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Utah Shakespeare Festival

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, Utah

The 2011 Wooden O Symposium is sponsored by the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University's Gerald Sherratt Library, College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Department of English. The WOS is a cross-disciplinary conference focusing on the text and performance of Shakespeare's plays.

In support of SUU's mission to promote undergraduate research, the Wooden O Symposium regularly includes at least one undergraduate panel as part of the program.

Conference Priorities - The Wooden O Symposium invites papers on any topic related to Shakespeare and early modern drama, but gives priority to those relating to the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2011 summer season: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III and Romeo and Juliet. Also, in celebration of their 50th anniversary the USF in cooperation with SUU's Sherratt Library will be hosting an exhibit featuring a First Folio (Folger Library). In recognition of this singular event the Symposium is also encouraging authors to submit papers on subjects related to early Sheakespeare texts.

Scholars attending the conference will have the unique opportunity of immersing themselves in research, text, and performance in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the western U.S.

Selected papers from the symposium are published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Wooden O Symposium.

Print a copy of the CFP and share it with colleagues, students, and friends: Call for Papers (.pdf)

Submission - Conference co-chairs are Jessica Tvordi, Department of English, Southern Utah University and Michael Don Bahr, Education Director, Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Deadline for proposals is May 1, 2011.  Session chairs and individual presenters will be informed of acceptance no later than May 15.  250-word abstracts or session proposals (including individual abstracts) should include the following:

• author's name
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate, aficionado)
• mailing address
• college/university affiliation (if any)
• email address
• day time phone number. 

Send 250 word abstract or session proposal to:

Wooden O Symposium
c/o Utah Shakespeare Festival
351 W. Center St.
Cedar City, UT 84720
USA
woodeno@suu.edu
ph. 435-586-7880
fax 435-865-8169

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