[New-Poetry] Beat Generation Symposium Starts Tomorrow!

[Tony Trigilio]

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THE BEAT GENERATION SYMPOSIUM
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www.colum.edu/beatsymposium

Full schedule pasted below.

Please join us for a conference devoted to the literary and cultural 
legacy of the Beat Generation: “The Beat Generation Symposium,” 
co-sponsored by the Beat Studies Association, the Columbia College 
Chicago English Department and Provost’s Office, Columbia College’s 
Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the 
Arts and Media, and the Illinois State University Department of English 
and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Friday, October 10, and Saturday, October 11, 2008

Columbia College Chicago

Film Row Cinema

1104 South Wabash Avenue, 8th floor

This is an academic Beat Studies conference to be held in conjunction 
with the Columbia College’s Center for the Book and Paper Arts’s Fall 
2008 display of the Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD manuscript scroll. The Beat 
Generation Symposium features panel discussions each day, with poetry 
readings by Joanne Kyger (October 10) and Michael McClure (October 11). 
The readings are free and open to the public. We regret that Diane di 
Prima had to cancel her appearance, but are pleased to announce that 
Michael McClure will now be the featured poet on Saturday, October 11.

The weekend of the symposium, there will be a related offsite reading by 
Michael Rothenberg (Unhurried Vision) and David Meltzer (David’s Copy) 
sponsored by Myopic Books and the Poetry Center of Chicago. Sunday, 
October 12, 7:00 p.m. Myopic Books, 1564 N Milwaukee Ave, in Chicago’s 
Wicker Park neighborhood.


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REGISTRATION
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Free for Columbia College faculty, staff, and students with valid IDs. 
Evening poetry readings are free and open to the public.

Conference fees: $100 ($50 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, 
and Retired Faculty).


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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OCTOBER 10, 2008

10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Plenary Address
Jennie Skerl, West Chester University
Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago

10:15-11:30 a.m.
"Road Mapping(s): The Textual Terrain of On the Road"

Panel Chair: Tim Hunt, Illinois State University

"Byways and Highways: Manuscripts, Typescripts, and the Process of On 
the Road"
Isaac Gewirtz, Curator, Berg Collection, New York Public Library

"Visions and Versions of Jack: A Fluid Text Edition of On the Road"
John Bryant, Department of English, Hofstra University

"Hidden Roads: Improvisational Textuality and On the Road"
Tim Hunt, Department of English, Illinois State University


11:45-1:00 p.m.
"Crossing to Safety -- Cultural Contestations in Beat Literature"

Panel Chair: Fiona Paton, State University of New York at New Paltz

"Kerouac, Beat Religiosity, and the Center of American Culture"
Steven Schroeder, Shenzhen University

"'A Kick at the Icebox Door': Haiku and Beat Haikus"
Matt Theado, Gardner-Webb University

"Jack Kerouac, the Québécois Diaspora, and Québécois Literature"
Hassan Melehy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:00-2:30 p.m. (Break for Lunch)

2:30-3:45 p.m.
"The Aesthetics and Spirit of Avant-Garde Practice: Joanne Kyger and 
Diane di Prima"

Panel Chair: Ronna C. Johnson, Tufts University

"Joanne Kyger and the Aesthetics of Attention"
Terrance Diggory, Skidmore College

"'Who did we pray to'? Diane di Prima's Loba"
Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago

"'From the inside': Joanne Kyger's Changes of Mind"
Linda Russo, Washington State University

"The Feminized Interzone in Kyger and Di Prima"
Amy Friedman, Ursinus College


4:00-5:15 p.m.
"Hydrogen Jukebox: Allen Ginsberg and Deaf Poetry"

Peter Cook, Columbia College Chicago
Miriam Lerner, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester 
Institute of Technology
Kenny Lerner, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester 
Institute of Technology; Member, Flying Words Project

7:00 p.m.
Poetry reading by Joanne Kyger


OCTOBER 11, 2008

8:45-10:00 a.m.
"Beat Studies, The Next Generation: Showcasing Graduate and 
Post-Graduate Scholarship"

Panel Chair: Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago

"The Impossible Manifesto: Tracing the Manifesto Form through 
Avant-Garde and Beat Writing"
Jimmy Fazzino, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Parasites, Viruses, and William S. Burroughs's Method"
Michael Sean Bolton, Arizona State University.

"Summers in the Skagit: Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and the Language of 
the Lookout"
John J. Morrell, Vanderbilt University.


10:15-11:30 a.m.
"Exploring the Beat Landscape -- Welch, Ferlinghetti, and Kaufman"

Panel Chair: Nancy M. Grace, The College of Wooster

"Lew Welch: Hermit Poet of Rat Flat"
Jane Falk, The University of Akron

"'Unfair Arguments with Existence': Ferlinghetti's One-Acts and the 
Modes of Beat Drama"
Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University

"Bob Kaufman and Urbanizing Pastoral"
Todd Nathan Thorpe, The University of Notre Dame

11:45-12:45 p.m.

Elizabeth Von Vogt reads from her memoir, 681 Lexington Avenue -- A Beat 
Education in New York City, 1947-1954

In this memoir just released from Greater Midwest Publishing, Von Vogt, 
a sister of John Clellon Holmes, describes her coming of age among 
Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beats in 
post-World War II New York City.


12:45-2:15 p.m. (Break for lunch)


2:30-3:45 p.m.
"New Scholarship on William S. Burroughs"

Panel Chair: Jennie Skerl, West Chester University

"Love and 'Genial' Laughter: Cutting Up The Ticket That Exploded (1961 
and 1967)"
Katharine Streip, Concordia University

"Conservative Politics and Literary Radicalism: Burroughs and Kerouac"
Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee State University

"William S. Burroughs as 'Good Ol'Boy': Eating the Naked Lunch in East 
Texas"
Rob Johnson, The University of Texas-Pan American

Respondent: Timothy Murphy, University of Oklahoma


4:00-5:15 p.m.
"Beat Reception and Recovery -- Assessing the Critics and the Historians"

Chair: Tim Hunt, Illinois State University

"Inside the 6 Gallery with Co-founder Deborah Remington"
Nancy M. Grace, The College of Wooster

"Kerouac Reception in the 1980s: Renaissance and Scholarly Revival"
Ronna C. Johnson, Tufts University.

"Recent Reception of Naked Lunch"
Jennie Skerl, West Chester University.

"Infiltrating the Boy Gang: Women in the Encyclopedia of Beat Literature"
Kurt Hemmer, William Rainey Harper College


7:00 p.m.
Poetry reading by Michael McClure


8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception (Film Row Theater lobby)


The Beat Generation Symposium is sponsored by the English Department and 
Provost's Office of Columbia College Chicago, in conjunction with the 
Beat Studies Association, an international organization that fosters 
scholarship on Beat Generation literature and art; Ellen Stone Belic 
Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; and 
the Illinois State University Department of English and College of 
Liberal Arts and Sciences.

For information on joining the Beat Studies Association, please go to: 
http://www.wooster.edu/beatstudies/index.html