EBSN12 Bialystok 2024 Program is up on the site now!

Posted on April 24, 2024 by ebsn

See the conference page here. Great line up, really looking forward to it!

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EBSN2024 Registration Now Open!

Posted on March 15, 2024 by alabasterbreadfruit

Head to the EBSN2024 Bialystock conference page for details on how to register, including info on virtual attendance.

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“Talking Beats” – Audio & Video Live Today 15/3

Posted on March 15, 2024 by alabasterbreadfruit

Video of our new lecture/chat series “Talking Beats” will go live today at 9:30pm GMT
https://youtu.be/6Ha0Wcy_C0A?si=Cu4VwUW1Utb683rJ

Audio podcast version of the event is available here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1564693717&i=1000649295790
-Or wherever you get your podcasts…

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Special Performance of Ginsberg’s Howl

Posted on March 9, 2024 by alabasterbreadfruit

Pianist and composer Steve Tromans has been in touch about his forthcoming concert of his musical setting of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”. It is twenty years since his setting was premiered so they’re doing an extra special 20th anniversary performance to mark the occasion. 

The concert will be in the Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space at Birmingham Symphony Hall  (UK) on Sunday 24th March, 3pm start. 

Full details can be found here: 

Steve Tromans & Howl: The 20th Anniversary Concert | B:Music

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Beat Exhibition in Chichester, April 2-14

Posted on March 5, 2024 by smarties77

The exhibition is curated by Beat Generation fans and experts:  University of Chichester Professors Dick Ellis and Hugo Frey, and Martyn Bell, Trustee of Oxmarket Contemporary.

See : https://ebsn.eu/scholarship/articles/joan-vollmers-death-by-r-j-ellis-visiting-professor-university-of-chichester/

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EBSN members AGM today!

Posted on January 29, 2024 by ebsn

Hi all – just a reminder to all EBSN members to check your emails/junk/spam as you should have a link to the online AGM that is at 8pm CET – see you there!

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New reviews, scholarship, and more!

Posted on January 28, 2024 by ebsn

Lots of great new and recent pages up on the site!:

Peer-reviewed articles:

“Have you seen death singing”: Patti Smith’s Haunted Imaginary, by Vincent Tinguely

William Burroughs and Jazz: Contexts, Functions and Resonances – Benjamin J. Heal

Reviews:

John Wieners, “PENTE: a book of woe” and “Solitary Pleasure: Selected Poems, Journals and Ephemera” reviewed by Jaap van der Bent

“They Wouldn’t Know Poetry if it Came up and Buggered them in Broad Daylight” – Review of Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio (eds), The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation, (Clemson University Press, 2023), by Benjamin J. Heal.

“Just Out of Reach” Locating a Beat Feminism – Review of Polina Mackay – Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism (Routledge, 2022) by Benjamin J. Heal

Overpainted Beats: Explosions of Blood; Elia Inderle. Introduction by Oliver Harris. Moloko Print 2022. A review by Matt Theado.

Interviews:

Tony Trigilio in conversation with Stevan M. Weine on Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (Fordham University Press, 2023)

Oliver Harris interviewed by David Garyan

The all-new lecture series Talking Beats is about to get started, and there will be news to come about Playback: The EBSN Podcast!

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“Talking Beats – The EBSN Lecture Series” first episode (February 5, 2024)

Posted on January 18, 2024 by ebsn

Join us for the first lecture of the brand new “Talking Beats” series:

  • When? February 5, 2024 8-10pm CET.
  • What? “BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS: William Burroughs at 110” – Oliver Harris in conversation with Alex Wermer-Colan.
  • Where? Online!
  • Who? All welcome! Free access to EBSN members! 
  • Attendees can take part via moderated chat-box Q&A
  • Not a member? Send us an email: info[at]ebsn.eu

Links to “Talking Beats” episodes will be emailed to members in advance. 

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Beat Studies Association CFP – URGENT!

Posted on January 13, 2024 by ebsn

Just forwarding the following message from the BSA regarding their panel at the ALA:

This is an urgent call for paper proposals for the BSA panel at the ALA conference in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024.

Please email proposals, or if you would be willing to chair the panel, to Kurt Hemmer khemmer@harpercollege before midnight on Sunday, January 21. Papers related to any aspect of Beat Studies will be considered. 

ALA conference homepage: 

ALA Annual Conference

Sorry about the last minute notice.

Thanks for considering this opportunity.

Have a good week!

Kurt Hemmer

Secretary of the Beat Studies Association

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Book launch: The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation

Posted on January 1, 2024 by smarties77

Launch of The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation, by Erik Mortenson and Tony trigilio.

228. Can We Teach the Beat Generation?

Friday, January 5th

10.15-11.30am, Anthony, Loews

Presiding:  Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio

Speakers:  Rocko Foltz, Nancy Grace, Carla Harryman, Aldon Nielsen, and Barrett Watten

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