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Schedule

Friday June 4
3:00pm Registration opens
3:30pm Welcome and opening remarks
(Rooms 1200-1500)
4:00-6:00pm Roundtable: The Future of Olson Studies 1
(Rooms 1200-1500)
Anne Dewey, Meredith Quartermain, Lytle Shaw, Jonathan Skinner, Fred Wah (moderated by Stephen Collis)
6:30-8:00pm Reception
(Room 1200)

Saturday June 5
8:00am Registration and refreshments
(Room 1200)
8:30-10:00am Panel 1: The ‘He’ includes ‘She’: Feminist Intersections with Olson
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
Kim Minkus “Rachel Zolf - Digital Objects and Interrupted Space,” Jacqueline Turner “‘I Believe in You…’ Redacting and Re-reacting to the Olson/Boldereff Conjunctions and Correspondences,” Jeanne Heuving “Whose Projective Poetics?”

Panel 2: Olson and Visual Art
(1900 Vancouver Sun Reading Room)
Steven Carter “Ben Shahn, Charles Olson’s Friend,” Andy Weaver “I am giving you a present,” Douglas Duhaime “Olson, Cage, Rauschenberg”
10:15-12:15pm    Panel 3: Projective Geometry and Dance
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
Lisa Siraganian “Administering the Poem,” Kate Markoski “The Most Forward of Disciplines,” David Herd “From him only will the old state-secret come”

Panel 4: Olson in Canada
(2300 Don, Eleanor & Laurie Rix Reading Room)
Adam Beardsworth “Radical Geographies: Olson’s Ontic Disruption of Canadian Poetics,” Marc Thackray “Olson’s Legacy in Canada: Two Cases—Marlatt and Culley,” Stephen Cain “Maximus in Hogtown,” Rob Winger “(Post)modern Negative Capability”
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-3:00pm Roundtable: The Future of Olson Studies 2
(Rooms 1200-1500)
Charles Alexander, Ben Friedlander, Gary Grieve-Carlson, Sharon Thesen, Miriam Nichols (moderated by Stephen Collis)
3:15-4:45pm Panel 5: Olson and/or Apocalypse
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
Peter O’Leary “Just as Morning Twilight: Olson and Synchronicity,” Leonard Schwartz “Olson Vocis,” Joseph Donahue “Now That it is Reborn: Olson amid the angels”

Panel 6: Scientia: Number and the Archive
(1900 Vancouver Sun Reading Room)
Carla Billitteri “A Diversional Event: Reading Olson after Deleuze,” Sara Phillips “Charles Olson’s Dynamic Archive,” ” Alessandra Capperdoni “to yield to change: Olson and the Question of the Feminine”
5:00-6:00pm Rachel Blau DuPlessis
(Rooms 1200-1500)
“Olson and some Gender Turning Points”
6:00-8:00pm Dinner
8pm Poetry Reading:
(Rooms 1200-1500)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Peter Culley, and Fred Wah

Sunday June 6
8:00am Registration & refreshments
8:30-10:00am Panel 7: Olson and Space
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
Jason Starnes “On First Looking Out Through Charles Olson’s Eyes,” Robert Tally “Some men ride on such space,” Jim Zeigler “The Exemplarity of Billy Budd”

Panel 8: Olson on and off the Map
(2300 Don, Eleanor and Laurie Rix Reading Room)
Richard Owens “The Practical Limits of Daylight: Olson and Prynne,” Ramsey Scott “Angela Davis in Gloucester,” Julien Segura “Charles Olson in France” ” (and a greeting from Jean-Paul Auxeméry)

Panel 9: Voices and Performances
(1900 Vancouver Sun Reading Room)
Stephen Fredman “Art as Experience,” Eric Salstrand “Black Sun Black Chrysanthemum: D.H. Lawrence as Prologue,” Sandra Dedo “Mobilization via Imaginative Conscription”
10:15-12:15 Panel 10: Olson and Pedagogy
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
Alan Golding “The wedge of the WHOLE FRONT,” Jeffrey Gardiner “The Whole Organism Back in History and Out in Space,” Jeff Davis “Primordia”

Panel 11: Projective verse: Linguistics, Environment, Myth
(2300 Don, Eleanor and Laurie Rix Reading Room)
Ian Sampson “Projective Verse and the History of English,” Josh Hoeynck “The Universe in the instance of its voice,” Mark Toews “Myth and Experience”

Panel 12: Poets on Olson
(1900 Vancouver Sun Reading Room)
Michael Boughn “Beyond ‘Projective Verse–some thoughts on Olson’s Proprioception,” GP Lainsbury “Projective North”
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm A Curriculum of the Soul: from Buffalo Out
(2800 CN Strategy Room)
John Roche, Michael Boughn, Hoa Nguyen, Kenneth Warren and Alan Casline (with Albert Glover as special guest)
3:00-5:00 Reading of “Apollonius of Tyana” and launch of Muthologos (edited by Ralph Maud).
Sunday night Concluding poetry bash
(W2-Storyeum, 151 W. Cordova St.)

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