29th Ezra Pound International Conference: ONLINE
Kyoto, Japan
京都
24-26 June 2022
Ezra Pound and Friendship
朋友信之 (Analects 5.26)
With friends one is one
2 is 2 (Canto XCIX/725)
Co-Conveners
Walter Baumann, Emeritus, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)
EPIC-Kyoto Conference Committee:
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University) (Chair)
Mark Byron, University of Sydney
Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)
Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)
Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University)
Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)
Aya Yoshida, 京都大学 (Kyoto University)
University of New Orleans
EPIC-Kyoto 24-26 June 2022 Program: ONLINE Split Sessions
FRIDAY, 24 June 2022
Block I
Friday, 24 June, 20:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /
07:00-11:45 (New York) /
12:00-16:45 (GMT London)
20:00-21:15 (Kyoto): Opening Session 1
1. Welcome and Opening Plenary
Chair: Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)
Welcome Remarks
Mary de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg, Italy
Sanehide Kodama, 同志社女子大学名誉教授 (Doshisha Women's University)
21:15-21:45: Pause
21:45-23:00: Sessions 2A and 2B
2A. Pound’s Modernist Friends I: Ford, Yeats, Hauptman, and Early Poems
Chair: Krista Rascoe, Tarrant County College
Mary Maxwell, Independent
Bos Amic: Ford Madox Ford’s Notes and Annotations to his Copy of Pound’s Lustra
Karina Ibragimova, Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносов (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
The Spirit of Friendship: The Creation of Ezra Pound’s “Planh”
Maki Tachibana, 奈良女子大学 (Nara Women’s University)
Hauptmann and Pound: The Sunken Bell and “The Summons”
2B. Pound and Basil Bunting
Chair: Aya Yoshida, 京都大学 (Kyoto University)
Diana Collecott, University of Durham
Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting: A Decade of Friendship, 1923-1933
Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)
The Resonant Poetics: Hojoki and Basil Bunting’s “Chomei at Toyama”
Alex Niven, Newcastle University
Editing Bunting’s Letters
23:00-23:30: Pause
23:30-00:45: Sessions 3A and 3B
3A. Pound in Print, Pound Edited
Chair: Roxana Preda, Independent
Michael Coyle, Colgate University
“She really adores him from afar”: A Close Reading of Pound’s Third Folio
Giuliana Ferreccio, Università degli Studi di Torino
Pound, Scheiwiller and the Brahmans
Richard Dean Taylor, Late of Universität Bayreuth and Michael Kindellan University of Sheffield [Paper edited and read by Michael Kindellan]
On Editing Pound’s “Cantos”: A Synopsis
3B. Pound, Kitasono, and Japanese Friends
Chair: Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
Giovanna Epifania, Bari, Italy
From Clarity of Imaginative Vision to “transfusion of blood”: Translation and Avant-garde Poetics in Pound, Kitasono and the De Campos Brothers
Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)
Pound’s Dream Stage and His Japanese Friends: Pound’s Correspondence with His Japanese Friends
Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University
Rising Sun in Ram Sign: EP, Kit-Kat, and the Bilocated “Hokku”
SATURDAY/FRIDAY, 24-25 June 2022
Block II
Saturday, 25 June, 06:00-12:00 (Kyoto) /
Friday, 24 June, 17:00-23:00 (New York) /
Friday, 24 June, 22:00-04:00 (GMT London)
06:00-07:15: Sessions 4A and 4B
4A. Pound’s Modernist Friends II: Gaudier-Brzeska, the Dadaists, and Joyce
Chair: Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts
Henri-Gaudier Brzeska’s Vorticist Portraits of Pound
Christian Bancroft, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
“Epistemology of the ferox”: On the Wildness of Pound’s Parisian Years
Krista Rascoe, Tarrant County College
Pound and Joyce: “Making it new” through Friendship and Language
4B. Pound on Friendship
Chair: Svetlana Ehtee, University of New Brunswick
Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Pound, Friendship and Courtly Love
Espen Grønlie, Universitetet i Oslo
Pound and the Notion of the Philosopher-King
Sean Mark, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris
Ezra Pound, Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Friendship
07:15-07:45: Pause
07:45-09:00: Sessions 5A and 5B
5A. Pound’s Asian Legacy in American Poetry
Chair: Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
David Lanoue, Xavier University of Louisiana
Anglo-American Poetry Pre-Pound to Post-Pound: How Circles of Friends Changed Everything
Joe Survant, Western Kentucky University
Thinking about View from the Stork Building Two Years Later
Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University
Chinese “Variations” in Kentucky: Survant’s Project in View from the Stork Building
5B. Pound among the Philosophers: Ascetic, Nihilistic, and Asemic EP
Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University
Timothy J. Cook, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Pound, Heidegger, and Arendt: Ascetic Origins of The Pisan Cantos
John Allaster, McGill University
Ezra Pound and Dynamic Emptiness
Chengru He, University of Utah
Ezra Pound, Asemic Writing, and the Globalization of Language
09:00-09:30: Pause
09:30-10:45: Sessions 6A and 6B.
