Friday, June 2
9:00-10:30am: C Sessions
C1
Room: Tulsa North
Panel: Locating Dylan
- Jon Lasser (chair), Rumplezimmerman, Alchemy, and Dylan’s Bidirectional European Influences
- Kathleen Hudson, Dylan and Texas: Stories and Songs
- Rob Hurd, Romance in Durango and Tales of Yankee Power: Dylan’s Border Music
C2
Room: Oklahoma Ballroom
Panel: Fame and Fandom
- Bob Keyes (chair), Robbed By an Autopen: Bob Dylan’s Use of a Signature Machine Isn’t Unusual, But It’s Still Fraud
- Skip Dine Young and Bill Bettler, Virtue and Vice in the Reception of Dylan’s Gospel Trilogy
- Rebecca Slaman, Come Writers and Critics
C3
Room: Promenade Ballroom
Panel: Creative Intersections
- Bob Egan (chair), Bob Dylan: A Life as Seen through PopSpots
- Christine Jones, “Dollitics” and “Dylantics:” Folk Music and The Political Rhetoric of Dolly Parton and Bob Dylan
- Cathy Chesley, Bob Dylan and the Algorithms of Creative Genius
C4
Room: Horton Records Stage
Panel: The Art and Philosophy of The Philosophy of Modern Song
- Elizabeth Cantalamessa , Art is a Disagreement: Authorship and Responsibility in The Philosophy of Modern Song
- Graley Herren (chair), Mr. Tambo & Mr. Bones, Play a Song for Me: Foster & Poe in Dylan’s ‘Nelly Was a Lady’ Chapter
- Laura Tenschert, ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’: Bob Dylan’s Theory of Art in The Philosophy of Modern Song
10:30-11:00am: Coffee Break in the Upper Foyer
11:00am-12:30pm: Keynote
Room: Promenade Ballroom
Cass Sunstein, “Museums Are Vulgar: Bob Dylan and Dishabituation”
Sponsored by the University of Tulsa’s Department of Political Science
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00pm: D Sessions
D1
Room: Promenade Ballroom
Panel: The Philosophy of Modern Song and the Ambi-Modernist Impulse
- Court Carney (chair), ‘The Laws of Time Didn’t Apply to You’: The Philosophy of Modern Song and the Zeitgeist of the Discontent
- Erin C. Callahan, ‘Lame as Hell and a Big Trick’: Dylan’s Comment on the Commodification of Art in The Philosophy of Modern Song
- Jim Salvucci, ‘The Future for Me is Already a Thing of the Past’: The Seeming Nostalgia of The Philosophy of Modern Song
D2
Room: Oklahoma Ballroom
Panel: Multimedia Dylan
- Steve Paul (chair), “Put My Guns in the Ground”: Bob Dylan, Billy the Kid and Hollywood’s Western Delirium
- Salvatore J. Fallica, Bob Dylan and Pseudo-event Culture
- Malu Barroso, ‘I Contain Multitudes’: The Bob Dylan Cinematic Universe
D3
Room: Horton Records Stage
Panel: Deep Dives
- Ron Radosh (chair), Truth, History and Myth: Bob Dylan’s take on the Cold War trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Nathan C. Blue, Bob Dylan and “Jim Jones at Botany Bay”
- Francisco Espinoza, I got new eyes – “Highlands” – the sense of an album ending
D4
Room: Tulsa North
Panel: Dylan’s Rage
- Paul Haney (chair), Blood on Your Saddle: Bob Dylan’s Homicidal Voices
- Matt Simonsen, Anger Through Life: Bob Dylan and the Tale of the Angry Epics
- Richard B. Westlein, Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: The Pugilistic Poet
3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break in the Upper Foyer
3:30-5:00pm: E Sessions
E1
Room: Promenade Ballroom
Roundtable: Talking Dylan—The Bob Dylan Podcasters
- Craig Danuloff (chair) – Dylan.FM
- Rob Kelly – PodDylan
- Laura Tenschert – Definitely Dylan
- Daniel MacKay – Hard Rain and Slow Trains
E2
Room: Tulsa North
Panel: Judgments
- D.J. Chatelaine (chair), More Popular Than Jesus: The Prophetic Messages of Bob Dylan and The Beatles
- John M. Radosta, The Loveliest and the Best: The Tapestry of Influence of Omar Khayyám’s Rubai’yat on the Works of Bob Dylan
- Jeffrey Edward Green, Never Could Learn to Drink that Blood and Call it Wine: Bob Dylan as Prophet of the Postsecular
E3
Room: Oklahoma Ballroom
Panel: Following Dylan
- Toby Thompson (chair), Interviewing Dylan’s Mom: Lunch with Beatty Zimmerman
- Godfrey Jordan, N.E.T. 3025—Ireland 2019
E4
Room: Horton Records Stage
Panel: Archiving American Music
- Toby Daspit (chair), Bob Dylan as Curriculum Theorist: A Theme Time Radio Hour Interactive Currere Experience
- Barry Ollman, Paper Chase! Collecting and Connecting Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, The Weavers and Bob Dylan
Upper Foyer // Promenade Ballroom
5:00-6:30pm: Official Launch of Switchyard Magazine
Tulsa Arts District
6:00-9:00pm: First Friday Art Crawl
Free community event featuring exhibitions, art, and performances throughout the Tulsa Arts District.
6:30-7:30pm: Keynote
Room: Horton Records Stage
An Evening with Margo Price
in Conversation with Jeff Slate
Musical Performances: (available to Switchyard all-access pass holders only)
8:00pm: Cain’s Ballroom, John Fullbright
10:30pm: Horton Records Stage at the Hyatt Hotel, Seth Lee Jones