Thursday February 15
MORNING – Figueroa Chapel Theater (Carlos E. Chardón Building)
9:30 – 10:15 Welcome Event Moderator: Linda M. Rodriguez Dra. Emilia Quiñones Otal, Directora del Departamento de Humanidades; Dra. Rosa I. Román Pérez, Directora Departamento de Inglés; Dra. Olgamary Rivera, Decana Asociada de Asuntos Académicos y Estudiantiles de Artes y Ciencias; Dr. Fernando Gilbes Santaella, Decano Artes y Ciencias e irá en representación del Rector; and Dr. Mark C. Long, President of the William Carlos Williams Society
10:30 – 12:00 Keynote Address “‘That fertile darkness’: Mayagüez, the mother and the poet,” Marta Aponte Alsina, author of La Muerte Feliz de William Carlos Williams Moderator: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
AFTERNOON – Figueroa Chapel Theater (Carlos E. Chardón Building)
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch (Cafetería Colegial, Student Center Building)
1:30 – 2:45 Individual Presentation “Cultural Identity, Translation, and William Carlos Williams,” Peter Ramos, English Department, Buffalo State University Moderator: Jonathan Cohen
3:00 – 4:15 Roundtable Discussion William Carlos Williams and Translation: Julio Marzán and Peter Ramos Facilitator: Jonathan Cohen
4:15 – 6:30 Afternoon Break
EVENING – Set The Bar Restaurant, 113 Calle Méndez Vigo O 6:30 – 7:30 Keynote Address “William Carlos Williams in Mayagüez: The Poet and his ‘Line,’” Julio Marzán, author of The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams Moderator: Peter Ramos
7:30 Dinner
Friday February 16
MORNING
9:00 – 12:00 Walking Tour of Mayagüez Meet at the Oficina de Desarrollo Turistico, 40 C. Ramón Emeterio Betances, near the Main Mayagüez Plaza
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch in Mayagüez AFTERNOON – Salón Tarzán (Student Center Building)
1:30 – 2:30 Individual Presentation “Recovering William Carlos Williams’s ‘My Excellency’: The Puerto Rican Drama of Luis Rechani Agrait in the American Idiom,” Jonathan Cohen, Independent Scholar Moderator: Daniel E. Burke
2:45 – 3:45 Individual Presentation “‘I bless the muscles of their legs’: Williams in the Time of Polio,” María del Pilar Blanco, Spanish American and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford Moderator: Stephen Hahn
4:00 – 5:15 Individual Presentation “Reading the Shore From the ‘Edge, Unseen’: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in William Carlos Williams’s ‘Flowers by the Sea’” María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló, Department of English, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Moderator: Ian Copestake
5:15 – 6:00 Afternoon Break
EVENING – DeRaiz Restaurant, 60 Calle Ernesto Ramos Antonini, near Mayagüez Plaza
6:00 – 8:00 Poetry Reading and Dinner William Carlos Williams: Poetry and Science Moderator: Ivette Romero
Saturday February 17
MORNING – Salón Tarzán (Student Center Building)
8:15 – 9:00 Light Breakfast and Refreshments
9:00 – 10:15 Individual Presentation “Medicinal Poetry: Words, Places, Code-Switching, and Healing in William Carlos Williams’s Language,” Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Ph.D., Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Moderator: Ian Copestake
10:30 – 11:45 Closing Event Panel and Audience Discussion with Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Ian Copestake, and Jonathon Cohen: themes, questions, prospects for further work and collaborations Moderator: Mark C. Long
1:00 – 2:00 Optional visit to the Art Museum of the Mayagüez University Campus MUSA for a tour of the exhibition “El arte como re-existencia: Lo afropuertorriqueño”
