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EBSN2022 Poster and Final Program Live!
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Obituary – Harold Chapman
The EBSN is sad to note the passing of Harold Chapman on August 19, at the age of 95. Although his years in Paris during the late 1950s and early 60s were just one episode in a long life and career, the EBSN has since its founding been proud to use one of his pictures for its masthead because the British photographer chronicled so memorably life at the Beat Hotel, that special site of expatriate engagement with Europe. His images preserved a unique record of the scene when 9 Gît-le-cœur was the lowest class of hotel in Paris and a landmark in Beat history, home, on and off, to Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Ian Sommerville, Sinclair Beiles and Harold Norse. Chapman’s black and white photographs were for me, and no doubt many, many others, one of the great seductive ports of entry into those years of experiments in living and creating, when for a few francs a week anything seemed possible. Burroughs expressed it perfectly in his foreword to the book of Chapman’s Beat Hotel pictures: “It was a magical interlude, and like all such interludes, all too brief.”
-Oliver Harris
For a 2009 tribute, see “Capturing the beat of 1950s Paris” by Christine Finn: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8118155.stm
Interview with Clive Matson
Interlitq editor David Garyan recently conducted a detailed and fascinating interview with esteemed poet and EBSN member Clive Matson – check it out here
Newsletter: 2022 Conference registration now open!
Members will be receiving our newsletter in their inboxes about now, which includes news about our upcoming conference. More info via links below:
More news: https://mailchi.mp/97b0aad33094/quarterly-update-12123255?e=c2e3406256
Conference page: https://ebsn.eu/ebsn2022/
CUT-UP@2023: https://ebsn.eu/2023-special-conference/
Preliminary Program for EBSN 2022
Click the link to see the awesome line-up for this year’s conference, 28-30 Sept. in Murcia, Spain:
https://ebsn.eu/ebsn2022/
The Beat Studies Association 2022 Conference: The Jack Kerouac Centenary
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:
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:
For more information about the Conference, including registration fees and hotel information, please visit the BSA website:
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Interview with Thomas Antonic on his book “Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936-37”
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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Tagged Austria, Burroughs, history, interview, Vienna, William Burroughs
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American Joyride: 100 Lines for the Kerouac Centenary
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.
Data Rescue Effort – Ukraine
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:
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
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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