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the Alphabet: A Symposium on Ron Sillimans Long Poem25-26 March
2011
SCHEDULE OUTLINEFor details on venues, maps, travel to / in
Windsor, accommodation, etc., go
tohttp://www.uwindsor.ca/thealphabetsymposium. Questions, etc.,
please contact lcabri atuwindsor dot ca.
Pre-Symposium Event:
Thursday 24 March
Freed-Orman Centre, Assumption University [part of the
University of Windsor campus]
7:00 p.m.
Jed Rasula, A Telephone from the Beyond: iPod Wagnerism
Reception follows; symposium registration opens
Symposium Day 1:
Friday 25 March
DAY PANELS
All Friday events (day & night):Ambassador Room, 2nd Floor,
C.A.W. Centre, University of Windsor
8:30 9:00 a.m.
registration
9:00 10:15 a.m. Keynote 1
Jed Rasula, Panorama Sentence by Sentence: The Poetry of Ron
Silliman
10:15 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 12:00 a.m. Panel 1
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Marianne lholm, Formal Multiplicity in the AlphabetBrian Jansen,
Roland Barthes, the New Sentence, and Word as Commodity: the
Alphabetas
Contemporary MythographyJoshua Schuster, Our Whole Archive Has
Prepared Us for This
12:00
1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 3:00 p.m. Panel 2
Christopher Kerr, Watch Your Step! Pataphysics and the Pun of
Engines in EnginesHilary Clark, Trash Collection in The
AlphabetBurt Kimmelman, The Alphabet, Post Objectivist Poetics, and
American Writing since The New
American Poetry
3:00 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15
4:45 Panel 3
Michael Hessel-Mial, Earth and Sky: Eco-Phenomenology and the
AlphabetBraydon Beaulieu, Between sentences, something
hides.Elisabeth Joyce, Looking up and Looking Down: Ron Sillimans
Poetry of Accretion
4:45 5:45 p.m. ReceptionUniversity Club, Vanier Hall, University
of WindsorCo-sponsored by the University of Alabama Press
6:00 7:30 p.m. DinnerUniversity Club, Vanier Hall, University of
Windsor[pre-book with lcabri at uwindsor dot ca]
EVENING READINGS & CONVERSATION
7:45 8:30 p.m. Poetry ReadingAmbassador Room, 2nd Floor, C.A.W.
Centre
Jeff DerksenSteve McCaffery
8:30
8:45 p.m. Break
cash bar
8:45 10:15 p.m. Poetry Reading & ConversationAmbassador
Room, , 2nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre
Rae Armantrout & Ron Silliman
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Symposium Day 2:
Saturday 26 March
DAY PANELS
All panels excluding evening readings & conversation (see
below) take place in:Ambassador Room, 2nd Floor, C.A.W. Centre
9:00 9:30 a.m.
registration
9:30 10:45 a.m. Keynote 2
Barrett Watten, Radical Particularity; or, The Whole is the
Untrue
10:45 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 12:00 a.m. Panel 4
Andrew Klobucar, Technical Difficulties: Informational Discourse
and PoeticsJeff Derksen, tba
12:00 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 3:00 Panel 5
Pierre Beaumier, The Readers Encounter and the Difficulty of
Form as Social StruggleJasmine Elliott, the map is not / built
about the city: metapoetics and the narrative struggle in
the AlphabetTimothy Yu, Yet His Best Friend Was Hispanic: Race,
Contradiction, and Autobiography in
(and Under) Albany
3:00 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 4:45 p.m. Panel 6
Brian Ang, Quindecagon, Literary History, and Strict
ConstructionismAshley Girty, The Most Beautiful of All Carpenters
Tools is the Level: On Seriality and
Parataxis in the AlphabetLouis Cabri, Play-drive Station (on
aestheticizing the Alphabet)
4:45 5:00 p.m. Break
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5:00 6:30 p.m. Symposium Wrapup
The Long Poem in the Age of TwitterHosted by Steve McCaffery
6:30
8:30 p.m. DinnerWorld Marathon Ethiopian Restaurant, 60
University Ave. W.[pre-book with lcabri at uwindsor dot ca]
EVENING READINGS & CONVERSATION
9:00 11:00 p.m. Poetry Reading & ConversationWorld Marathon
Ethiopian Restaurant, 60 University Ave W.
Carla HarrymanBarrett Watten
Ron Silliman
