Thursday, July 24, 2025
World of Bob Dylan 2025 Homepage
9 a.m. Registration
Location: Lorton Performance Center Lobby
11 a.m. Anna Canoni Keynote, “When Woody Met Bob: Hey, Hey Woody Guthrie, I Wrote You a Song”
Moderated by Cady Shaw, Director of the Woody Guthrie Center
Location: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
12:30 p.m. Lunch and Registration
Location: Lorton Performance Center Lobby
2 p.m. Panel Session A
A1
Panel: Folk The Scene
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Seth Wood, “‘Hands A-Blazin’: Dylan and the Potlatch Economy of American Folk Music”
Scott Barretta, “Izzy Young”
Anne Margaret Daniel, “Barry and Bob’s Excellent Adventures: On the Road with Barry Feinstein and Bob Dylan, 1963-74”
A2
Panel: Dylan’s Worlds
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Susan Scarberry-García, “‘Spirit of the High Wind’: Bob Dylan’s Skyward Gaze”
Anne Sofie Lassen, “Nature’s Voice Makes My Heart Rejoice”
Allan Cheskes, “Dylan in the World; the World on Dylan”
A3
Panel: Close Encounters of the Bob Kind
Room: Meinig Recital Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Joe Specht, “When You’re Lost in the Rain in Juarez: Electric Encounter with Dylan and the Hawks”
Jim O’Brien, “Road Maps for the Soul: An American Journey with Dylan”
D.J. Chatelaine, “My Soul Flew to Mansions on High: Attending Dylan’s Concerts as Pilgrimage”
A4
Panel: Dylan’s Pronouns
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Jonathan Whittaker, “Dylan and Dionysos: Nietzsche on the Lyric Poet and the Songs of Bob Dylan”
Jeff Passe, “Making a Good Song Great: Dylan’s Exquisite Use of Dialogue”
Robert Hurd, “Something There is About You: Dylan in the Second Person”
4 p.m. Panel Session B
B1
Roundtable: The World of Suze Rotolo
Room: Gussman Concert Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Lauren Onkey (moderator)
Gustavus Stadler
Pamela Thurschwell
Gayle Wald
B2
Panel: From the Archives
Room: Helmerich Hall Room #219
Mason Moreno (and Jon Lasser), “The Dylan-Shepard Tapes”
Tomaz Jardim, “Notebooks, Scraps and Studio Tapes: Street Legal Through the Lens of the Archive”
Bill Lattanzi, “The Brownsville Girl Drafts: Secrets from the Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan Archives”
B3
Panel: Making Connections
Room: Meinig Recital Hall (Lorton Performance Center)
Lisa O’Neill Sanders, “Lorca and Dylan in the 60s”
Oliver Trager, “Black Cross: Lord Buckley, Joseph Newman & The Bob Dylan Connection”
Scott Marshall, “Driven Deep Beneath the Waves: Mutineers Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Dylan—Apocalyptic Typewriters, Harmonicas—a Snowmass Summit Observed”
B4
Panel: Deep Dives
Room: Lorton Performance Center Room #2060
Chris Sehnert, “She Belongs to Me, Revisited”
Andrew Marion, “Twas Down in Mississippi Not So Long Ago: Bob Dylan and ‘The Death of Emmett Till””
Jess Bonds, “Murder Most Dylan: Time out of Mind, The Furies, and a Black Swan”