2010 the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900
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38th annual 2010 The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 February 18- 20 Keynote Speakers Special Guest Speakers Michael Davidson Mary Jo Bang Helena María Viramontes Rita Felski Jacobo Sefamí University of Louisville The Louisville Conference: On Literature & Culture since 1900 invites you to an informal Reception free to all conferees, (with conference badge) WHEN: Thursday Evening, 6:15 - 7:30 pm (following the critical keynote speaker) WHERE: Red Barn (Located Near the Clock Tower) WHAT: Pizza & Jazz WHO: Jamey Aebersold & his Jazz Quartet (School of Music, University of Louisville ) We are honored to have perform for us the internationally known saxophonist and authority on jazz education and improvisation Jamey Aebersold, who is a recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award 1 The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 Sponsored by The University of Louisville President: James R. Ramsey Provost: Shirley C. Willihnganz College of Arts and Sciences Dean: J. Blaine Hudson Department of Classical and Modern Languages Chair: Augustus Mastri Department of English Chair: Susan M. Griffin Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society Director: Thomas Byers English Graduate Organization The EGO Executive Committee Luncheon Committee Latin American and Latino Studies Program Director: Rhonda Buchanan The Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the following: Brian J. Leung, University of Louisville; Heather Slomski, Axton Fellow; the staff of University of Louisville campus bookstore; the staff in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and English Department; and all University personnel who “go beyond the call” to ensure the success of the Conference. 2 General Plan of Activities The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 18-20, 2010 Thursday, February 18 Eastern Standard Time Registration, Bingham Humanities Bldg., Room 300 10:00 am 4:00 pm Opening Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 11:30 am 12:30 pm Mary Jo Bang, Washington University, St. Louis “Poetry Reading” Sectional Meetings A 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings B 3:15 pm 4:45 pm Keynote Presentation (critical) Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego “‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” Welcome Reception, Red Barn, UofL Campus 6:15 pm 7:30 pm Jamey Aebersold and his Jazz Quartet, School of Music, UofL Friday, February 19 Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 8:00 am 4:00 pm Sectional Meetings C 9:00 am 10:30 am Sectional Meetings D 10:45 am 12:15 pm Calvino Prize Winner, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room 11:00 am 12:00 pm Michael Agresta, Austin Texas “Dreamhomes” Pre-arranged group luncheons 12:15 pm 1:15 pm Sectional Meetings E 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings F 3:15 pm 4:45 pm Spanish Keynote Speaker, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 3:15 pm 4:30 pm Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine “Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio” Keynote Presentation (creative) Strickler Hall Auditorium101 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Helena María Viramontes, Cornell University “Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration” Conference Dinner, Brown Hotel Reception (cash bar; all conferees welcome) 6:30 pm Dinner (reservation required) 8:00 pm Saturday, February 20 Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 9:15 am 2:45 pm Sectional Meetings G 10:15 am 11:45 am Lunch break; pre-ordered boxed lunches Room 300 12 noon Special Performance, (Room 205 Humanities Bldg) 12:15 12:45 pm Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada Sectional Meetings H 1:00 am 2:30pm Sectional Meetings I 2:45 pm 4:15 pm Closing Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 4:30 pm 5:30 pm Rita Felski, University of Virginia "The Demon of Interpretation" 3 Registration Information The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 Thursday, Friday, Saturday - February 19-21 The Conference is held on the main (Belknap) campus of the University of Louisville, Third and Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky (from Interstate 65 via Exit 133). The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth Avenue (at Muhammed Ali) has been designated as the Conference hotel (tel. 800-333-3399; 502-585-3200). The hotel provides an airport shuttle. The Conference will provide transportation between the Seelbach and the University at regular intervals. See back pages of this program for the hotel-campus-hotel bus schedule. All times shown are Eastern Standard Time. Registration is required of all participants listed in the program. Registration packets and badges will be available in Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. University of Louisville faculty and students are asked to sign in. The general public is invited to hear the guest speakers. A courtesy coat check will be provided on the 3rd floor of the Humanities Building, Room 300. The coat check will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, 5:00 pm on Friday, and 5:30 pm on Saturday. Refreshments will be served in the registration area on Thursday from10 am - 2:00, on Friday 8:15 - 2:00, and on Saturday from 9:15 - 2:00. A message board for the use of conference participants will be located outside Room 300. Please consult the board regularly for notice of last-minute program changes. Sectional meetings will be held in the classrooms of Bingham Humanities Building. Creative presentations will be given in Room 202 Bingham Humanities Building. Details of date, time and place for the Keynote Speakers and Special Guest are printed in the program. All meeting rooms are accessible to the handicapped. Book vendors will display publications for sale on the second floor of the Bingham Humanities Building. A selection of the Keynote Speakers’ and Special Guests’ books will also be offered for sale at the University of Louisville bookstore. See the back pages of this program for an index of chairs and presenters, a basic map of the campus, a shuttle bus schedule, a list of dining facilities on campus. Flyers announcing Louisville-area events and attractions will be available in the registration area. The Louisville Convention and Visitor Bureau can provide information on local cultural events, entertainment, and lodging: Telephone 1(800) 626-5646. Web site: www.gotolouisville.com Conference evaluation forms are available in room 300. Please complete one before leaving. You may deposit the form in the box in Bingham 300 or mail it in to us. Your comments will help us plan for next year. Corrections and addenda to the program will be available in room 300 and posted on the notice board. Please check the notice board often for last-minute changes. For further conference information, FAX (502) 852-8885, or e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] 4 Keynote Speakers Michael Davidson Thursday, February 18, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), G hostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material W ord (U of California Press, 1997), and G uys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold W ar Poetics (U of Chicago Press, 2003). He has written extensively on disability issues, and his most recent book is Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan Press, 2008). He is the editor of the widely acclaimed New Collected Poems of G eorge Oppen (New Directions, 2002), and the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent of which is The A rcades (O Books, 1998). With Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman, he co-authored Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). His forthcoming critical work, Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics, will be published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. Helena María Viramontes Friday, February 19, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, just published in paperback by Washington Square Press, focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. Her work strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters and to transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling. In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeA rte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramontes helped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria Herrera Sobek, she organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: Chicana C reativity and C riticism-Charting New Frontiers in A merican Literature (1988) and Chicana W rites: On W ord and Film (1993). Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years, including, most recently, The Norton Anthology of Literature by W omen. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for 2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University Spanish Keynote Jacobo Sefamí Friday, February 19, 3:15 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium Jacobo Sefamí, from Mexico City, has taught at New York University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Irvine.