[New-Poetry] "Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's On the Road, the Beats and the Post-Beats", The University of Birmingham, UK, December 12-13, 2008. CHANGE OF DATES

[Anny Ballardini]

>From: Richard Ellis [mailto:r.j.ellis at bham.ac.uk] 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:43 AM



Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's On the Road, the Beats and the Post-Beats 

A two day conference at: 
The University of Birmingham UK

Friday 12 December 2008 and 
Saturday 13 December 2008 

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATES 

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road's publication in the UK, in 1958 (following its 1957 publication in the US). 

The University of Birmingham has arranged for the 1951 original typescript manuscript of On the Road - the world-famous scroll of 1951 - to come to the Barber Institute at the University during December 2008 and January 2009. A series of events is planned to celebrate this, including a Film Event (during the evening of 12 December) timed to coincide with this two-day conference, which will likely include the UK premiere showing of One Fast Move and I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, produced by Jim Sampas.

The conference will take as its central focus the 'Beats' and 'Post-Beats, including their relations to On the Road and its themes - travel, jazz, sexuality and gender, rebellion, disaffiliation and alienation, class and ethnicity. But different aspects of Beat and Post-Beat activity will also be taken in.

Plenary speakers will include Tim Hunt (author of Kerouac's Crooked Road), Matt Theado and Oliver Harris. 

Please do come along to this exciting event and - if you wish - deliver a paper. 

CFP: If you want to deliver a paper please submit a title for your paper and an abstract of between 100 and 250 words for consideration to: r.j.ellis at bham.ac.uk by 31 October 2008

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Conference Schedule: 

Friday 12 December 

10.30-12.15 Registration, with coffee followed by conducted tour of the 1951 On the Road scroll exhibition in the Barber Institute (n.b.. the exhibition is open throughout the two-day conference, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

12.15 BUFFET LUNCH 
1.00 PLENARY (speaker: Matt Theado) 
2.00-4.00 PARALLEL SESSION ONE 
4.00 TEA 
4.30-6.00 PARALLEL SESSION TWO 
7.00 FILM EVENT (price not included in conference fee but discounted tickets available to delegates) 

Saturday 13 December 

9.00 PARALLEL SESSION THREE 
11.00 coffee 
11.30 PLENARY (speaker: Tim Hunt) 
12.30 BUFFET LUNCH 
1.30-3.30 PARALLEL SESSION THREE 
3.30 TEA 
3.45-4.45 Plenary (Oliver Harris) 
4.45-6.00 PARALLEL SESSION FOUR 
6.00: Conference ends 

COMING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM - BARBER INSTITUTE 
The Famous 1951 Scroll Manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road    
Exhibition dates: 3  December 2008 -27  January 2009 
  
An exhibition featuring the original typescript manuscript of On the Road - the world-famous On the Road scroll of 1951, timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication in the UK (1958).

Much of the fame of On the Road resides in large part in the way the first full version of the novel was composed. Jack Kerouac undertook three weeks almost non-stop typing  on eight sheets of teletype paper taped together to form a continuous roll of paper 127 feet long -- so that he did not have to pause to feed new paper into his typewriter, in order to preserve better the rush of his inspiration. The result was a particular 'spontaneous' style marked by energy, vitality and directness. The text that resulted is based on Kerouac's autobiographical experiences and, unlike the published version, does not disguise the protagonists under pseudonyms. Thus William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, etc., are all directly named.  The scroll consequently has acquired iconic cultural status.

 
Jack Kerouac remains one of the best-known and most popular post-war US writers, one with a truly global reputation. His books remain in print throughout the world. His popularity spreads worldwide. His most famous book, On the Road, is generally regarded as the founding text of the so-called Beat Generation a movement which featured, besdies such figures as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady, also Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

This exhibition is funded by the University of Birmingham with additional contributions from the University of Birmingham's US Alumni Fund and Waterstones.
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