Saturday June 1
Hyatt
8:30 Registration Table Opens in Upper Lobby
9:00 Coffee and Snacks
SESSION H: 9:30-11:00
H1: Out of the Archive II
tulsa south
Mark Davidson (chair)
Larry Starr, Bob Dylan’s Essential Harmonica
Betsy Bowden, “A Poem Ain’t a Song / Nyanh, a Poem Ain’t a Song / The Time Is Ripe to Right that Wrong”
Richard F. Thomas, “Too Serious to Fool”
H2: Visual Art
Tulsa north
Shawn Holliday (chair)
Anne-Marie Mai, The Melancholy of Bob Dylan’s Songs and Paintings
Fabio Fantuzzi, Ut Pictura “Poiesis” Bob Dylan and Painting
Bob S. Keyes, Bob Dylan’s Visual Language
H3: Musical Activism
oklahoma ballroom
Antonio de Velasco (chair)
Richard Lee, Bob Dylan, Citizen Journalist: Exploring “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
Michael L. Perlin, “You That Build the Death Planes”: Bob Dylan, War and International Affairs
H4: Stardom: Celebrity, Fans, and Covers
tulsa central
Kevin Dettmar (chair)
David R. Shumway, Dylan on Celebrity and Identity
James Adams, “Get in on the Action and Scribble” – The Fugitive World of Bob Dylan Fanzines
Debra Rae Cohen, (unable to attend) Any Bob Dylan Song
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00
Session I: Ann Powers Keynote
Bob Dylan’s Body: Sex, Love, and Gender
tulsa ballroom
1:00 Lunch On Your Own
SESSION J: 2:00-3:30
J1: Gotta Serve Somebody I
oklahoma ballroom
Chris LeDrew (chair)
Len Cazaly, “May Your Song Always Be Sung”: Bob Dylan, Modern Day Psalmist
Jonathan Verbeten, “Bob Dylan’s God-Awful Gospel”: Keith Green and the “Jesus Phase”
Jeffrey S. Lamp, “When He Returns”: An Investigation of the Theological Influences on Bob Dylan’s Eschatology
J2: Different Voices: Politics and Fandom
tulsa south
Brian Hosmer (chair)
Nicolette Rohr, “Them Screamin Girls”: Folk, Rock, and Dylan Fandom
Laura Tenschert, “What’s A Sweetheart Like You Doing In A Dump Like This?” – Women and the World Of Bob Dylan: A Case For Diversity In His Cultural Reception
Antonio de Velasco, Nature, Solidarity and Change: “Chimes of Freedom” at the first Clinton Inaugural
J3: Dylan at Work: On the Page
tulsa central
Peter Hammond (chair)
Mario Gerolamo Mossa, The Unpublished Autographs of “Like a Rolling Stone”: a New Insight into Dylan’s Vocal Composition of “Three-Dimensional Songs” Crossing Orality, Musicology and Textual Criticism
Gisle Selnes, Dylan’s Dummy Lyrics
Marc A. Mamigonian, Don’t Steal, Don’t Lift: James Joyce and Bob Dylan, Borrowing and “Stolentelling”
J4: The Literature of Lyrics and Liner Notes
tulsa north
Scott Peeples (chair)
David Brackett, (unable to attend) Bob Dylan’s Eat the Document and the Limits of Mass Cult Modernism
Dustin Lowman, IlLiterature for the Literate: The Social Conditions Motivating Bob Dylan’s Inverted Folk
Loren Glass, Literary Liner Notes
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
SESSION K: 4:00-5:30
K1: Dylan at Work: Blood on the Tracks
tulsa south
Kirsten Olds (chair)
Anne Margaret Daniel, Blood on the Tracks: The Notebooks and Drafts
Kevin Dettmar, Dylan, Plagiarized Emotion, and the Phrasal Imagination
Anastasia Karel, Tangled Up in the Tracks
K2: If You Cannot Bring Good News: Continuous Engagement Amid Apprehension in Dylan’s Responses to Social Injustice
oklahoma ballroom
George A. Dunn (chair)
Taigen Dan Leighton, Cruel Weapons on the Shelf: Continuing Expressions of Protest
Steven Heine, When Your Train Gets Lost: Explaining Dylan’s Reluctant Prophetic Voice
Brook Ziporyn, “Prob’ly Take It to The Pawn Shop”: Dylan Contra Dylan and the Beauty of Self-Hatred
Preston Keido Houser, Thunder at the Well: Yin-Yang Equilibriums in Dylan’s Social Responses
K3: Mysteries of Meaning
tulsa north
John Cusatis (chair)
Toby Daspit, Why Bob Dylan Matters to 21st Century, and Beyond: An Exploration of Dylan’s Postmodern/Posthuman Educational Philosophies
Tanzil Chowdhury, Dylan through Derrida: The Secret in the Songs of Bob Dylan
Glenn Hughes, Bob Dylan’s Evocations of Mystery
K4: Teaching Roundtable II
tulsa central
Pedagogically diverse teacher-scholars from Hibbing, New York, and Texas address the increasing presence of Dylan’s work on secondary and higher education syllabi as well as his ripeness for interdisciplinary curricula. They will share their experiences and best practices. All are invited to bring their stories and questions.
David Gaines, (Chair)
Nina Goss
Craig Hattam
Kathleen Hudson
Thomas Palaima
5:30 Dinner Break
7:00 Cash Bars in Hyatt Foyer
8:00pm
Keynote: A Conversation with Roger McGuinn
tulsa ballroom
In a rare treat for conference-goers, music journalist Jeff Slate (author of the liner notes for Bob Dylan’s recent Bootleg Series release More Blood, More Tracks) will interview McGuinn on stage in the Hyatt Regency ballroom. McGuinn will share stories from his long and influential career, from the creation of folk-rock and his work with Bob Dylan, to his acclaimed Folk Den Project and his triumphant, sold-out “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” tour with fellow former-Byrd Chris Hillman and country legend Marty Stuart.