EBSN Conference 2013, AALBORG UNIVERSITY

 

EUROPEAN BEAT STUDIES NETWORK

2^ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE

AALBORG UNIVERSITY, DENMARK

Nordkraft Campus

AUGUST 28-30, 2013

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

WEDNESDAY 28/08

9:30 – 10:30                Registration/Meet & Greet

10:30 – 10:45              Welcome (Polina Mackay)

10:45 – 12:00              A. Robert Lee, Beat Compass: Literary Widths and Circles             

12:00 – 13:30              Lunch

13:30 – 15:00              Parallel Panels

Panel 1: Image, Beat (Chair: Bent Sorensen)

Alexander Adams, William S. Burroughs as a Visual Artist

Barbara Montefalcone, In the Company of Images:  Robert Creeley, Collaboration and the Book

Michael Pronko, Jazz for the Beats: Image and Principle

Panel 2: The Beat Generation and Europe (Chair: Dick Ellis)

Thomas Antonic, Beat in Austria / Austrian Beat

Jaap van der Bent, Broken Worlds: Collage in the Work of William S. Burroughs and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Matias Frederiksen/Peter Hogg, Teaching the Beats in Denmark

15:00 – 15:30              Coffee

15:30 – 17:00              Parallel Panels

Panel 3: Transnational Beat I (Chair: A. Robert Lee)

Alan Garfield, Rethinking the Beats in Ireland 

Erik Mortenson, Diagnosing the National Neurosis: Psychology as Social Critique in the Journals Neurotica and Şizofrengi 

Fabiola Popa, The Poetic Legacy: The Influence of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg on the Poetry of Mircea Cartarescu

Panel 4: Beat Cinematics (Chair: Steen Christiansen)

Antonio Bonome, Aural Blindspots: Burroughs’ Revised Scout Manual, A Case Study

Lisa Stein Haven, The Beat Generation and Chaplin’s Little Tramp, 1953-77

Kostoula Kaloudi, The Influence of Burroughs’ Work and Life on the Film Drugstore Cowboy

17:00 – 18:00           Book launch: Gregory Stephenson

                                    Book launch: Jack Sargeant

                                    Journal launch: The Last Post (Davis Schneiderman)

THURSDAY 29/08

8:30 – 9:00                  Coffee

9:00 – 10:30                Parallel Panels

Panel 5: Beat Visions (Chair: Franca Bellarsi)

Camelia Elias, The Shamanic Beat

Richard English, Burroughs on Addiction in Junky

Forough Parhoudeh, Religious Visions and Apocalyptic Views in Allen Ginsberg’s Poems and Bob Dylan’s Songs

Panel 6: Transnational Beat II (Chair: A. Robert Lee)

Douglas Field, In the Manchester Jeff Nuttall Archives

Frida Forsgren, The Wennesland Collection

Daniel Puia-Dumitrescu, Image and politics in the Communist Romania: Romulus Bucur, a Romanian Beat

10:30 – 12:00              Parallel Panels

Panel 7: Women of the Beat Generation (Chair: Franca Bellarsi)

Polina Mackay, Developing a Vision: The Influence of John Keats on Diane di Prima

Estíbaliz Encarnación Pinedo, Worship the Goddess: The Construction of the Feminine Voice in Women of the Beat Generation

Chelsea Stripe, Editing a New Consciousness: Hettie Jones and the Beat Little Magazine

Panel 8: Jack Kerouac (Chair: Erik Mortenson)

R J Ellis and Ceren Sengezer, Queer Shakespeare Queering the Beats: Queering New York Collaboratively

Michael Skau, Jack Kerouac’s Rubáiyát: The Influence of Omar Khayyám

Bent Sorensen, Life Writing and Author Biography: The Carr/Kammerer Episode in Kerouac Biographies

12:00 – 13:30              Lunch

13:30 – 15:00               Parallel Panels

Panel 9: The Beats and American Poetry (Chair: Bent Sorensen)

Jason Lee, Buddha with a Melody: Evolution, Sex and Ginsberg’s Influences

Raven See, The Raw and the Cooked:  The Beat Generation and its Influence on Robert Lowell

Mahdi Shafieyan, Poetic Performance and the Beats

Panel 10: The Beats and American Identity (Chair: Jaap Van Der Bent)

Melanie Eis, Jack Kerouac and the Conflict of Fame with Authenticity: A Counterculture’s Road to Celebrity

Maria Jackson, Baraka, the Beats and Race

Doreen Saar, The World They Shared: The Beats and the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

15:00 – 15:30              Coffee

15:30 – 17:00              Parallel Panels

Panel 11: The Burroughsian Word (Chair: Chad Weidner)

Sean Bolton, William Burroughs, Michel Serres, and the Human Parasite

Steen Christiansen, The Nova Trilogy and Contagion Theory

Bryan Mulvihill, Calligraphities; The Word as Image; Rub out the Word: From Discussions with Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs

Arthur Nussbaum, Beat Books as Artefacts: Burroughs’ Routines in Tornado Alley

Panel 12: Beats, Avant-Gardists and Radicals (Chair: Camelia Elias)

Davide Crimi, Beat Legacies: The Non-academic Side of Beat Literature

Kasper Opstrup Frederiksen, The Invisible Insurrection of the Invisible Generation: On Trocchi, Burroughs and Species Evolution

Joanna Pawlik, Honorary Beats, Honorary Surrealists

17:00 – 18:30           Plenary: Robert Gibbons, Kerouac & the Ecstatic Act of Writing

                                    Performance: Rebecca Evans

FRIDAY 30/08

8:30 – 9:00                  Coffee

9:00 – 10:30                Parallel Panels

Panel 13: Beats and European Romantic Heritage (Chair: Polina Mackay)

Franca Bellarsi, To a Gothic Beat: Re-inventions of Terror and the Sublime in the Imagery of Kerouac and Ginsberg 

Kaveh Dahmast, The Origins of Nonconformity in the Beat Generation as a Counterculture: A Critical Enquiry

Luke Walker, Exchanges Between Ginsberg, Dylan and Blake

Panel 14: Burroughs and Visual Culture (Chair: Steen Christiansen)

Fiona Anderson, The Wild Boys on the Waterfront: David Wojnarowicz’s “Recurring Dream”

Adrien Clerk, William S. Burroughs and the Movies: Re-shaping El Hombre Invisibile’s Image

Tomasz Stompor, The Photographic Composites of William S. Burroughs

10:30 – 12:00              Parallel Panels

Panel 15: The Beats and India (Chair: Jason Lee)

Anamika Bandopadhyay, Soul Searching: The Journey of the Beats in India Revisited

Uttaran Das Gupta, Hungry Poets and Allen Ginsberg

Sandhya Devesan Nambiar, On the Visible Road: Exploring the Beat Image

Panel 16: Burroughs and Modernity (Chair: Thomas Antonic (TBC))

Alexander Greiffenstern, “Beckett asked me to fish in his pond”: Burroughs’ Self-Image as a Writer

Viktoria Grivina, Transgressive Bliss of William S. Burroughs: Deconstructing Counterculture

Chad Weidner, Shifting Shapes Part Two: Ecological Considerations of Burroughs’ Early Cut-ups

12:00 – 13:30              Lunch

13:30 – 15:30              Plenary + Film showing: Lars Movin

15:30 – 16:00              Coffee

16:00 – 17:30              EBSN Business Meeting