Bob Dylan
The 1998 International Conference at Stanford University
January 17, 1998
http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-1998/events/bobdylan.html
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Bob DylanThe 1998 International Conference at Stanford University January 17, 1998 http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-1998/events/bobdylan.html |
BOB DYLAN
THE 1998 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
JANUARY 17, 1998
9:00am-5:00pm
Dean of Humanities & Sciences
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
The Stanford Humanities Center
Department of Music, Department of English
Humanities Special Program
Department of Religious Studies
Department of French & Italian
Bob Dylan is one of the most important--and most enigmatic--popular artists of the twentieth century. For over thirty years, his work has deeply influenced contemporary culture and society and he has become an international cultural icon and a talismanic figure for several generations. Among his numerous awards, he has received an honorary degree from Princeton University and the Commandeur des Artes et des Lettres, the highest cultural award that France presents to foreigners. In 1997, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The complex nature of Bob Dylan's art (music, lyrics, poetry, live performance, film, recorded sound) makes fruitful academic engagement within traditional disciplinary limits difficult. This conference, however, will approach Dylan's work in a new way: By including scholars from various disciplines (music, literary studies, religious studies, and drama), we will be able to explore the multifaceted nature of his art and his cultural legacy in an interdisciplinary context.
Program*
9:00-10:00
Christopher Ricks (Core Curriculum, Boston University)
Bob Dylan: Not Dark Yet
10:00-12:00 Panel 1
Moderator: Susan E. Dunn (Stanford Humanities Center)
Tino Markworth (German Studies, Stanford University)
Too Much Educated Rap? Bob Dylan and Academia
Rush Rehm (Drama, Stanford University)
Only a Pawn in Their Game: Bob Dylan and Politics
Mark Gonnerman (Religious Studies, Stanford University)
The Sound of One Dog Barking: Bob Dylan and Religious Experience
Lunch Break
13:00-15:00 Panel 2
Moderator: Robert Harrison (French & Italian, Stanford University)
Aldon Nielsen (English, Loyola Marymount University)
A Long Way from Hibbing: Bob Dylan's Black Masque
Stephen Ronan (author, assist. producer of The Jack Kerouac Collection)
The Visionary Road: Rimbaud, Kerouac, Dylan
Stephen Scobie (English, University of Victoria)
Renaldo & Allen: Allen Ginsberg's Role in 'Renaldo & Clara'
Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Panel 3
Moderator: TBA
Maria Johnson (Music, Southern Illinois University)
Performed Literature: The Music of Bob Dylan
Paul Williams (author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist)
Seeing the Real You at Last: Bob Dylan and His Audience
Lonny Chu (Music, Stanford University)
In the Studio: The Recording Styles and Techniques of Bob Dylan
Lonny Chu is a doctoral student in the Music Department at Stanford University. His academic and personal interests include music cognition, new technologies in music, and studies in popular music and rock and roll.
Mark Gonnerman is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies and Research Fellow at the Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. He is currently leading a year-long research workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center, "Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End."
Maria Johnson is presently on the faculty at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where she is developing a new course on Diversity and Popular Music in American Culture. She has published articles on African American women's music and literature in African American Review. Her most recent research has focused on women and expressions of race, gender and sexuality in popular music.
Tino Markworth (Conference Organizer) is a Whiting Fellow at Stanford University. He organized a class on Bob Dylan in Winter Quarter 1996-97 at Stanford and is currently working on a study about issues of identity.
Aldon Lynn Nielsen is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University. His works of criticism include Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism, C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction, Writing between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality, and Reading Race. His books of poetry areHeat Strings, Evacuation Routes, andStepping Razor. He was the first recipient of the Larry Neal Award for Poetry, and has appeared in such anthologies as Best American Poems and The Gertrude Stein Awards.
Rush Rehm, Associate Professor, Drama and Classics. Actor and Director, author of Aeschylus' Oresteia: A Theatre Version (Hawthorne 1977), Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge 1992), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (Princeton 1994). Currently working on a book entitled "The Play of Space: Spatial Transformations in Greek Tragedy." Politically active in areas of U.S. foreign policy (especially Asia and Latin America), anti-Nike campaign, Indonesia out of East Timor, etc.
Christopher Ricks, Professor in the Core Curriculum at Boston University; formerly Professor at the University of Cambridge. Professor Ricks has written books on Milton, Tennyson, Eliot and Beckett, among others.
Stephen Ronan is a writer and publisher. During the 1980s he was an editor and Beat Generation specialist at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Recently, he co-produced three multivolume collections of Beat literary recordings for Rhino Records including the Grammy-nominated Jack Kerouac Collection. He has lectured at New York University and is the author of an annotated discography of the Beat Generation to be published in 1998 by Scaregrow Press. Mr. Ronan was consultant on and appears in the forthcoming documentary film on the Beat Generation by Academy Award winning director Chuck Workman.
Stephen Scobie is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Alias Bob Dylan (1991), and is a regular contributor toOn the Tracks. He is currently working on a study of Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg. Scobie is also an award-winning poet, and is currently working on a sequence of poems about the childhood of Robert Zimmerman.
Paul Williams, editor of Crawdaddy and author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol. I-II (1990-92) andWatching the River Flow: Observations on Bob Dylan's Art-in-Progress, 1966-1995 (1996). Keynote speaker at the 1997 conference of the 'International Association for the Study of Popular Music' in Tokyo.
TICKETS: $14 ($6 Students)
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