6A. Pound’s Modernist Friends III: Pound’s and Yeats’s Working Friendship
Chair: Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University
Youngmin Kim, 동국대학교 (Dongguk University), 杭州师范大学 (Hangzhou Normal University)
Translation as Medium of Transductive Friendship: Yeats and Pound’s Collaboration via the Fenollosa-Pound Connection
Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)
Pound’s kyogen: The Protagonist
Courtney Ruffner, State College of Florida
“Camminare con un amico nel biuio è meglio che camminare da solo nella luce”: A Friendship Rooted in Alchemy: Yeats and Pound
6B. Deep Time in the Archive: Revisiting Pound’s Chinese Poetics (Special Session)
Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney
Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
“Mr. Mori’s Explanation”: The Historical Contexts of Ernest Fenollosa’s History of Chinese Poetry Notebooks
Ryan Johnson, University of Sydney
“Like Milton + Donne!”: Chinese Literary History According to the Ernest Fenollosa Notebooks
Yuxin Zhang, University of Sydney
Ezra Pound’s Transcriptive Poetics in the Confucian Odes
10:45-11:00: Pause
11:00-12:00: Special Event: Demonstration of the Making of a Noh Mask
Chair: Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)
Teiichi IBA, Noh Mask Artist, Shiga Prefecture
Demonstration of the Making of a Noh Mask
SATURDAY, 25 June 2022
Block III
Saturday, 25 June, 20:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /
07:00-11:45 (New York) /
12:00-16:45 (GMT London)
20:00-21:15: Sessions 7A and 7B
7A. Pound’s Post-War Asian Reception
Chair: Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)
Wenting Li, 四川外国语大学 (Sichuan International Studies University)
The Manuscript of Ezra Pound's Translation of Shih-Ching by Confucius
Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University)
Pisa & Beyond: Japan’s Post-WWII Response to Pound
Seda Şen, Başhkent University
Making Ol’ Ez New: The Rediscovery and Reception of Ezra Pound in Turkey
7B. Pound’s Younger Friends among the Avant-Garde
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Rong Ou, 杭州师范大学 (Hangzhou Normal University) and Xioafang Liu, 上海外国语大学 (Shanghai International Studies University)
An Oriental Dance Between Cy Twombly’s Painting and Pound’s Poetry
Felix Marzillier, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis and the Music of West German Avant-Garde Composers
21:15-21:45: Pause
21:45-23:00: Sessions 8A and 8B
8A. Readings in The Pisan Cantos
Chair: Courtney Ruffner, State College of Florida
Mark Byron, University of Sydney
Wanjina
Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Natural Ezra Pound: Geocritical/Ecocritical Reading of The Pisan Cantos
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
“[T]wo halves of the tally” (82/547): Canto 82 63 Years Later
8B. Pound and Women: Friends, Figures, and Family
Chair: Diana Collecott, University of Durham
Paula Camacho, Universidad de Granada
Ezra Pound and His Female Friends: From Hilda Doolittle to Iris Barry
Emilie Georges, Université Paris Nanterre
The Feminine Other in Ezra Pound’s Poetry
Carol Shloss, University of Pennsylvania
Tribute to Mary from Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound
23:00-23:30: Pause
23:30-00:45: Sessions 9A and 9B
9A. The Poetics of the Late Cantos
Chair: Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca
Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba
“No Time, No Books, No Friends”: Ezra Pound on the Gift of Friendship
Asa Chen Zhang, University of Michigan
“Lose All Companions”: Rock-Drilling with/in Ling, and Canto 85’s (In-) Communicability
Duncan Poupard, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ezra Pound, Naxiologist
9B. Pound and Younger American Poet Friends
Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Kent Su, 上海外国语大学 (Shanghai International Studies University)
Chinese Landscape and Paradise: Poundian Retrospection in Kenneth Rexroth’s Poetry
Grzegorz Kosc, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Lowell’s Translation of Dante’s Canto XV and His Dialogue with Pound
Anita Patterson, Boston University
Friendship as Instigation: Ezra Pound, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Chicago Renaissance
SUNDAY/SATURDAY, 25-26 June 2022
Block IV
Sunday, 26 June, 06:00-10:45 (Kyoto) /
