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.