Designed to complement the year 12 A-Level English curriculum, this Challenge Day focuses on Aspects of Tragedy. Run by the department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, experts will give a lecture on the history of tragic genre before delieverng specialist seminars on the work of Shakespeare, Keats, Arthur Miller and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Challenge Day is an opportunity for students to enrich their knowledge of the genre and flex their intellectual muscles while also experiencing university teaching!
As part of the day, students will elso enjoy a Q&A, free lunch and a campus tour.
After the whole-group lecture in the morning (10 - 11am), your students can attend either of the following break-out workshops:
Workshop A: The Tragic Stage of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: The Case of Othello, by Dr Abigail Shinn
Or
Workshop B: Regeneration and Decay: The Post-Romantic Legacy of Keats’s ‘Isabella, or the Pot of Basil’, by Dr Jessica Gossling
After lunch, they can attned either:
Workshop C: Prophet of Tragedy: Reading Arthur Miller in the Age of Trump, by Dr Guy Stevenson
Or
Workshop D: ‘Her Voice is Full of Money': Capital and Desire in The Great Gatsby, by Dr Caroline Binder
You will be able to select which break-out workshops you would like your class to attend when you go to select your ticket. You can only select ONE of the four ticket options availble. One ticket covers one Year 12 class of 10 - 30 pupils.
PLEASE NOTE: All classes must be accopanied by at least one teacher at the event. Goldsmiths does not have public-parking on-site and therefore any mini-buses must operate via drop-off only. If you have any questions about the event at all, please contact Megan(Student Success Team, Goldsmiths) on m.bastable@gold.ac.uk
