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Registration
Key Dates
Cancellation Deadline: May 15, 2010
Conference Fees
Charles Olson Centenary Conference June 4 – 6, 2010 Registration Fees
(includes screening of “FILM” June 4 and Reception)
- Faculty: $115
- Student / Other: $65
How to Register
On-Line
Complete the ON-LINE Form. You will be given the option of paying for your registration fees on-line via a secure server (Visa or MasterCard).
Sorry, Simon Fraser University does not accept American Express or Diners Club.
All credit card transactions will be processed in Canadian dollars and are subject to current exchange rates.
By Mail or Fax
Complete the ON-LINE Form and mail with your bank draft (payable in Canadian funds) to Simon Fraser University to the address provided below. Forms can also be faxed and bank drafts mailed separately. Please note that if you are paying the early fee by bank draft, the funds must be received before May 15, 2010.
Note: Faxed or mailed registrations will not be processed until payment is received.
Cancellations and Refunds
Full refunds, less a $35 CAD administration fee will be granted to cancellations received by (May 15, 2010). No refunds will be issued after that date. Refunds will be mailed after the conference and will not be given to no-shows.
Confirmation of your registration
If you register on-line and pay by credit card, you will receive immediate confirmation via our server.
Receipts
If you pay on-line by email transaction, please print out your receipt as this will be the original copy. If you pay by Canadian cheque or bank draft, your receipt will be mailed to the address shown on your completed registration form.
Conference Secretariat
Meeting, Event & Conference Services
Halpern Centre
Room 110
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6
Telephone 778.782.4910; Fax 778.782.3420
E-mail: Conference_Services (at) sfu (dot) ca
Call for Proposals
Please note that the proposal deadline has been extended
to October 15, 2009.
June 4-6, 2010
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia
One hundred years after his birth, and fifty years after The New American Poetry anthology transformed the landscape of contemporary poetry, Charles Olson, arguably one of the most influential figures in twentieth century literature, remains a puzzlingly marginalized figure. As Ben Friedlander writes in Olson’s Collected Prose, it is “as if the unread Olson were the necessary ¾ submerged berg making possible the ¼ ice floe.” In the spirit of bringing Olson back into the polis—and delving into the “¾ submerged” portion of this “maximal” figure—the Charles Olson Centenary Conference seeks new readings of Olson’s poetry, poetics, and his influence on twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture. Topics to be addressed could include (but are not limited to):
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- Black Mountain College reconsidered - The New Canadian Poetry? Olson north of the border - Olson, economics, and democracy - Olson, geography, and the spatial turn - Olson and American history - Olson and the archive - Olson / Melville / Shakespeare - Olson and Mexico |
- Olson, Women, and the Feminine - Olson and his contemporaries - Olson and 21st century poetry - Olson’s influences/Olson’s influence - Poetry as research - Poetry and the polis - The politics of poetic form |
Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words to Stephen Collis at olson-conference@sfu.ca by October 1, 2009 October 15, 2009.
