Monday, March 29, 2010

Hello all:

Whew! What a fantastic conference! Once again we want to thank you for all of the energetic, erudite and ______(what's another e-word? ah, you fill it in yourself, I'm beat) discussions this past weekend!

A couple of things: as I stated in the beginning of the conference, we wanted this weekend to only be the beginning of hopefully many more conversations. One will be the collection that we would like to put together. More details will follow but just remember, we are looking for complete essays by September 1st, 2010. Please e-mail me at jlennon@stfranciscollege.edu for any questions and details. But hopefully other collaborations will continue and please keep us updated on your work!

We would like to have some feedback on the conference from you. Please take a few minutes just to write up your thoughts on the conference and place them below. If you liked the tour, please let us know what specifically you like about it. If you wished the panels were over two days, let us know. Also, if you have any ideas for improvement (we would like to do other conferences (rock music? the 60s? pop art?) in the coming years) we would like to hear any thoughts of making the conference a more pleasurable and productive space and time.

Take care!
John

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Hey all:

A few more days until the conference--looking forward to meeting all of you. Here is a schedule of events:

Saturday, March 27th

8:00am - 8:45am
Registration, Breakfast and Introductions
Callahan Center, 1st Floor

9:00am - 10:30am

PANEL ONE: SEXUAL IDENTITY
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom, Room 7213
Dr. Kristy Biolsi, Department of Psychology, Moderator

Robert Genter, Nassau Community College - “The One and Only Holy and Important Thing: Jack Kerouac’s Straightening of Walt Whitman’s Queer Poetics”

Sara Villa, Columbia University - “Jack Kerouac on Walt Whitman – A Prophet of the Sexual Revolution”

Jessica Pfeffer, New York University - “Whose Love Poem: The Blurring of Sexual Boundaries in Whitman and Ginsberg”

PANEL TWO: TIME AND SPACE
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education, Room 7402
Br. Edward Wesley, OSF, Ph.D., Department of English, Moderator

Melissa Nurczynski, Kutztown University - “The Intersections of Art and Reportage, Memory and Memoir: Whitman, Ginsburg and Kerouac’s Influence on the Development of Creative Nonfiction as a Genre”

Greg Dandeles, United States Air Force Academy - “Time, Space, Self, and Walt Whitman in Allen Ginsbergs “America””

Jasmine Kitses, University of California, Davis - “’Distance avails not’: Ellipses of Time and Space in Whitman and Ginsberg”

10:45am - 12:15pm

PANEL THREE: INFLUENCE AND POETIC RECEPTION
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom, Room 7213
Dr. Timothy Dugan, Department of Communication Arts, Moderator

Horace D. Ballard, Jr., Yale University - “Birdsong/Battle Cry: Whitman’s Influence on Bob Kaufman”
Noam Flinker, University of Haifa - “Intertextual Connections: George Herbert, Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac”

Nancy J. Fox, Stephen F. Austin State University - “Jack Kerouac’s Reply to Walt Whitman”

William Lawlor, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point - “Not Moderns, Not Postmoderns, but Whitman! Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s View of Literary Forces that Shaped the Beats and Ferlinghetti”

PANEL FOUR: TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND ART
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom, Room 7213
Prof. David Gewirtz, Department of Communication Arts, Moderator

Fiona Anderson, Kings College London - “A trail of drift and debris’: Traces of Whitman in the correspondence art of Ray Johnson”

Anthony C. Bleach, Kutztown University - “Go Forth and Multiply: Walt Whitman and Transmedia Storytelling”

Václav Paris, University of Pennsylvania - “Mapping these States: Whitman, Snyder, and the Technologies of Epic Poesis”

12:30pm •Lunch
Cafeteria, 1st Floor

1:00pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Cafeteria, 1st Floor

Ann Charters, University of Connecticut - “’A Mountain Too Vast To Be Seen’: Walt Whitman and The Beats.”

