“George Bernard Shaw and History”

A Special Session on Bernard Shaw

at the Modern Language Association Conference

in Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 2007

Sponsored by the International Shaw Society

 

The “Call for Papers” has concluded for 2007, but anyone attending the 2007 MLA conference is welcome to attend the special Shaw session, # 603, which will take place 7:15 to 8:30 pm, Saturday, 29 December, in Skyway Suite 265 of the Chicago Hyatt Regency.

 

You can discover how to register for the 2006 MLA convention by going to

http://www.mla.org/convention.

 

Saturday, 29 December

 

603. George Bernard Shaw and History

 

7:15 - ­8:30 p.m., Skyway Suite 265, Hyatt Regency Chicago

 

A special session

 

Presiding: Charles J. Del Dotto, Duke Univ.

 

1. "'Without History': Shakespeare, Romance, and Violence in Shaw's Caesar and

Cleopatra," Charles J. Del Dotto

 

2. "Cart and Trumpet Histories: Shaw, Melodrama, and the Imperial Archive," Neil

Hultgren, Univ. of Virginia

 

3. "Shaw's Arms and the Man and Bulgarian History," Stoyan Tchaprazov, Univ. of

Minnesota, Twin Cities

 

4. "Willing Evolution: Shaw, Lamarck, and Modernism in the 1920s," Hannah Tracy,

Univ. of Oregon