Apps, Buuck, Dworkin, Ifland, Mohammed, Nealand, Place, Queyras, Spahr: March 12-13, 2010, UCSC, CA

Conference: Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics



Featuring TSky peeps Eireene Nealand and Juliana Spahr, along with Stan Apps, David Buuck, Craig Dworkin, Alta Ifland, K. Silem Mohammed, Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras, and Brian Kim Stefans, among others, this conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar, and consists of six panels with three papers and invited respondents; a pedagogy colloquium; and poetry readings. Click here for complete conference details.

Conference Schedule

Daytime Panels: Humanities 210, UCSC

Friday, March 12

9-9:30am:Welcome address by conference organizers

9:30-11am:
Panel 1: Historicizing the Poet as Intellectual: Respondent David Lau
Evan Kindley, Juliana Leslie, Jacqueline Weeks

11am-12pm:Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading

12-1:30pm:
Panel 2: Poetics and Reading Methodologies: Respondent Juliana Spahr
Amanda Lim, Alta Ifland, Surya Parekh

2-3:30pm:
Poetry in the Classroom: Pedagogy Colloquium: Moderated by Kasey Mohammed. Confirmed Panelists: Micah Perks, Karen Yamashita, David Buuck

4-5:30pm:
Panel 3: Poetic Epistemologies and Alternative Forms of Scholarship: Respondent Sina Queyras
Stan Apps, Zachary Caple

7:30-9pm:
Evening Poetry Readings: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
Place, Dworkin, Wilson, Mohammad

Saturday, March 13

Please bring a lunch to campus as food vendors are closed or have limited hours. (See blog for suggestions.)

10:30am-12pm:
Panel 4: Writing and Thinking Between Genres: Respondent Vanessa Place
Lily Robert Foley, Emily Carr and Erin Wunker, Adrian Acu

12-1pm: Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading

1-2:30pm:
Panel 5: Poetic Conceptualisms and Poetic Productions: Respondent Craig Dworkin
Brian Kim Stefans, Keegan Finberg, David Buuck

3-4:30pm:
Panel 6: Poetry and Pedagogy: Respondent: Rob Wilson
Rebekah Edwards, Walter Lew, Eireene Nealand

6:30-8pm:
Evening Poetry Reading: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
Lau, Spahr, Queyras

Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Center for Cultural Studies, with co-sponsorship by Cowell College, Literature Department, and Kresge College at UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.