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19th International Willa Cather Seminar

… at rates starting at $159/night. To reserve, click this link to our room block reservation page. The cut-off date …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was … very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we celebrated our 60th Spring Conference in …
Posted: 07/24/2015
Last Updated: 09/09/2015

Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… in 1971, but he’s been choosing her ever since.   Harris was working toward his Ph.D. degree at the University of … Edith Wharton were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a … World War I African American U.S. Army infantry regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters.  On September 3, he took …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

The Willa Cather Foundation

… times, and the pleasures of her artistry; Organization of  conferences  and  seminars  that generate new research and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/06/2025

Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Willa Cather Foundation Events

… Conference, and the Prairie Writers' Workshop. A biennial International Cather Seminar and periodic symposia are also held in other locales … - Filter Events by Category - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/23/2023

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters relationships with … events and discussions coming together for our 68th annual Spring Conference, and the 18th Willa Cather International …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

Education Scholarship for Student Research

… at conferences that are not Cather-specific (such as the International Cather Seminar, for which there are other available scholarships). …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/19/2023

Newly Appointed Board Members Announced

… a Woordress Fellowship in 2013, co-directed the 2016 International Cather Seminar, and will be co-editing the Cather Studies volume …
Posted: 01/09/2018
Last Updated: 01/09/2018

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