Tickets $30.00

Seminar Directors:

Ann Moseley, Professor Emerita

Texas A&M University-Commerce

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John J. Murphy, Professor Emeritus

Brigham Young University

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Robert Thacker, Professor

St. Lawrence University

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Set in the locale of Willa Cather's pivotal 1912 visit to the Southwest, the 14th International Willa Cather Seminar will highlight the places that inspired Cather, like her protagonist Thea Kronborg, to develop a new understanding and expression of her art. The seminar will include excursions to the following sites:

-Walnut Canyon (Panther Canyon in The Song of the Lark)

-The Little Painted Desert (over which Cather rode with Julio)

-Winslow, Arizona (where Cather stayed in 1912 with her brother Douglass and H.L. Tooker, the prototype for Ray Kennedy in The Song of the Lark), and luncheon at the "Fred Harvey" La Posada Hotel

-The Museum of Northern Arizona (which houses excellent Sinagua and Anasazi pottery collections)

Call for Papers will be issued in the spring of 2012. Suggested topics will include exploration of the effect of Cather's 1912 Southwestern trip on her life and art; discussions of the significance of canyons, rocks, and mesas in Cather's work; studies of music, art, architecture, ritual, and religion in Cather's work; gender and racial issues, especially as related to Cather's Southwestern works; and approaches to teaching Cather.