CONFERENCES 2018
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
New York, 4-7 January 2018
OUR SOCIETY PANELS
Manhattan Pound and After
Organisers: Demetres Tryphonopoulos (Brandon University) and Mark Byron (University of Sydney)
David Hobbs. In the Shadow of Pound's Manhattan: Objectivist Poetics after Patria Mia
Ira Nadel. Manhattan Pound and Biography
Mark Byron. New York Rinascimento: Poetry, Art, and Architecture in Pound’s 1910 Visit
Marjorie Perloff. Pound’s Unlikely Heir: New York’s Charles Bernstein
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and New York City
(panel organised in collaboration with the William Carlos Williams Society)
Demetres Tryphonopoulos (Brandon University). Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore’s Shift from the Syllabic Verse to Free Verse (1921–25)
Mark C. Oxoby (Loyola University). ‘Obscene / beyond Belief’: William Carlos Williams’s (Sub)Urban Ambivalence
E. W. White (Oxford Brookes University). A Machine of Words, a Machine of Mirrors: William Carlos Williams and Networked New York
Caitlin Hurst (New York University): ‘Contempt of the Unit’: Early Pound and the Unlyrical City
THE FORTY-SIXTH LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE 1900
Louisville, February 22-24, 2018
OUR SOCIETY PANELS
Organiser: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
The Cantos of Ezra Pound: History and Culture East and West
John Gery. Keeping the Peace: Borso d’Este as Role Model in The Cantos
Robert Kibler. Between a Rock and a Pound: An Anthropological Overview of the Naxi Tribespeople of the Southern Himalayas and What They Have to Do with Modernist Poetics
David McKnight. Pound at Penn. Another Round
Ezra Pound and the Arts: Music and Dance
Roxana Preda. Ezra Pound and Igor Stravisnky.
Evelyn Haller. Ezra Pound Danseur by Proxy.