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Current Seminar Information

Cather's Circles: Correspondence and Connections
A Symposium Celebrating the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 4, 2008


Previous Seminars and Symposia

2007 International Seminar, Paris and Abbey St-Michel de Frigolet

Cather, Journalism, and Periodicals:
A Symposium held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 21, 2006

Cather Colloquium, Drew University

The 10th International Cather Seminar 2005: "Violence, the Arts, and Cather"

The 10th International Cather Seminar was held in Red Cloud and Lincoln, Nebraska, June 18-25, 2005. The conference web site is archived here.

9th International Cather Seminar: "Cather as Cultural Icon"

The 9th International Cather Seminar, "Cather as Cultural Icon," was held May 28-June 2, 2003, at the Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. The call for papers, registration materials, and schedule are archived here.

Photographs of the conference are available here.

Great Passions and Great Aspirations: Willa Cather and World War I and
Opera and Literature: Willa Cather and The Bohemian Girl

"Great Passions and Great Aspirations: Willa Cather and World War I" was held April 4-April 5, 2002, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Materials are archived here.

"Opera and Literature: Willa Cather and The Bohemian Girl" was held April 6, 2002, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Materials are archived here.

Complete List of All Willa Cather International Seminars:

10th France
Paris and Abbey St-Michel de Frigolet, Provence
"Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds"
June 18-25, 2005
10th Nebraska
Red Cloud and University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus
"Violence, the Arts, and Cather"
June 18-25, 2005
9th Vermont
Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College, Ripton, Vermont
"Cather as Cultural Icon"
May 28-June 2, 2003
8th Nebraska
Nebraska City, Lied Conference Center at Arbor Day Farm
"Willa Cather's Environmental Imagination"
June 17-24, 2000
7th Virginia
Shenendoah University, Winchester, Virginia
"Willa Cather's Southern Connections"
June 21-28, 1997
6th Canada
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
"Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections"
June 24 - July 1, 1995
5th Nebraska
Hastings College, Hastings; Red Cloud
"'After the World Broke in Two': The Later Writings of Willa Cather"
June 19-26, 1993
4th New Mexico
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Multiple Traditions of American Culture"
June 16-23, 1990
3rd Nebraska
Hastings College, Hastings; Red Cloud
"Willa Cather: The World and the Parish"
June 14-20, 1987
2nd Nebraska
Hastings College, Hastings; Red Cloud
"Willa Cather Today"
June 19-25, 1983
1st Nebraska
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"The Art of Willa Cather"
October 25-28, 1973