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INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY Calls for Papers & Manuscripts for Meetings, Journals,
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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 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. |
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ISS conferences and symposia, accompanied by at least one Shaw play
production, have occurred in the U.S.A., Canada, Ireland, and the UK. Alas, due to the Pandemic, the conference
scheduled for May, 2020 in Cáceres, Spain, with “Shaw and
Europe" as its theme, had to be canceled, but it is tentatively rescheduled for
2022. More later. The annual Summer
Shaw Symposium at the internationally renowned Shaw Festival Theatre in
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, scheduled for July 16-18 of 2021, has been
canceled, but a Zoom Symposium will replace it. See https://shawsymposium2021.weebly.com/
for updates and registration. For information on The Shaw Festival in 2021,
see shawfest.com. For tickets to
plays, call their box office at 800-511-7429 (in Canada 905-468-2172). |
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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.” |
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Copyright 2004 R. F. Dietrich. Founding President |
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