W. S. Merwin Across Borders. Université Paris Cité/ ENS Ulm, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2022
Plenary speakers: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa; Naomi Shihab Nye, Texas State University
Thursday 20 October 2022
Université Paris Cité, Halle aux farines
Sujet : Merwin across Borders- Thursday
Heure : 20 oct. 2022 08:00 AM Paris
Participer à la réunion Zoom
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N.B: This program has been revised from the original. We are sad to announce that due to tragic circumstances Naomi Shihab Nye will not be able to join us.
Amphi 12E
9:00-9:30: Coffee
9.30-10.00: Welcome: Thomas Dutoit (Université de Lille) & Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Cité)
Conference inauguration by Robert Becker (President of the Merwin Conservancy)
10.00-11.15: Plenary Speaker: Ed Folsom (University of Iowa) “Crossing Interior Borders: W. S. Merwin’s Search for Walt
Whitman, Whoever He Was”
11.15-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-12.00: Featured Guest: Michael Wiegers (Copper Canyon Press), “Against the Coming Extinction: an Interview with WS
Merwin’s Editor”
12.00-13.30: Buffet Lunch (location : Université Paris Cité, Halle aux farines)
Salle des Thèses
13.30- 14.45: Panel 1. Chair: Hélène Aji (ENS Ulm)
Peter Vernon (Université de Tours), “‘Neither knowing nor not knowing’ in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin”
Sarah Jonckheere (Université de Lille), “‘Astronomy of Spiders,’ Ecology of Insects: Merwin’s Anthropocene Entomology
(A Study in Zoo-eco-poetics)”
Samia Al Hodathy (Princess Noura University), "Resist Globally and Care Locally: The Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and
W.S. Merwin"
14.45-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-16.15: Panel 2. Chair: Françoise Palleau-Papin (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Michael Alm (Université Paul Valéry University- Montpellier III), “Finding the Source: Occitan in W.S. Merwin’s
Language Ecosystem”
Austin Robert Smith (Stanford University), “Unpunctuated Line(age)s: Follain, Merwin, Stanford”
Helmbrecht Breinig (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)/ Susanne Opfermann (Goethe
University Frankfurt am Main), “Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou”
16.15-16.30: Coffee Break
16-30-18.00: Translation Workshop: “Translating Merwin”
Friday 21 October 2022, Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm (Salle Celan)
SSujet : Merwin Zoom 2 Friday
Heure : 21 oct. 2022 11:00 AM Paris
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9.15-9.30: Coffee
9.30-10.45: Panel 3. Chair: Austin Smith (Stanford University)
Françoise Palleau-Papin (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), “Between Fiction and Prose Poetry: Disjunctive Memory in
Merwin’s Uncanny Short Fiction Pieces”
Aaron Moe (Independent Scholar), “‘To Soul’: Brush Encounters with Hyperobjects in the Poetry of Merwin and Whitman”
Hélène Aji (ENS Ulm), "When the war is over […] we will all enlist again » (The Lice): W.S. Merwin p(r)o(ph)etic”
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.00: Panel 4. Chair: Aaron Moe (Independent Scholar)
Peter Feng Dong (Qingdao University), “W. S. Merwin and the Great Outside”
Thomas Dutoit (Université de Lille) et Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Cité), “‘Even though the whole world is burning”
(W. S. Merwin): Poetry Still? Poetry Now?”
