6th & 7th March 2017
University of St Andrews
Monday 6th March
10am-5pm, Gateway Boardroom
10-10.15 Welcome and Introduction
10.15-12.15 Spoken Performance
10-15-10.45 Colin Herd (University of Glasgow)
‘Talking Dances: The Poetry Performances of Chasen Gaver’
10.45-11.05 Tea/coffee
11.05-11.45 Katie Ailes (University of Strathclyde)
‘Live Embodiment & Authenticity in Contemporary Spoken Word.’
11.45-12.15 Discussion
12.15-12.30 Poppy Jarratt (University of Dundee)
‘The Mansio: A Contemporary Structure Housing New Writing Inspired by Hadrian’s Wall’
12.30-1.45pm Lunch
1.45-3.20 Listening as Performance
1.45-2.30 Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow).
‘”Melodic poetry”: the case of Robert Burns’s songs’
2.30-3.10 Dave Evans (University of St Andrews)
‘John Cage, “Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing?” – An Experimental Reading for New Ways of Listening’
3.10-3.30 Tea/coffee
3.30-5.00 Translation as performance and performing in translation
3.20-4.10 Round-table with an opening by Nina Parish (University of Bath) on Writing the Real. A bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry London: Enitharmon Press, 2016)
4.10-5.00 Performance by Sabine Macher
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Tuesday 7th March
10am-4pm, Gateway Boardroom
10.00-12.50 Digital Poetry
10-10.40 John Cayley (Brown University)
‘Performing with the poetics of aurature: situating and characterizing the embodied persons of a world with synthetic language’
10.40-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-11.40 Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen)
‘Generative poetry and combinatory cinema’
11.40-12.20 Jerome Fletcher (Falmouth University)
‘Traces of the body in the performance of digital writing’.
12.20-12.50 Discussion
12.50-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.20 Corporal and Textual bodies
2.00-2.45 Elodie Laügt (University of St Andrews)
‘Ex-criptions: the body-space and the note-book (Jean-Luc Nancy; Sabine Macher)’
2.45-3.35 Magali Nachtergael (Université Paris XIII)
‘Legitimisation of the Avant-Garde: does it make a Neo-Literature?’
3.35-4.00 Concluding remarks