NEWS ARCHIVE
(Containing events since 2011 only)
Past Conference Panels:
Wallace Stevens and Material Culture
Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900 (Louisville, KY; Feb. 21-23, 2013)
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 223
Chair and organizer: Kathy Kirk, University of Kent
1. "Is and As Are One": Professor Eucalyptus and the Material Culture of the late 1940's; Von
Underwood, Cameron University
2. "A Rock and a Hard Place"; Holly Gallagher, University of Melbourne
3. Line for Line: The Decorative Aesthetic of Henri Matisse and Wallace Stevens; John
Morgenstern, Clemson University
Stevens and/or Auden: Whose Age?
Modern Language Association Convention (Boston, MA; Jan. 3-6, 2013)
Organizer and Chair: Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Roundtable Participants: Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley; Bonnie Costello, Boston University; Rachel Galvin, Princeton University; Lisa Goldfarb, NYU/Gallatin; Edward Ragg, Tshingua University; and Aidan Wasley, University of Georgia
This roundtable seeks to examine the two poets side-by-side and from a variety of angles: in relation to their aesthetics and critical essays, their poetic practice in terms of form and shared themes and interests (nature vs. city; the poet in history; visual and painterly poems; the relationship between music and poetry; poetry and belief), and, finally, the kinds of influence they exerted on postwar American poetry.
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (Louisville, KY)
Feb. 23-25, 2012
Wallace Stevens and the New York School
Organizer and Chair: Josh Schneiderman, CUNY Graduate Center
"Wallace Stevens, Barbara Guest, and the 'New York School' in the Distance"
-David Jarraway, University of Ottawa
"Ashbery, Stevens, and the Politics of Abstraction" -Rachel Galvin, Princeton University
"From Symbol to Sound" -Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve University
-Andrew Epstein, Florida State University
Respondent
MLA 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Jan. 5-8, 2012
21st Century Stevens: Modernism and Its Aftermaths
Co-chairs: Edward Ragg (Tsinghua University) and Lee Jenkins (University College Cork)
"Flying Out of Sight? How the Critical Paradigms of World Literature and Genetic Criticism Affect Stevens' Place within the Modernist Canon"
Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp
"Re-Examining Wallace Stevens in a Time of War"
Rachel Galvin, Princeton University
"Of Critics and Connoisseurs: Historicism and Stevens' Place in American Literary History"
Patrick Redding, Manhattanville College
"Meditations on the Authoritarian Character: Stevens and Fascism"
Jill Richards, University of California, Berkeley
American Literature Association (Boston, MA)
May 28th, 2011
Session 17-C: Wallace Stevens and the Everyday: A Roundtable
Organized by the Wallace Stevens Society
Moderator: Liesl Olson, The Newberry Library
1. "Vaguely Philosophical." Megan Quigley, Villanova University
2. "Aspects of Particulars: Seeing as in The Rock." Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
3. "Stevens, Schuyler, and an Ordinary New York School." Siobhan Phillips, Harvard University
4. "Stevens and the Every Other Day." Kamran Javadizadeh, Connecticut College
5. "Vital, Arrogant, Fatal, Dominant." Oren Izenberg, University of Illinois at Chicago
03/26/2011
The 48th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program featuring August Kleinzahler will take place on Tuesday, April 19 at 8 p.m. at the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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