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Fourth Biennial Conference of the William Carlos William Society

“Life along the Passaic River”

Thursday, June 16, 2011—Saturday, June 18, 2011
Cheng Library Auditorium, William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ

www.wpunj.edu/william-carlos-williams

Thursday, June 16
6:00 to 7:00 pm

Gathering & Reception, Friends Room, David & Lorraine Cheng Library
WPUNJ Campus Map.
7:00  pm

Keynote Speaker
Christopher MacGowan, The College of William and Mary
"Marriage along the Passaic River"
Library Auditorium
Supported by a Grant from the WPU Alumni Association Fund
8:00 pm

Dinner on your own. Local restaurant information can be found here
Friday, June 17 (Cheng Library Auditorium - Map)
9:00 to 10:00 am

Mark Hillringhouse, Passaic County College
"Passaic River Journal"
10:00 to 11:00 am

Beth Ann Sweens (aka Hooper), Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
“A New Light on ‘Nantucket’ – William Carlos Williams and Doris Bernhard Hooper”
11:00 to 11:15 am

Coffee Break, Friends Room
11:15 am to 12:15 pm

Julia Daniel, Loyola University of Chicago
“A Walk in the Park: Dr. Paterson as Nature Writer and Flâneur”
12:15 to 1:15 pm

Buffet lunch, Friends Room
1:15 to 2:15 pm

Robert Tucker, University College, London
“’It is the mind, the mind that must be cured’: Williams Carlos Williams and the Politics of Medicine”
2:15 to 3:15 pm

Stephen Hahn, William Paterson University
“'Prologue': Williams/Diction/Cadence/Address"
3:15 to 3:30 pm

Coffee Break, Friends Room
3:30 to 4:30 pm

Paul Cappucci, Georgian Court University
"A Night at the Opera: William Carlos Williams, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and The First President."
4:30 to 5:30 pm

Joshua Keiter, SUNY Binghamton
"Poetry is a Rival Government always in Opposition to its Cruder Replicas’:
William Carlos Williams' Contact with Politics in the 1930s"
5:30 pm

Reception sponsored by the Friends of the Library, William Paterson University
Friends Room
6:00 pm

Dinner on your own. Local restaurant information can be found here
Saturday, June 18 (all sessions in the Cheng Library Auditorium, WPUNJ Main Campus - Map)
9:00 to 10:00 am

Jeff Westover, Boise State University
"Competing forms of Representation and the Figure of the Orphan in William Carlos Williams’s Depression-Era Passaic"
10:00 to 11:00 am

Samantha Carrick, University of Southern California
“Pater's Son: Williams and Ginsberg, Intertextuality and Mentorship in Post-War American Poetry"
11:00 to 11:15 am

Coffee Break, Friends Room
11:15 am to 12:15 pm

Rod Leith, Rutherford Borough Historian
“Williams Early Years: Coming of Age in Rutherford and its Environs"
12:15 to 3:30 pm

Bus tour with boxed lunch along the Passaic River, Great Falls, and Garret Mountain to Rutherford and Ridge Road. ($25.00. Registration Required)
3:30 pm

Bus returns to WPUNJ Campus

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