Conference Schedule

“To Him Who Wants It”
Celebrating the Centennial of the Publication of William Carlos Williams’s
Al Que Quiere!

 and

The Fiftieth Anniversary of An Approach to Paterson
By W. Scott Peterson

Cheng Library Auditorium
William Paterson University
Wayne, New Jersey

Thursday, June 22, 2017

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Reception and Walking Tour of Book Exhibit
Friends’ Room, Cheng Library

 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Symposium
Cheng Library Auditorium

Approaches to Paterson:
on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of W. Scott Peterson’s
An Approach to Paterson

Christopher MacGowan,
College of William and Mary

Daniel L. Burke,
Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago

Stephen Hahn,
William Paterson University

Announcement of Awards
Louis Martz Prize: The Best work on Williams in 2015
The Scott Peterson Award: Best Article Published in The William Carlos Williams Review 2015

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Friday, June 23, 2017

9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Symposium
Cheng Library Auditorium

On the One Hundredth Anniversary of Al Que Quiere!

Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg University
Williams’s ‘New Wandering’—the Extravagance of Al Que Quiere!

Elin Kack, Lipoking University (Sweden)
“Signing, Calling and Hearing: Dialogism in Al Que Quiere!”

Jonathan Cohen, Stony Brook University
“Staking Out New Earth: The Spanish Epigraph of Al Que Quiere!”

Zachary Rearick, Georgia State University
“Imaginative Sexuality in Williams’s Al Que Quiere! and Spring and All”

Marion Clavilier, CELIS, Universite’ Clermont Auverne (France)
“KHORA as a Matrix of Poetic and Choreographic Creation by the Reader”

12:30-4:30 p.m.

Box Lunch and Bus Tour of Paterson and Rutherford, NJ
Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University