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Outreach Seminars

Singapore-MIT Alliance presents:

The MIT Shakespeare Project
Tools for On-line Learning and Scholarship

Peter Donaldson
Head of the Literature Faculty in the School of Humanities

The seminar will be delivered live from MIT to NTU & NUS in Singapore

MIT
Thursday, April 15, 2004
7:45 - 8:00pm Refreshments
8:00 - 9:30pm Lecture and Q&A
Location: Building 3, Room 370

SINGAPORE
Friday, April 16, 2004
8:00 - 9:30am Lecture and Q&A

NTU Location: SMART Classroom
(N2-B4a-02 Nanyang Avenue)

NUS Location: CIT, Auditorium
(Computer Centre, Level 2)

RSVP by April 8, 2004
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
Seating at MIT is limited and allocated to earliest registrants

MIT Contact:
Mr. Karl Ozaeta
Email: ozaeta@mit.edu

NTU Contact:
Ms. Hasinati Binte Lateh
Email: hasinati@ntu.edu.sg

NUS Contact:
Ms. Regina Chan
Email: smabox3@nus.edu.sg

ABSTRACT

In this lecture, Peter Donaldson, professor of literature at MIT describes the evolution of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive at MIT, the development of multimedia tools for bringing films and image collections into the Shakespeare Classroom, and discusses the wider implications and future of the "archive in the classroom" model for the humanities and other subject areas.

Donaldson will describe the first, major steps toward the creation of the Shakespeare Archive, as well as the history of efforts to create flexible on-line tools for face-to-face as well as remote annotation, collaboration, discussion and multimedia essay writing, including the XMAS video annotation system, currently in use, sponsored by MIT and the Microsoft Corporation. In addition, he will offer samples of his own work in developing the multimedia essay as a form of scholarly publication.

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BIOGRAPHY

Peter S. Donaldson is Professor of Literature, Head of the Literature Faculty at MIT and teaches in the Comparative Media Studies graduate program as well as in Literature. He has undergraduate degrees in English from Columbia and Cambridge Universities and a PhD in English from Columbia. He has held NEH and ACLS Fellowships, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and was awarded the Class of 1960 Fellowship in recognition of his educational contributions to MIT. His early work on the confluence of Machiavellian and sacral ideas of kingship led to the publication of his edition of Stephen Gardiner's Ragionamento as A Machiavellian Treatise by Stephen Gardiner (Cambridge U. Press, 1976) and Machiavelli and Mystery of State (Cambridge U. Press, 1988). In 1990 he published Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors, which includes chapters on Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry V, Zefirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Orson Welles and Liz White's versions of Othello, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear. Since that time he has published articles on the new wave of Shakespeare film that began with Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in 1989 which are now being revised for publication as a book on Shakespeare film in the age of media convergence. Donaldson is director of the MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive, an expanding collection of electronic and facsimile texts, images and films. His most recent publication, "'Let's be Going': A Parent Reads GeekCereal " appears in Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition, ed. David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins (MIT Press, 2003).