The following is the FINAL PROGRAMME for the first “Cosmopoetics” event. We look forward to meeting you all in a few days.
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE, DURHAM UNIVERSITY
8-10 SEPTEMBER 2010
DAY I (8 September, 2010)
08.30 – 09.15: Arrival and Registration
Foyer – St. John’s College
09.15 – 09.30 OPENING AND WELCOME
Heather Yeung and Marc Botha, co-organizers;
Stephen Regan, Head of Department, English Studies, Durham
09.30 – 10.30: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Opening Address – Poetics of Transumption
Stephen Bann (Bristol, UK)
10.30 – 11.00: Refreshments
Bowes Dining Room – St. John’s College
11.00 – 12.30: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Panel I: Poetry Beyond Text – Vision, Text and Cognition
i) Anna Katharina Schaffner (Kent, UK) – The Poetics of Rupture and the Cognitive Turn
ii) Lisa Otty (Dundee, UK) – Re-imagining Reading: Digital Poetics and Science
iii) Andrew Michael Roberts (Dundee, UK) – Digital Poetry: Imagination, Interactivity and Ethics
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
13.30 – 15.00: PARALLEL SESSION
Panel II.a: Digital Politics – Virtual Syntax – Beyond Electronic Literature
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Seb Franklin (Sussex, UK) – From an arc to a loop: towards a political poetics of digital culture
ii) Sam Ladkin (Sheffield, UK) – Virtual Syntax
iii) Phil Leonard (Nottingham Trent, UK) – Remediating the nation: Only Revolutions: beyond electronic literature
Panel II.b: Mediations – Vitalism – Physical Process
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Aidan McCardle (Birkbeck, UK) – Dance in the ‘non spaces’: The physicality of the poetics in Ulli Freer’s Buff Dub’s as ‘a reconsideration of poetic or generative force.’
ii) Erin Gray (UC, Santa Cruz) – Words are Fleshy Ducts: Lisa Robertson’s Vitalist Poetics
iii) Juha Virtanen (Kent, UK) – Bodies, Poems, Processes: Allen Fisher’s Blood Bone Brain
15.00 – 16h30: PLENARY SESSION
Plenary Panel III: Challenges and transformations in twenty-first century publishing
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) John O’ Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, US) – What Will Electronic Publishing Mean for the Reader?
ii) Stephen Procter (Carcanet, UK) – Transformation in Poetry and Publishing
iii) Stevie Ronnie (Newcastle, UK) – A Practitioner’s Perspective on Publishing in the Digital Age
16.30 Refreshments
Bowes Dining Room – St. John’s College
16.30 – 18h00 PARALLEL SESSION
Panel IV.a: Urban Space – Urban Poetics – Post-Postmodernity
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Yasmine Shamma (Oxford, UK) – “All I Want is a Room Up There”: Poetry in Urban Spaces
ii) Luciana Rocha Bezerra (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – Urban Space as a Medium to Artistic and Poetic Expressions
iii) LeeAnn Derdeyn (Texas, Dallas) – Christian Wiman: Post-Postmodern World rE-visioned
Panel IV.b: Mathematics – Entities – Objects
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Alex Murray (Exeter, UK) – Speculations on a post-correlationist poetics
ii) Michael Lockett (Queens, Canada) – Metaphor, mathematics, and ménage à trois
iii) April Pierce (New York University, US) – Where does the poem go?
