The Beat Studies Association 2022 Conference: The Jack Kerouac Centenary

Posted on April 29, 2022 by ebsn

Our friends over at the BSA have just announced this great event for later this year:

The Cultural Arts Committee at Harper College Presents:

The Beat Studies Association 2022 Conference: The Jack Kerouac Centenary

November 3-4, 2022 

Harper College
1200 West Algonquin Road 
Palatine, IL 60067-7398
Building E Room 106

Keynote Speaker: Ann Charters 

Special Presentations by: 

Holly George-Warren
Tim Hunt
Paul Marion
Dennis McNally
Jim Sampas
John Suiter
Matt Theado
Regina Weinreich

The Beat Studies Association invites presentation proposals for its 2022 conference in honor of the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s birth. We are inviting proposals on any aspect of Kerouac’s life or work, with particular interest in “new directions” for Kerouac studies. 

Submission Instructions:

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short (100 word) bio by July 1st, 2022. Conference presentations should be no more than 20 minutes, and the BSA will group papers into panels as appropriate. Please indicate in your proposal whether you will require special audio/visual equipment. 

Send all proposals as a single Word attachment to Kurt Hemmer, Secretary of the BSA:

khemmer@harpercollege.edu 

Accepted proposals will be announced by August 1st, 2022. 

While you do not have to be a member of the Beat Studies Association to submit a proposal, you must be a member to register and present at (or attend) the conference. 

The BSA welcomes submissions from graduate students! 

If you have any questions, please direct them to our Conference Coordinator, Kurt Hemmer, Secretary of the BSA: 

khemmer@harpercollege.edu 

For more information about the Conference, including registration fees and hotel information, please visit the BSA website: 

www.beatstudies.org

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Interview with Thomas Antonic on his book “Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936-37”

Posted on April 10, 2022 by ebsn

New scholarship! – Excellent new interview with Thomas Antonic on his book Amongst Nazis by David Holzer, up on the site now.

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American Joyride: 100 Lines for the Kerouac Centenary

Posted on March 12, 2022 by ebsn

Follow this link HERE for an amazing video homage to Jack Kerouac by Tom Knoff and Kurt Hemmer, marking the centenary of Kerouac’s birth in Lowell, Massachusetts, March 12, 1922.

still from the video – https://vimeo.com/650594467/9bbd0e73b9
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Data Rescue Effort – Ukraine

Posted on March 5, 2022 by ebsn

We have been asked to share the following message – apologies for the short notice, though you can also check the link to find out more about this effort.
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Anna E. Kijas and Francesca Giannetti (Digital Humanities Interest Group, Music Library Association) and Andy Janco (Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies) are organizing a rapid-response Digital Humanities intervention to secure Ukrainian cultural heritage materials.

They are requesting volunteers to participate in data rescue session on Saturday, March 5th, time to be determined. No programming experience is necessary and you do not have to speak Russian or Ukrainian to participate. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.
Register via GoogleForms at the link below:

Register

Additional information:
“This urgent appeal relayed by Purdue University concerns a rapid-response digital action to secure Ukrainian heritage materials that risk being lost otherwise due to the present conflict. One of the main phases of this action has already happened.  However, in view of the accelerating pace of events on the ground, some actions are already ongoing and can be joined with immediate effect.

As academics and scholars, preservation of culture is one of the tasks that only we can shoulder when no one can or will.

So please urgently relay this appeal to your institutional library head and ask them to get a qualified digital humanities librarian to join.  And perhaps volunteer yourself and join one of the salvage operation slots tomorrow.“

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EBSN 2022 Murcia, Spain

Posted on March 1, 2022 by ebsn

Proposal deadline now extended to 15 March!
Send us your proposal and come see us in Spain!
CFP and more info here: https://ebsn.eu/ebsn2022/

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Ukraine

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alabasterbreadfruit

We are mortified to hear about the crisis in Ukraine. Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people, both those who are fleeing the hostilities and those who are fighting to defend their freedom. Our thoughts are also with the countries bordering Ukraine, including Poland – a planned site for a future EBSN conference.

We are thinking also of our Ukrainian members and colleagues and hope they are not in peril despite the grave situation. Stay safe everyone.

