The organizers of the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium have released an updated schedule. Please note the addition, on Saturday 27th October, of Frances McCullough. McCullough was a long time editor of Plath's work, most notably of her abridged Journals.
Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Schedule
October 25-29th 2007 at Oxford University
Thursday, 25 October
9:00-5:30 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:30 Opening, Rhodes Milner Room
10:00-11:00 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [“The Bee Poems’: Bethany Hicok, Georgiana Banita]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath, Sexton and the Literary Market’: Jo Gill, Adrian Jones, Mel Waters, Luke Ferretter]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [“Plath and Pathology’: Elana Ciobanu, Mary DeShazer, Ralph Didlake, Deborah Phelps]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Expressing Struggle and Pain’: Beth Martinelli, Pamela Ryan, Ghanim Samarrai, Isabella Wai]
12:00-12:45 Welcome lunch, Rhodes
1:30-2:15 Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse [Kristina Zimbakova]
1:15-2:15 Guest speaker Nick Owen, Rhodes Jameson [‘Roots of Creativity and Destructiveness in Plath’]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Family Romance 1’: Susan Bowers, Kara Kilfoil, Aubrey Menard, Ann Walsh, Kristy Woodcock]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Comparing Plath’: Abdolmajid Eskandari, Hilary Holladay, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Gary Leising, Anastasia Logotheti, Barbara Mossberg]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Plath Parallels’: Majid Avali, Sibel Guzel, Nadide Karkimer, Leyli Jamali, Raja Sekhar, Omid Varzandeh]
2:30-3:45 Guest speakers Marianne Egeland and Pamela Norris, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath in Print’; ‘Writing the life as fiction: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Biography’]
4:00-5:45 Featured speakers Helle and Larschan, Rhodes Milner
Helle: ‘“The Photographic Chamber of the Eye”: Plath, Photography and thePost-Confessional Muse’
Larschan: ‘”What Mightn’t the Sea Bequeath?”: Plath’s Mythical Massachusetts’
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Images of Plath’: Annika Hagström, Allyson Hyland, Philippa Hawker]
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [Plath and Female Identity’: Gail Crowther, Patricia Grisafi, Jessica McCort, Dorothy Wang]
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath and Pedagogy’: Amanda Golden, Eusebio de Lorenzo Gomez, Kate Gray, Jason Lee]
6:00-7:00 Wine reception at Divinity School, Bodleian Library exhibit of small press books
7:00-9:00 Reception and poetry reading at Blackwell’s Bookshop (P)
8:00-9:30 Featured playwright Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Friday, 26 October
9:00-5:30 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath Profiles on-line journal 1, Rhodes Milner [Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan]
10:00-11:45 Featured speakers Lynda K. Bundtzen and Tim Kendall, Rhodes Milner
Bundtzen: ‘Confession, Contrition, and Concealment in Ted Hughes’s Howls and Whispers’
Kendall: ‘Sylvia Plath and the Purpose of Poetry’
12:00-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Plath and Hughes Manuscripts Verso’: Helen Decker, Emma Hoare, Uta Gosmann]
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath’s Influence on International writers’: Fan Jinghua, Maria Johnston, Malin Pereira]
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Motherhood and Marriage’: Annie Finch, Katherine Keenan, Sondra Swedborg]
1:30-2:15 Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse
1:30-2:20 Guest speaker Sarah Churchwell, Rhodes Jameson
2:30-4:15 Featured speakers Steven Gould Axelrod and Linda Wagner-Martin, Rhodes Milner
Axelrod: ‘Plath and Torture’
Wagner-Martin: ‘All Those Years in the Archives: A Life with Sylvia Plath’
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘“Lady Lazarus” and Suicide’: Nadia Boudidah Falfoul, Marcia Elis de Lima Francoso, Kamran Javadizadeh, Stephanie Roush]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath in Popular and Cold War Culture’: Joan Dargan, Erik Mortenson, Patrick O’Connor, Cornelia Pearsall, Nicola Presley]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, large Rothermere [The Bell Jar: Ozlem Gorumlu, Esin Kumlu, Elaine Pigeon, Janet Stallard]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath and Hughes Dialog’: Heather Clark, Diana Conzett, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Diane Hunter, Terry Hunter]
