Featuring: Talks by and discussions with international experts Michael Gray, Clinton Heylin, Stephen Scobie and more than 30 specialists on Bob Dylan from different fields | Vorträge und Runder Tisch zu „Bob Dylan und Österreich“ mit Wolfgang Kos, Martin Blumenau, Doris Knecht u. a. | Live music and “Dylan appropriations” by Mika Vember, Markus Brandstetter and Bird People | Readings by Bernhard Moshammer, Doris Knecht, Andreas Unterweger | dj mushroom Venue for the academic program: Amerikahaus, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, 1010 Wien | Venue for concerts (Fr) and readings (Sat): “Bunkerei”, Augarten, Obere Augartenstrasse 1a, 1020 Wien Info and reservations: www.dylanvienna.at RZ_DylanVienna_594x841.indd 1 13.04.11 10:29 CONFERENCE ORGANIZER: Eugen Banauch (University of Vienna / Hebrew University, Jerusalem) CO-ORGANIZERS (University of Vienna): Martina Rössler Klaus Heissenberger Helen Kopetzky TEAM DYLAN: Alexandra Hauke Brigitte Petritsch Ranthild Salzer Julia Schüller Bettina Thurner Leopold Valenta GRAPHICS, LOGO, POSTER, LANYARDS: Daniel Schwarz (Wien / Agentur Fruchtfleisch) LAYOUT CONFERENCE FOLDER: Lorraine-Nicole Taus (Innsbruck) REFRACTIONS OF BOB DYLAN Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon MAY 19, THU MAY 20, FRI Venue: Amerikahaus, Main Lecture Hall Venue: Amerikahaus Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna 10.00 – 11.30 Panel A (Main Lecture Hall) 14.30 – 15.00 Welcome Transformative Powers of Dylan 1 Chair: Michelle Engert (Washington) Glenn Guimond, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the United States in Austria. Benedict Giamo (Notre Dame). “Here, There & Prof. Nikolaus Ritt, Representative of the Department of Elsewhere: Dylan’s Illusion of Embodiment” English and American Studies J. Frederick Bell (Williamsburg). “Time Out of Mind: Bob of the University of Vienna Dylan and Paul Nelson Transformed.” Dr. Eugen Banauch, Conference Organizer, University of Robert McColl (Bochum). “Surplus and Demand: (In) Vienna and Hebrew University, Jerusalem Appropriating Dylan” 10.00 – 11.30 Panel B (Salon) 15.00 Main Lecture Hall All the truth in the world... Introductory Keynote Lecture Chair: John Heath (Wien) Chair: Eugen Banauch (Wien) Pilar Cabañas (Wien). “Polyeder Dylan: Metamorphose Michael Gray (Villa Leon). “How did Bob Dylan’s version der Selbstdarstellung” of Americanness impact 1960s’ British culture?” Christian Stiegler (Wien). “The answer my friend... – Kommunikationsformen bei Bob Dylan” 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break Paul Keckeis (Wien/Cambridge). “Spoken intros” zwischen akustischer und elektrischer Gitarre” 16.30 – 17.30 Panel A (Main Lecture Hall) Dylan Performing / America 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break Chair: Michael Draxlbauer (Wien) 12.00 – 13.00 Panel A (Main Lecture Hall) George Rueckert (Giessen). “Visions of Johanna: The old, weird America Dylan’s Beat Lyrics in the Photographs of Robert Frank” Chair: Benedict Giamo (Notre Dame) Leighton Grist (Winchester). “Mr. Pound, Mr. Eliot, and Mr. Dylan: USA and Europe, Modernity and Modernism” Jean-Martin Büttner (Zürich). “Greil Marcus and Bob Dylan: the writer and his singer” 16.30 – 17.30 Panel B (Salon) Ulrich Rois (Wien). “Silver and Gold”: The Songwriting Appropriations of/by Dylan Partnership of Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter” Chair: Astrid Fellner (Saarbrücken) 12.00 – 13.00 Panel B (Salon) Klaus Karlbauer (Wien). “Death is not the End – An Dylan Abroad 1 American icon meets a European Myth” Chair: Stefan Kutzenberger (Wien) Ramón Reichert (Wien). “Don’t Look Back. Zur filmischen Inszenierung des Protestsängers Bob Dylan” John Heath (Wien). “Not there: Die Poetik der Absenz in den Bob Dylan-Verarbeitungen Wolf Biermanns und Ilse 17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break Aichingers” Ernst Grabovszki (Wien). “Like a Rölling Stön. Bob Dylan 18.00 Keynote Lecture (Main Lecture Hall) in der DDR” Chair: Clinton Heylin (Somerset) 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break Stephen Scobie (Victoria). “Plagiarism, Bob, Jean-Luc, & Me” 14.30 – 16.00 Panel A (Main Lecture Hall) Who’s not there? Dylan and Film Chair: Susanne Reichl (Wien) Susanne Hamscha (Berlin). “The Ghost of Bob Dylan: Spectrality and the Performance of America in I’m Not There” May 19–21, 2011, Amerikahaus, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna Sergej Seitz (Wien). “My name it is nothing”: Dylan, 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break “Dylan” und I’m Not There Dominik Zechner (Wien). “Dylan, das nicht festgestellte 14.00 – 15.30 Main Lecture Hall Thier - Strategien der Subjektivierung in I‘m not There” Österreich Schwerpunkt Dylan und/in Österreich 14.30 – 16.00 Panel B (Salon) Chair: Monika Seidl (Wien) Dylan Abroad 2 Martin Blumenau (Wien) und Alexandra Ganser Chair: George Rueckert (Giessen) (Erlangen). “Bringing