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.

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