International Shaw Society Summer Symposium at the Shaw Festival
Shaw Symposium, July 25-27 2025, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival warmly invite scholars and theater artists to present new or developing scholarly or creative material during the annual summer Shaw Symposium, which will take place July 25-27 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, Canada. Zoom access can be provided for those who cannot attend the in-person panels.
Focused on Bernard Shaw’s works, his contemporaries, and his legacies, this Symposium will feature one or two panels relating to three productions included in the Shaw Festival’s 2025 season: Major Barbara, Dear Liar (based on letters between Shaw and Mors. Patrick Campbell), and Gnit (Will Eno’s play, based on Ibsen’s Peer Gynt).
Please send proposals of no more than 250 words and CVs to Jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu by April 1, 2025. Travel grant and scholarship application information can be found at ISS SCHOLARSHIPS.
