Charles Olson 2010: September 2010

FRIDAY 12th NOVEMBER

6.00 – 6.30 Wine Reception (Keynes Senior Common Room)

6.30 – 7.30 Poetry Reading (KSCR)
Laurie Duggan
Simon Smith
Carol Watts

SATURDAY 13th NOVEMBER

8.30 – 9.30 Registration (Keynes Teaching Annex Foyer)

9.30 – 10.45 Keynote Lecture (Keynes Lecture Theatre 5)

Stephen Fredman (University of Notre Dame)
'Art as Experience: A Deweyan Background to Olson's Esthetics'

(Chair: David Herd)

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee

11.15 – 12.45

Panel 1: Olson and Space (Keynes Seminar Room 17)
Nasser Hussain (University of Leeds), ‘The Geography of it
all: crossing America, crossing Maximus’
Daniel Katz (University of Warwick), ‘From Olson’s breath to
Spicer’s gait: space, phonemes, place’
Paul March-Russell (University of Kent), ‘Open spaces:
the “Olson effect” in American science fiction’
(Chair: Nancy Gaffield)

Panel 2: Dissemination (KLT5)
Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitian University), ‘Charles
Olson: to clear the gunk out’
Michael Kindellan (University of Sussex), ‘Olson’s
literalism’
Harriet Tarlo (Sheffield Hallam University), 'Fieldwork: Olsonian open form poetics in and around the field'
(Chair: Juha Virtanen)

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.15 Keynote Lecture (KLT5)

Elaine Feinstein
‘Open to Olson’

(Chair: Jan Montefiore)

3.15 – 3.45 Tea

3.45 – 5.15

Panel 3: Olson, Myth, History (KLT5)
Mayumo Inoue (University of the Ryukus), ‘Constellation and
intensity: Charles Olson’s historiography of the post-1945
Asia Pacific’
Anthony Mellors (Birmingham City University), ‘Olson’s
Pausanias and Heidegger’s method’
Reitha Pattison (University of Cambridge), ‘Charles
Olson’s ‘A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul’: Jung, alchemy
and pedagogy’
(Chair: Simon Smith)

Panel 4: Olson and the Event (KSR17)
Michael Grant (University of Kent), ‘Olson and the ethics of
singularity’
Ben Hickman (University of Kent) ‘Olson and Mao’
Juha Virtanen (Kent), ‘“No one remains, nor is, one”: Olson,
Black Mountain and “Theater Piece #1”’
(Chair: Paul March-Russell)

5.15 – 6.00 Peformance (KLT6)

‘Apollonius of Tyana’

Readers: Nancy Gaffield, Ralph Maud, André Spears

6.00 – 6.30 Wine Reception (KSCR)

6.30 – 7.30 Poetry Reading (KSCR)
Elaine Feinstein
Allen Fisher
Gavin Selerie

8.00 for 8.30 Conference Dinner
Deeson’s Restaurant, Canterbury

SUNDAY 14th NOVEMBER

8.30 – 9.00 Registration (Keynes Teaching Annex Foyer)

9.00 – 10.30

Panel 5: Olson and Women (KLT5)
Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London),
‘Olson and Frances Boldereff: postmodernism, the projective and form’
Will Montgomery (Royal Holloway, University of
London), ‘“The Pictorial handwriting of his dreams”: Susan
Howe’s Charles Olson’
John Wrighton (University of Brighton), ‘Maximus kinesis:
Charles Olson and modernist women’s poetry’
(Chair: Kat Peddie)

Panel 6: Olson, Europe, Translation (KSR17)
Sarah Posman (Ghent University), ‘“Bergson was wrong. Or
half-right”: Olson and European thinking about the past’
Julien Segura (Université de Strasbourg), ‘Some uses of
Olson in France, 1962-1972’
Michael Zand (Roehampton University), ‘“Projective
Transverse”: The impact of Olsonian poetics on the creative
translations of Omar S. Pound’
(Chair: Michael Grant)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

11.00 – 12.15 Keynote Lecture (KLT5)

Peter Middleton (University of Southampton)
'"An Adventure of Energy": Science and Poetry in Projective
Verse'

(Chair: Simon Smith)

12.15 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.30 Keynote Lecture (KLT5)

Ralph Maud (Simon Fraser University)
‘Olson, Man and Poet’

(Chair: David Herd)

2.30 – 4.00

Panel 7: Olson and Contemporaries (KLT6)
Richard Parker (University of Sussex), ‘Louis Zukofsky
and/or Charles Olson’
Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, ‘Maximus and minimus: Olson and
Zukofsky’
Christopher MacGowan (College of William and Mary), Charles
Olson and Denise Levertov
(Chair: Ben Hickman)

Panel 8: Olson and Britain (KLT5)
Gavin Selerie, ‘From Weymouth back: Olson’s British
contacts, travels and legacy’
Ian Brinton, ‘Black Mountain in England’
Robert Vas Dias, ‘Charles Olson’s poetics for a new
generation’
(Chair: Paul March-Russell)

4.00 – 4.30 Tea

4.30 – 5.45 Keynote Lecture (KLT5)

Iain Sinclair
‘Olson, the ocean, and figures of Outward’

(Chair: Paul March-Russell)

Charles Olson 2010

Thursday 9 September 2010

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