5:00-5:30 Hanna/Simmons’s intro to “The Girl Who Would be God’ animation, Oxford Playhouse
5:30-7:00 Hanna/Simmons animation and Lahire films ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’ and
‘Johnny Panic’, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse
8:00-8:30 Sarah Purcell’s introduction to Sandra Lahire films, ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Johnny Panic’, Top Room/Oxford Playhouse (P)
8:30-10:00 Lahire films, Hanna/Simmons animation, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse Top Room/Oxford Playhouse (P)
8:00-8:30 Mossberg’s introduction to Elisabeth Gray’s play, Pilch Theatre (P)
8:30-10:00 Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Saturday, 27 October
9:00-4:00 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath archives, Smith, Lilly & Emory, Rhodes Milner
10:00-11:30 Featured speakers Karen Kukil and Robin Peel, Rhodes Milner
Kukil: ‘Sylvia Plath’s Women’
Peel: ‘Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Publication’
10:00-11:30 Lahire and Hanna/Simmons animation, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse (P)
11:45-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:45 Featured speakers Anne Stevenson/Martin Schaetzle and Britzolakis, Rhodes Milner
Stevenson/Schaetzle: “Sylvia Plath and Ruth Beuscher’
Britzolakis: ‘Plath’s Dreamwork’
3:00-4:15 Artist panel Siall Waterbright and Amanda Robins, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath as Artistic Inspiration’]
3:00-4:15 Guest speakers Francis McCullough and Jonathan Ellis, large Rothermere [‘Editing Plath’]
3:00-4:15 Featured and Guest poets Catherine Bowman and Crystal Hurdle, small Rothermere
3:00-4:15 Featured photographer Linda Adele Goodine, Rhodes Jameson
4:30 Bus to London, Piccadilly
6:00-8:30 London free time
8:30-10:00 Sylvia Plath Birthday Concert, St. James Church, Piccadilly (P)
10:30 Bus to Oxford
8:00-9:30 Gray’s play, ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Sunday, 28 October
9:00-2:00 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes
9:00-9:45 Forum on Plath Websites, Rhodes Milner [Elaine Connell, Peter Steinberg]
10:00-11:45 Featured speakers Tracy Brain and Langdon Hammer, Rhodes Milner
Brain: ‘Representing Sylvia Plath’
Hammer: ‘Plath’s German’
12:00-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:00 Book signing, Rhodes (open to public)
2:15-4:00 Featured speakers A. Alvarez and Diane Middlebrook, Rhodes Milner
Alvarez: ‘My friendship with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’
Middlebrook: ‘Call and Response in the Poetry of Plath and Hughes’
4:15-5:50 Literary panel, Large Rothermere [‘Plath, Gender and Self definition’: Andrew Browne, Vassilis Manoussakis, Janet McCann, Neslihan Emkekciouglu]
4:15-5:50 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Ariel’: Smita Agrawal, Bora Im, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Jennifer Ryan]
4:15-5:30 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath’s story “The Perfect Place”’: Irralie Doel, Lena Friesen, Peter Steinberg]
4:30-5:30 Guest speaker Kroll, Rhodes Milner
6:00-7:30 Oxford Playhouse reception
7:30-9:30 Oxford Playhouse performance (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Monday, 29 October (Panels are free and open to the public this day)
9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath Profiles on-line journal 2, Rhodes Milner [Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan]
10:00-11:00 Literary panel, small Rothermere [Feminist ID: Janet Badia, Christina Belcher]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath’s Landscapes’: Katherine Hazzard, Bajrang Korde, David Troupes]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath as Visionary’: Liz Beasley, Bill Buckley, Anne Dillon, Anaya Ghoshal, Nephie Christodoulides]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, large Rothermereermere [‘Plath’s Prose’: Ipsita Bhattacharyya, Laure De Nevraux]
11:10-11:50 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Family Romance 2’: Ashok Sachdeva, Yashpal Vyas]
