PHOENIX

3 days / 70+ speakers
80+ seminars, workshops, and panels
National Symposium for Classical Education

Phoenix Convention Center
February 22-24, 2023
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Arizona State University

Sir Jonathan Bate

Sir Jonathan Bate joins Arizona State University as a Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities in Global Futures Laboratory, the School of Sustainability and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Coming from Oxford University, where he was Provost of Worcester College, Bate is an international leader in green thinking and applied humanities, with scholarly expertise in sustainability as well as in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, contemporary poetry, visual culture and theater history. In 2015, he became the youngest person ever to be knighted for services to literary scholarship.

A renowned Shakespearean and eco-critic, Bate, has been a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; King Alfred Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool; Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London; and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University where he has retained a Senior Research Fellowship. He has held visiting posts at Yale and UCLA. He is a Fellow and former Vice-President of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

SESSIONS:

Bringing the Bard Forth
Sir Jonathan Bate will lead an exploration of how Shakespeare came to be Shakespeare: how he was formed by his classical education and how he became the classic of our education, our culture. The talk will move between the history of Shakespeare on stage and on page, with particular emphasis on the creation and formative influence of the First Folio of his collected plays, which was published exactly four hundred years ago, in 1623.