Welcome to the 2021 Summer Shaw Symposium
The International Shaw Society & The Shaw Festival are pleased to present new scholarly and creative research on Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries at the 18th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. |
Due to COVID19 restrictions, we will host the Symposium on Zoom, a free digital platform that can be downloaded here.
Registration is free of charge but required. |
Schedule
Eastern Time Zone. This schedule is tentative and is subject to change through 1 July.
Friday, 16 July
2:30 - 3:30 pm: ISS Business Meeting (all members are invited to attend; Zoom meeting link https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/9681275577)
4 pm - 5 pm: Keynote address by Dr. Rae Greiner, "Shaw as a Victorian"
Saturday, 17 July
11 am - 12:30 pm: Panel 1: The Devil’s Disciple, Redux
James Armstrong, “Comic and Tragic Adultery in Shaw and O’Neill”
Ellen Dolgin, “Can the Sheltering Arms of Elms Unearth Stone? O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms as Tragic Myth Across Time”
Brigitte Bogar, “The Operatic Devil, vol. 2: The Opera by Dr. Paul Whear based on Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple”
1:30 - 2:30 pm: Panel 2: Shaw &
Mary Christian, “Growing Up Like Romola: Shaw’s Assessment of George Eliot”
Oscar Giner, “Enemies of God: Revolution in Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple and Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna”
Jean Reynolds, "Milton in the Margins: Language Issues in Pygmalion"
2:30 - 2:45 pm: Discussion 1: The Oxford World's Classics Shaw volumes
Brad Kent, editor
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Discussion 2: Editing and Publishing Scholarship on Shaw in Academic Journals
Featuring the editors of Shaw: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Modern Drama, and Victorian Studies
6:30 - 8:00 pm: Reading of Pygmalion Continued, by John McInerney
Sunday, 18 July
11 am - 12:30 pm: Panel 3: Shaw and Ireland: “My Motto is an Ireland for All”
Leah Benson, "Shaw and the National Gallery of Ireland: A Priceless Education"
Susanne Colleary, "O'Flaherty V.C.: Satire as a Shavian Agenda"
Audrey McNamara, "The Devil's Disciple Wearing Green"
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Panel 4: Shaw’s International Reception
Rosalie Rahal Haddad, “The Círculo de Atores and Bernard Shaw in Brazil”
Michael O’Hara, “The Devil’s Disciple – Reception in North America”
Vania Papanikolaou, “The Spirit of a Devil in the Modern Greek Theatre: Political and Satirical Versions of The Devil’s Disciple”
Yulia Skalnaya, “‘Satan’s Apostle’”: First Russian Translations and Performance of Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple”
4:15 pm: Concluding remarks, ISS Officers
2:30 - 3:30 pm: ISS Business Meeting (all members are invited to attend; Zoom meeting link https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/9681275577)
4 pm - 5 pm: Keynote address by Dr. Rae Greiner, "Shaw as a Victorian"
Saturday, 17 July
11 am - 12:30 pm: Panel 1: The Devil’s Disciple, Redux
James Armstrong, “Comic and Tragic Adultery in Shaw and O’Neill”
Ellen Dolgin, “Can the Sheltering Arms of Elms Unearth Stone? O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms as Tragic Myth Across Time”
Brigitte Bogar, “The Operatic Devil, vol. 2: The Opera by Dr. Paul Whear based on Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple”
1:30 - 2:30 pm: Panel 2: Shaw &
Mary Christian, “Growing Up Like Romola: Shaw’s Assessment of George Eliot”
Oscar Giner, “Enemies of God: Revolution in Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple and Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna”
Jean Reynolds, "Milton in the Margins: Language Issues in Pygmalion"
2:30 - 2:45 pm: Discussion 1: The Oxford World's Classics Shaw volumes
Brad Kent, editor
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Discussion 2: Editing and Publishing Scholarship on Shaw in Academic Journals
Featuring the editors of Shaw: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Modern Drama, and Victorian Studies
6:30 - 8:00 pm: Reading of Pygmalion Continued, by John McInerney
Sunday, 18 July
11 am - 12:30 pm: Panel 3: Shaw and Ireland: “My Motto is an Ireland for All”
Leah Benson, "Shaw and the National Gallery of Ireland: A Priceless Education"
Susanne Colleary, "O'Flaherty V.C.: Satire as a Shavian Agenda"
Audrey McNamara, "The Devil's Disciple Wearing Green"
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Panel 4: Shaw’s International Reception
Rosalie Rahal Haddad, “The Círculo de Atores and Bernard Shaw in Brazil”
Michael O’Hara, “The Devil’s Disciple – Reception in North America”
Vania Papanikolaou, “The Spirit of a Devil in the Modern Greek Theatre: Political and Satirical Versions of The Devil’s Disciple”
Yulia Skalnaya, “‘Satan’s Apostle’”: First Russian Translations and Performance of Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple”
4:15 pm: Concluding remarks, ISS Officers