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How about this for a panel title:  Ezra Pound and Indigenous Cultures.

Robert E Kibler
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On May 23, 2013, at 12:28 PM, "Robert Kibler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Demetres,
>   I could organize a panel on Pound's literary engagemenet with diverse cultures and traditions and his subsequent introduction of those cultures and traditions to a wider audience--or could certainly give a paper on this topic concerning the Naxi. It would be a terrific opportunity for others to see some translation from the Har La Llu k'o manuscript so often referred to by Pound in the later cantos. And Pound's use of diverse cultural traditions--from ancient Greece and Media, to contemporary China and Africa, Pound incorporates so many cultures and traditions into the cantos that they become the cantos. 
>   Let me know if there is an interest and I will write something up. As it stands, after two years fighting a flood that left our home flooded and all of our properties sitting in 12 feet of water for a month--and the rebuilding of everything over the past two years, we are done with the flood, so come August, I am getting back to the book on Pound and the Naxi. All the best, Robert
> 
> "Death was the first mystery, and it placed man on the track of
> other mysteries. It raised [induced?] his thoughts from the
> visible to the invisible, from the transitory to the eternal, from the human
> to the divine."
>                          from "The Ancient City," by Fustel de Coulanges. Page 17
> 
> Robert E. Kibler, PhD
> Associate Professor of English and Humanities
> Minot State University, Minot North Dakota
> 701 858 3876
> ________________________________________
> From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Betsy Rose [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:13 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Posting from Demetres Tryphonopoulos
> 
> Dear Poundians,
> 
> 
> 
> This e-mail concerns three things:
> 
> 
> 
> First, the Ezra Pound Society has organized the following sessions for the
> ALA taking place right now (May 23-26) in Boston:
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> 
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> Friday May 24, 2013                        11:10 – 12:30
> 
> Session 9-F                        Ezra Pound & Marianne Moore
> 
> Organized by the Ezra Pound Society
> 
> Chair, Trevor Sawler, Saint Thomas University, Canada
> 
> 1.            “The Ezra Pound-Marianne Moore Early Correspondence: Gender
> and Prosody in Marianne Moore’s ‘Marriage,’” Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos,
> University of New Brunswick, Canada
> 
> 2.            “Marianne Moore’s ‘Marriage’ through Ezra Pound’s Eyes,” David
> Roessel, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
> 
> 3.            “Performing Marianne Moore’s ‘Marriage,’” Taylor Cawley, The
> Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
> 
> Audio visual required: None
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Friday May 24, 2013                        2:10 –3:30
> 
> Session 11-H            Ezra Pound & H.D.
> 
> Organized by the Ezra Pound Society Chair, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos,
> University of New Brunswick, Canada
> 
> 1.            “The Rose Turns: Feminine/Feminist Imagery in H.D.'s Hermetic
> Definition,” Sara Dunton, University of New Brunswick, Canada
> 
> 2.            “Through the worm-cycle: animals, trees, lovers, and gods in
> H.D.'s polymorphic machine,” Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University, Canada
> 
> 3.            “Adams and/or Mussolini: The Polymorphic Transformation of
> Good Government in The Cantos,” Trevor Sawler, St. Thomas University, Canada
> 
> Audio visual required: None
> 
> 
> 
> Second (and thinking ahead to next year’s ALA conference in San Francisco in
> late May 2014), I am asking anyone who wishes to organize a panel on any
> topic pertaining to the work and life of EP to let me know. We have the
> option of offering two sessions at next year’s ALA.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And third, it would be nice if one of you organized a panel on EP’s
> “treatment of warfare and its consequence. Please see the following call for
> papers.
> 
> 
> [Marker]Call for Papers
> 
> 
> American Literature Association Symposium
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> “War and American Literature”
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> 
> October 10 – 12, 2013
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> 
> Keynote Speakers:
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> Donald Anderson, United States Air Force Academy
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> 
> James Nagel, University of Georgia and Dartmouth College
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> 
> ALA symposia provide opportunities for scholars to meet in pleasant
> settings, present papers, and share ideas and resources.  The October 2013
> symposium will focus on war and American literature, exploring the literary
> treatment of warfare and its consequences in both prose and poetry from the
> colonial times through the present. We welcome proposals for presentations
> on the place of war in the writings of both popular and canonical American
> authors (Cooper, Twain, Crane, Hemingway, Heller, Vonnegut, McCarthy,
> O’Brien, and others). Proposals for panels and roundtable discussions are
> also encouraged.
> 
> 
> Location:  Hotel Monteleone
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> 
> 214 Royal Street
> 
> 
> New Orleans, Louisiana
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> 
> Hotel Rate: The Hotel Monteleone is offering a special rate of $169 (plus
> tax) per night for a single or double room.
> 
> 
> 
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> Conference Directors:
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> Dustin Anderson, Georgia Southern University
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> Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern University
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> Conference Fee:  $150
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> Please email all proposals to Dustin Anderson
> 
> 
> [log in to unmask]
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> before July 20, 2013
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Demetres
> 
> 
> 
> Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos
> 
> University Research Professor
> 
> A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies
> 
> Professor, Department of English
> 
> Associate Editor, Paideuma: Studies in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and
> Poetics
> 
> Secretary, Ezra Pound Society
> 
> University of New Brunswick
> 
> Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317
> 
> 3 Bailey Drive
> 
> Fredericton, N.B.
> 
> Canada E3B 5A3
> 
> E-mail:  [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ][log in to unmask]
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