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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