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Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Schedule
October 25-29th 2007 at Oxford University
Thursday, 25 Oct
9:00-5:30
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:30
Opening, Rhodes Milner Room
10:00-11:00
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘The Bee Poems’: Bethany Hicok, Georgiana Banita
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
10:00-11:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath, Sexton and the Literary Market’: Jo Gill, Mel Waters, Luke Ferretter
12:00-12:45
Welcome lunch, Rhodes
1:15-2:15
Featured artists exhibition talk, painter Kristina Zimbakova and printmaker Cassandra Sloan, Oxford Playhouse
1:15-2:15
Guest speaker Nick Owen, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Roots of Creativity and Destructiveness in Plath’
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘Plath Family Romance’: Susan Bowers, Kara Kilfoil, Aubrey Menard, Ann Walsh, Kristy Woodcock
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath in Comparison’: Abdolmajid Eskandari, Hilary Holladay, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Gary Leising, Anastasia Logotheti, Barbara Mossberg
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Plath Parallels with Turkish and Indian Women Writers’:
Majid Avali, Sibel Guzel, Nadide Karkimer, Leyli Jamali, Raja Sekhar, Omid Varzandeh
2:30-3:45
Guest speakers Marianne Egeland and Pamela Norris, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘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 the Post-Confessional Muse’
Larschan ~ ‘ “What Mightn’t the Sea Bequeath?”: Plath’s Mythical Massachusetts’
6:00-7:00
Wine reception at Divinity School, Bodleain Library exhibition of Plath’s small press books
7:00-9:00
Reception and poetry reading at Blackwell’s Bookshop (P)
8:00-9:15
Featured playwright Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
9:00-7:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Friday, 26 Oct
9:00-5:30
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath Profiles on-line journal 1’: 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 ~ ‘Plath, Motherhood and Marriage’: Annie Finch, Katherine Keenan, Sondra Swedborg
1:30-2:15
Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse
1:30-2:15
Guest speaker Sarah Churchwell, Rhodes Beit
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 Beit ~ ‘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 Dialogue’: Heather Clark, Diana Conzett,
Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Diane Hunter, Terry Hunter
5:00-5:30
Suzie Hanna’s introduction to animation ‘The Girl Who Would be God’, 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 (P)
8:00-8:30
Barbara Mossberg’s introduction to Elisabeth Gray’s play, Pilch Theatre (P)
8:30-9:45
Gray’s play, ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
9:00-7:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Saturday, 27 Oct
9:00-4:00
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath archives at Smith, Lilly & Emory’
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’
3:00-4:30
Featured photographer Linda Adele Goodine and featured fiber artist Ann Dingsdale,
Rhodes Milner
3:00-4:30
Guest speakers Francis McCullough and Jonathan Ellis, large Rothermere ~
‘Editing Plath’
3:00-4:30
Featured and Guest poets Catherine Bowman and Crystal Hurdle, small Rothermere
3:00-4:30
Guest artist Amanda Robins and Siall Waterbright, Rhodes Beit ~
‘Sylvia Plath as Artistic Inspiration’
4:45-6:30
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Images of Plath’: Annika Hagström, Allyson Hyland, Philippa Hawker, Gail Crowther
4:45-6:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath and Female/feminist Identity’: Janet Badia, Christina Belcher, Patricia Grisafi, Jessica McCort, Dorothy Wang
4:45-6:30
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath and Pedagogy’: Amanda Golden, Eusebio de Lorenzo Gomez, Kate Gray, Jason Lee
8:00-9:15
Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
9.00-1:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Sunday, 28 Oct
9:00-4:00
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:45
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Sylvia Plath Websites’: Elaine Connell, Peter K. 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 (P)
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, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Ariel’: Smita Agrawal, Bora Im, Chloe Stopa-Hunt,
Jennifer Ryan
4:15-5:50
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘Plath’s story “The Perfect Place”’: Irralie Doel,
Lena Friesen, Peter K. Steinberg
4:30-5:30
Guest speaker Judith Kroll, Rhodes Milner
6:00-7:30
Oxford Playhouse reception
7:30-9:30
Oxford Playhouse performance (P)
Monday, 29 Oct
Panels are free and open to the public this day
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath Profiles on-line journal 2’: Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan
10:00-11:15
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Plath’s Prose’: Ipsita Bhattacharyya, Laure De Nevraux
10:00-11:30
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath’s Landscapes’: Katherine Hazzard, Bajrang Korde, David Troupes
10:00-12:00
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath as Visionary’: Liz Beasley, Bill Buckley, Anne Dillon, Anaya Ghoshal, Nephie Christodoulides
10:00-12:00
Poetry panel, small Rothermere
12:00
Closing, Rhodes Milner
1:00
Lunch at local pub
Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Schedule
