Programme
Welcome and introduction
8.45: Prof. Marysa Demoor and Prof. Freddy Mortier, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Morning session, chaired by Prof. Geert Lernout (University of Antwerp)
9.00 - 10.00: Prof. Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University): 'The Gender of Modernist Melodies'
10.00 - 11.00: Melodies and Modernisms Panel 1, chaired by Prof. Bart Keunen (Ghent University)
- Prof. Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp), 'Wallace Stevens and the 'Bawds of Euphony"'
- Dr. Sascha Bru (Ghent University), 'Songs of Helplesness and Drift. The Auden-Group, Poetic Value and Tradition in the 1930s.'
- Ms. Sarah Posman (Ghent University), 'She Stuttered: Gertrude Stein's Bergsonian “FugfugFFF-fewg”'
11.00 - 11.30: coffee/tea
11.30 - 12.30: Prof. Michel Delville (Université de Liège), 'In Anticipation of the Loop: Stein's Sonatinas'
Lunch and concert
Afternoon session, chaired by Prof. Bart Eeckhout
14.00 - 15.00: Prof. Christopher Butler (Oxford University),
'Identity and Fragmentation - some aspects of melody in the Modernist
period'
15.00 - 15.30: coffee/tea
15.30 - 16.30: Melodies and Modernisms Panel 2, chaired by Prof. Gert Buelens (Ghent University)
- Prof. Geert Lernout, 'Ulysses and the Sirens'
- Mr. David Chan (Ghent University), 'Crustacean-tailed equine amphibious rhythm: Reading Marianne Moore's "A Carriage from Sweden"'
- Ms. Debora Van Durme (Ghent University), '' ‘Twixt Orchestrator and Balladeer: Amy Lowell’s Mongrel Musico-poetics'
16.30 -17.30: Prof. Daniel Albright (Harvard University), 'Music's Pentecost, Music's Stupidity'
Reception
