Faculty Seminars
BOLLI offers seminars led by distinguished faculty members in the summer and winter months.
Members, please register through the personalized registration link in your inbox. Non-members can use the register buttons below.
All Summer 2024 seminars will take place on Zoom. All times are Eastern Time.
Summer 2024 Faculty Seminars
Join Gil Harel to discuss some of the most important operas of the last three centuries, such as The Magic Flute, Tristan und Isolde, Pagliacci, and La bohème.
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
Monday, July 8- Friday, July 12
9:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
*Members, please register through the personalized registration link in your inbox. Non-members, please use the register button below.
Howard Jacobson's Shylock is my Name. This is the second of the Hogarth Press's series of novels by major contemporaries reimagining Shakespeare's plays. Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson has been called the English Philip Roth, but he prefers to call himself the Jewish Jane Austen.
What's the difference? And how does it come out in his contemporary rethinking of The Merchant of Venice?
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
Monday, Aug. 19 - Friday, Aug. 23
9:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
The book is available for purchase online.
This seminar is now full. If you would like to be placed on a waitlist, please contact Dom Restivo at drestivo@brandeis.eduPast Seminars
"Macbeth Noir"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"From Bach to Beethoven: Music in the 18th Century"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"Hag-seed: Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"Beethoven's Shadow"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"Hamnet:" A Novel of the Plague
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"A Night at the Opera"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"Mozart: Man, Myth, Legacy"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"A Midsummer's Night Dream"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"The Rise of the Virtuoso"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"The Great Gatsby"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"The Plot Against America"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"Music in the Theater: From 'Madama Butterfly' to 'Wicked'"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"The Birth of the Musical Baroque: From Vivaldi and Corelli to Handel and Bach"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Political Tragedy"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"The Music and the Nations: European Legacies"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology
"To Kill a Mockingbird: After 60 Years"
Billy Flesch
Professor of English
"Mighty and Immeasurable Beethoven"
Gil Harel
Professor of Musicology