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PASC 2015 Symposium:
​Locating the Avant-Garde

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Program

Friday, Oct. 23, 2015
The inaugural symposium of the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium
was held at the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center.

9:30 a.m.
Coffee

10 a.m. 
Welcome (John Heon)
Origins and Goals (Katie L. Price)
Survey of Resources (David McKnight)

10:30 a.m.
Vernacular Avant-Gardes (John Heon, moderator)
Robert Machado, Lebanon Valley College: "Monochrome 'Vandals': A Female Vernacular Avant-Garde (?) in Late 19th/Early 20th-Century Photography"
Sid Sachs, University of the Arts: "Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde"

11:30 a.m.
​Literary Avant-Gardes (Katie L. Price, moderator)
Walter K. Lew, Independent Scholar: "Why the Line Doesn't Assassinate the Circle: Productive Difficulties in Localizing the Work of Yisang"
Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania: "Too Philosophical for a Poet"

1 p.m.
Lunch

2 p.m.
Re-Presenting the Avant-Garde in Philadelphia (Katie L. Price, moderator)
Aaron Levy, Slought: "Second Life"
Tina Brock, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium: "Staging Ionesco's World of Dreams"

3 p.m.
Avant-Gardes at Penn (David McKnight, moderator)
​Emily Mitchell Wallace, Bryn Mawr College: "'Ten years of beauty & the gods can envy': Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle in Philadelphia, 1901-1911"
Emily Brewton Schilling, James E. Brewton Foundation: "Locating and Relocating the Avant-Garde: James E. Brewton's Journeys in 1962 and 1965"

4:30 p.m.
Wine reception 
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  • Home | About
  • Projects | Events
    • Upcoming >
      • Past recommended events
    • Avant Green
    • Absurd
    • Illuminating the 'Invisible City' | November 2019
    • A very nice panel on 'Dionysus' | April 2019
    • The 'Vivifying Current of Science' | December 2018
    • Apolitical, My Ars! | December 2017
    • RE: ACT | March 2017
    • Re: Actions | December 2016
    • Locating the Avant-Garde | October 2015
    • Philadelphia à la Pataphysique | March 2014
  • Interviews | Blog
    • Metafiction by Matt Madden | October 2021
    • Matt Madden's EX LIBRIS | September 2021
    • Slought Statement | March 2020
    • Black Women Make Art by Janyce Denise Glasper
    • Charles Bernstein wins Bollingen Prize
    • Cheryl Harper interview by John Heon
    • Slought Post-Election Statement
    • A Necessary Luxury by Tina Brock
    • Jim Brewton by Emily Schilling
    • Workshop Series at Princeton
    • Welcome to PASC
  • Partners | Presenters
  • Calls for Papers
  • Contact us