National Announcement
The English-Speaking Union 2013 Annual General Meeting will take place in Seattle, Washington September 26 to 29. The ESU Seattle Branch Hosts are planning an interesting and informative conference themed Language Takes Flight.
National News
ESU President & Executive Director Alice Boyne greets Evelyn Wrench Speaker Roger Pringle, watched over by the smiling portrait of Sir Evelyn
This fall, the ESU hosted the inaugural lectures of two Wrench speakers at our Headquarters in New York City: Roger Pringle, Director Emeritus of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Lord Ian Strathcarron, author of Innocence and War: Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited.
Named in honor of the English-Speaking Union's founder, the Evelyn Wrench Speaker Program sends eight eminent British and American speakers across the country each year to the ESU Branches who host their presentations.
National News
The ESU Annual General Meeting on October 27, 2012 was held for the first time as a webinar with video interface broadcast via the internet. Available for viewing by all members with computer and internet access, the new meeting format was intended to broaden access to many members including those who do not attend the traditional weekend ESU annual conferences, hosted by Branches in a different cities across the country. The webinar AGM will serve as a model to facilitate more frequent and low cost committee and Branch leader meetings in the future. The on-screen format of the meeting provided a live video window showing the speaker in addition to a larger window showing illustrations of the programs or documents being discussed.
To read a full report of the AGM: Click Here
National News
ESU Chair Patricia Schroeder and Laurence C. Morse
In recognition of the leadership and support of Laurence C. Morse, PhD, the English-Speaking Union has renamed the Lucy Dalbiac Luard Scholarship as the Luard Morse Scholarship. While a student at Howard University, Dr. Morse won the 1971-72 Luard Scholar to attend the London School of Economics.
National News – Summer 2012
Teachers practice performance-based teaching techniques at the New York City Institute
More than 200 secondary school English and drama teachers are headed back to their classrooms energized and enriched with new methods for teaching Shakespeare to their students. They learned these at the Shakespeare Set Free Institutes, two-day professional development courses offered by the English-Speaking Union and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The program combines scholarship, performance and pedagogy with an emphasis on performance-based teaching.
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