Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking Modern World Systems
If Shakespeare could advise contemporary leaders on how to navigate today’s challenges, what would he say? On January 21, 2025, join the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, the English Department of McGill University, and the Stratford Festival in exploring this question in two special event.
Event 1
Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking Modern World Systems
January 21, 2025, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Armstrong Building 365 & 370, McGill University, 3420 rue McTavish
Delve McGill is honoured to welcome leaders from the cultural, financial, social, and economic spheres to sketch a roadmap towards sustainability and wellbeing, using Shakespeare’s life and work as our guide. Together we will examine the qualities of money-making (wealth, status, power) and meaning-making (the search for purpose, identity, and significance) to determine how they can converge and co-exist to create a better world for everyone.
The Department of English Richler Writer-in-Residence, Ann-Marie MacDonald, is one of the presenters.
Moderated by Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Department of English
Event 2
Shakespeare Lecture | Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking Modern World Systems (hybrid)
January 21, 2025, 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.
Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street
Moot Court: enter through the Nahum Gelber Law Library and turn left
The Friends of the McGill Libraries and the Stratford Festival are delighted to partner once again to present the 2025 annual Shakespeare Lecture that will seek to answer the question, how can Shakespeare’s characters and stories enable us to open new pathways toward restoring the convergence between money-making and meaning-making?
To begin to recover the full meaning of the word “value(s)” as Mark Carney, prominent Canadian economist and banker, has urged us to do, this thought-provoking exchange among Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival, Laurette Dubé, Scientific Director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics, and Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Department of English, will bring forward the example of Shakespeare’s—and Antoni Cimolino’s—success and will consider what we can learn from how money and meaning clash and converge in plays such as The Merchant of Venice and King Lear.