12:00 Closing, Rhodes Milner
1:00 Lunch at local pub
(P) indicates open to the public
Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Schedule
October 25-29th 2007 at Oxford University
Thursday, 25 October
9:00-5:30 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:30 Opening, Rhodes Milner Room
10:00-11:00 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [“The Bee Poems’: Bethany Hicok, Georgiana Banita]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath, Sexton and the Literary Market’: Jo Gill, Adrian Jones, Mel Waters, Luke Ferretter]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [“Plath and Pathology’: Elana Ciobanu, Mary DeShazer, Ralph Didlake, Deborah Phelps]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Expressing Struggle and Pain’: Beth Martinelli, Pamela Ryan, Ghanim Samarrai, Isabella Wai]
12:00-12:45 Welcome lunch, Rhodes
1:30-2:15 Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse [Kristina Zimbakova]
1:15-2:15 Guest speaker Nick Owen, Rhodes Jameson [‘Roots of Creativity and Destructiveness in Plath’]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Family Romance 1’: Susan Bowers, Kara Kilfoil, Aubrey Menard, Ann Walsh, Kristy Woodcock]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Comparing Plath’: Abdolmajid Eskandari, Hilary Holladay, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Gary Leising, Anastasia Logotheti, Barbara Mossberg]
1:15-3:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Plath Parallels’: Majid Avali, Sibel Guzel, Nadide Karkimer, Leyli Jamali, Raja Sekhar, Omid Varzandeh]
2:30-3:45 Guest speakers Marianne Egeland and Pamela Norris, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath in Print’; ‘Writing the life as fiction: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Biography’]
4:00-5:45 Featured speakers Helle and Larschan, Rhodes Milner
Helle: ‘“The Photographic Chamber of the Eye”: Plath, Photography and thePost-Confessional Muse’
Larschan: ‘”What Mightn’t the Sea Bequeath?”: Plath’s Mythical Massachusetts’
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Images of Plath’: Annika Hagström, Allyson Hyland, Philippa Hawker]
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere [Plath and Female Identity’: Gail Crowther, Patricia Grisafi, Jessica McCort, Dorothy Wang]
4:00-5:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath and Pedagogy’: Amanda Golden, Eusebio de Lorenzo Gomez, Kate Gray, Jason Lee]
6:00-7:00 Wine reception at Divinity School, Bodleian Library exhibit of small press books
7:00-9:00 Reception and poetry reading at Blackwell’s Bookshop (P)
8:00-9:30 Featured playwright Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Friday, 26 October
9:00-5:30 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath Profiles on-line journal 1, Rhodes Milner [Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan]
10:00-11:45 Featured speakers Lynda K. Bundtzen and Tim Kendall, Rhodes Milner
Bundtzen: ‘Confession, Contrition, and Concealment in Ted Hughes’s Howls and Whispers’
Kendall: ‘Sylvia Plath and the Purpose of Poetry’
12:00-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, large Rothermere [‘Plath and Hughes Manuscripts Verso’: Helen Decker, Emma Hoare, Uta Gosmann]
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath’s Influence on International writers’: Fan Jinghua, Maria Johnston, Malin Pereira]
1:00-2:20 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Motherhood and Marriage’: Annie Finch, Katherine Keenan, Sondra Swedborg]
1:30-2:15 Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse
1:30-2:20 Guest speaker Sarah Churchwell, Rhodes Jameson
2:30-4:15 Featured speakers Steven Gould Axelrod and Linda Wagner-Martin, Rhodes Milner
Axelrod: ‘Plath and Torture’
Wagner-Martin: ‘All Those Years in the Archives: A Life with Sylvia Plath’
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘“Lady Lazarus” and Suicide’: Nadia Boudidah Falfoul, Marcia Elis de Lima Francoso, Kamran Javadizadeh, Stephanie Roush]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath in Popular and Cold War Culture’: Joan Dargan, Erik Mortenson, Patrick O’Connor, Cornelia Pearsall, Nicola Presley]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, large Rothermere [The Bell Jar: Ozlem Gorumlu, Esin Kumlu, Elaine Pigeon, Janet Stallard]
