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Lodging & Other Area Attractions

We have reserved a block of rooms for symposium attendees at the Iowa House Hotel.  Please call 319-335-3513 or email kathy-murphy@uiowa.edu by March 5, 2007 to book your room at the reduced group rate of $74/night.

For more information about the University of Iowa and the Iowa City/Coralville area, check out the University home page and the local CVB.

April 5-7 Schedule

Thursday, April 5


                                   Introduction to Symposium: Dee Morris and to Cary Nelson: Ed Folsom
7:30 pm                        Keynote address by Cary Nelson
                                    “When Context Is All: The Specificity of Popular Poetry”
                                    Gerber Lounge, EPB
                                    Reception following

Friday, April 6

9:30 Refreshments & Coffee
10:00  

Panel: “The Futures of Poetry Studies”
Gerber Lounge, EPB

Michael Chasar (University of Iowa)
     Introduction

Melissa Girard (University of Illinois),
“Backward Glances: The Sentimental Poetess at the Height of Modernism”

Stephen Healey (University of Minnesota),
“Notes on the Value of Poetry, or, What's the Difference Between an MFA Candidate and a Prisoner”

Matthias Regan (University of Chicago),
“Embodied Politics, or, the Poet as Perceiver and Improviser”
   

Luncheon Sessions
11:30 – 1:00
Cary Nelson at POROI
“Organizing for the Future of Academic Freedom”
MidAmerican Colloquium Room (W401), Pappajohn Business Building
12:00 - 1:00
Maria Damon at American Studies
“Textual Abjection: The Place of ‘Bad Poetry’ in American Studies”
Location: Jefferson Building, 704
Pre-Registration required: contact laura-kastens@uiowa.edu in the Dept. of American Studies
11:45 - 1:00
James Sullivan at University of Iowa Center for the Book
“American Poetry Broadsides of the Last 40 Years”
Room 2032, Main Library
12:00 - 1:00
Robert von Hallberg at English/African-American Studies
“Robert Hayden's Aspiration to Universality”
Gerber Lounge, EPB
Pre-Registration required: Please call the English Dept. at 319-335-0454 to sign up.
   
1:30-2:30

James Sullivan (Illinois Central College)
“Poetry Broadsides: Looking at the Printed Poem, Holding It in Your Hands”
Room 2032, Main Library
2:45-3:45

Maria Damon (University of Minnesota)
“Poetry and Cultural Studies: (im)Plausible Pre-histories and Futures”
Gerber Lounge, EPB
4:00-5:00 

Robert von Hallberg (University of Chicago)
“The Recovery of Sentiment in Popular U.S. Poetry of the 1940s and 1950s: Sinatra; Doo Wop”
Gerber Lounge, EPB
7:00

Screening of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town by Frank Capra
101 BCSB

On Friday, April 6, beginning at 7:00 PM in 101 BCSB, we will be screening Frank Capra’s 1934 film Mr. Deeds Goes To Town.  The film stars Gary Cooper as small-town poet Longfellow Deeds who goes to New York City to collect a fortune in inheritance money.  Along the way, he encounters and engages the city’s literary stars in a bout of fisticuffs where, in the words of Joseph Harrington, he “meets the violence of taste as discipline with the violence of physical force.”

The film will be followed by a discussion led by University of Iowa cultural studies professor Loren Glass.