{"id":557,"date":"2018-10-08T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=557"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:49:09","slug":"the-2018-renaissance-lecture-by-prof-paul-yachnin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2018\/10\/08\/the-2018-renaissance-lecture-by-prof-paul-yachnin\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Renaissance Lecture by Prof Paul Yachnin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMS and the School of English at the University of Kent are delighted to welcome Paul Yachnin, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University, Montreal to give this year&#8217;s Renaissance Lecture. Entitled, &#8216;Thinking with Conversion in Shakespeare&#8217;s Playhouse&#8217; the lecture takes place on Thursday 11th October at 6pm in Grimond Building, Lecture Theatre 2, the University of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, Paul Yachnin provides an account of how thinking about the person and the world (including the political world) in Shakespeare\u2019s playhouse developed inside the problematics and possibilities of conversion.\u00a0 Thinking about and with conversion extends across Shakespeare\u2019s whole canon, from\u00a0<em>Taming of the Shrew<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Tempest<\/em>. The focus here is on\u00a0<em>Measure for Measure<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>King Lear<\/em>. One goal is to make a case for Shakespeare as the creator of a \u201cconversional theatre\u201d (though not in what might be the expected sense of the phrase). Another is to rethink Shakespearean philosophy by adding greater historical specificity\u2014not to mention adding the body, the soul, and the social world\u2014to familiar ideas about Shakespearean scepticism.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome and a wine reception will follow the lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMS and the School of English at the University of Kent are delighted to welcome Paul Yachnin, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University, Montreal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2018\/10\/08\/the-2018-renaissance-lecture-by-prof-paul-yachnin\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}