You are invited to be part of a unique study abroad programme — a week exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with Rome and classical culture (29 April — 3 May 2014). Sessions will include: lectures on the contexts of Shakespeare’s Roman plays (to be held at the British School at Rome), a session on the Roman plays on screen (at the University of Roma Tre with the Shakespeare students of Dr Maddalena Pennacchia), playreadings, and excursions to the Colosseum, Forum ruins and Galleria Borghese art collection, together with a day trip to the Renaissance gardens of Villa d’Este and Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli.
The Shakespeare Committee, Russian Academy of Sciences will be hosting an International Conference on Shakespeare in Intercultural Exchange (September 14–18 2014).
During the period of May 21–23, 2013, the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of the Information Science (FIS-2013) took place in Moscow at the Moscow University for the Humanities. It was held upon the initiative of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Division of Nanotechnologies and Information Technologies, the Division of Mathematical Sciences, the Scientific Council of the RAS on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence) and the International Society for Information Studies (Austria).
