{"id":16,"date":"2026-06-16T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:16:44","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-9.11.23-AM-733x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-9.11.23-AM-733x1024.png 733w, https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-9.11.23-AM-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-9.11.23-AM.png 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pierre Vinclair is a writer and researcher. His encounter with&nbsp;<em>Paterson<\/em>&nbsp;in 2005 led him to question the conditions for conceiving a contemporary epic, which prompted him to write a doctoral thesis comparing the epic and the novel. Both a poet and a theorist, he is the author of some twenty works of poetry and literary criticism, including a line by line commentary of&nbsp;<em>The Waste Land<\/em>, titled&nbsp;<em>Terre inculte. Penser dans l&#8217;illisible The Waste Land<\/em>&nbsp;(Hermann, 2018),&nbsp;<em>La Sauvagerie<\/em>&nbsp;(Jos\u00e9 Corti, 2020), and&nbsp;<em>Les \u0153uvres liquides<\/em>&nbsp;(Flammarion, 2025). His Habilitation thesis (HDR) focused on &#8220;the event of the poem&#8221;: how does the poem&#8217;s desire to become an event in itself enable or prevent it from responding to a historical event? Winner of the Heredia Prize from the French Academy (2014), Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2022), he translated the&nbsp;<em>Shijing<\/em>&nbsp;from Chinese, Horatius from Latin, or Alexander Pope and Derek Walcott from English. He was the Chief editor for the issue of the journal&nbsp;<em>Europe<\/em>&nbsp;dedicated to William Carlos Williams (2024).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RedWheelbarrow-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" style=\"width:910px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RedWheelbarrow-1.webp 643w, https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RedWheelbarrow-1-300x174.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Vinclair is a writer and researcher. His encounter with&nbsp;Paterson&nbsp;in 2005 led him to question the conditions for conceiving a contemporary epic, which prompted him [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamssociety.org\/2026biennialconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}