Please consider nominating outstanding authors, scholars, educators, leaders, playwrights, artists, and editors for the  Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s prestigious awards.

Please visit ATHE’s website for submission information and other details (under the “awards” drop-down tab).

The deadline for nominations is February 1.

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Call for Papers: 2021 Shaw Symposium

The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA and online via Zoom16-18 July 2021

The International Shaw Society and The Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Eighteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused…[Read more]

Call for Papers

2020 Shaw Symposium

The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA

23-25 July 2020

The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Seventeenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The…[Read more]

The R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar.   The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]

Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CAN, 15-17 August 2019

The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Sixteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. Successful proposals will offer a focused analysis of any aspect of Shaw’s work, or that of his contemporaries f…[Read more]

The 1978 University of Iowa symposium on Dada was the first major conference on the subject to be held in North America, and the first anywhere to integrate literature and the performing arts in the study of a movement then associated almost exclusively with the visual arts. The conference introduced new interdisciplinary methods and advanced the…[Read more]

“Shaw at The Shaw” Conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 21-25, 2017
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2017
Sponsored by the International Shaw Society, The Shaw Festival, and York University, “Shaw at The Shaw” seeks paper proposals that will cover a broad spectrum of topics but will give some preference to topics on the two Shaw…[Read more]

Shaw in New York (October 16-19, 2015)

Sponsored by Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and The International Shaw Society

Paper proposal deadline: July 1

The conference organizers invite papers focused on any aspect of Bernard Shaw’s relationship to New York: productions…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]