First Year College Convocation
"A Career is Not a Straight Line"
Monday, January 14, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (No Admittance After 7:10pm)
Stewart Theatre
Attendance is required!
Seating Chart (.pdf)

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ralph Cohen, Founder and Executive Director of the American Shakespeare Center

Ralph Alan Cohen is the founder and executive director of the American Shakespeare Center (formerly Shenandoah Shakespeare). He is also Professor of English at the Mary Baldwin College/Shenandoah Shakespeare Master of the Letters/Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance program. He has twice guest edited special teaching issues of Shakespeare Quarterly and has published articles on teaching Shakespeare as well as on Shakespeare, Jonson, and Elizabethan staging. He has directed eighteen professional productions of Shakespeare's plays, Christopher Marlowes' Doctor Faustus, and a student production of Thomas Middleton's Your Five Gallants, which he also edited for Oxford University Press's forthcoming Complete Works for Thomas Middleton. In 2002 & 2004, he was the project director for the National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored institute, "Shakespeare's Theatres, Inside and Out," held at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton and Shakespeare's Globe in London. His latest book, ShakesFear and How to Cure It, was published earlier this year.

Dress casual is expected for students. Students in attendance should submit a Forum report within seven days of the event and should list the Title as Convocation in order to receive credit. Convocation is NOT, however, considered a forum event and has its own separate point value. If a student cannot attend Convocation due to a class conflict, he/she should see his/her USC instructor for a make up assignment.

This page last updated by mmrust - January 4, 2008 10:18 AM