Celebrating Whitman
Paris, July 4-6, 2005
Université de Paris VII
UFR études anglophones Charles V
10 r Charles V 75004 PARIS FRANCE
Keynotes speakers:
Betsy Erkkila (Northwestern University) and Ed Folsom (The University of Iowa)
Monday July 4, 2005
1:30-2:00 pm: Registration
2:00-2:15 pm: Conference Opening
2:15-6:00 pm. Workshop One: This printed and bound book (chairs: Éric Athenot, Université de Tours, and Mark Niemeyer, Université de Paris IV)
2:15-3:00 pm: Ed Folsom (The University of Iowa): « What We Still Do Not Know About the 1855 Leaves of Grass »
3:00-3:15 pm: Discussion
3:15-3:45 pm: Jonathan Levin (Fordham University): « Fetishizing the First Edition: Reflections on 1855 »
3:45-4:00: Discussion
4:00-4:30 pm: Coffee break
4:30-5:00 pm: Donald E. Pease Jr. (Dartmouth College): Whitman's Song of Myself, the Mexican War and the Underside of the American Renaissance
5:00-5:30 pm: Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University): « Dark Patches and Solitude: Whitman's American Noir »
5:30-6:00 pm: Discussion
6:00-8:00 pm: Welcome cocktail party
Tuesday July 5, 2005
9:00-12:30 pm. Workshop Two: All doctrines, all politics and civilization (chair: Donald E. Pease Jr, Dartmouth College)
9:00-9:30 am: Jay Ladin (Veshiva University): « What I Assume You Shall Assume': Whitman, de Tocqueville, and the Language of Democracy »
9:30-10:00 am: Tai Lynden Houser (Florida Atlantic University): « Birthing The Sleepers': Spreading Whitman's Democracy »
10:00-10:30 am: Kerry Larson (University of Michigan): « Whitman's New Language of Equality »
10:30-11:00 am: Discussion
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:00 pm: Larry Griffin (Three Rivers Community College): « Orality in Walt Whitman's First Song of Myself' »
12:00-12:30 pm: Strother Purdy (The University of Wisconsin): « Whitman and the American Epic »
12:30-12:45 pm: Discussion
12:45-2:15 pm: Lunch break
2:15-6:15 pm. Workshop Four: I am an acme of things accomplished (chair: Philippe Jaworski, Université de Paris VII)
2:15-2:45 pm: Jeanne Cortiel (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Dortmund): « Prosopopeic Africa: Leaves of Grass and Antebellum Egyptology »
2:45-3:15 pm: Adam Bradford (Brigham Young University): « The Erotics of Death: Cultural Evolution in Whitmanian Politics and Poetics »
3:15-3:45 pm: David Blake (The College of New Jersey): « Whitman and Celebrity »
3:45-4:15 pm: Discussion
4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee break
4:45-5:15 pm: Deborah Jenner (Paris): « From Cosmic Consciousness to Cosmic Cubism - Whitman's Influence on American Art »
5:15-5:45 pm: Marie Danniel-Grognier (Lyon II): « Walt Whitman, Muse of Alternative American Cinema »
5:45-6:15 pm: Discussion
08:00 pm: Walt Whitman. Hom(m)age, 2005-1855 A bilingual reading of contemporary American poets (Grande Salle, Reid Hall 4 rue de Chevreuse 75006 PARIS)
Wednesday July 6, 2005
9:00-1:00 pm. Workshop Four: Poets to come (1) (chair: Marc Chénetier, Université de Paris VII, IUF)
9:00-9:45 am: Betsy Erkkila (Northwestern University): « To Paris with my love': Whitman among the French Revisited »
9:45-10:00 am: Discussion
10:00-10:30 am: Walter Gruenzweig (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Dortmund): « The European Fellowship: French and German Whitmanites in Intercultural Dialogue »
10:30-11:00 am: Agnieska Salska (Warsaw University): « Some Uses of Whitman: Leaves of Grass and Polish Modernist Poets »
11:00-11:30 am: Discussion
10:45-11:15 am: Coffee break
11:15-12:15 pm: Delphine Rumeau (Paris X): « Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda, American Camerados»
12:15-12:45 pm: Michael Robertson (The College of New Jersey): « Reading Whitman with a British Accent »
12:45-1:00 pm: Discussion
1:00-2:30 pm: Lunch break
2:30-6:00 pm. Workshop Five: Poets to come (2) (chair: Antoine Cazé, Université d'Orléans)
2:30-3:00 pm: Élise Brault (Paris VII): « D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman: « Kissing and Horrid Strife »
3:00-3:30 pm: Vivian Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis): « The U.S.A. School of Writing: Whitman, Bishop, and There's More to it than Meets the Eye »
3:30-4:00 pm: Olivier Brossard (Paris VII): « Frank O'Hara and Walt Whitman »
4:00-4:30 pm: Discussion
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee break
5:00-5:30 pm: Bill Berkson (New York): « Walt Whitman, New Realist »
5:30-6:00 pm: Jiri Flajsar (Olomouc): « Driving and Riding the Ford Model-T: The Presence of Whitman in Contemporary American Poetry »
8: 30 pm : Conference dinner (Brasserie Bofinger 3 rue de la Bastille 75004 Paris)
Contact. E-mail: Éric Athenot (eric.athenot@wanadoo.fr) or Mark Niemeyer (mark.niemeyer@paris4.sorbonne.fr); telephone: 00 33 680 18 50 95.
Registration fee: 20 regular, 10 students. All cheques should be made payable to Monsieur l'Agent comptable de l'université de Paris VII and sent by July 1 to Éric Athenot 4 rue de la Saïda 75015 Paris FRANCE.