Gypsy set design by Cory Vincennes. Photo by Mark Callan.

The digital meeting of the 17th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium

The 2020 Shaw Summer Symposium is meeting digitally, using the Zoom application, due to COVID-19 restrictions.  

Speakers will deliver their research using a combination of synchronous ("real-time") and asynchronous delivery modes. 
  
Location
Zoom.us

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Registration is required to participate in the Symposium.

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Schedule

All times given are in Eastern Standard Time.
Thursday, 23 July
5:30 - 6:15 pm EST: Keynote address by Kimberley Rampersad, Associate Artistic Director, Shaw Festival

Friday, 24 July
9:30 am - 10:30 am EST: Panel 1 – Intercultural Shaw
  • R. A. F. Ajith, "Shaw's Relevance in Modern Tamil Theatre"
  • Kay Li, "Cultural Translations of Colours in The Devil's Disciple"

11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 2 – The Devil's Disciple
  • Brigitte Bogar, "The Operatic Devil: Operas Based on Shaw's The Devil's Disciple"
  • James Armstrong, "The Devil's Actress: Shaw's Search for the Anti-Bernhardt"
  • John McInerney, "The Devil's Disciple: Characters in Discovery"
  • Christopher Wixson, "Buoyant Burgoyne: Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple, and No Manners Comedy"

Saturday, 25 July
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 3 – Shaw and Gender
  • Tanner Sebastian, "'Goodbye, Home: Queer Domesticity in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple"
  • Laurie Wolf, "Gender Disparity inThe Devil's Disciple"
  • Wan Jin, "In and Out of the Garden: Gendered Landscapes in Mrs. Warren's Profession"

​1:45 pm – 3 pm EST: Panel 4
  • Jesse Hellman, "A Search for Agnes in Shaw's Plays and Life"
  • Jean Reynolds, "Village Wooing: A Play about Reading and Writing"
  • Sharon Klassen, "Bernard Shaw and Feliks Topolski: Creating the Penguin Illustrated Pygmalion"

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST: Reading of Buoyant Billions (adaptation by Christopher Wixson)
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4:30 pm – 5 pm EST: Concluding remarks