October 25-29th 2007 at Oxford University
Thursday, 25 Oct
9:00-5:30
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:30
Opening, Rhodes Milner Room
10:00-11:00
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘The Bee Poems’: Bethany Hicok, Georgiana Banita
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
10:00-11:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath, Sexton and the Literary Market’: Jo Gill, Mel Waters, Luke Ferretter
12:00-12:45
Welcome lunch, Rhodes
1:15-2:15
Featured artists exhibition talk, painter Kristina Zimbakova and printmaker Cassandra Sloan, Oxford Playhouse
1:15-2:15
Guest speaker Nick Owen, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Roots of Creativity and Destructiveness in Plath’
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘Plath Family Romance’: Susan Bowers, Kara Kilfoil, Aubrey Menard, Ann Walsh, Kristy Woodcock
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath in Comparison’: Abdolmajid Eskandari, Hilary Holladay, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Gary Leising, Anastasia Logotheti, Barbara Mossberg
1:15-3:45
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Plath Parallels with Turkish and Indian Women Writers’:
Majid Avali, Sibel Guzel, Nadide Karkimer, Leyli Jamali, Raja Sekhar, Omid Varzandeh
2:30-3:45
Guest speakers Marianne Egeland and Pamela Norris, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘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 the Post-Confessional Muse’
Larschan ~ ‘ “What Mightn’t the Sea Bequeath?”: Plath’s Mythical Massachusetts’
6:00-7:00
Wine reception at Divinity School, Bodleain Library exhibition of Plath’s small press books
7:00-9:00
Reception and poetry reading at Blackwell’s Bookshop (P)
8:00-9:15
Featured playwright Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre (P)
9:00-7:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Friday, 26 Oct
9:00-5:30
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath Profiles on-line journal 1’: 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 ~ ‘Plath, Motherhood and Marriage’: Annie Finch, Katherine Keenan, Sondra Swedborg
1:30-2:15
Exhibition tour/talk, Oxford Playhouse
1:30-2:15
Guest speaker Sarah Churchwell, Rhodes Beit
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 Beit ~ ‘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 Dialogue’: Heather Clark, Diana Conzett,
Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Diane Hunter, Terry Hunter
5:00-5:30
Suzie Hanna’s introduction to animation ‘The Girl Who Would be God’, 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 (P)
8:00-8:30
Barbara Mossberg’s introduction to Elisabeth Gray’s play, Pilch Theatre (P)
8:30-9:45
Gray’s play, ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
9:00-7:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Saturday, 27 Oct
9:00-4:00
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath archives at Smith, Lilly & Emory’
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’
3:00-4:30
Featured photographer Linda Adele Goodine and featured fiber artist Ann Dingsdale,
Rhodes Milner
3:00-4:30
Guest speakers Francis McCullough and Jonathan Ellis, large Rothermere ~
‘Editing Plath’
3:00-4:30
Featured and Guest poets Catherine Bowman and Crystal Hurdle, small Rothermere
3:00-4:30
Guest artist Amanda Robins and Siall Waterbright, Rhodes Beit ~
‘Sylvia Plath as Artistic Inspiration’
4:45-6:30
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Images of Plath’: Annika Hagström, Allyson Hyland, Philippa Hawker, Gail Crowther
4:45-6:45
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath and Female/feminist Identity’: Janet Badia, Christina Belcher, Patricia Grisafi, Jessica McCort, Dorothy Wang
4:45-6:30
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath and Pedagogy’: Amanda Golden, Eusebio de Lorenzo Gomez, Kate Gray, Jason Lee
8:00-9:15
Elisabeth Gray’s play ‘I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath’, Pilch Theatre, Oxford (P)
9.00-1:00
Rothermere Library exhibition of Enid Mark’s ‘About Sylvia’ book of illustrated poems
Sunday, 28 Oct
9:00-4:00
All-day registration, Rhodes House
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:45
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Sylvia Plath Websites’: Elaine Connell, Peter K. 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 (P)
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, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Ariel’: Smita Agrawal, Bora Im, Chloe Stopa-Hunt,
Jennifer Ryan
4:15-5:50
Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘Plath’s story “The Perfect Place”’: Irralie Doel,
Lena Friesen, Peter K. Steinberg
4:30-5:30
Guest speaker Judith Kroll, Rhodes Milner
6:00-7:30
Oxford Playhouse reception
7:30-9:30
Oxford Playhouse performance (P)
Monday, 29 Oct
Panels are free and open to the public this day
9:00
Continental breakfast, Rhodes House
9:00-9:50
Forum, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath Profiles on-line journal 2’: Bill Buckley, Mary Nolan
10:00-11:15
Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Plath’s Prose’: Ipsita Bhattacharyya, Laure De Nevraux
10:00-11:30
Literary panel, Rhodes Beit ~ ‘Plath’s Landscapes’: Katherine Hazzard, Bajrang Korde, David Troupes
10:00-12:00
Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath as Visionary’: Liz Beasley, Bill Buckley, Anne Dillon, Anaya Ghoshal, Nephie Christodoulides
10:00-12:00
Poetry panel, small Rothermere
12:00
Closing, Rhodes Milner
1:00
Lunch at local pub