School of Critical Studies

Registration, tea and coffee

Opening Plenary
Prof. Michael Schmidt (University of Glasgow)
Resisting the Contemporary Reader

Chair: Ruth Hawthorn (University of Glasgow)

Panel 1a
Poetry and other Art Forms

Aaron Deveson (National Taiwan Normal University)
Open Like a Day: Edwin Denby and the Temporality of Affluence

Ernesto Suárez-Toste (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) 

Painter of Words: John Ashbery and the European Avant-garde

Conway Lloyd Morgan and Don Parker (University of Wales)
In What Sense is Cold War an Adjective?

Chair: Mark West (University of Glasgow)

Panel 1b
Nuclear Anxieties

Stephen Ross (University of Oxford)
"Mad-Eyed from Stating the Obvious": The Cold War Symmetries of Robert Lowell and Richard Wilbur.

William Wright (Mesa State College)
Fear and Humour: Frank O'Hara's Cold War Poetry

Chair: Fabienne Collignon (University of Glasgow)

Panel 2a
“1,000,000 women/Not me:” Femininity and Poetics

Nicola Scholes (University of Queensland)
‘That fatal Mama’: Mother America in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Stotras to Kali Destroyer of Illusions’ 

Katie Stewart (University of Glasgow) Stewart
"America Reversed the Directions": Joanne Kyger's Early Poetry and Journal Writing in Relation to Pacific Rim Culture.

Chair: Derek Ryan (University of Glasgow)

Panel 2b
From Steel to ‘Meal: The Urban and the Rural

Fabienne Collignon (University of Glasgow) Collignon
Anxiety Economy

Gary Leising (Utica College) Leising
“Trying to Feel”:  A Sense of Consequence in Suburban and Rural Post-World War II America in the Poetry of James Dickey

Yasmine Shamma (University of Oxford)
"And if she is clumsy in places, those are clumsy places": Places in New York City Poems

Chair: Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow)

Panel 3a
Capitalism, Communism, Consumerism

Doaa Abdel-Hafez Hamada (University of Leicester) Hamada
Technology, Consumerism, and Moral Deterioration: The Twentieth Century in Margaret Walker’s Poetry

Mick Mooney (University of Glasgow) Mooney
St. Francis in a Road Movie, in a City, in a Quandary: Surviving the Cold War in Frank O'Hara

Chair: John Miller (University of Edinburgh)

Panel 3b
Beyond the “Confessional”

Ruth Hawthorn (University of Glasgow)
‘…we never learnt why he came or what he wanted’: Berryman’s Schwartz

Isabelle Travis (Reading University)
‘The 20th Century Flies Insanely On’: John Berryman’s MAD World

Chair: Chris Gair (University of Glasgow)

Film Screening and Q & A
Colin Still, Optic Nerve Productions
Abstract Alchemist of Flesh

Chair:  Elizabeth Reeder (University of Glasgow)

Plenary Lecture
Prof. Geoff Ward (Royal Holloway University)
"I announce a new world/ I announce the death of Orpheus” (Jack Spicer): Poetry and the Rift.

Chair: Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow)

Ben Hickman (University of Kent) Hickman
Reagan, Wordsworth and John Ashbery’s ‘A Wave’

Richard Parker (University of Sussex) Parker
Cold War Objectivists: Louis Zukofsky and Whittaker Chambers

Chair: Andrew Eadie (University of Glasgow)

Panel 4b
Unspeaking the Lyric

John Armstrong (University of Glasgow)
"[A]cross my own hollowed self": Lyric Desolation and Cold War Horizons in the Work of Edward Dorn

Victoria Bazin (University of Northumbria) Bazin
Planting Poems in Deep Silence’: Sounding out the Lyric in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry

Erik Fuhrer (University of Glasgow)
"Their Bodies Were Like Charred Trees": (re)Visions of Violence in Jean Valentine's Lyric Dreamscapes

Chair: Rachael McLennan (University of East Anglia)

Panel 5a
“Nothing in that drawer:” Poetic Spaces

Ian Davidson (Bangor University)
The Radical Spaces of Poetry

Will Montgomery (Royal Holloway University)
Robert Creeley’s Refusals

Rachael McLennan (University of East Anglia)
'Like a Thief Returning to the Shelf': Properties of Autobiography in Lyn Hejinian's My Life

Chair: Alex Benchimol (University of Glasgow)

Diederik Oostdijk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
“Aftersight and Foresight”: The Middle Generation and the War in Vietnam

Susan Porterfield (Rockford College) Porterfield
Allowed to Live:  WWII Veteran Poets, Lucien Stryk

Chair: Villy Karagouni (University of Glasgow)

Closing Plenary
Prof. Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)
Cold War Dissent: Grace Paley, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman

Chair: John Armstrong (University of Glasgow)

Poetry Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa 

Chair: Erik Fuhrer (University of Glasgow)

End of Conference Reception