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Stephen M. Buhler, professor of English at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Education Director for the Flatwater
Shakespeare Company, will deliver the Schreiner University Margaret Syers
lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Union Church, just off
the Schreiner campus. The talk, sponsored by Schreiner’s
Center for Innovative Learning, is free and open to the public.
Buhler will speak on “Shake Some (Inter) Action: The Bard and Popular
Music.”
Buhler received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California at
Los Angeles. His recent publications include studies of Duke Ellington’s
Shakespearean suite “Such Sweet Thunder” and Mark Morris’ revisionist dance
interpretations of composer Georg Frideric Handel and poet John Milton, as
well as an essay on “Musical Shakespeares” for The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespeare and Popular Culture. He is the author of “Shakespeare in the
Cinema: Ocular Proof,” a recipient of the University of Nebraska’s
Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA), and lead
guitarist for Sweet Will and the Saucy Jacks, occasional specialists in
early modern rock.
The
Margaret Syers Lecture Series was endowed by Susan Stark and William
Syers, children of longtime Kerrville educator, Margaret Syers, who was an
English teacher in Kerrville for many years. Her children along with friends
of Syers established the endowment in order to bring to Schreiner
outstanding speakers on topics of literary interest for the benefit of the
campus and the community.
For more information about this event, contact Martha York at
mlyork@schreiner.edu or (830) 792-7352. For information about other CIL
events, visit the Schreiner Web site at
www.schreiner.edu/cil/calendar.html. |