18.00 – 19.00 OPENING: COSMOPOETICS EXHIBITION
Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green
Wine reception
(including the work of Justin Cockburn, Stevie Ronnie, Kathy Toth, Abigail Barlow, Carlo Viglianisi, James Adair, Meinir Wyn Jones, Paul Raymond, Susan Mortimer, Toby Lloyd, Clark Lunberry, and Ira Lightman, in co-operation with Empty Shop, Durham)
19.00 –20h30 Dinner
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
20.30 POETRY READING
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Ira Lightman, Clark Lunberry, Jennifer Rogers, Stevie Ronnie
Day II (9th September, 2010)
09.00 – 10.30 PARALLEL SESSION
Panel V.a: Narrative – Atopias – Appropriations
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Carrol Clarkson (Cape Town, South Africa) – J.M. Coetzee’s Poetic Atopia
ii) Matthias Mösch (Durham, UK) – Fiction as Criticism: William Gaddis’s Agapē Agape and the Looms of Western Civilization
iii) Ryan Haas (Stanford, US) – From Factory to Newsstand (And Back Again): The Case of a and Day
Panel V.b: Poetry Between Form
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Johanna Skibsrud (Montreal, Canada) – It Can Never Be Satisfied, the Mind, No: Neotenics and the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
ii) Naomi Shulman (UC, Berkeley) – R. B. duPlessis’s “Draft 52: Midrash”: Challenging the Critical / Poetic Divide
iii) Naomi Banks (Durham, UK) – New Formalism vs. free verse: An American debate? An exploration of form in contemporary Northern Irish poetry
10.30 – 11.00: Refreshments
Bowes Dining Room – St. John’s College
11.00 – 12.00: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Chris Mann (Rhodes, South Africa)
Seeing the Cosmos in a Grain of Sand
12.00 – 13.30: PARALLEL SESSION
Panel VI.a: Poetic Dispersion: Air – Water – Earth
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Clark Lunberry (North Florida, US) – Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Dispersions of a Borderless Poem
ii) Tim Brennan (Sunderland, UK) – W.A.L.K. – Walk, Art, Landskip, Knowledge
iii) Mike Collier and Tim Brennan (Sunderland, UK) – W.A.L.K. Project
Panel VIb: Authority – Indeterminacy – Economics
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Jack Baker (Durham, UK) – “Sympathy flows, utterance is end-stopped”: Geoffrey Hill’s singular authority
ii) Diviya Pant (Hyderabad, India) – The Malcontents of Postmodernism: Indeterminacy and Lyricality
iii) Natalie Pollard (York, UK) – Contemporary British Poetry: On the Money
13.30 – 14.30: Lunch
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
14.30 – 15.30: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Keynote Address: Derek Attridge (York, UK)
Pink Noise and Poetic Universals: Don Paterson’s Lyric Principle
15.30 – 17.00: PARALLEL SESSION
Panel VII.a: Silences – Thresholds – Mediations
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Stuart Sim (Sunderland) – The Aesthetics of Silence: Empowerment or Alienation?
ii) Hazel Smith (Western Sydney, Australia) – Cosmopoetics as New Media Poetics
iii) Maebh Long (Durham, UK) – Eine Aphoristiche Atemwende (An Aphoristic Breathturn): Celan’s Threshold Poetics.
Panel VII.b: Reconfigurations of Media, Consciousness and Genre
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Jennifer Rogers (Berlin, Germany) – We don’t exist: emerging a new consciousness though the cosmopoetics of Alice Notley
a) Edwin Musoti (Witwatersrand, South Africa) – Topicality in Contemporary Poetry: Reconfiguring Press-poetry Through Songs of the Season
iii) Lauren Hauser (Virginia, US) – Toomer’s Synesthetic Text: Transcendent Music and Genre in Cane
17.00 – 18.00: Wine Reception
Music Department, Palace Green
18.00 – 19.00: COSMOPOETICS CONCERT
Music Department, Palace Green
Trevor Wishart, Kelcey Swain, Abraham Mennen, including electroacoustic works, composition for solo saxophone, and saxophone and tape
19h00 – 20h30: Dinner
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
20.30 POETRY READING
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Gareth Reeves, Evie Shockley, Hazel Smith, Michael Lockett
Day III (10th September, 2010)
09.00 – 10.30: PARALLEL SESSION
VIII.a: Los Angeles Cosmopolitanism – Cosmopoetic Sublime – Eastern European Poetic Translation
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) Erman Kaplama (London Consortium, UK) – Defining Cosmopoetics through Cosmological Aesthetics with regard to the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian
ii) Kurt Ozment (Bilkent, Turkey) – What’s Happened Since the Nineties? A Perspective from L.A.