4:30-6:30 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath and Hughes Dialog’: Heather Clark, Diana Conzett, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Diane Hunter, Terry Hunter]
5:00-5:30 Hanna/Simmons’s intro to “The Girl Who Would be God’ animation, Oxford Playhouse
5:30-7:00 Hanna/Simmons animation and Lahire films ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’ and
‘Johnny Panic’, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse
8:00-8:30 Sarah Purcell’s introduction to Sandra Lahire films, ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Johnny Panic’, Top Room/Oxford Playhouse (P)
8:30-10:00 Lahire films, Hanna/Simmons animation, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse Top Room/Oxford Playhouse (P)
8:00-8:30 Mossberg’s introduction to Elisabeth Gray’s play, Pilch Theatre (P)
8:30-10:00 Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Saturday, 27 October
9:00-4:00 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath archives, Smith, Lilly & Emory, Rhodes Milner
10:00-11:30 Featured speakers Karen Kukil and Robin Peel, Rhodes Milner
Kukil: ‘Sylvia Plath’s Women’
Peel: ‘Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Publication’
10:00-11:30 Lahire and Hanna/Simmons animation, Top Room, Oxford Playhouse (P)
11:45-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:45 Featured speakers Anne Stevenson/Martin Schaetzle and Britzolakis, Rhodes Milner
Stevenson/Schaetzle: “Sylvia Plath and Ruth Beuscher’
Britzolakis: ‘Plath’s Dreamwork’
3:00-4:15 Artist panel Siall Waterbright and Amanda Robins, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath as Artistic Inspiration’]
3:00-4:15 Guest speakers Francis McCullough and Jonathan Ellis, large Rothermere [‘Editing Plath’]
3:00-4:15 Featured and Guest poets Catherine Bowman and Crystal Hurdle, small Rothermere
3:00-4:15 Featured photographer Linda Adele Goodine, Rhodes Jameson
4:30 Bus to London, Piccadilly
6:00-8:30 London free time
8:30-10:00 Sylvia Plath Birthday Concert, St. James Church, Piccadilly (P)
10:30 Bus to Oxford
8:00-9:30 Gray’s play, ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Sunday, 28 October
9:00-2:00 All-day registration, Rothermere American Institute
9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes
9:00-9:45 Forum on Plath Websites, Rhodes Milner [Elaine Connell, Peter Steinberg]
10:00-11:45 Featured speakers Tracy Brain and Langdon Hammer, Rhodes Milner
Brain: ‘Representing Sylvia Plath’
Hammer: ‘Plath’s German’
12:00-12:45 Lunch, Rhodes
1:00-2:00 Book signing, Rhodes (open to public)
2:15-4:00 Featured speakers A. Alvarez and Diane Middlebrook, Rhodes Milner
Alvarez: ‘My friendship with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’
Middlebrook: ‘Call and Response in the Poetry of Plath and Hughes’
4:15-5:50 Literary panel, Large Rothermere [‘Plath, Gender and Self definition’: Andrew Browne, Vassilis Manoussakis, Janet McCann, Neslihan Emkekciouglu]
4:15-5:50 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Ariel’: Smita Agrawal, Bora Im, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Jennifer Ryan]
4:15-5:30 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Plath’s story “The Perfect Place”’: Irralie Doel, Lena Friesen, Peter Steinberg]
4:30-5:30 Guest speaker Kroll, Rhodes Milner
6:00-7:30 Oxford Playhouse reception
7:30-9:30 Oxford Playhouse performance (P)
Open hours Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book/prints
Monday, 29 October (Panels are free and open to the public this day)
9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00-9:50 Forum on Plath Profiles on-line journal 2, Rhodes Milner [Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan]
10:00-11:00 Literary panel, small Rothermere [Feminist ID: Janet Badia, Christina Belcher]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Jameson [‘Plath’s Landscapes’: Katherine Hazzard, Bajrang Korde, David Troupes]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner [‘Plath as Visionary’: Liz Beasley, Bill Buckley, Anne Dillon, Anaya Ghoshal, Nephie Christodoulides]
10:00-11:45 Literary panel, large Rothermereermere [‘Plath’s Prose’: Ipsita Bhattacharyya, Laure De Nevraux]
11:10-11:50 Literary panel, small Rothermere [‘Family Romance 2’: Ashok Sachdeva, Yashpal Vyas]
12:00 Closing, Rhodes Milner
1:00 Lunch at local pub
(P) indicates open to the public