Friday, July 25, 2025
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9 a.m. Panel Session C
C1
Panel: Hearing the Women
Room: Gussman. Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Alex Shelbourne, “From Suze to Sylvie: The Muse in Rock Historiography”
John McCombe, “Her Back Pages: Suze Rotolo and the Education of Bob Dylan”
Steve Paul, “Billie and Bob: Dylan’s Unacknowledged Debt to Lady Day”
C2
Roundtable: You’ve Been with the Professors: Teaching Dylan in the University
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Jon Lasser (moderator)
Erin Callahan
Court Carney
Tom Palaima
Richard Thomas
C3
Panel: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues
Room: Meinig Recital Hall
Robert Reginio (moderator)
Jae Dyche
Amy Ongiri
David Polanski
C4
Panel: Dylan and the Beatles
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
David Persails, “The Word of Bob From the Book of George”
Jacob Justice, “Highway 61 By Way of Liverpool: Six Decades of the Beatles-Dylan Dialogue”
Skip Dine Young and Bill Bettler, “Dylan & George Harrison’s Mystical Connection”
C5
Panel: Playin’ in the Band
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Brian Wright, “Revisiting Dylan’s “Going Electric” from the Perspective of his Electric Bassists”
Tom Wilmeth, “Diminished Chords – Dylan’s Abandonment of Fingerstyle Guitar”
Jeff Fallis, “Blowing His Lungs Out: Bob Dylan and the Harmonica”
11 a.m. Panel Session D
D1
Panel: Gettin’ Dark: Late Career
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Scott Peeples, “Bob Dylan’s Southern Sympathizer Tour”
Bruce Dunlavy, “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven: Dylan’s Career Recapitulated in One Song”
Brady Harrison, “‘Murder Most Foul’ and the Literary Anatomy”
D2
Roundtable: Dylan and Masculinity
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Laura Tenschert (moderator)
Anne Marie Mai
Erin Callahan
Rebecca Slaman
Paul Haney
D3
Panel: Blues, Bluegrass and Folk
Room: Meinig Recital Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Bryce Russell, “Bob Dylan’s Continuation of the Irish and Scottish Folk Music Tradition”
Bob Russell, “Bob Dylan and Bluegrass Music”
Robert Cataliotti, ““And I Can Tell You One Thing”: Blind Willie McTell, the Blues Tradition, and Bob Dylan”
D4
Panel: Dylan Among the Moderns
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Francisco Espinoza Cárcamo, “Faulkner and Dylan”
Chuck Clark, “Dylan and Robert Frost”
Nathan Blue, “Dylan and the New Critics”
D5
Panel: Interpreting Dylan
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Kevin Saylor, “Dylan’s Palinodes”
Cinde Berkowitz, “Women Sing Dylan”
Cameron Gilliland, “Bob Dylan: Poet, Artist, Legend, State-Builder”
12:30 p.m. Lunch Sessions
Dylan versus the Professors: A Roundtable of Teaching Bob Dylan (featuring the authors and editors of Teaching Bob Dylan: Multitudes)
Location:
Barry Faulk and Brady Harrison (moderators)
Court Carney
S.E. Gontarski
Lauren Onkey
David Shumway
Gayle Wald
Robert Reginio
2 p.m. Adam Bradley Keynote, “The Rap on Dylan”
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
4 p.m. Panel Session E
E1
Panel: Blood on the Tracks: 50th Anniversary
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Graley Herren (moderator), “Don’t Draw the Vase: Norman Raeben & Bob Dylan”
Laura Tenschert, “‘The Deputy Walks on High Heels’: The Workings and Re-Workings of ‘Shelter From the Storm’”
Ray Padgett, “From a Different Point of View: Live Blood on the Tracks Rearrangements”
E2
Panel: Folk Ballads
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Michael Nadler, “Phil Ochs: Not Quite a Complete Unknown”
Marc Mamigonian, “‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window’ and the Crafting of a Biographical Episode”
Elizabeth Wolfson, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Love, Creativity, and Wisdom Reflected in the Late-Life Art of Bob Dylan”
E3
Panel: Dylan and the Queer Self: LGBTQ+ Perspectives
Room: Meinig Recital Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Paul Haney (moderator)
Annie Burkhart
Charles Kaiser
E4
Panel: Going Global
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Kirill Razumov, “Dylan in the USSR”
Fernando Viotti, “Drummond and Dylan in a World Made of Iron”
Nadia López-Paláez Akalay, “Symbols of Mysticism in Dylan’s Allusions to the Spanish Speaking World”
E5
Panel: Taking the Long View
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Daniel Mackay, “To Get You Facts When Someone Attacks Your Imagination: The Creation and Use of An Acceptable Dylan Canon”
Prashant Garg, “On Bob Dylan: A Computational Perspective”
Todd Richardson, “Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now: The Correspondence of Dylan and Willa Cather”
7:30 p.m. Village Panel
Moderated by Sean Latham, Director of the Bob Dylan Institute
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
8:45 p.m. Greil Marcus Keynote, “First Unto This Country: Bob Dylan and the Little Sandy Review”
A listening session and conversation co-presented by the Bob Dylan Center and moderated by Center Director Steven Jenkins
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)