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SHAW
AND THE ISS The
ISS, not to be confused with the International Space Station, was founded in
the U.S.A. in 2004 to give Shaw Studies more of an international reach and
perspective. The acronym “ISS” emphasizes Bernard Shaw’s continuing
presence, if only as a talkative spirit with very relevant things to say,
rare in their relative sanity, humanity, and civilizing good humor. If you
like humor of the hyperbolic, satiric, paradoxical, and ironic sort, Shaw is
your man. If you need a translator, the ISS specializes in that. ISS conferences and symposia, accompanied by
at least one Shaw play, have occurred in the U.S.A., Canada, Ireland, and the
UK. Alas, the conference scheduled on May 27-29, 2020, planned for Cáceres,
Spain, with “Shaw and Europe" as its theme, has had to be canceled due to the pandemic.
The annual Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
scheduled for July 23-25, 2020, will be replaced by a Zoom Symposium. To
register for that at no cost, go to shawsymposium2020.weebly.com. A dedicated Shaw Symposium Zoom link and
password will be distributed to registrants shortly before the Symposium
begins. A final schedule will appear by July 15. Return here in December to
see what 2021 will bring. If Shaw had a creed, it was in this
combination of quotations: “This is the true joy in life, the
being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being
thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a
force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and
grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you
happy. . . . I rejoice in
life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of
splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.” |
ISS
Copyright©2004
R.F.
Dietrich,
Founding
President
dietrich@shawsociety.org