Registration for the Colloquium is open now. Often perceived to be a Plains writer, Willa Cather spent more than half her life in New York City. The arts, the publishing business, and the stimulation of living among fellow artists created an intoxicating atmosphere for Cather. This colloquium will examine the relation of Cather's fiction to painting, sculpture, opera, ballet, and journalism in and around Manhattan. The Colloquium fee includes all lectures, paper presentations, discussions, social events, transportation and tours of New York City and its environs, and most meals.
Housing is also available.
The deadline for registration is May 15, 1998. The tours include an original Cather Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, which will show participants the amazing physical proximity between Cather and other literary greats of the period. It will also include a backstage tour of the Metropolitan Opera House. The colloquium will also feature a lecture series with some of the best-known Cather scholars from around the country, including Drew University Professors of English, Dr. Merrill Skaggs and Dr. Jo Ann Middleton. The lectures will be free and open to the public.