Saturday, 25 June, 17:00-21:45 (New York) /
Saturday, 25 June, 22:00-02:45 (GMT London)
06:00-07:15: Sessions 10A and 10B
10A. Pound’s Modernist Friends IV: Eliot and Hemingway
Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Vasily Tolmatchoff, Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
The Lifelong Dialogue Between Eliot and Pound
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Curing “Per’apsez”: Pound’s Friendly Editing of The Waste Land
Roxana Preda, Independent
“We’ll see how the club furnishing holds out”: Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway in Canto 40
10B. Pound Post-War, Postmodern
Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta
Lisa Szefel, Pacific University
Ezra Pound Thinking
Panayiotes (Peter) Tryphonopoulos, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
“[T]he printed b(00)k moth-eaten [STRAIGHT-JACKET] of the western Mind”: Marshall McLuhan, Ezra Pound, and the Modernist Mosaic
Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
From the New Age to the Zoom Age: Teaching Pound with Digital Technology
07:15-07:45: Pause
07:45-09:00: Plenary Session 11: “Old Friends the Most” I
11. “Old Friends the Most”: Pound, Correspondences, and Friendship
Chair: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
Matthew Hofer, University of New Mexico
Ezra Pound and Epistolarity
Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta
H. L. Mencken’s Advice to EP: “You made your great mistake when you abandoned the poetry business”
Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Certitude in the Friendships of Ezra Pound
09:00-09:30: Pause
09:30-10:45: Plenary Session 12: “Old Friends the Most” II
12. “Old Friends the Most” II: Modernist Literary Friendships: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: John Gery, University of New Orleans
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Zhaoming Qian, University of New Orleans
Robert von Hallberg, Claremont Men’s College
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)
Sunday, 26 June
Block V
Sunday, 26 June, 19:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /
06:00-11:45 (New York) /
11:00-16:45 (GMT London)
19:00-20:15: Special Event: Introduction to Noh Plays
A Lecture by a Noh Master
Chair: Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)
Toshiaki Yoshinami, Noh Master of Kanze School, Kyoto
20:15-20:30: Pause
20:30-21:45: Session 13: Poetry Reading in Japanese with English Translation
13. Poetry Reading and Discussion
Chair: Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)
Kit Kumiko Toda, Université de la Réunion
English Translations of Poems by Katué Kitasono about Ezra Pound (from Cactus Island and Egg)
Shuri Kido, 鎌倉 (Kamakura, Japan), Poet
Tomoyuki Endo, 和光大学 (Wako University), translator/reader and interpreter
Senryu Taira, 東京 (Tokyo, Japan), Senryu Soke (The Head of Senryu Family), the 18th Senryu
Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University), translator/reader
21:45-22:00: Pause
22:00-23:15: Session 14: Poetry Reading in English
14. Poetry Reading
Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University
Ron Smith, Saint Christopher School, Poet Laureate, Virginia; Biljana Obradovic, Xavier University of Louisiana; Christian Bancroft, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; Silvia Falsaperla, Toronto, Ontario; Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University; Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida; Chengru He, University of Utah; Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University; Mary Maxwell, Independent; Joe Survant, Western Kentucky University
23:15-23:30: Pause
23:30-00:45: Session 15: Business Meeting
15. Business Meeting
Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)
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Ezra Pound International Conference
EPIC Advisory Committee
Massimo Bacigalupo, University of Genoa
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
Diana Collecott, University of Durham
John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary)
Alan Golding, University of Louisville
David Moody, University of York
Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)
Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca
Roxana Preda, Independent