The International Harold Pinter Society

As a memorial to Steven Gale and his work with the International Harold Pinter Society and the study of drama and film in the profession, the Society has purchased 5 Memorial Trees in his honor. Best,
Ann

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Dr. Steven Gale, founding president of the Harold Pinter Society, passed away on 12 February 2023. For more details, see https://www.state-journal.com/obituaries/dr-steven-h-gale/article_3cd0c05a-ad63-11ed-ba32-9f812df9752e.html
With deepest sympathies to family and friends.
Ann

Dr. Steven H. Gale August 18, 1940-February 12, 2023 www.state-journal.com

Ann C. Hall, Professor (She, her, hers)

The Department of Comparative Humanities

Drama Editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Editor, The Harold Pinter Review

303D Humanities Bldg.

Louisville, KY 40292

502-852-7134

ann.hall@louisville.edu

Attached is a link to a podcast shared with us by Harry Rodgers. In this episode, he chats to Olivier and Tony award winner Douglas Hodge. Looking through his journey from National Youth Theatre through working in Plays, Musicals In London’s West End and Broadway, where he as won multiple Olivier and Tony awards. Investigating also, his working relationship, Acting and Directing alongside Nobel Prize winner, Harold Pinter.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LOzRYjRy1ColPl69l3J0k?si=f152f7ecba024f35

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Hello everyone,

The sixth volume of The Harold Pinter Review should be out shortly. Please renew your membership to receive a copy as part of your membership dues.

I’ve also decided to step down as president and editor in the Spring of 2023. Dr. Matthew Roberts will guest edit the seventh volume of The Harold Pinter Review, and we hope he will take over as edtior and president.

Essays are due 1 August 2022 through the Editorial Manager portal for the journal.
Best, Ann

The editors of The Harold Pinter Review invite submissions for the forthcoming issue (7), to be published June 2023. We welcome scholarly articles, book reviews, or performance reviews. For this issue, authors may write on any aspect of Pinter’s career (in theater, film, radio, television, etc.) or its import on modern drama.

To submit your work, please visit: https://www.editorialmanager.com/hpr/default1.aspx.

To review author guidelines, please visit: https://www.editorialmanager.com/hpr/account/HPR%20Author%20Submission%20Guidelines.pdf

Scholarly articles should be submitted through Editorial Manager by August 1st, 2022. Reviews should be submitted through Editorial Manager by January 1st, 2023. You may direct questions about the issue or the submission process to Matthew Roberts at mjrii@illinois.edu.

Matthew Roberts, PhD

Assistant Professor and Librarian for Comparative and World Literature, Drama, and English

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Co-Editor, The Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

mjrii

(217) 300-6902

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Hello everyone. All issues of the Harold Pinter Review will be available for free until March 31,2022. Penn State is moving its online access to a new distributor, the Scholarly Publishing Collective. There will be more changes and announcements in the future, but for now, the content is accessible online free of charge until March 31. Here is the link. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/harold-pinter

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The International Harold Pinter Society

MMLA CFP 2022

“Art and Politics: Pinter and the Nobel”

The 2022 MMLA convention theme, “Post-Now,” invites us to reconsider Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, “Art, Truth and Politics.” In the address, Pinter reinforces his assessment that a “thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false,” but clearly connects such an observation to the “exploration of reality through art.” In contrast to the artist, the citizen must distinguish between what is true and what is false. Failing to do this, the citizen risks supporting or participating in authoritarianism. While the dichotomy that Pinter constructs appears obvious enough, we invite papers that discuss, complicate, or expand how Pinter describes the distinction between the aesthetic and the political, and/or whether or not his reflections bear on the so-called post-truth era. Proposals may examine how Pinter’s description of aesthetic and political truth reflect or disrupt discussions of his so-called political plays and the way that language functions within them. Papers may also examine Pinter’s political legacy and its contemporary importance. Please submit a 250 word abstract, 2 page CV, and brief biographical statement to Matthew Roberts (mjrii@illinois.edu) by April 15th.

Please check out the wonderful YouTube video from Harry Burton, "Celebrating Henry Woolf." I hope you will enjoy it.

Ann C. Hall, Professor

The Department of Comparative Humanities

Editor, The Harold Pinter Review

303D Humanities Bldg.

Louisville, KY 40292

502-852-7134

ann.hall@louisville.edu

David Erdos sent me his moving poem written in memory of Henry Woolf. I thought I would share it with the society. It is attached. Best, Ann

Ann C. Hall

Editor, The Harold Pinter Review

ann.hall@louisville.edu

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A Henry Woolf Remembrance that Harry Burton sent to me. https://theartsdesk.com/theatre/remembering-henry-woolf-harold-pinters-oldest-friend

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