Events
1998
December 7th
Willa Cather's 125th Birthday Celebration
Red Cloud, Nebraska.
June 20th - 27th
Willa Cather's New York, An International
Willa
Cather Colloquium,
Madison, New Jersey.
Presented by Drew University Graduate School in
association with WCPM. Cather's years as a New
York City resident had a deep impact on the
direction of her life and her work.
May 28th - 31st
American Literature Association Conference
San Diego, CA
There were two scholarly panels on Willa
Cather---one devoted to examining My Antonia, at 80, and
one open to general current approaches to
Cather's work.
May 1st and 2nd
Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
Red Cloud, NE
Themes: My Antonia (Friday) and A
Lost Lady
(Saturday).
1997
An international Cather seminar was held in summer of 1997,
which commemorated the 50 year mark of Cather's death.
Ann Romines (George Washington University) and John Jacobs (Shenandoah
University in Winchester) were the codirectors; it was held in
Winchester,
Virginia
, and focused on the southern dimensions and ideas of
Cather's life and writing.
The 1997 Spring Conference coincided with Cather's death,
which
occured on April 24. The conference was held the following weekend,
April 25-6 in Red Cloud. The book was Death Comes for the
Archbishop
and
the evening included dramatizations from the book. Marilyn Arnold
(BYU) and Steve Shively (UNL) were panelists on "The Passing Show." John
Murphy gave a formal paper presentation with slides as the opener for
the discussion. Sue Rosowski was the moderator.
1996
The 1996
Western American Literature Conference was
held jointly with the Western History Association, October 2-5, in
Lincoln Nebraska.
October 2-3 The Nebraska Press Women hosted a
"Willa Cather Weekend" in
Red Cloud.
In the Fall of 1996 there was an observance of Cather's arrival in
Pittsburgh at Duquesne University. The
dates of the
conference were September 6, 7, 8, 1996.
Their website
devoted to the conference reviews what happened.
The 1996 Spring Conference was held the first weekend in May in
Red
Cloud, Nebraska, and centered on My Mortal Enemy. The evening
entertainment
was be a soprano from Opera Omaha singing the famous "Casta Diva" aria
from "Norma" that Cather used in the novella. There were papers
presented throughout the weekend. There is a newspaper
article about the conference.
Stephen Schunk had a
Cather Gathering in Wyoming August 16-18, 1996. Examine his descriptive web page for
more information about this event.
1995
The Fifth International Cather Seminar was held in Quebec; there is a French
press release of the proceedings.
