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Session 4: James Merrill: Life And Archive, Joel Minor, Langdon Hammer, Justin Reed
Session 4: James Merrill: Life And Archive, Joel Minor, Langdon Hammer, Justin Reed
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
2:45 p.m. — Session 4: James Merrill: Life and Archive
An introduction to James Merrill resources in Washington University Special Collections.
See http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/merrill-life-archive
Session 3: Digital Merrill, Shannon Davis, Annelise Duerden, Heidi Lim, Joe Loewenstein, Timothy Materer
Session 3: Digital Merrill, Shannon Davis, Annelise Duerden, Heidi Lim, Joe Loewenstein, Timothy Materer
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
1:15 p.m. — Session 3: Digital Merrill
- Shannon Davis, digital library services manager, WU: The James Merrill Digital Archive: Process and Product
- Annelise Duerden, PhD candidate in English, WU — “Admit It Arguably A priori Admittedly I have failed”: Re-vision in the Merrill Archive
- Heidi Lim, PhD candidate in English, WU — To Tag or Not to Tag: The Digital Markup Process as a Form of Reading
- Timothy Materer, professor emeritus, University of Missouri — The Poem as a Netscape
Session 2: Remembering Jimmy, Stephen Yenser, Randy Bean, Judith Moffett, Rachel Hadas
Session 2: Remembering Jimmy, Stephen Yenser, Randy Bean, Judith Moffett, Rachel Hadas
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
10:30 a.m. — Session 2: Remembering Jimmy
- Stephen Yenser, distinguished professor of English, UCLA — Reading an essay about his friendship with Merrill
- Randy Bean, board member, James Merrill House Committee — Presenting on the history and initiatives of the James Merrill House
- Judith Moffett, adjunct professor emerita of English, University of Pennsylvania — Mixed Messages, an excerpt from "Unlikely Friends: A Memoir"
- Rachel Hadas, professor of English, Rutgers University — (via prerecorded video) reading an excerpt from "The Book of Ephraim," reading her poem, "Threshold and Mirror: the Biography," and recollecting her friendship with Merrill
Session 1: "Eyes Raised In Ecstasy": The Analog Merrill, Thomas Brennan, Tamara Taylor, Steven Meyer
Session 1: "Eyes Raised In Ecstasy": The Analog Merrill, Thomas Brennan, Tamara Taylor, Steven Meyer
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
9:00 a.m. — Session 1: “Eyes Raised in Ecstasy”: The Analog Merrill
- Thomas Brennan, associate professor, Saint Joseph’s University — Ecstasy Edited? Merrill’s “Days of 1971”
- Tamara Taylor, lecturer, WU — “Thinking Light” Between Spaces: Reflective Metaphor
- Steven Meyer, associate professor, WU — Eye’s Mind: The Poetry of the World
Keynote Address: "The Biographical Container", Langdon Hammer
Keynote Address: "The Biographical Container", Langdon Hammer
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
Keynote address: “The Biographical Container” by Langdon Hammer, author of James Merrill: Life and Art (Knopf). Watch the video of the address here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BquCAmR6ANI.
Welcome Remarks, Jeffrey Trzeciak
Welcome Remarks, Jeffrey Trzeciak
James Merrill SymposiumOctober 22-23, 2015
Welcome remarks by University Librarian Jeffrey Trzeciak
Futures Of Football, Katherine Parsons, Brian Levinson, Kayla Turner
Futures Of Football, Katherine Parsons, Brian Levinson, Kayla Turner
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
No abstract provided.
Reworking Status In Nfl Football Stadiums, Kyle Mcbrierty, Robbi Melvin, Kellie Walsh
Reworking Status In Nfl Football Stadiums, Kyle Mcbrierty, Robbi Melvin, Kellie Walsh
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
No abstract provided.
Futures Of Football, Catherine Powell, Kalu Kalu, Meg Fortier
Futures Of Football, Catherine Powell, Kalu Kalu, Meg Fortier
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
No abstract provided.
Futures Of Football, Kylie Vanburen, Bradley Gaffin, Cameron Price
Futures Of Football, Kylie Vanburen, Bradley Gaffin, Cameron Price
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
No abstract provided.
Good Housekeeping And Good Patriots: How The American Women's Magazine Industry Aided The War Effort During World War Ii, Caitlin Lee
Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
You Throw Like A Girl, Alison Dees
You Throw Like A Girl, Alison Dees
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Yoking The Exotic: Influence, Identity, And The Politics Of Representation In The Reconstruction Of Historic New Orleans, Jessica Moss
Yoking The Exotic: Influence, Identity, And The Politics Of Representation In The Reconstruction Of Historic New Orleans, Jessica Moss
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
The Aftermath Of The Temple Bombing: A Catalyst For Social Change During The Civil Rights Movement In The Deep South, Alaina D'Anzi, Sara Maxi Howel
The Aftermath Of The Temple Bombing: A Catalyst For Social Change During The Civil Rights Movement In The Deep South, Alaina D'Anzi, Sara Maxi Howel
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Professional Learning Day
This session will enable attendees to teach the origins of the Cold War for the United States (and world) along with the evolution of American opinion on the topic. This fragmentation of historical opinion (left, right, center) will help attendees see the many possibilities of the topic. Teachers will leave ready to teach the topic.
Emerging Feminist Voices On Media And Representation, Diana Depasquale, Cassie Tenorio, Alyssa Wells, Savannah Fulmer
Emerging Feminist Voices On Media And Representation, Diana Depasquale, Cassie Tenorio, Alyssa Wells, Savannah Fulmer
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
The work featured in this panel is from students in WS2000, Introduction to Women's Studies. I created an assignment called "Choose Your Own Adventure." These projects include: an examination gender in film, and a revised version of the Bechdel Test, sexism and misogyny in gaming culture expressed through a series of comics, a painting on canvas using a variety of materials and techniques representing the control of women's reproductive rights and the damage done to female bodies by patriarchal language and rhetoric, and an analysis of womanism, scripture and Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
Each student engaged with issues related …
Another Country: When Your Nation Doesn’T Consider You To Be A Citizen, William B. Daniels Ii
Another Country: When Your Nation Doesn’T Consider You To Be A Citizen, William B. Daniels Ii
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
I plan to show how the characters in Another Country uncover the inherently racist and homophobic requirements for citizenship in a nation. The novel Another Country by African American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) exposes the fallible nature of hetero-normative and racial ideals that narrowly define a model citizen of a nation-state. The queer interracial relationships in the novel, particularly between the main character Rufus and his lover Eric, transgress the boundaries of nation, race, and sexuality, thus revealing the illusionary nature of categorizations that are defined and applied by nation-state apparatuses in order to discriminate and maintain uniformity. In addition …
Popular Culture And Individual Empowerment In The Global World, Rama Alapati
Popular Culture And Individual Empowerment In The Global World, Rama Alapati
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
Popular culture studies are central to the study of Liberal Arts, which enhance the spirit of the academia. They help people to understand their own culture, appreciate it, and grow up as participating members of the community. The present study focuses attention to analyze popular culture in relation to the domains of governance and self-help literature. The study is significant because it helps understand the trajectory adopted for individual empowerment.
Existence of multicultural societies across the Globe is more in the present day as the world has become a global village. It can, therefore, be understood that popular culture studies …