Sunday, June 4
9:30-11:00am: H Sessions
H1
Room: Tulsa North
Panel: I Read the Scriptures a Lot
- Henning Emil Magnusson (chair), “Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear:” Dylan’s use of Old Testament Wisdom Literature on Time Out of Mind
- Jeffrey Lamp, ‘God Said to Abraham’: Can Bob Dylan Help Us (Re-)Read the Bible?
H2
Room: Horton Records Stage
Panel: Infinity on Trial
- Laura Tenschert (chair), “I don’t remember being born” – Four Rewritings of “Shelter From the Storm” from Bob Dylan’s Mondo Scripto Series
- Susan Scarberry-García, A Vision of Wheels: Bob Dylan’s Rail Car and Leo Tolstoy’s Bicycle
- Raphael Falco, Unheard Melodies: Ekphrasis and Possible Gaze in Dylan’s Lyrics (read in absentia by Thomas Palaima)
H3
Room: Oklahoma Ballroom
Panel: Violent Ends
- Michael Nadler (chair), Eschatology and Manichaeism in the Songs of Bob Dylan
- Scott M. Marshall , From Medgar to Bobby, Midnight Summer Blue–Fall, Winter, Spring–John, Malcolm, & Martin, in the Daylight Too
- Sean Walsh, Arrow on the Doorpost: The Occasional Apocalyptic Vision of Bob Dylan
11:00-11:30am: Coffee Break in the Upper Foyer
11:30am-1:00pm: I Sessions: ROOM UPDATES
I1
Room UPDATE: Oklahoma Ballroom
Panel: Ancient Sources
- Catharine Mason (chair), Bob Dylan Studies: Language, Literature, and Ethnopoetics
- Nicholas Wagner, Torn Between Jupiter and Apollo: Bob Dylan’s Pre-Christian Phase
- Christopher Mitchell, “Everybody Wants You to Be Just Like Them:” The Menippean Satire of Bob Dylan
I2
Room UPDATE: Promenade Ballroom
Roundtable: Where Beauty Goes Unrecognized: Reconsidering Bob Dylan in the 1980s
- Erin C. Callahan (chair)
- Court Carney
- Harold Lepidus
- Jeff Fallis
I3
Room: Tulsa North
Panel: On “Believing the Songs”: Bob Dylan as a Creative Spiritual Thinker Beyond Traditions
- Steven Heine (chair), A Bob Dylan Hourglass: Sayings for Daily Cycles
- Taigen Dan Leighton, Bob Dylan’s Hymns
- Brook Ziporyn, ‘God Did Not Create This Earth’: Grappling with Critiques of Orthodoxy in Masked and Anonymous
1:00-1:30pm: Break
1:30-3:00pm: Keynote
Room: Horton Records Stage
Valeria Luiselli, “Echoes from the Borderlands”
Sponsored by the University of Tulsa’s College of Arts and Sciences