Entries tagged with conferences

ASAP flyer

Association for the Study
of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)

October 3-6, 2013, Wayne State University

“Learning from Oakland: Occupy Poetics”
“Learning from Berlin: Hybrid Strategies”
“Learning from Shanghai: Sinofuturisms”
“Site/Nonsite Detroit: A Reading”
[reading flyer here]

Curated by Barrett Watten

“Learning from Oakland: Occupy Poetics”
Thursday, October 3, 3:30-5:00 PM

Brian Ang, poet and editor, Oakland: “Assembling ARMED CELL: Post-Crisis Poetics” [link to ARMED CELL; essay on Oakland Occupy at Lana Turner]
Sara Larsen, poet and organizer, Oakland: “The Praxis of the Commons: Poetics, the Public School, and the Polis/ce of Oakland” [link to The Public School]
David Lau, poet and editor, UC Santa Cruz: “Poetics in a Wave of Struggles: Passages and Limits of Contemporary Bay Area Practices” [link to Lana Turner]

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Event 29: MLA (Boston)

Modern Language Association
Boston, 3–6 January 2013

Session 150. The Poet-Scholar. 7:00-8:15 PM, 4 January.
Hillary Gravendyk, presiding; with Julie Carr, Heather Dubrow, Margaret Ronda, Jennifer Scappettone, and Juliana Spahr.

[Running commentary on Storify here.]

Session 370. Marxism and Modernist Studies Today, 3:30–4:45 PM, 5 January.
Jason Baskin, presiding; with Ruth Jennison.

“Modernism and the Abstraction of Value: Political Economy in transition (1927-38)”

 [Introduction here.]

Event 28: I Met (ACLA)

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I Met (ACLA)
American Comparative Literature Association
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
30 March–1 April 2012
After On Kawara

Omaar Hena
Nathan Suhr-Systma
Jim Cocola
Matthew Nelson
Sonya Posmentier
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Event 25: I Met (ASAP)

I Met (ASAP)
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
26–30 October, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
After On Kawara

Benjamin Lee
Jonathan Eburne
Amy J. Elias
Brian McHale
David Shumway
Melissa Ragona
Tan Lin
Alan Golding
Kristen Gallagher
Danny Snelson
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Summer Academy, Munich and Nuremberg, May 2011. Photo: Meike Zwingenberger.

Third international Summer Academy
“Transatlantic American Studies: Democratic Cultures, Past and Present”

14–28 May 2011
Bavarian-American Academy, Munich
and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Academy information here; program schedule here; program poster here

Day 1: the program began with a reception at Amerika Haus; it was wonderful to see everyone—Meike Zwingenberger, Klaus Benesch, Heike Paul, Jasmina Brkovic, and two dozen German, Polish, and American doctoral students, some new to the program and many returned from the first two years. I had just arrived from Prague, but many who had gotten in earlier had already been on an extensive bike tour of the English Gardens.

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Event 18: I Met (Poland)

I Met (Poland)
10–13 2010
European Network for Avant-Garde
and Modernist Studies
Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznan, Poland
(after On Kawara)

Céline Mansanti
Bjarne Bendtsen
Elena Hamalidi
Rainer Rumold
Andrew McNamara
Paul Wood
Dietmar Unterkofler
Tanya Ørum
Marianne Ping Huang
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Event 14: I Met (Poetics)

I Met (Poetics)
10–13 June 2010
Rethinking Poetics
Columbia University
(after On Kawara)

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I Met (post_moot)
22–24 April 2010
post_moot convocation
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
(after On Kawara)

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Catherine Wagner
Alan Golding
Maria Damon
Lisa Samuels
Chris Mann
Rodrigo Toscano
Adeena Karasick
K. Lorraine Graham
K. Silem Mohammad
Rod Smith
Mel Nichols
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I Missed (Paris)
11–13 March 2010
John Ashbery in Paris
Université Paris VII
(after On Kawara)

Michael Davidson
Lori Chamberlain
Bob Perelman
Francie Shaw
Donna Stonecipher
Hélène Aji
Sarah Riggs
Omar Berrada
Joshua Clover
Abigail Lang
Antoine Cazé
Olivier Brossard
Nicholas LoLordo
Paul Grimstad
Jennifer Dick
Françoise de Laroque
Gilles Weinzaepflen
Florence Manlik