2:15pm - 3:45pm

PANEL FIVE: EMBATTLED BODIES
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom, Room 7213
Dr. Nickie Phillips, Department of Sociology, Moderator

Sharon Becker, University of Redlands - “’Something, Someone, Some Spirit’: Haunted Masculinity and Kerouac’s Debt to Whitman in On the Road”

Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University - “The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg”

Karl Parker, Hobart and William Smith Colleges - “Singing/Howling The Per/verse & The Obscene: Bodily Poetics in the work of Whitman & Ginsberg”

PANEL SIX: THE ROAD
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education, Room 7402
Dr. Jennifer Wingate, Department of Fine Arts, Moderator

Thomas Bierowski, Alvernia College - “Devolution of the American Road”

Robert Mundy, St. John’s University - “Along the Endless Road, Moving Fast and Still”

Patrick Racenberg, State University of New York at Buffalo - “Kerouac and Nationalism: The Search for Walt Whitman's America in On the Road”

4:00pm - 5:30pm

PANEL SEVEN: POETICS, FORM AND STYLE
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom, Room 7213
Dr. Wendy Galgan, Department of English, Moderator

William Nesbit, Beacon College - “Good Things Come in Small Packages: The Use of the Short Poem by Whitman and the Beats”

Walter Raubicheck, Pace University - “Gregory Corso’s ‘Song of Himself’”

Regina Weinreich, School of Visual Arts - “Kerouac’s Haiku Poetics”


PANEL EIGHT: POWER AND POLITICS
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education, Room 7402
Dr. Gerald Galgan, Department of Philosophy, Moderator

Stephen B. Hodin, Boston University - “Humanizing War: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, and the American Anti-War Movement”

Eric Keenaghan, State University of New York at Albany - “Ambassadors of Power: Whitmanic Anarchism, Eroticism, and the Beats’ Opposition to the Cold War State”

Matthew Koch, Texas Christian University - “Allen Ginsberg’s Postmodern Transcendentalism in ‘A Supermarket in California’”

Andrew Vogel, Kutztown University - “The Dream and the Dystopa: Bathetic Humor as the Beat Legacy of Whitman's Idealism”

6:00pm • Concert
Founders Hall, 1st Floor

The New York based chamber music ensemble, New Music New York, will perform portions of their upcoming concert “Poets and Prophets: Walt Whitman and His Children.”

7:00pm • Cocktail Reception
Callahan Center, 1st Floor

Sunday, March 28th

12:00pm
Whitman’s Brooklyn
Two hour walking tour of Whitman’s Brooklyn.
Meet in the lobby of St. Francis College.
The tour will end at the High Street station where participants will have the opportunity to take the “A” or “C” train to West 4th Street to head to the Beat Generation Walking Tour.

2:30pm
The Beats in Greenwich Village
One hour walking tour of the bars, coffee shops, homes and inspirations for many of the beat writers.
Meet outside Minetta’s Tavern. Minetta’s Tavern is located at 113 Macdougal Street, between Bleecker and West 3rd Street.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Hey all:

For those of you who are able to stay around NYC to go on the Beat Generation walking tour--and I hope that there are a few!), I wanted to post the outline of where we will be walking here.

Remember, we will be meeting outside Minetta's Tavern at 2;30 PM on Sunday. Any questions, feel free to email me!

Many thanks to John Joseph who designed the google map!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hey all:

Here's a scehdule of events--more to follow!

SATURDAY, MARCH 27
8am-9am: Registration, coffee and bagels, meet and greet. (Again, we are hping for a conference in which we get to meet people who share our own interests. So please try to come as early as you can! We will have introductions around 8:45). We also limited particpants so that we will only have two panels running concurrently so that there are more opportunities to hear each other read and talk.

PLEASE NOTE: Please make sure your talks are no longer than 20 minutes! Our chairs will remind each particpant as they are reading to keep in this time frame so that everyone has a chance to read and also dicuss their papers in their groups.


