The Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research was founded at Harvard University in 2010 to create a forum in which scholars in and around theater studies can gather to exchange ideas and research. The program offers faculty and advanced graduate students who study theater and performance the opportunity to learn from leading scholars in the field in an intensive two-week summer seminar.

Every Mellon School program, evening public lectures presented by guest speakers are free and open to the public. All Mellon School Public Lectures take place in Farkas Hall, 12 Holyoke Street, Room 203 from 5:30-7pm.

This year’s schedule:
Monday, June 11: Martin Puchner (Harvard University), Opening Address: “Public Humanities”
Tuesday, June 12: P. Carl (Emerson College): “Watching Angels in America as a White Man”
Wednesday, June 13: Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin College): “The Performance is Public: Social Media, Audiences, and the Ethics of Digital Space”
Thursday, June 14: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University): “Janus-Faced Shakespeare”
Monday, June 18: Alexis Soloski (New York Times): “‘You Must Change Your Life': On Mediocrity, Excellence, and Cats
Tuesday, June 19: Luke Menand (Harvard University): “Writers and Their Publics”
Wednesday, June 20: D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University): “Reading, Looking, Making: Experiments in Sustained Eludication”