Dylan Conference Program

Just a Series of Interpretations
of Bob Dylan’s Lyrical Works
Program

Friday, August 11

12 - 6 p.m.          Registration: at The Hanover Inn

5 - 6 p.m.            Introduction - Louis Renza (The Wheelock Room)1

6:30                     Cocktails (Hanover Inn, The Wheelock Room)

7:30                     Banquet (The Wheelock Room)

8:30                     Opening Address - Christopher Ricks : “Dylan and Misogyny”

Saturday, August 12

All talks at 3 Rockefeller

8:00 a.m.             Continental Breakfast (outside lecture room)

Schedule of Speakers

8:30                     Mike Marqusee, "Dylan's Anti-Politics, 1964-66"

9:30                     Betsy Bowden: “The Dylan Album as Aesthetic  Unit”

10:30                   Coffee Break

11:00                   John Hinchey: “‘Isis’ and the Failure of Romance”

12:00 p.m.           Lunch

1:30                     Aidan Day: “Dylan’s Judgment”

2:30                      Janet Gezari: "Fast and Loose in Street-Legal"

3:30                     Coffee Break

4:00                     Eric Lott: “Love and Theft and ‘Love and Theft’”

6:00-8:00              Dinner (location to be announced)

Sunday, August 13

8:00 a.m.               Continental Breakfast

8:30                       Michael Denning, "Rolling Thunder: Dylan in the Great Recession"

9:30                       Round table: Donald Pease, Moderator

1 With the exception of the opening night address, all talks will occur in 3 Rockefeller (directions will be provided at the time of on-campus Registration).

     2 Papers will be approximately forty minutes long, with a twenty-minute question and answer period immediately following.