Don DeLillo: "At the Edges of Perception"
and
The Unabridged Arthur Cunningham
 
Schedule of Events
 
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
 
1. "The Grandiose and the Entropic" 12:00 - 1:30 PM
James Thomas: "'Language is the Mirror of the World.' Ratner's Star: Expressions of the Inexpressible"
Andrzej Antoszek: "Obliterated Vision: Don DeLillo's Bridge between the Grandiose and the Entropic"
Roland Kelts: "DeLillo and the Primeval"
Respondent: Arthur Saltzman
2. "Aesthetics and Politics" 1:30 - 3:00 PM

Mark Osteen: "Becoming Incorporated: Spectacular Authroship and Mao II"
Philip W. Nel: "'A Small Incisive Shock': Modern Forms, Postmodernism, and the Role of the Avant-Garde in Underworld"
Jim Finnegan: "Novelists, Terrorists, and the 'News': The Subject of the Mass-Mediated Photograph in Pafko and Mao II"
Respondent: Jeremy Green
3. "The Sacred..." 3:15 - 4:45 PM

John McClure: "Enchantment without Enclosure: Don DeLillo's Postsecular Turning"
Stathis Gourgouris: "Eluding the Name (DeLillo in Greece)"
William Robert: "Ritualized Filmmaking in Search of the Sacred: Reading DeLillo's Americana as Sacred Quest"
Respondent: Jeoff Bull
4. "...and the Profane" 4:45 - 6: 15 PM

Tim Waltonen: "Learning the 'Language of Soot:' Benjamin's 'Profane Illumination' in DeLillo's Recent Fiction"
Peter Knight: "JFK and the Primal Scene of Postmodernism"
*** Reception at the Hilton with live music 7-9 PM ***
 
Thursday, March 26, 1998
 
5. "Libra in the Balance" 9:00 - 10:30 AM

Skip Willman: "Art after Dealey Plaza: Don DeLIllo's Libra"
John Goshert: "The Wound of History and the Call to Closure"
Respondent: Robert Lougy
6. "Underworld and Film" 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Jeremy Green: "Diaster Footage: Violence, Repetition and History in DeLillo's Recent Fiction"
Sam R. McColl: "Events more tremendous than Church: Underworld and DeLillo's Interconnected Cinema"
Seamus Enright: "DeLillo and Eisenstein"
Respondent: Mark Osteen
LUNCH 12:00 - 2:00 PM
 
7. "Working with the Author" 2:00 -3:00 PM

Gerald Howard: "How DeLillo changed my life": Reflections from the Editor of Libra"
Silya Kiese: "Visual Art and Cobalt Blue": a Conversation with Arthur Cunningham
8. "Longing on Large Scale" 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Jesse Kavadlo: "Balance at the Edge of the Millennium: Underworld's Black Comedy, White Noise, and Shades of Gray"
Nicole Merola: "Belonging, Nostalgia, and History in Don DeLillo's Underworld"
Marni Gauthier: "The Downfall of Empire and the Emergence of Detergents: Underhistory in Don DeLillo's Americana and Underworld"
*** The Unabridged Arthur Cunningham 4:30 - 6:00 PM Multi-media presentation ***
Piano, audio-visual presentation on the work of American composer Arthur Cunningham, compiled and performed by John Ellis, Manhattan School of Music.
 
*** Cunningham Concert 8:00 PM ***
Featuring a world premiere of a newly discovered piano piece performed by John Ellis. We will consider a representative portion of this "encyclopedic" composer's work and will present an eclectic program of classical, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, and avant-garde music with pieces for voice, flute, french horn,
brass and string quartets, and piano.
Read the General Information page for information about registration and accommodations.
Read the Call for Papers.
Go to the Don DeLillo's America web pages
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Last updated 22 March 1998.