Many of this blog's readers might be interested in an update on the Sylvia Plath 2012 Symposium to be held in October at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana. Well, you will be satisfied by this post I hope.
Please note that abstracts to present a paper on a panel are still being accepted and will be considered through September, or until spaces are all filled. If you do not yet have your full abstract, but plan to attend, please send the topic heading asap to Kathleen Connors at plath70ATindianaDOTedu.
Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012 confirmed featured speakers to date:
Janet Badia on Ms. Magazine's contribution to Plath readership
Catherine Bowman on poetic process; use of the Plath archives
Tracy Brain on Plath and the medical world
Bill Buckley on five years of publishing Plath Profiles journal and international participants
Lynda K. Bundtzen on Plath's 1958 poems and the unconscious, the Bee Sequence poems, and "A Self to Recover" exhibition works of Linda Adele Goodine, Boris Lurie, Kristina Zimbakova, Stella Vine.
Heather Clark on Otto Plath's FBI files, Plath’s German heritage
Ross Gay on poetic process
Linda Adele Goodine on creative process and the unconscious; "Bee Asana: The Healing of Plath" video and "Seneca Honey Series" photos
Langdon Hammer on literary biography; James Merrill's use of the Ouija in poetry; Plath's German, "Daddy"
Suzie Hanna and Tim Simmons on use of the Lilly Library archives and "The Girl Who Could Be God" animation and music
Christoph Irmscher on the use of Lilly Library archives in teaching
Karen V. Kukil on the use of Smith College Plath archives in teaching; "Fever 103°" and its archival references
Peter K. Steinberg on Plath Profiles and Sylvia Plath Info online sites; Plath and The New Yorker
David Trinidad on poetic process; use of the Plath archives in poetry; Plath's biographical references in October Poems.
Panels on:
Plath and Motherhood/Maternity
Plath and nature/place
Plath and female embodiment/suffering
Plath influence on international poets
Plath and Sexton/Plath and Hughes texts
Plath and publishing/publishers
Plath and death, psychic suffering and creativity
Plath and religion
Plath and artistic identity/poetics
Plath influences from Sitwell/Dickinson
Single poems: "The Thin People"; "A Birthday Present"; "Daddy"; "Lady Lazarus"; "Ariel"
Theoretical interpretations of Ariel
Non-Ariel texts: The Bell Jar, transitional poems
Are you presenting? Are you coming to just attend? What do you think of the program thus far? More details will be posted as they become available. I plan on live blogging from the Symposium, as well as live tweeting. So if you cannot make it, I hope to be able give you a sense of what it is like for the events and panels that I attend; and I hope to possibly coordinate blog updates with fellow attendees in events and panels that I opt not to attend.
An official Symposium website will be up in the near future.
Please note that abstracts to present a paper on a panel are still being accepted and will be considered through September, or until spaces are all filled. If you do not yet have your full abstract, but plan to attend, please send the topic heading asap to Kathleen Connors at plath70ATindianaDOTedu.
Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012 confirmed featured speakers to date:
Janet Badia on Ms. Magazine's contribution to Plath readership
Catherine Bowman on poetic process; use of the Plath archives
Tracy Brain on Plath and the medical world
Bill Buckley on five years of publishing Plath Profiles journal and international participants
Lynda K. Bundtzen on Plath's 1958 poems and the unconscious, the Bee Sequence poems, and "A Self to Recover" exhibition works of Linda Adele Goodine, Boris Lurie, Kristina Zimbakova, Stella Vine.
Heather Clark on Otto Plath's FBI files, Plath’s German heritage
Ross Gay on poetic process
Linda Adele Goodine on creative process and the unconscious; "Bee Asana: The Healing of Plath" video and "Seneca Honey Series" photos
Langdon Hammer on literary biography; James Merrill's use of the Ouija in poetry; Plath's German, "Daddy"
Suzie Hanna and Tim Simmons on use of the Lilly Library archives and "The Girl Who Could Be God" animation and music
Christoph Irmscher on the use of Lilly Library archives in teaching
Karen V. Kukil on the use of Smith College Plath archives in teaching; "Fever 103°" and its archival references
Peter K. Steinberg on Plath Profiles and Sylvia Plath Info online sites; Plath and The New Yorker
David Trinidad on poetic process; use of the Plath archives in poetry; Plath's biographical references in October Poems.
Panels on:
Plath and Motherhood/Maternity
Plath and nature/place
Plath and female embodiment/suffering
Plath influence on international poets
Plath and Sexton/Plath and Hughes texts
Plath and publishing/publishers
Plath and death, psychic suffering and creativity
Plath and religion
Plath and artistic identity/poetics
Plath influences from Sitwell/Dickinson
Single poems: "The Thin People"; "A Birthday Present"; "Daddy"; "Lady Lazarus"; "Ariel"
Theoretical interpretations of Ariel
Non-Ariel texts: The Bell Jar, transitional poems
Are you presenting? Are you coming to just attend? What do you think of the program thus far? More details will be posted as they become available. I plan on live blogging from the Symposium, as well as live tweeting. So if you cannot make it, I hope to be able give you a sense of what it is like for the events and panels that I attend; and I hope to possibly coordinate blog updates with fellow attendees in events and panels that I opt not to attend.
An official Symposium website will be up in the near future.