I N T E R N A T I O N A L S H A W S O C I E T Y Devoted to the Study of Bernard Shaw, the Consummate Juggler of Ideas In a World of Nothing But Spin “If I am sane, the rest of the world ought not to be at large.” --G.B.S., from Sixteen Self-Sketches Members Non-members Info ISS Menus Membership Application & Benefits Grants & Scholarships CALL FOR PAPERS 2007-8 (Non-members included – See below)
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: Brioni is the island off of Croatia where the Shaws and the Gene Tunneys spent a memorable month together in 1929, and this seminar is to commemorate that. If interested, please email dietrich@cas.usf.edu. SHAW MEETINGS & CALLS FOR PAPERS IN 2008-9 AND LINKS FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION & APPLICATION FORMS (Non-members included) 1.) Shaw Sessions at the Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles, March 27-29, 2008. Deadline for proposals for the 2009 CDC is Nov. 15, 2008. For details, click HERE. 2.) 2008 Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, July 25-26-27. Deadline for proposals and grant applications is April 15, 2008. For details, click HERE. 3.) Shaw Session at the 2008 MLA Convention in San Francisco, Dec. 27-30. Topic: “Shaw and His Contemporaries.” Abstracts due to Charles Del Dotto <cjd@duke.edu> by March 15. Details at www.shawsociety.org/2008-Shaw-at-MLA.htm. 4.) 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. 5.) Shaw Session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference in Buffalo, New York, April 10 - 13, 2008. TOPIC: "Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion." Call for papers. You may write on the original play, the stage or movie version My Fair Lady, the Pygmalion/Galatea myth, or on GBS's magical creations, Eliza Doolittle  & Henry Higgins.  You may treat these all together or individually.  All interpretations will be considered: Mythic, dramatic , musical, psycho-analytic, feminist, or personal response, etc. To foster discussion, accepted panelists must keep strictly to 15-minute presentations, but finished papers should be brought. Submit a 250-350 abstract with brief Curriculum Vita  via eMail to Ted Price, Montclair State University:  pricet@mail.montclair.edu    by 9/01/07, preferably earlier. Also of interest: Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, July 23 – August 15, 2007, 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. 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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