PASC 2015 Symposium:
Locating the Avant-Garde
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
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