9:00-10:30

PANEL ONE: SEXUAL IDENTITY
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom (7213)

Robert Genter: “The One and Only Holy and Important Thing”: Jack Kerouac’s Straightening of Walt Whitman’s Queer Poetics
Sara Villa: Jack Kerouac on Walt Whitman – “A Prophet of the Sexual Revolution”
Jessica Pfeffer: Whose Love Poem?: The Blurring of Sexual Boundaries in Whitman and Ginsberg
PANEL TWO: TIME AND SPACE
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education (Room 7402)

Melissa Nurczynski: The Intersections of Art and Reportage, Memory and Memoir: Whitman, Ginsburg and Kerouac’s Influence on the Development of Creative Nonfiction as a Genre
Greg Dandeles: Time, Space, Self, and Walt Whitman in Allen Ginsberg’s “America”
Jasmine Kitses: “Distance avails not”: ellipses of time and space in Whitman and Ginsberg
10:45- 12:15
PANEL THREE: INFLUENCE AND POETIC RECEPTION

Horace D. Ballard, Jr.: Birdsong/Battle Cry: Whitman’s Influence on Bob Kaufman
Noam Flinker: Intertextual Connections: George Herbert, Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac
Nancy J. Fox: Jack Kerouac’s Reply to Walt Whitman
William Lawlor: Not Moderns, Not Postmoderns, but Whitman! Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s View of Literary Forces that Shaped the Beats and Ferlinghetti

PANEL FOUR: TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND ART
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education (Room 7402)
Fiona Anderson: A trail of drift and debris’: Traces of Whitman in the correspondence art of Ray Johnson
Anthony C. Bleach: “Go Forth” and Multiply: Walt Whitman and Transmedia Storytelling
Václav Paris: Mapping these States: Whitman, Snyder, and the Technologies of Epic Poesis

12:30-2pm Lunch (included with the registration).
Key note Speaker: Anne Charters

2:15- 3:45
PANEL FIVE: EMBATLED BODIES
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom (7213)

Sharon Becker: Something, Someone, Some Spirit”: Haunted Masculinity and Kerouac’s Debt to Whitman in On the Road
Deborah R. Geis: The Hungry Yawp: Eating and Orality in Whitman and Ginsberg
Karl Parker: SINGING/HOWLING THE PER/VERSE & THE OBSCENE: Bodily Poetics in the work of Whitman & Ginsberg
PANEL SIX: THE ROAD
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education (Room 7402)

Thomas Bierowski: Devolution of the American Road
Robert Mundy: Along the Endless Road, Moving Fast and Still
Patrick Racenberg: Kerouac and nationalism : the search for Walt Whitman's America in On the Road
4:00- 5:30
PANEL SEVEN: POETICS, FORM AND STYLE
Nicholas A. Fiorenza Fine Arts Classroom (7213)

Matt Koch: Allen Ginsberg’s Postmodern Transcendentalism in “A Supermarket in California
William Nesbit: Good Things Come in Small Packages: The Use of the Short Poem by Whitman and the Beats
Walter Raubicheck: Gregory Corso’s “Song of Himself”
PANEL EIGHT: POWER AND POLITICS
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education (Room 7402)

Eric Keenaghan: Ambassadors of Power: Whitmanic Anarchism, Eroticism, and the Beats’ Opposition to the Cold War State
Stephen B. Hodin: Humanizing War: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Robert Altman’s MASH, and the American Anti-War Movement
Andrew Vogel: The Dream and the Dystopa: Bathetic Humor as the Beat Legacy of Whitman's Idealism
6PM
On Saturday March 27, 2010 at 6 PM, the New York based chamber music ensemble New Music New York, will perform portions of their upcoming concert “Poets and Prophets: Walt Whitman and His Children” at St. Francis College, located at 180 Remsen Street in Brooklyn, NY. The concert is free and open to the public. “Poets and Prophets” features song and chamber music settings of Whitman and Beat Generation Poets by American composers David Del Tredici, Thomas Cipullo, Jerome Kitzke, John Musto and Charles Naginski. The artists are mezzo soprano Juli Borst, baritone Dennis Tobinski, pianist Mikhail Hallak, and pianist/composer Jerome Kitzke.

7:00-8:30: Cocktails and Appetizers

SUNDAY, MARCH 28th (walks are free and open to the public)
12:00pm. Whitman's Brooklyn walking tour

2:30pm: The Beat Village: A walking tour of The Beat Generation's Greenwhich Village

****NOTE: While we realize that the late time might not allow some of you to come on the tours, due to scheduling issues, these are the only times that are possible. For those of you who are interested (and we hope many of you are!) the tours will be an insider's views of the neighborhoods that these writers made famous. The Beat tour will take approximately an hour. Details will be given at the conference but if you have any questions, pelase feel free to contact me.