Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture)
| Dates: | 9 April 2025 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16, Secondary schools |
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Stachniewski Memorial Lecture:
Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture)
Weds 9th April, 5pm UK time
Venue: Online
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Meeting ID: 978 3358 1747
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This talk explores the dearth of Muslim representation in Shakespeare. While some characters such as Othello and the Prince of Morocco are Islamically coded, they are not definitely identified as Muslim. In this talk I explore some of the reasons Shakespeare erases or disappears Muslims from the places that they occupied in the eastern Mediterranean settings that he adopts for his plays. This talk investigates the spaces and places--geographical, social, political, and imaginary--of Islam in the early modern period, and the ideological maneuvers that undergird Shakespeare's occlusion of the religion and its cultures.
The Stachniewski Memorial Lecture is an event run every year by the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, in collaboration with the UMUCU. The lecture is in memory of our colleague John Stachniewski.
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