CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (4/20/2024; Cedar City, Utah 8/5-7/2024)

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions: April 20, 2024

full name / name of organization: Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

contact email: tvordi@suu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/23/wooden-o-symposium

The 2024 Wooden O Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s annual conference in Cedar City, UT.

We are also pleased to announce our keynote speaker is Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University), author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

• Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare on Screen
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 summer season: Henry VIII, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing.



The deadline for proposals is April 20, 2024.



Please include a 100-200-word abstract or session proposal (including individual abstracts) and the following information:

• name of presenter(s)
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate, or independent scholar)
• college/university affiliation
• mailing address
• email address
• audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.

All abstracts should be submitted through the following link: www.memberplanet.com/s/rmmra/rmmra2024application



For more information, please contact the conference co-organizers, Scott Knowles at scottknowles@suu.edu or Jessica Tvordi at tvordi@suu.edu



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