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***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** The Wooden O Symposium Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference _______________________________________ August 5-7, 2002 Sherratt Library Southern Utah University Utah Shakespearean Festival Cedar City, Utah, USA _______________________________________ The Wooden O Symposium is a cross disciplinary conference that explores Medieval and Renaissance Studies through the text and performance of Shakespeare's plays. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit papers that offer insights and new ideas springing from the era of William Shakespeare. His plays are replete with the language, thoughts and arts of the Renaissance and Western culture and represent an inexhaustible source for creative ideas and research. Cedar City and SUU host the Utah Shakespearean Festival, recipients of the 2000 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. The conference coincides with the Festival's summer season where three Shakespeare plays will be performed in the Adams Memorial Theater, a unique performance space modeled after Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre. To enrich the conference experience all Academic attendees ($90 registration) will receive a ticket to an evening performance of As You Like It (Monday, Aug. 7). *** Conference Priorities *** * The Utah Shakespearean Festival will be presenting As You Like It, Cymbeline and Othello as part of their summer 2002 season. Priority for papers/presentations at the conference will be given to research relating to one or more of these specific works. 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. * Graduate students are encouraged to attend and submit papers for presentation at the conference's Graduate Sessions. * Southern Utah University is a proud supporter of undergraduate research and is pleased to announce that this conference will include an exciting undergraduate component hosted by the local chapters of Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society)and Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society). Undergraduates are encouraged to submit original papers for consideration. _______________________________________ For more information see our website: http://www.bard.org/SectionEducate/ShakesStudies.html or e-mail to [log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2002. Send 250 word abstract or complete papers to: Wooden O Symposium c/o Utah Shakespearean Festival 351 W. Center St. Cedar City, UT 84720=20 ph. 435-586-7880 fax 435-865-8003 [log in to unmask]