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Lost Measure:
A Conference on H.D.
Schedule Draft
Organized by Lehigh University and the H.D. Society
September 20-22 2002
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
All events at the Lehigh Humanities
Center on Packer Avenue unless otherwise noted
FRIDAY
5 PM Informal gathering and free-form poetry, oriented to Lehigh undergraduates
7 PM Screening of Borderline and discussion with Alexander Doty
(Lehigh University),
and
Charlotte Mandel
SATURDAY
8:00 AM Breakfast
– H.D. Society meeting
9:00 AM Reception
and Dedication
9:15 – 11:00
AM First Session
Contexts
of Classicism
Maria Fox,
“H.D.’s Hymenic Mysteries: "Hymen" as a Matrix”
Delia
Fisher, Westfield State College,
“Claiming Classicism: H.D.'s Feminized Epic, Helen in Egypt”
Heather
Thomas, Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania, “H.D. and Anne Waldman: Vow to ‘Salvation Poetry’”
Poetics/Iconics
of Subject-Making
Georgia Kreiger, West Virginia University, “Autobiographical Product Versus Process in
H. D.’s HERmione”
Wayne Kobylinski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “’Could Beauty Be Caught and Hurt’: The Captivating Glance in H.D.’s Poetry”
Patricia Moyer, Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina, "The Unwritten Volume of the New"
11:00 Coffee/Tea/Fruit
11:15-1:00
Plenary Session (Re)Aligning H.D.
At
Room 200 Lindemann Library
Chair: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
Cyrena
Pondrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“H.D. and the Rise of the Communal and Visionary Voice in Anglo-American Modernism”
C.D.
Blanton, Princeton
University, “ParaRhythms: The Lateral
Logic of Incidents and Endings”
Adelaide
Morris, University of Iowa, “Aligning
H.D.”
1:00-2:30
Lunch (on your own)
2:30-4:15
Second Session
(Trans)National
Ties
Celena
Kusch, Penn State University, “Transatlantic
H.D.: A Triangle of Friendship”
Donna
Hollenberg, University of Connecticutt at Storrs, "'The Deeper
Unsatisfied War’: Robert Duncan's Poems for H.D."
Annette
Debo, Western Carolina University,
“H.D.'s American Landscape: The Power and Permanence of Place”
Erotics
and the Mystical
Shannon
McRae, SUNY Fredonia, “'Tear us
an Altar': Erotic Violence and Prophecy in H.D.”
Rob
Spirko, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, “’The Perfect Bi—‘: Sexuality, Mystical Affect, and Identity
in HERmione and Nights”
Jane
Augustine, "Loved by the Gods":
H.D., Orgasm and Divine Ecstasy”
4:45 Keynote
Address, Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
At Room 200 Lindemann Library
6:45 Dinner
(catered; food served at Humanities center)
8:30 Poetry
reading (w/drinks) at the Humanities Center
Rachel
Blau DuPlessis, Cynthia Hogue, Jane Augustine, Craig Arnold, Heather Thomas,
Charlotte Mandel & possibly others
SUNDAY
8:00 Tour
of H.D. Sites in Bethlehem
9:00-10:45
AM Third Session
H.D.’s
Scientific Imagination
Lara Vetter, University of Maryland at College Park, "The
'electric fervour' of H.D.'s Modernist Artist: Sexuality, Science, and Spiritualism"
Brent M. Blackwell, Purdue University, "The Quantum Nature of the
Image in H.D.'s Trilogy"
Stephanie Hawkins, SUNY at Buffalo, "Marie Curie of Modernism: H.D.'s
'new autobiographical directive' in The Gift"
Feminist
Methodologies
Marina
Camboni, Università degli Studi
di Macerata (Italy), "H.D., London and the Suffragist Vortex"
Tenley
Diefenbach, Drew University, "Against
Patriarchy: H.D., Woolf, and Fascism"
Patrizia Muscogiuri, University of Salford (UK), “From ‘shipwrecked mariners’
to insurgent breakers: (re)empowering
women writers”
11:00-12:45
PM Final Plenary Session
Mourning
and Resistance in H.D.’s War Poetry
At Room 200 Lindemann Library
Chair: Patricia Ingham, Lehigh
University
Rebecca
Wisor, City University of New York,
“(Wo)Men's War Work”
Kerry
Manders, York University, “The
"Strange Magic" of Memory: H.D.'s Trilogy”
Madelyn
Detloff, Miami University of Ohio,
“Re-scripting Atrocity: H.D. and Public Mourning”
1:00 PM and
after – rides to Airport
Or: Lunch
on your own (optional)