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Andy Trevathan <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:14:35 -0600
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I do have an idea/ideas for a paper/seminar/round table (and subsequently
'crashing the party'):

What say ye Poundians?
1.  The Modernist Epic
2.  (Anti-)Romanticism and (Neo)Classicism: Polarizing Ideals of
Transatlantic Modernism
3.  Modernist Translators and How Translation Influenced the Modern
Aesthetic


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Michael Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It wouldn't be crashing the party! What Demetres advises is exactly right.
> Frame a Pound-friendly topic so as to welcome and invite scholars working
> on other figures. Cheers, Michael
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Andy,
> > No official plans since the MSA is not part of the EPS conference
> circuit.
> > BUT having said that, I don't see any impediment in crashing the party.
> If
> > you have ideas for a paper/seminar/round table we could use the EPS
> mailing
> > list to cobble a proposal together.
> > Participants have to be members of the MSA.
> > Here a link to the MSA conference website: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/
> > conferences/msa16/cfp.html
> > Cheers,
> > Roxana
> >
> >
> > Quoting Andy Trevathan <[log in to unmask]> on Sat, 22 Feb 2014
> > 21:29:29 -0600:
> >
> >  What are the Society's plans, if any,  for MSA 2014? It's in Pittsburgh
> >> this coming November.
> >>
> >> *Deadline for Seminar Proposals and Thursday Workshop Proposals is
> >> February
> >> 28, 2014 *
> >>
> >> http://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa16/
> >>
> >> I'm trying to put together something, but don't remember hearing
> anything
> >> from my fellow Poundians.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> AndyT.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Dear Poundians,
> >>>
> >>> As you all know, The Ezra Pound Society has the major mission of
> >>> organising conference sessions and panels so that Poundians can present
> >>> their work and projects to the scholarly community. Until now, the EPS
> >>> has
> >>> had two slots at the MLA in January and two slots at the American
> >>> Literature Association Conference in May. Preparations for the MLA
> >>> participation were made in February this year: Demetres organised a
> >>> session
> >>> on literature and technology for the MLA 2014.
> >>>
> >>> The very good news is that our colleague Prof. Alan Golding, who has
> now
> >>> been appointed Director of the Louisville Conference, has offered the
> >>> society a regular slot for this prestigious annual event. The
> Louisville
> >>> Conference is dedicated to literature after 1900 and its connections
> with
> >>> the other arts: it has run for 41 years now and is attended on average
> by
> >>> 500 scholars.
> >>> Alan tells me people come gladly year after year (and not only for the
> >>> music, excellent restaurants and the bourbon!). Have a look at the
> >>> conference website here:       http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com/
> >>>
> >>> I asked Alan about how the Louisville conference compares to the MSA.
> >>> This is what he told me:
> >>>
> >>> ?Compared to MSA, it's somewhat smaller (about 500 people), and we
> don't
> >>> use MSA's seminar structure. We have a somewhat smaller book exhibit,
> but
> >>> still a pretty good-size Scholar's Choice table, and the U of Iowa
> Press
> >>> is
> >>> now a presence too. Creative writing is a much stronger presence here
> >>> than
> >>> at MSA; we run creative and critical panels simultaneously, and of our
> >>> four
> >>> featured speaker slots, two are devoted to creative writing. I'm in
> touch
> >>> with Colson Whitehead about coming in 2014, and we still need to book
> our
> >>> poet; our critical speakers, Lauren Berlant and Peter Nicholls (of
> >>> obvious
> >>> interest to Poundians), are in place. ? There's the full range of
> >>> participants, from grad students to full profs and name chairs. ? this
> >>> would be an opportunity to gather for folks working on the MLA
> Approaches
> >>> to Teaching Pound, among other possibilities.?
> >>>
> >>> It is for us to shape our session according to our interests and
> >>> pursuits,
> >>> which gives us a much-needed freedom to study Pound in context and
> >>> interact
> >>> with scholars engaged in all areas of modernism. Other author
> societies,
> >>> like the T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens ones, are regulars at the
> >>> Louisville Conference. I have taken up contact with the Eliot society
> UK,
> >>> which has started its own call for papers for Louisville  ? it is a
> >>> modest
> >>> beginning but in due course we could have stable channels of
> cooperation
> >>> and organise joint sessions or other projects.
> >>>
> >>> The deadline for submissions is October 1st 2013.
> >>> Please send a 300 word abstract and separate cover sheet to
> >>> [log in to unmask] to participate in this first session we organise
> >>> for the Louisville conference as a society.
> >>>
> >>> The cover sheet should include:
> >>> ?       Name (as it will appear in the program)
> >>> ?       Address (preferably home address)
> >>> ?       E-mail address (necessary to confirm your acceptance)
> >>> ?       Telephone number
> >>> ?       Academic affiliation (if applicable)
> >>> ?       Title of paper/work (as it will appear in the program)
> >>> ?       National origin/genre of work discussed (please be specific)
> >>> ?       Personal biographical note (100-150 words
> >>>
> >>> Depending on the nature of the work you submit, I will devise an
> >>> inclusive
> >>> theme, rationale and title for our session.
> >>>
> >>> To conclude:
> >>> Through our organisation we are fortunate to have what could be called
> a
> >>> stable ?conference season? running from January through May (MLA,
> >>> Louisville, ALA). Let us use it to present our work, discuss it with
> >>> peers,
> >>> and establish contacts.
> >>>
> >>> My promise to you at this point is that the participants in the
> >>> Louisville
> >>> Conference will be the first to benefit from a website I plan to create
> >>> for
> >>> the EPS. At present, most of us have to wait up to four years to see
> our
> >>> work published, or at least posted somewhere for public attention. As
> >>> people in my family used to say (a lot): ?This situation is
> intolerable.
> >>> It
> >>> can?t and shouldn?t last!?
> >>>
> >>> The least we can do is post the conference abstracts on the website, so
> >>> that we have a running record of what we work on. For those of you who
> >>> have
> >>> a project ready and are willing to show it to peers, the society
> website
> >>> could be a working option, permanent or temporary, as you choose.
> >>>
> >>> I am now preparing a white paper with proposals, so as to let you know
> >>> what such a website could be like. I hope to finish a draft by the end
> of
> >>> September and look forward to your input and ideas.
> >>>
> >>> Please use the email address above to write to me on any concerns,
> >>> queries
> >>> and proposals about the EPS you might have.
> >>>
> >>> With all my best,
> >>> Roxana
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> >>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Andy Trevathan*
> >> "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
> >> characters are seared with scars." ~ Kahlil Gibran
> >> "We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in
> joy." ~
> >> Joseph Campbell
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> > Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
> >
>



-- 
*Andy Trevathan*
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars." ~ Kahlil Gibran
"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy." ~
Joseph Campbell

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