"John Ashbery in Paris", 11-13/03/10

[Madeleine L.]

JOHN ASHBERY IN PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
March 11-13 2010
Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot
10, rue Charles V – Paris 4è - Métro Saint Paul/Bastille/Sully-Morland

Organized by:
LARCA - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (EA4214) -
Université Paris 7 Diderot
IMAGER - Institut des Mondes Anglophone, Germanique et Roman (EA3958) -
Université Paris Est
With the support of:
Ambassade des Etats-Unis
New York University / New York University in Paris


For registration, please contact:
Antoine Cazé - antcaze@wanadoo.fr

Check our Conference Website : http://johnashberyinparis.blogspot.com/


CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Thursday March 11 2010 :
11h-12h30 – Registration
13h30 – Room A50 – Opening Addresses
14h00-18h00 – Workshop Session I
Workshop #1 : Paris & France – Room A50
Clark LUNBERRY, University of North Florida – “‘Professional Exiles Like
Me’: John Ashbery’s Self-Imposed Paris and the Pursuit of Poetic
Abstraction”
Paul GRIMSTAD, Yale University – “Poe, Roussel, Ashbery”
Maria MURESAN, École Normale Supérieure, Paris – “from surrealism to the
experience of experience Ashbery’s long poem”
Eugene RICHIE, Pace University, NY, & Rosanne WASSERMAN, U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy, Kings Point – “John Ashbery’s Translations from the
French: An Introduction to Selected Translations”
Sarah RIGGS, Paris – “Ashbery in a Convex Mirror: Paris & Translation”

Workshop #2 : Modes & Forms – Room C31
Michael FARRELL, University of Melbourne – “Pastiche and the Commodity
of Tone: Reading and Writing to Ashbery’s Where Shall I Wander.”
Jacek GUTOROW, University of Opole – “Difficult Idylls: John Ashbery and
the Postmodern Rhetoric of the Pastoral”
Stephen ROSS, Oxford University – “The Delta of Living into Everything:
The River Topos in Ashbery’s Poetry”
Bob, PERELMAN, University of Pennsylvania – “Bathos and Mind-Reading”

18h30-19h30 – Drinks & Visit of the Ashbery Exhibition – Room A50
20h30 – Banquet (on invitation) at “Le Vin des Pyrénées”, 25 rue
Beautreillis, 4th Arrondissement


Friday, March 12, 2010 :
9h00 – Room A50 – Plenary Lecture by Marjorie PERLOFF, Professor
Emerita, Stanford University : “ ‘Sowing the seeds crooked in the
furrow’: John Ashbery and les jeunes”
10h30-12h30 – Workshop Session II
Workshop #3 : The Arts 1 – Room A50
Jennifer C. COOK, Bentley University – “Seeing Through the Lens of
Prose: Reconsidering Ashbery’s Reported Sightings”
Elisabeth JOYCE, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania – “Fairfield Porter
and John Ashbery: Ideas of Order”
Julie VERLAINE, Université de Caen / Université Paris I – “John Ashbery,
a Flâneur in the Art Galleries. Among artists, critics ands dealers,
Paris, 1955-1965”

Workshop #4: The Arts 2 – Room A21
Aaron BELZ, Providence Christian College – “John Ashbery and Jacques Tati”
Daniel KANE, University of Sussex – “The New Realism: How Ashbery Sees
Surrealist and ‘New American’ Film”
Clément OUDART, Université Paris 6 – “Poetics of Music: John Ashbery and
Elliott Carter Working at the Boundaries”

12h45-14h15 – Lunch

14h30-17h00 – Workshop Session III
Workshop #5 : Historicizing Ashbery – Room A50
Joshua CLOVER, University of California, Davis – “After Lateness:
Ashbery and World-System Theory”
Will MONTGOMERY, Royal Holloway College, University of London – “ ‘Udder
mumps’ and an other tradition: Ashbery’s Vermont Notebook”
Nandini RAMESH SANKAR, Cornell University – “ ‘The/Lamentable Spectacle
of the Unknown’: Historicizing Difficulty in the Poetry of John Ashbery”
Barrett WATTEN, Wayne State University – “Ashbery’s Historicism: Regions
of Modernity in The Double Dream of Spring”

Workshop #6: Readings – Room A44
David HERD, Kent University – “ ‘That We Must’: The Ashbery Collective”
V. Nicholas LOLORDO, University of Nevada-Las Vegas – “ ‘A Job in the
Monument Industry’: Reading Late Ashbery”
Ernesto SUÁREZ-TOSTE, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha – “Painting the
Sea with Salt Water: John Ashbery, Ahead of the Avant-gardes”
John TRANTER, Editor of Jacket Magazine – “The Anaglyph”

18h-19h30 – Dialogue Session with John Ashbery – NYU in Paris / NYU –
56, rue de Passy, 16th Arrondissement (Metro Station: La Muette, line 9,
or Passy, line 6)

Dinner


Saturday, March 13, 2010 :
9h00 – Room A50 – Plenary Lecture by Michael DAVIDSON, Professor at the
University of California at San Diego : “The Pleasures of Merely
Circulating: John Ashbery and the Jargon of Inauthenticity.”
10h30-13h – Workshop Session IV
Workshop #7 : The Arts 3 – Room A42
Paweł MARCINKIEWICZ, University of Opole – “John Ashbery's Poetry in the
Context of the Twentieth-Century Visual Arts”
Ellen LEVY, Vanderbilt University – “Facing Pages: The Vermont Notebook”
Karin ROFFMAN, United States Military Academy at West Point – “ ‘The
Things That Mattered’: John Ashbery’s Childhood Collections”


Workshop #8 : Poetry/Theory – Room A50
Søren Hattesen BALLE, Aalborg University – “Cosmopolitan Erotics in John
Ashbery’s The Tennis-Court Oath
Brian GLAVEY, University of South Carolina – “The Sissy Arts: John
Ashbery’s Wallflower Avant-Garde”
Kacper BARCZAK, University of Lodz – “Pragmatist poetics in the recent
poetry of John Ashbery”
Terence DIGGORY, Skidmore College – “Ashbery’s Three Poems and the
Conceptual Moment”

13h15-14h30 – Lunch

15h-16h30 – Poetry Reading – Room A50