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W h a t i s t h e I S S? (Information for non-members) Questions? Comments? Visit the GBS Blog at gbs.shawsociety.org. NEW: Shaw’s BBC broadcasts are now available in CD format. Just click on this line for more information. SHAW SEMINAR IN BRIONI, June 2009: CANCELED. Brioni is the island off of Croatia where the Shaws and the Gene Tunneys spent a memorable month together in 1929, and this proposed seminar was to commemorate that, but the combination of impossible logistics and a very unfavorable exchange rate has forced us to forgo this pleasure. SHAW MEETINGS & CALLS FOR PAPERS IN 2009-10 AND LINKS FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION & APPLICATION FORMS (Non-members included) 1.) Shaw Sessions at the Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles, March, 2010. Deadline for proposals for the 2010 CDC is Nov. 15, 2009. For details, click HERE (when ready). 2.) 2009 Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, July 24-25-26. Deadline for proposals and grant applications is April 15, 2009. For details, click HERE. 3.) Shaw Session at the 2009 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30. Topic: “Shaw and Modernism.” Abstracts due to Charles Del Dotto <cjd@duke.edu> by March 15, 2009. Details at www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-at-MLA-2009.htm. 4.) D.C. Shaw Conference: “Shaw and Politics” is scheduled for October 15-18 in Washington, D. C., sponsored by The Catholic University of America, the Washington Stage Guild, and the International Shaw Society. Paper and grant application deadlines are May 1, 2009. For details and forms, please see www.shawsociety.org/DC-Shaw-Conference.htm. 5.) Call for papers for “Feminism Revisits Shaw,” co-edited by Dorothy Hadfield and Jean Reynolds. Please submit a 750-word abstract and a short biographical note (preferably via email) by January 31, 2008 to: Dorothy Hadfield Box 27, Route #2, Ariss, ON CANADA N0B 1B0 (dhadfiel@uoguelph.ca) or Jean Reynolds at 520 Winter Terrace, Winter Haven, FL USA 33881(ballroom16@aol.com). For further details, see www.shawsociety.org/feminism.htm. Also of interest: Niagara International Chamber Music Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary, jazz, pocket opera, and Shaw and Music with Christopher Newton and actors from the Shaw ensemble. See http://www.niagaramusicfest.com. For a photo gallery of Shaw’s Birthplace Museum in Dublin, provided by Mary Ellen Bertolini, please see http://gallery.me.com/mebertolini#100005&sel=0. That Shaw was a born character in his own right seems attested to by the frequency in which he appears as a character in the fictional works of others. For an annotated bibliography of just the occasions of his appearance as a character in dramatic works, see http://www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-as-Character.htm. For abstracts and photos from the June 2006 Shaw Conference at Brown University, please see http://www.shawsociety.org/Brown-Abstracts-TOC.htm and http://www.shawsociety.org/Brown-photos-2.htm For photos of the Shaw birthday celebrations in London and Dublin, July 2006, please see http://www.shawsociety.org/Shaw's-Birthday-UK-Dublin.htm. For a photo gallery of the 2007 Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 28-30, please see http://www.shawsociety.org/2007-Shaw-Symposium-1.htm. There are four pages, and just follow the links.

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