It All Back Home? Wolfgang Max Zirngast (Wien). “Dylan and the Cantautori. The Ambros’ Austrian Appropriations of Bob Dylan” Reception of Dylan in the Italy of the 60s” Eugen Banauch (Wien/Jerusalem). “‘Gruber hört Barry Williams (Birmingham). “Bob Dylan and his Fans: heimlich Dylan’. Aneignungen von ‘Bob Dylan’ in The Music and the Meaning” österreichischer Gegenwartsliteratur” Martin Schaefer (Basel). “Bob Dylan in Switzerland” Stefan Kutzenberger (Wien). “Die Dylan Installation am Stock-Im-Eisen Platz” 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break 16.30 – 18.00 Main Lecture Hall Keynote Lecture 16.00 - 17.00 Main Lecture Hall Chair: Stephen Scobie (Victoria) Round Table: Dylan und Österreich / Dylan and Austria Clinton Heylin (Somerset) and Michelle Engert Moderation: Eugen Banauch (Washington/München). “The Evolvement of Fan Culture Martin Blumenau, Doris Knecht, Wolfgang Kos, Andreas Throughout the Never Ending Tour” Unterweger, Rainer Vesely. 20.30 Bunkerei AbscHLUssbEMERKUNGEN / ROUNdiNG-Off Obere Augartenstraße 1a, 1020 Wien DYLAN TRibUTE CONCERT 20.00 Bunkerei. Mika Vember, Markus Brandstetter, Bird People. Obere Augartenstraße 1a, 1020 Wien Lesungen (Readings in German) Doris Knecht, Bernhard Moshammer, Andreas MAY 21, SAT Unterweger. 10.30 – 12.00 Panel A (Main Lecture Hall) Open end: Ausklang und Dylan-DJ (dj mushroom) Transformative Powers of Dylan 2 Chair: Robert McColl (Bochum) Paul Fagan (Wien) and Mark Shanahan. “Learning to SUN, MAY 22 Turn it Off: Self-Deception in Dylan” Votivkino, Währingerstr 9, 1090 Wien. Rob Coley (Lincoln). “‘I Don’t Believe You...You’re a Liar’: 12.15 The Fabulatory Function of Bob Dylan” Movie screening: I‘m Not There. Susanne Kristen (München). “A Foreign Sound to Your Ear: The Influence of Bob Dylan‘s Music on American In cooperation with Votivkino, Todd Haynes’ Dylan- and German-speaking Fans” Biopic I’m Not There will be screened on Sunday, May 22 at 12.15. 10.30 – 12.00 Panel B (Salon) Tickets are €7. I ain‘t no prophet. And I ain‘t no prophet‘s son For more info and tickets: www.votivkino.at. Chair: Klaus Heissenberger (Wien) Martin Schaefer (Basel). “Bob Dylan vs. Jacob Taubes - The Price of Messianism Reconsidered” Christopher Meiller (Eisenstadt). “Dylan the prophet. Aspects of a (quasi-)religious stereotype” Andrea Cossu (Padova). “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord: Performing the Conversion during Dylan’s Gospel Tour” ABSTRACTS EUGEN BANAUCH forms of cultural expression united Old ‘Gruber hört heimlich Dylan’. Aneignungen von ‘Bob Time musicians and Old Left radicals Dylan’ in österreichischer Gegenwartsliteratur under the banner of folk consciousness. Gerade in der ganz aktuellen As a subculture, folkies developed a set of österreichischen Literatur zeigen sich shared paradigms regarding aesthetics, vermehrt Referenzen und Anspielungen zu politics, and performance and enforced a Leben und Werk von Bob Dylan: literarische distance between culture and subculture Repräsentationen von Dylan Fans, etwa by discouraging elements of the former in dem ‘Mover and Shaker’ Yuppie, der an the latter. Krebs erkrankt, und sein Lebenskonzept By going electric at Newport, Dylan violated unfreiwillig auf den Prüfstand gesetzt the folk’s standards for performance bekommt (Knecht, Gruber geht), bis zum and upended audience expectations. Benediktinermönch, der während der In so doing, he not only severed his Messe schon mal den IPod aufgedreht ties to the folk community, he rebuked lässt, um Dylans “Modern Times” weiter zu folk consciousness as a sham. His hören (Hochgatterer, Das Matratzenhaus). actions exposed the hypocrisy of folk’s Moshammers Zeit der Idioten und ersatz claims to authenticity, excoriating Unterwegers Wie im Siebenten sind weitere the community for placing loyalty to Beispiele. Eins ist diesen Büchern gemein: conventions over honesty to self. die Verwendung und Nutzbarmachung von Dylan’s radical re-definition of authenticity Dylans Song-Kosmos oder auch seiner as synthetic judgment rather than moral Biografie, sei es als universales Zitat, oder imperative presaged the fall of the als Übersetzung zur Beschreibung kulturell folk revival and was echoed by similar divergenter Räume. determinations by members of other music Ausgehend von der Frage nach dem subcultures, most notably the British punk Wandel der literarischen Nutzbarmachung movement. The goal of my research is to von “Bob Dylan” im imaginierten, kulturell analyze recurrent conflicts in subculture differenten Raum Österreich sollen over authenticity and in so doing recognize Parallelen in den zeitgenössischen the unique contributions of Dylan and literarischen Aneignungen gezeigt werden. others to contemporary understandings of individual and corporate expressions of artistic conscience. J. FREDERick BEll Time Out of Mind: Bob Dylan and Paul Nelson Transformed. MARtiN BLUMENAU / My research revisits Bob Dylan’s