulaitis) New York University ![Building Public Humanities](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Building%20Public%20Humanities.png?h=3efa8ed6&itok=FHT996dj) ### Shakespeare and Game of Thrones The Old Globe Saturday Salon Speakers ![Shakespeare and Game of Thrones](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Shakespeare%20and%20Game%20of%20Thrones.png?h=0e2c57ee&itok=MoDpRyAY) ### What is Public Humanities? (with Zoe Hope Bulaitis) Queen Mary University of London ![What is Public Humanities](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/What%20is%20Public%20Humanities.png?h=0ac89ac9&itok=ldOMKe9D) [### Public Humanities” (with Zoe Hope Bulaitis) ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iZToIovyOM)Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes ![Public Humanities at CHCI](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Public%20Humanities%20at%20CHCI.png?h=71d2ea6d&itok=hbMi-vGY) ### "Seize the Crown": Shakespeare Histories and the Games of Thrones The Guthrie Theater ![Seize the Crown](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Seize%20the%20Crown%E2%80%99.png?h=0bdaa6d7&itok=f3ozCAaK) ### Justice for Hamlet University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: James D. Kennedy Lecture in Shakespeare ![Justice for Hamlet](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Justice%20for%20Hamlet.png?h=c69a4a8f&itok=opTtFcEg) ### Shakespeare and Game of Thrones The Guthrie Theater ![Shakespeare and Game of Thrones](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Shakespeare%20and%20Game%20of%20Thrones.png?h=0e2c57ee&itok=MoDpRyAY) [### 500 Years of Looking for Richard III ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJDHOcZtyQ&t=483s)University of California, Irvine: Kirk Davis Jr. Annual Public Shakespeare Lecture ![500 Years of Looking for Richard III.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/500%20Years%20of%20Looking%20for%20Richard%20III.png?h=c69a4a8f&itok=TzOe47PX) ### Shakespeare Across the Disciplines The Huntington Library: *Shakespeare and the Poetics and Politics of Relevance* ![shakespeare_across_the_disciplines_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeare_across_the_disciplines_01.jpg?itok=Fih1ogD-) ### What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About… University of Nevada: Rasmussen-Hines Collection ![what_shakespeare_can_teach_us_about_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/what_shakespeare_can_teach_us_about_photo.jpg?itok=I9DNNqfx) ### An Oral History of Public Shakespeare Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference: *Emerging Scholar Keynote* ![an_oral_history_of_public_shakespeare_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/an_oral_history_of_public_shakespeare_title.jpg?h=8322ce33&itok=yKb569l3) [### Teaching The Show Must Go Online (with Robert Myles) ](https://youtu.be/cxuoaNNQlGg)BritGrad: *Plenary Address* ![teaching_the_show_must_go_online_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/teaching_the_show_must_go_online_title.jpg?h=9dd5e225&itok=8b0J36PO) [### Toward a Center for Public Shakespeare ](https://oecologies.com/2021/06/29/notes-from-common-environments-public-facing-research-and-premodern-cultures/)Oecologies ![toward_a_center_for_public_shakespeare_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/toward_a_center_for_public_shakespeare_photo.jpg?itok=dUSGtRtI) [### Public Humanities and Pathways Toward (with Maria Devlin McNair) ](https://youtu.be/IztxFURsxY8)Harvard Renaissance Colloquium ![public_humanities_and_pathways_toward_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/public_humanities_and_pathways_toward_title.jpg?h=1698c625&itok=APRXGAaJ) ### The Streaming Hamlet Singapore: World Shakespeare Congress ![The Streaming Hamlet](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/The%20Streaming%20Hamlet.png?itok=CmvAJ3ni) ### Reading King Lear at "Fourscore and Upwards" Harvard College Class of 1955 65th Reunion ![covid_cancelled.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/covid_cancelled.jpg?itok=RzKMo0zg) ### The Tragedy of Donald Trump, According to Shakespeare 18th Annual New England Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: *Keynote Address* ![covid_cancelled.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/covid_cancelled.jpg?itok=RzKMo0zg) ### Shakespeare’s Invention of Stigma: Richard’s Deformity, Aaron’s Race, Faulconbridge’s Bastardy, and Beyond 2020 MLA Annual Convention: *Early Intersectionalities* ![shakespeares_invention_of_stigma.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeares_invention_of_stigma.jpg?h=61503fe1&itok=T8l77NF6) ### Toward a Journal of the Public Humanities North Eastern Public Humanities Symposium ![north_eastern_public_humanities_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/north_eastern_public_humanities_.jpg?itok=1aWW9U80) ### What Shakespeare Scholars Can Learn from Theater-Makers About Public Engagement 2019 PAMLA Annual Convention: *Public Shakespeare / Public Humanities* ![what_shakespeare_scholars_can_learn_from_theater-makers_about_public_engagement_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/what_shakespeare_scholars_can_learn_from_theater-makers_about_public_engagement_title.jpg?h=f755263c&itok=ituIu4Vz) ### Villainy and Complicity in Drama, Television, and Politics: Shakespeare’s Richard III, House of Cards, and the 2016 US Election Lowell High School ![villainy_and_complicity_in_drama_television_and_politics_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/villainy_and_complicity_in_drama_television_and_politics_title.jpg?h=5204f7f8&itok=J7cl1an0) ### Ophelia’s Songs: Moral Agency, Manipulation, and the Metaphor of Music in Hamlet European Shakespeare Research Association Conference: *Shakespeare and Music* ![European Shakespeare Research Association](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/european_shakespeare_research_association.jpg?h=0bdaa6d7&itok=DR5N8R1c) ### Shakespeare and Trump Lowell, MA: *Moses Greeley Parker Lectures* ![shakespeare_and_trump_at_the_moses_greeley_parker_lecture_series.