Talks, Lectures & Workshops
Take a look below to see the talks, workshops and cultural events on offer at The Hive this autumn...
Holocaust Memorial Day - Public Lecture
The Jewish Experience in Nazi Germany: Perspectives from Victor Klemperer's Diary with Dr Paddy McNally
Monday 27 January, 6pm-7pm
Victor Klemperer was a Professor of Romance Languages at the Techinical University of Dresden. Born to a Jewish family, he converted to Protestantism and married Eva Schlemmer, an 'Aryan'. Klemperer kept a secret diary between 1933 and 1945 recording the progressive persecution of the German Jewish population. This lecture will explore how Klemperer's observations offer insights into the response of 'ordinary Germans' to the radicalization of Nazi Jewish policy up to and including the Holocaust.
Dr Paddy McNally is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Worcester.
The Mysteries of the Shakespeares' Marriage with Prof Nicoleta Cinpoes, Rev Dr Paul Edmondson and Tom Mandall
Tuesday 11 February
5pm and 5:30pm archive visits
6:30pm-7:30pm talk
Enjoy a rare opportunity to view the Shakespeares' marriage documentation, held in The Hive, with Worcestershire Archives & Archaeology Service. Then join internationally renowned Shakespeare experts as they explore the mysteries of the documents, as well as marriage in the period and the plays, and cultural depictions and afterlives of this marriage in Shakespeare's work and biographies. Why were the Shakespeares married in Worcester? Where did the marriage take place? How unusual was the marriage, and what did it mean to the Shakespeares?
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Speaker biographies:
Rev Dr Paul Edmondson is Head of Research for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, an Honorary Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, a Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Birmingham City University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford. His publications include work on Shakespeare's plays and poems, biography, and cultural reception.
He is a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association, The Rose Theatre, and The Friends of Shakespeare's Church. He is a priest in the Church of England, and has lived and worked in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1995.
Professor Nicoleta Cinpoes is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and International Experience Lead for the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Worcester, UK, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Craiova, Romania. Her recent work has focussed on European Shakespeare Festivals, especially on their role of empowering communities, facilitating mobility and engendering exchange.
She sits on the Board of ESRA (European Shakespeare Research Association), is a founding member of CEESRA (Central and Eastern European Shakespeare Research Association). Since 2010, she has been organising and curating the Shakespeare in Performance Seminar series at the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival, Romania, and since 2023 has been the International Advisor for the York International Shakespeare Festival.
She is a research activist, theatre historian and, on occasion, a translator from/into Romanian.