Schedule 2014

Seventh Annual Walt Whitman
International Seminar & Symposium

 Seminar Program

Seminar Instructors & Rooms

Betsy Erkkila: U11/00.22

Ed Folsom: U11/00.24

Walter Grünzweig: U11/00.25

Peter Riley: U9/01.11

Sunday, July 20

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PBS Documentary “Walt Whitman”(U5/00.24)
7:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner for Instructors

Monday, July 21

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (U11 /00.16)

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Seminar Presentations #1 (U11/00.16)

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Seminar Discussion #1 (U11/00.16)

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Small Group Sessions #1 (see list of rooms & instructors above)

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Special Session: Rare Whitman Books &The Walt Whitman Archive

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception (U11 /00.16)

Tuesday, July 22

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Announcements (U11 /00.16)

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Seminar Presentations #2 (U11/00.16)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Seminar Discussion #2 (U11/00.16)

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Small Group Sessions #2 (see list of rooms & instructors above)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Translation Sessions A

4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Guided Tour of Bamberg

7:00 p.m. Dinner at a traditional Bamberg Beer Garden

Wednesday, July 23

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Announcements (U11 /00.16)

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Seminar Presentations #3 (U11/00.16)

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminar Discussion #3 (U11/00.16)

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Small Group Sessions #3 (see list of rooms & instructors above)

Afternoon/Evening: Trip to Nürnberg

Thursday, July 24

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Announcements (U11 /00.16) 

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Seminar Presentations #4 (U11/00.16)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Seminar Discussion #4 (U11/00.16)

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Small Group Sessions #4 (see list of rooms & instructors above)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Translation Sessions B

Friday, July 25

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Announcements (U11 /00.16)

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Seminar Presentations #5 (U11/00.16)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Seminar Discussion #5 (U11/00.16)

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Group Debriefing

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

                                                                                                                                    

Whitman Across Genres

The 7^th Annual Walt Whitman Symposium

of the Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association

July 25 – 26, 2014

University of Bamberg

An der Universität 2
96047 Bamberg
Germany

Preliminary Program

Friday, July 25 (U2/00.25)

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Session I: Whitman’s All-Fusing, Genre-Defying Art

ThorenOpitz, “By All Necessary Genres: Whitman Writing the ‘Beginning of a Great Career’ in 1856”

Ondrej Skovajsa, “The Written Voice of Leaves (1855)”

Reinier van Ramshorst, “Alexis de Tocqueville and Walt Whitman: Between Prophecy and Influence”

4:00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Coffee Break

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Session II: Neglected Dimensions of Whitman: His Fiction, Journalism, and Marginalia

Stephanie Blalock, “‘My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular’: The Reprinting of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction in the U.S. and Abroad”

Karen Karbenier, “Reconsidering Whitman’s Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times”

Matt Cohen, “The Restless Marge: Textual Mobility in Whitman’s Annotations”

8.00 p.m. Students Theater Performance: Bamberg University English Drama Group

Saturday, July 26 (U2/00.25)

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. TWWA Business Meeting

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session III: Tracking Whitman Across Cultures

Ann Kaiser, “Whitman in Catalan and in Catalunya: Architects Cebrià de Montoliu’s Translation of & Critical Work on Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grass”

Marta Koronkiewicz & PawelKaczmarski, “Reinventing Democracy. Walt Whitman and the Polish Poetry after 1989”

Patricia Anzini, “Fertilizing Dark Zones: Whitman and Brazilian Fringe Poetry”

Maria Clara Paro, “‘Democratic Vistas’ and ‘Camerado Whitman’ by Gilbert Freyre: The Construction of Whitman as a Political Poet in Brazil”

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session IV: Whitman in Fiction, Music, and Sociology

Timothy Robbins, “Leaves of Grass and ‘Social Control’: On Literary Approaches to Sociology”

Günter Leypoldt, “Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Music Theory”

Maria Aparecide de Oliveira, “Walt Whitman Across Cultures: Virginia Woolf on Whitman”

M. H. van Spaandonk, “‘Open Doors of Time! Open Hospital Doors!’: War Trauma and Reconciliation in WaltWhitman’s Drum-Taps and Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge”

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Session V: Rethinking Whitman’s Late Prose, Lectures, and Appearances in Documentaries

Bojana Aćamović, “Look for Him Under Your Bootsoles…or in his Prose”

Anthony Cohen, “‘The Measureless Crudity of the States:’ Whitman’s Vision of American Literary and Imperial Production”

Nicole Gray, “‘The Divine Power to Speak Words’: Performance, Genre, and Revision in Walt Whitman’s Lincoln Lectures”

Kevin McMullen, “Who Watches This, Watches a Man: Walt Whitman in Educational Films”

8:00 p.m. Farewell Reception

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