Saturday, July 26, 2025
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9 a.m. Panel Session F
F1
Panel: Old Dog Learns New Trick: Bob Dylan’s Remarkable Public Engagement on the Social Media Platform “X” (Formerly Twitter)
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
J. Matthew Martin (moderator)
Anne Margaret Daniel
Harrison Hewitt
Harold Lepidus
F2
Panel: Containing Multitudes: The Many Arts of Bob Dylan
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Erin Callahan (moderator)
Anne-Marie Mai
Nina Goss
F3
Panel: A Complete Unknown
Room: Meinig Recital Hall
Jodie Childers, “Pete Seeger: A Complete Unknown”
Jonathan Hodgers, “Not All There: A Critical Look at A Complete Unknown”
Tom Hemingway, “‘Stare Into the Vacuum of his Eyes’ – Looking at Bob Dylan and the Reaction Shot in A Complete Unknown”
F4
Panel: Popular Culture
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Christine Hand Jones, “The Old Bob Can’t Come to the Phone Right Now: Death and Rebirth in Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift”
Muse “Bi” Lee, “Strange New World That’s a-Comin’ Along: Bob Dylan, Star Trek, and the Changing Times”
Henry Bernstein, “I Been In A Brawl: Bob Dylan And Professional Wrestling”
F5
Panel: Visionary Revisions
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Walter Raubicheck, “Dylan’s Imagery Goes Electric”
Toby Daspit, “What Dylan Going Electric Can Teach Us About Transforming Contemporary Educational Philosophy”
Andy Martino, “The Never Ending Revision: Inside Dylan’s Unique Songs-in-Progress”
11 a.m. Panel Session G
G1
Panel: “‘Love and Theft’ at a Quarter Century: L & T as Albums, Ethic and Aesthetic”
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Brian Roberts (chair), “Huck Finn’s Back Pages”
Scott Warmuth, “Several Stories Happening at Once: Intertext in Love and Theft”
Eric Lott, “Claudius and Calliope, or, The Grassy Knoll Party”
G2
Roundtable: Uncontained Multitudes: Dylan’s Influence on the Contemporary Novel(ist)
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Justin Taylor (moderator)
Kimberly King Parsons
Mark Doten
Andrew Martin
Lilly Riggs
G3
Panel: Dylan and the American South
Room: Meinig Recital Hall
Jason Cain, “From Turkey Scratch to The Basement: Levon Helm and Bob Dylan”
Kathleen Hudson, “Bob Dylan and Bob Johnston: ‘Is It Rolling, Bob?'”
RJ Morgan, “Only a Pawn: Bob Dylan in Mississippi”
G4
Panel: Shakespeare
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Steve Hamelman, “Bardolatry Revisited”
Russ Heldman, “Deciphering Bob Dylan’s Use of Shakespearean Imagery in Song from the Bard’s Plays on Film”
Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, “The Poet Meets the Bard: Exploring the Lyrical Parallel between Dylan and Shakespeare”
G5
Panel: Dylan’s Visual Art
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Robert Slifkin, “Badness c. 1970: Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait and Philip Guston’s Marlborough Paintings”
Fabio Fantuzzi, “Unveiling Norman Raeben: Art, Influence, and the POYESIS Project”
Mark Dolan, “Someday, Everything is Gonna Be Diff’rent: Bob Dylan’s Unfinished Paintings”
12:30 p.m. Lunch Sessions
“‘I’m Still Pushin’ Myself Along the Road’: Reassessing Bob Dylan in the 1980s”
Location:
Erin Callahan (moderator)
Court Carney
Graley Herren
Rebecca Slaman
Robert Reginio
Dylan Trivia
Jessica MacPhail and Lilya Ouksel (emcees)
featuring merch prizes for trivia winners
Tangled Up In Words: A Generative Poetry Workshop
Edward Wade (moderator)
2 p.m. Elijah Wald Keynote: Bob Dylan, Blues Artist
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Sponsored by a generous gift from Mary Herr Tally
4 p.m. Panel Session H
H1
Panel: “Crossing the Rubicon” from Three Critical Perspectives
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Robert Reginio
Nina Goss
Timothy Hampton
H2
Panel: Religion I Scripture
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Mark Eaton, “Wait for the Light to Shine: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years Reconsidered”
Adam Jones, “I Dreamed I Saw St….Somebody: Bob, Augustine, and Joe Hill”
Jeffrey Lamp, “Dylan and David: Hearing ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ with the Psalms”
H3
Panel: Living in a Political World
Room: Meinig Recital Hall
Roberta Rakove, “The Arrow on the Doorpost: What Bob Dylan’s Songs Tell Us About Our Current Civil Divide”
Stevan Weine, “‘I felt it seemed too personal’: Idiot Wind and Bob Dylan’s Voices of Grievance”
David Kootnikoff, “Dylan as a Political Radical”
H4
Panel: Dylan and Literary Form
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Tom Kitts, “Dylan, Melodrama, and the Anti-Melodrama”
Stewart Habig, “Who Isn’t a Pawn in Their Game?”
Lonny Harrison, “‘I Fought with My Twin’: Bob Dylan’s Artistic Symmetries with Fyodor Dostoevsky”
H5
Panel: (Re)Inventions
Room: Tyrrell Hall Auditorium
Danny Fingeroth, “Like a Rolling Aphorism: How Bob Dylan Reinvigorates Familiar Language”
Salvatore Fallica, “Bob Dylan and Awards Culture: How Does it Feel and What Does it Mean to be a Troubadour in the World of Awards Culture”
Bradley Britvich, “‘Something is Happening Here…’: How Bob Dylan Shaped the Literary Album Note Genre”