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New Podcast Episode

Posted on February 18, 2022 by alabasterbreadfruit

The latest episode of “Playback – The EBSN Podcast“, featuring Panel 2 “Art and the Beat Generation” of our EBSN2021 Conference, is now available to view on YouTube:

or hear via Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.

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CFP Journal of Beat Studies – Kerouac Centenary

Posted on February 15, 2022 by alabasterbreadfruit

The Journal of Beat Studies volume 10 will be a special issue focusing on Jack Kerouac in honor of his centenary.  The coeditors of this issue, Ronna Johnson and Tim Hunt, invite proposals for critical and scholarly essays, including archival studies and work in mid-twentieth century art and literary communities and schools – Black Mountain, San Francisco Renaissance, and New York School, as well as Beat generation – all with a focus on Jack Kerouac and his writing.  

Proposals (your title, a 250-word description, and short CV) are due April 1.  Please email proposals to both of the coeditors at ronna.johnson@tufts.edu and tahunt@ilstu.edu.  Accepted essays will be due June 15, 2022.  JBS essays and articles are typically 25-30 pages and not to exceed 9,000 words, including notes and works cited.  

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New Interview

Posted on February 13, 2022 by alabasterbreadfruit

Just added – poet, writer and playwright Allan Graubard interviewed by Matthew McLaughlin, on Ira Cohen. Check it out here: https://ebsn.eu/scholarship/voices/interview_allan_graubard_by_matthew_mclaughlin/

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The Revitalized Beat Studies Association!

Posted on February 5, 2022 by alabasterbreadfruit

The new secretary of the BSA (also EBSN member) Kurt Hemmer asked us to post the following announcement – happy to oblige! :

SCHOLARS, INSTRUCTORS, STUDENTS, & ENTHUSIASTS OF 

THE BEAT GENERATION MOVEMENT 

BECOME PART OF THE REVITALIZED BSA NOW! 

JOIN NOW & GET THE NEW Journal of Beat Studies #9   

The membership year runs until December 31, 2022.

$60 Regular/$65 International

$40 Students/Independent/Retired Instructors/$45 International 

To join the BSA, please go to http://beatstudies.org/join/

Join – The Beat Studies Association
Membership in The Beat Studies Association is open to scholars, teachers, and students actively involved in researching, writing, and teaching about the Beat Generation movement and its participants.
beatstudies.org

Membership benefits include:   

• eligibility to receive the print edition of the Journal of Beat Studies sent to your mailing address   

• eligibility to submit essays to the Journal of Beat Studies   

• eligibility to attend and/or present at Beat Studies Association conferences   

• eligibility to present on Beat Studies Association panels at   MLA, ALA, and other conferences   

• ability to receive the latest news and announcements from the BSA Beat Discussion Board   

Journal of Beat Studies #9 Includes: 

Article:   

•Deborah R. Geis, “Angelheaded (Neo-)Hipsters: Two Cultural Re-productions of Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’” 

The Beat Interview:      

 •A. Robert Lee, “Life Within Life: Clive Matson Interview” 

Commemorations:   

•Mary Paniccia Carden, “Revolutionary Poet: Diane di Prima, 1934-2020”   

•Jane Falk, “Michael McClure: ‘ALCHEMIST OF FLESH,’ 1932-2020”  

•Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, “I see you dancing: ruth weiss, word and legacy, 1928-2020”   

Reviews:    

•Nathaniel Cadle, Understanding William S. Burroughs by Gerald Alva Miller, Jr.   

•Daniel Kane, In the Rebel Café: Interviews with Ed Sanders, edited by Jennie Skerl   

•Eric Keenaghan, The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess by Tara McDowell   

•Amor Kohli, A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets by David Grundy   

•Fiona Paton, The Beats: Authorships, Legacies by A. Robert Lee and The Beats: A Literary    History by Steven Belletto   

THE NEW BSA BOARD:
•President – Matt Theado, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies 

•Vice President – Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
•Treasurer – Steven Belletto, Lafayette College 

•Secretary – Kurt Hemmer, Harper College  

•Board Member-at-Large – Deborah Geis, DePauw University  

•Board Member-at-Large – Mary Paniccia Carden, Edinboro University  

•Managing Editor of JBS – Erik Mortenson, Lake Michigan College  

•Communications Manager – John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore 

JOIN THIS REVITALIZED ORGANIZATION NOW! 

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