Shaw Symposium 2023

July 21-23, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

Call for Papers

The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival welcome presenters and attendees to the 20th annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 21-23 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, Canada. Zoom access can be provided for those who cannot attend the in-person panels. 
 
Focused on Bernard Shaw’s works, his contemporaries, and his legacies, this Symposium will feature new scholarship relating to plays included in the Shaw Festival’s 2023 season.
 
We especially invite papers treating the plays that will be performed during the Symposium: Shaw’s The Apple Cart and Village Wooing, as well as John Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. 
 
We also welcome proposals for talks about other playwrights featured during the 2023 season, including Edith Wharton, Noel Coward, Tom Stoppard, and James Baldwin; ideally, such proposals will situate those writers and their works within a context that plausibly includes Shaw. Please see https://www.shawfest.com/2023-season/ for a full list of productions.
 
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words and CVs to Jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu by March 1, 2023. Travel grant and scholarship application information can be found at https://www.shawsociety.org/ISS-Grants&Scholarships-2022.htm.
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Abstracts

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