iii) John Clegg (Durham, UK) – Bloody fables: the Eastern European translation bubble, 1963-1991
iv) Joseph Frank (McMaster, Canada) – Earthquakes Can’t Shake Us: On the Seismic (Per)Formation of Cosmopolitics and Carvens Lissaint’s Haiti
Panel VIII.b: Exiles – Immigration – Dislocation
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Dipannita Datta (Jadavpur, India) – “Merging of all Colours.” Reading Toru Dutt: Negotiating Identities and the Difficulties of Cultural Displacement
ii) Arthur Rose – Yo no tengo la culpa: Immigration, Locality, and a sense of belonging in Roberto Arlt’s ‘Argafuertes Portenas’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man
iii) Henri Oripeloye (Adenkunle Ajasin, Nigeria) – Globalization and Emerging Configurations in Exilic Poetry of Odia Ofeimun and Tanure Ojaide
10.30 – 11.30: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Keynote Address: Michael Davidson (UC, San Diego, US)
‘Living in the same place…and different places’: Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Contemporary Poetry
11.30 – 12.00: Refreshments
Bowes Dining Room – St. John’s College
12.00 – 13.30: PARALLEL SESSION
Panel IX.a: Diasporal – Cosmopolis – Shifting Allegiances
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i) George Gasyna (Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, US) – Mediating the margins: the poetics of borderland mythopoeia in Andrzej Stasiuk’s recent writing
ii) Saptarshi Mallick (Calcutta, India) – Inscribing a Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Some Contexts of Modern Indian English Poetry.
iii) Evie Shockley (Rutgers, US) – Will Alexander’s Black Diasporic Aesthetics
Panel IX.b: Anthro-Poetics – Geopoetics – Cosmopoetics
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Norman Bissell (Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, UK) – The International Movement that is Geopoetics: A Way of Being in the World and its Creative Expression in Different Forms
ii) Elspeth Murray (Edinburgh, UK) – Applied anthro-poetics at the boundaries between lived experience, policy rhetoric and imagination
iii) Camilla Nelson (Falmouth, UK)– The Importance of Being There: A Discussion of Alec Finlay’s Mesostic Herbarium and Heidegger’s ‘Dasein’
13.30 – 14.30: Lunch
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
14.30 – 15.30: PLENARY SESSION
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
Patricia Waugh (Durham University)
Affective Cosmopolitanism: Inhabiting Fictional Worlds
15.30 – 16.00: Refreshments
Bowes Dining Room – St. John’s College
16.00 – 17.30: PARALLEL SESSION
Panel X.a: Sovereignty – Transnationalism – Poetry
Leech Hall – St. John’s College
i)AnneMarie Perez (Southern California, US) – On Re-vision Aztlan
ii) Nissa Dalager (Oxford Brookes, UK) – Adrienne Rich: The Poet’s Web
iii) Joshua Steffey (Marquette, US) – Lacking Sovereign Ground: Making the World in the Poetry of Auden, Jarrell, and Burt
Panel X.b: Landscapes – Seascapes – Escapes
Wallis Room – St. John’s College
i) Niamh O’Mahony (Cork, Ireland) – “with a fast letter of intent”: Tracing the letter in the poetry of J.H. Prynne
ii) Mandy Bloomfield (Southampton, UK) – A sea that diffracts
iii) Samira Nadkarni (Aberdeen, UK) – “The content of the town is our pleasure; everything that remains is form”: Reading the landscape of Joshua Clover’s The Totality for Kids
18.15 – 19.15 POETRY READING
Bailey Room – St. John’s College
Alec Finlay, Michael O’Neill, Jennifer Rogers
19.15 – 21.15 CONFERENCE DINNER
Haugton Dining Room – St. John’s College
21.15 POETRY READING
Bailey Room – St. John’s College
Chris Mann, Camilla Nelson, LeeAnn Derdeyn, Aidan McCardle, Johanna Skibsrud, Juha Virtanen
