August 28-30, 2013
After a highly successful inaugural conference last year in Middelburg, organized by Chad Weidner, the EBSN members and scholars convene again in August, this time in Aalborg, Denmark. Local organizer is Bent Sørensen, with the indispensable help of EBSN Secretary Polina Mackay and President Oliver Harris.
The conference is open for all interested parties, students and scholars alike. We ask a very modest registration fee of 50€ for students and 75 € for all others, payable at the door.
EUROPEAN BEAT STUDIES NETORK
2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AALBORG UNIVERSITY, DENMARK
Nordkraft Campus, 10th floor
AUGUST 28-30, 2013
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 28/08 | |
09:30 – 10:30 | Registration/Meet & Greet |
10:30 – 10:45 | Welcome (Bent Sørensen & Polina Mackay, room 10.14) |
10:45 – 12:00 | Keynote: A. Robert Lee, Beat Compass: Literary Widths and Circles, room 10.14 |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:00 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 1: Image, Cinematics, room 10.14 | |
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Panel 2: The Beat Generation and Europe, room 10.15 (Chair: Dick Ellis) | |
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15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee |
15:30 – 16:30 | Panel |
Panel 3: Transnational Beat I (room 10.14) (Chair: A. Robert Lee) | |
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16:30 - 18:00 | Journal and book launch (room 10.14):
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THURSDAY 29/08 | |
08:30 – 09:00 | Coffee |
09:00 – 10:30 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 4: Beat Visions (room 10.14) (Chair: Franca Bellarsi) | |
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Panel 5: Transnational Beat II (room 10.15) (Chair: A. Robert Lee) | |
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10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 6: Women of the Beat Generation (room 10.14) (Chair: Franca Bellarsi) | |
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Panel 7: Jack Kerouac (room 10.15) (Chair: Erik Mortenson) | |
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12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 15:00 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 8: The Beats and American Poetry (room 10.14) (Chair: Bent Sørensen) | |
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Panel 9: The Burroughsian Word (room 10.15) (Chair: Chad Weidner) | |
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15.00 - 15:30 | Coffee |
15:30 – 17:00 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 10: The Beats and Material Culture (room 10.14) (Chair: Jaap Van Der Bent) | |
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Panel 11: Beats, Avant-Gardists and Radicals (room 10.15) (Chair: Camelia Elias) | |
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17:00 – 18:30 | Plenary & Performance (room 10.14)
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21:00 - 23.00 | Film screening and lecture: Lars Movin, Words of Advice – William S. Burroughs on the Road (2007) @ Biffen Art Cinema (inside the Nordkraft building) – special price for conferees 60 Dkr. |
FRIDAY 30/08 | |
08:30 – 09:00 | Coffee |
09:00 – 10:30 | Parallel Panels |
Panel 12: Beats and European Romantic Heritage (room 10.14) (Chair: Polina Mackay) | |
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Panel 13: The Beats, Visuality and Vision (room 10.15) (Chair: Steen Christiansen) | |
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10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Panels |
Parallel Panels | |
Panel 14: The Beats and India (room 10.14) (Chair: Jason Lee) | |
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Panel 15: Burroughs and Modernity (room 10.15) (Chair: Thomas Antonic) | |
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12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Plenary + Film screening (room 10.14) |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee |
16:00 – 17:30 | EBSN Business Meeting, room 10.14 |