Challenging Williams: Ninth Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society
June 23-25, 2022 • Chicago, IL
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Schedule
Thursday, June 23 @ the Reading Room of the Poetry Foundation (61 West Superior Street)
7:00-8:00 Plenary Lecture by Dr. Tara Betts “Challenging Williams” (event on Facebook)
Friday, June 24
Morning Session @ Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago, Maguire Hall (1 East Pearson Street)
9:00-9:45 The Material and the Spiritual in Williams’s Zen-Inflected Ecopoetics, by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja (University of London) [PAPER]
9:50-10:35 On the Trail of Williams’s Elusive Indigenous Subject: “To Elsie” to The Great American Novel, by Stephen Hahn (William Paterson University, emeritus) [PAPER, plus supporting materials: #1 and #2) ]
10:45-11:30 “I’m a radical! I write modern poetry, baby!”: Williams’s Radical Politics, by Ciaran O’Rourke (Independent Scholar) [PAPER]
11:35-12:20 “The Wanderer”: Williams’s Modernist Ars Poetica, by Fahri Öz (University of Iowa) [PAPER]
12:30-2:00 Lunch @ Beane Hall, in Lewis Towers, 111 E. Pearson St.)
Includes an interactive introduction to the William Carlos Williams Williams Digital Concordance, with Nathaniel Long and Mark Long
2:00 Gather at Arrupe College entrance (Maguire Hall, 1 East Pearson Street) to travel to
Afternoon Session @ University of Chicago’s Joseph Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St.)
for a viewing of letters & manuscripts by William Carlos Williams in the Poetry: A Magazine of Verse archive.
Followed by a casual group dinner
Saturday, June 25 @ the Reading Room of the Poetry Foundation (61 West Superior Street)
11:00-11:45 Temporal Poetics: Rhythm and Form (Body, Language, World, and Mind) in Williams’s Poetry, by Richard Cureton (University of Michigan, emeritus) [PAPER]
11:50-12:35 “My “Case” to Work Up”: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson, by Walter Scott Peterson, M.D. [PAPER]
12:45-1:30 Editing Williams – a Conversation with Christopher MacGowan (College of William and Mary), by Stephen Hahn & Daniel Burke
