by a performance of “The Quivering Rose,” by DAH Theater, Belgrade, Serbia. The first keynote presentation is “Children’s Literature from Page to Stage in a Diasporic Context” by Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu from the University of Alicante, Spain, at 2:40 p.m. All events will take place in the Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons unless otherwise specified. The conference will feature papers, live performances and readings. Approximately 10 faculty members from Washington and Lee and almost 30 W&L students will be presenting and will be involved in the panels, performances and readings. Theater practitioners, scholars, artists and professors from across the United States and from international institutions will attend the symposium in an open exchange of ideas and artistic expressions relevant to the symposium’s theme. “The themes of this year’s symposium of immigration, displacement and discrimination as portrayed and dealt with in the theater arts are more relevant than ever to our times,” said Radulescu. Morris Professor of Romance Languages and director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Washington and Lee. This year’s symposium, “Displacements, Frontiers and Nomadism,” is organized by Domnica Radulescu, founding director of the symposium, the Edwin A. Washington and Lee University will welcome visitors from around the world to its 12th National Symposium of Theater in Academe on March 26-28. W&L Hosts 12th National Symposium of Theater in Academe Further analysis of these and other literary works will more accurately determine benefits of the status and solidarity framework as applied to the codeswitching research.Search Feature Stories Campus Events All Stories Stories by Discipline However, the relationships found in Beautiful Señoritas and Coser y cantar do not offer such conclusions, due to the variable nature of the relationships identified. Accordingly, the analysis of Botánica reveals that indeed codeswitching between the characters does affect their relational development in maintaining solidarity and intimacy. Due to her ideological stance, it is expected that a strong emphasis on solidarity rather than status and the use of affective rather than referential speech functions are present in the relationships in her plays. Dolores Prida is a feminist and Hispanic dramatist whose central theme is the search for identity of Hispanic immigrants, specifically women, in the United States today. Hence, this work aims to add to scholarly research in the fields of codeswitching, discourse analysis, and literary linguistics, using the status and solidarity framework to examine the codeswitching in Dolores Prida's plays. Furthermore, Prida's works have never before been appraised using linguistic methodology. Linguistic scholars recognize the lack of linguistic analysis of literary texts specifically, codeswitching at present is not fully explored as a linguistic phenomenon in written contexts. The three plays discussed are Beautiful Señoritas (1978), Coser y cantar (1981) and Botánica (1991). This analysis employs the sociolinguistic framework of status and solidarity (Holmes, 2001) to examine the use of codeswitching on the relational development between the characters in three plays by Cuban-American playwright Dolores Prida.