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeare_and_trump_at_the_moses_greeley_parker_lecture_series.jpg?itok=Il7o4UKj) ### The Anthropology of Audience in Shakespeare Studies British Shakespeare Conference at Queen’s University: *Shakespeare Studies Today* ![Anthropology of Audience in Shakespeare Studies](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/anthropology_of_audience_in_shakespeare_studies_title.jpg?itok=MBeKDNu8) ### Shakespeare for Cops Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama: *Teaching Shakespeare In and Beyond the Classroom* ![shakespeare_for_cops_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/shakespeare_for_cops_title.jpg?h=6e56310e&itok=WVebMDlJ) ### Pluperfect Presentism MLA Annual Convention: *Strategic Presentism* ![mla_2018.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/mla_2018.jpg?h=8254f9fe&itok=iQGbnGFx) ### Public Shakespeareanism: The Bard in the 2016 American Presidential Election 41st Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference ![public_shakespeareanism_title.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/public_shakespeareanism_title.jpg?h=ccaac62e&itok=4y51GGo0) ### Shakestats: Writing About Shakespeare Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences MLA Annual Convention: *Teaching Shakespeare: New Digital Challenges and Solutions* ![mla_2017.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/mla_2017.jpg?h=5ce898bd&itok=zL7hZQZY) ### Shakespeare Across the Curriculum Gallaudet University: *First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare* ![gallaudet_university.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/gallaudet_university.jpg?itok=Dur2Us2t) ### “To be, or not to be": Shakespeare Against Philosophy University of Hertfordshire: *Shakespeare the Philosopher II* ![To be or not to be](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/to_be_or_not_to_be_image.jpg?h=d3af0028&itok=eKX0oZgo) ### Shakespeare on the Classics, Shakespeare as a Classic: A Reading of Aeneas’s Tale to Dido British Shakespeare Conference at the University of Hull: *Shakespearean Transformations: Death, Life, and Afterlives* ![british_shakespeare_association.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/british_shakespeare_association.jpg?h=34160a15&itok=KsXQcTcf) ### Why Shakespeare? Irony and Liberalism in the Canonization Process British Shakespeare Conference at the University of Hull: *Shakespearean Transformations: Death, Life, and Afterlives* ![british_shakespeare_association.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/british_shakespeare_association.jpg?h=34160a15&itok=KsXQcTcf) ### Stigma as Drama, Stigma as Rhetoric: From Shakespeare to Goffman and Back and then Forward ACLA Annual Convention: *Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata* ![acla.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/acla.jpg?h=7dfea40c&itok=34VjOyPv) ### “To be, or not to be": Shakespeare Against Philosophy University of Poitiers: *Subjecting Shakespeare to the Risks of Philosophy* ![To be or not to be](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/to_be_or_not_to_be_image.jpg?h=d3af0028&itok=eKX0oZgo) ### Stigma in Shakespeare Case Western Reserve University: *Evil Incarnate: Manifestations of Villains and Villainy* ![case_western_reserve_university.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/case_western_reserve_university.jpg?h=7b4ec23d&itok=k0-TKbAA) ### The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama Harvard University: *Renaissance Colloquium* ![Harvard College Writing Center](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/harvard_college_writing_center.jpg?itok=GWzZkwI-) ### The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI: Abnormality, Villainy, Irony, Tragicomedy Renaissance Society of America: *Shakespeare* ![renaissance_society_of_america.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/renaissance_society_of_america.jpg?itok=A7yEopA2) ### The Ugly Truth: Thersites and the Satire of the Poetomachia MLA Annual Convention: *Early Modern Disabled Bodies and Cultural Discourses* ![mla_2012.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/mla_2012.jpg?h=7dfea40c&itok=MJB__7MO) ### Richard’s Deformities University of California, Irvine: *English and Comparative Literature Graduate Dissertation Colloquium* ![Why Richard III](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/why_richard_iii.jpg?itok=Wgn29Vhy) ### Deforming Richard III in the Sixteenth Century: The Rhetoric of Disfigurement up to Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference: *Poetry and Disability* ![pamla.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/pamla.jpg?h=0c7e84a9&itok=cZnZfVss) ### The Advent and the Adventure: The Poetics of Imperfection in Revelation and The Faerie Queene MLA Annual Convention: *Ends of Time: Apocalypses Ancient and Modern* ![mla_2011.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/mla_2011.jpg?h=f1bf6219&itok=l6NRwZwl) ### The Unnatural Age of Margaret: Antiquating the Dramatic Ontology of Richard III Rocky Mountain MLA Convention ![rmmla.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9406/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jeffreywilson/files/rmmla.jpg?h=52f190dd&itok=S_cKQj7N)