DAY 1 Friday 23 October
Welcome and Coffee
09:30–10:00
Elin Käck and Hélène Aji
First paper session
10:00–12:00
Chair: Elin Käck
- 10:00–10:15 ‘Abandoned and serious’: Dr. Evans’s counter-Paris
Hélène Aji, ENS - 10:20–10:35 Paris as the inverted mirror of America in In the American Grain
Samantha Lemeunier, IDEA, Université de Lorraine - 10:40–10:55 Romantic Narration and the Journey to Love in Williams’s “Pere Sebastian Rasles”
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University
11:00–12:00 Discussion
Lunch
12:00–14:00
Second Paper Session
Chair: Samantha Lemeunier
14:00–16:00
- 14:00–14:15 The Generosity of Art: (Re)Reading “Against the Weather: A Study of the Artist”
Mark C. Long, Keene State College - 14:20–14:35 The Williamses’ Paris
Daniel E. Burke, Arrupe College, Loyola University - 14:40–14:55 Poetic Knowledge: Theorizations and Convergences Between Williams and Amié Césaire
Elin Käck, Linköping University - 15:00–16:00 Discussion
Coffee break
16:00–16:15
A Conversation with Christopher MacGowan
Elin Käck
16:15–17:00 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, volume 1, 1909–1939 at 40
Society Meeting
17:15–18:00
All attendants welcome and encouraged to join!
(Short walk to The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore on 11 Rue de Medicis – with enough time to grab some refreshments on the way.)
Keynote: Pierre Vinclair, at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore
19:00
DAY 2 Saturday 24 October
Third Paper Session
Chair: Mark Long
09:30–12:00
- 09:30–09:45 Winter & All: “A”-17, Louis Zukofsky’s Elegy for W. C. Williams
Xavier Kalck, Lille University - 09:50–10:05 Where the Palm Tree Grows: William Carlos Williams in Puerto Rico
Peter Hulme - 10:10–10:25 William Carlos Williams’s Translation from French of E. C. Fabre’s “Cage”: A Critical Missing Link in the Evolution of Williams’s Short Fiction
Jonathan Cohen - 10:30–10:45 William Carlos Williams and René Char
Cristina Giorcelli, Uni Roma 3
Coffee
10:45–11:00
Discussion
11:00–12:00
Lunch Break
12:00–14:00
Fourth Paper Session
Chair: Daniel Burke
14:00–16:15
- 14:00–14:15 Williams’ Seances: The Tentacles of Allan Kardec
Julio Marzán, Nassau Community College - 14:20–14:35 Williams Dancing in Paris: From Symbolist Influences to Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Daria Lemoël, Universität Heidelberg - 14:40–14:55 A Surreal Machine of Words: William Carlos Williams, Lola Ridge and Gilbert Simondon
Eric White, Oxford Brookes University - 15:00–15:15 Williams and McAlmon: The Decades After Paris
Christopher MacGowan
Discussion
15:15–16:15
Coffee
16:15–16:30
Peterson Prize Announcement
Stephen Hahn
16:30–16:45
New Directions in Williams Scholarship: An Open Discussion
Mark Long
16:45–17:45
Conference Dinner
19:00