The Eugene O'Neill Society Seventh Annual Conference
June 11 - 15, Tao House Danville, CA
"O'Neill's Global Legacy"
Susan Glaspell Society Sponsored Panel:
"Performing
Race, Gender and Nation:
Susan Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill
and the Modern Drama Classroom"
Chaired by Monica Stufft, University of California Berkeley
This panel explored the global legacies of the two playwrights and considered the ways we locally stage these legacies in a broadly defined modern drama classroom that includes scholarship and productions. Papers investigated intertextual links around issues of race, gender and/or nation, and considered questions such as how do the plays of Glaspell and O'Neill construct identities both nationally and internationally? How might issues of race, gender and/or nation circulate when we frame these playwrights as American in relation to the European modern theatrical tradition and, in our scholarship and productions, as part of the modern drama canon?
Francesca Coppa, "Divided by a Common Language: O'Neill, Glaspell and the European Modern Drama Tradition"
Michael Winetsky, "Performing Liberalism: Empathy and Protest in an Age of Nationalist Fervor"
Monica Stufft, "American Bodies: Intersections of Race and Gender in Emperor Jones and Inheritors"
Americans and the Experience of Delphi
Delphi Greece, June 24-26, 2008
Six Susan Glaspell Society members attended the Hellenic Studies Symposium in Delphi, Greece, sponsored by The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies (Executive Director, Tom Papademetriou and conference organizer, David Roessel), sponsored by the American Foundation of Greek Language and culture, with the support of the beautiful European Cultural Centre at Delphi, where everyone stayed. SGS members had a wonderful experience walking in Susan's footsteps.
The Susan Glaspell Session, chaired by Marina Angel on June 25th, featured:
Barbara Ozieblo, "Letters Home: Susan Glaspell's
Experience of Delphi"
Martha Carpentier, "Susan Glaspell's Greece: the
people, the place and the past"
Noelia Hernando-Real, "Susan Glaspell's Female
Charioteers: the spirit of Delphi and Aristotle's
Poetics in Inheritors,
The Verge and The Comic Artist"
Michael Winetsky, "The Noble Peasant: Humanism and
Primitivism in Glaspell's Life and Work"
Linda Ben-Zvi presented "Jig Cook's Road to the Temple" at the George Cram Cook session on June 24, while Michael Solomonson presented "The influence of George Cram Cook's Delphic Spirit on Eugene O'Neill" on June 26.
University of Athens students presented a spirited reading of Suppressed Desires on the evening of the 26th.
Linda and guide take us to Susan and Jig's camp in Kalania (from left to right: Michael Winetsky, Martha Carpentier, Yoko Chase, Noelia Hernando-Real, Linda Ben-Zvi).
"The forest opens and gives us Kalania--the mountain park, that secret beauty, loveliness that is like a heart, a heart guarded by mountains of spruce" (Road to the Temple 261).
American Drama
Conference
November 7-9,
Saturday Nov. 8
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Chair: Noelia Hernando-Real, LaSalle College-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Panelists: Sharon Friedman, Gallatin School, New York University; Emeline Jouve, Toulouse University, France; and Noelia Hernando-Real
6:30 Staged
Sunday Nov. 9
Roundtable: "Broader
Contexts for Teaching Susan Glaspell"
Chair:
Barbara Ozieblo,
Participants: Nieves Alberola, Universidad de Jaume I, Castellón; Judith E. Barlow, University at Albany, SUNY; Martha C. Carpentier, Seton Hall University; Sherry Engle, BMCC; CUNY; Drew Eisenhauer, University of Maryland; Sharon Friedman, Gallatin School, New York University; Noelia Hernando-Real, La Salle Collage-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Barbara Ozieblo, Universidad de Málaga; Michael Winetsky, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.