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51st The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
51st The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
University of Louisville CONFERENCE
Mon, February 19, 2024 @ 08:00 AM — Sun, February 25, 2024 @ 11:55 PM (EST)
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The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 is now in its 51st year and has become an international event attracting more than three hundred participants annually. This is the official website for LCLC51 and all program information and registration details are collected here.



At the LCLC, Scholars working in English and Spanish submit proposals on any topic pertaining to literature and culture since 1900. The Conference also welcomes submissions by creative writers. Reading committees selected the strongest critical and creative works; the papers are then grouped for presentation at sectional meetings held on our campus. The conference also hosts national and international Group Societies and invites proposals for seminars. Recent keynote speakers have included Jennifer Egan, Stephanie Burt, Merve Emre, Fernando Opere, Lauren Berlant, Colson Whitehead, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Fred Moten, Rodrigo Toscano, Johanna Drucker, Mat Johnson, Lisa Gitelman, Jack Halberstam, Juliana Spahr, James Smethurst, Dominic Pettman, M. NourbeSe Philip, Sianne Ngai, Douglas Kearney, Lynn Keller, Jed Rasula, Forrest Gander, Coral Bracho, and Marisa Parham.

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8:00 AM to 11:55 PM (EST)
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February 24, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
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University of Louisville
2301 S 3rd St
Louisville, KY  USA
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AGENDA
Monday, February 19
10:15 AM to 11:45 AM
S-1 Experimental Thoughts on Experimental Poetics
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
R-1 Virginia Woolf Society Panel
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
T-1 20th C Psycho-Spaces
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
U-1 Reconsiderations of the Modern Novel
Tuesday, February 20
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
W-1 Spanish literature and creative writing session
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
X-1 New Narratologies
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
Y-1 Story Reboots
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Z-1 American Afterlives III - Materialist Histories of American Culture
Thursday, February 22
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Press Exhibits
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
LCLC REGISTRATION and CONFERENCE RECEPTION
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-1 The Use of VR in Language Classes
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-2 Four Poets: Harrison, Ihns, White, and Williams
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-3 Memory, Fantasy, Poetry
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-4 Illness and Art
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-5 “This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence (Lawrence Durrell Society)
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
A-6 Ed Dorn: Empire's Occasion and the Problem of the Poem
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
A-7 SEMINAR ONE: "SYLLABUS MIRABILIS": A CELEBRATION OF CHAPBOOKS
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-1—Pinter I—Performing Theory I: Staged Reading of Hélène Cixous’s play Portrait of Dora
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-2 (CANCELLED) Olson 1
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-3 Narratives of Belonging and Community: Local, Regional, and Transnational Identities
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-4 Sci Fi / Futurecasting
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-5 Poetry and Its Embodied Spaces
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-6 The Poetics of the Genre Flailing: Four Poets Perform the Contemporary Crisis of Form (creative/critical)
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
B-7 Poetry Reading: Fink / Cooperman / Hoover
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
A. B. Spellman in conversation with Jerry Tolson
9:00 PM to 12:00 AM
LCLC After Dark: MAD HAT READING in celebration of Maxine Chernoff
Friday, February 23
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
LCLC REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE RECEPTION
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-1 COMMUNITY AND COMMONS
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-2—The Arts of John Yau I
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-3 Experiments in Autobiography & Life Writing: A Reading of New Work
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-4 New Assessments of Children’s Literature
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-5 Spare Session
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
C-6 Queering Reading Otherwise
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Press Exhibits
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-1 Jewish Studies Panel
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-2 Blake 2024 One
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-3 New Voices in American Poetry (MIami Ohio Poets)
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-4 African-American Literature and Culture Society Panel
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-5 Poetics
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-6 New Thresholds, New Rhythms!
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM
D-7 Poetry Reading: Farris (introductions) Day and Cambron (readings) and Greenwald (Respondent)
12:15 PM to 1:30 PM
(CANCELLED) Pan African Studies/LCLC Lunch
12:15 PM to 1:30 PM
English Graduate Organization Luncheon
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-1. “precision which creates movement”: E. E. Cummings’ Affective, Kinetic Modernism
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-2 SPANISH 1: Bilingual Reading
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-3 “We Keep What We Lose Despite Light’s Inclination”: A Panel on the Work of Maxine Chernoff
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-4. Pinter 2: Performing Theory II
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-5 Post/modernist Mind Games and the Novel’s Cultural Entanglements
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-6. Poetry Reading
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-7 Understanding Film amid contemporary digital social media
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
E-8 Eliotic Persistences
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Seminar 2: The Poetry of A. B. Spellman
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-1 Olson Society 2
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-2 LENGUAS VIVAS: Arte en la comunidad indígena
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-3 Magic in Recent Poetry
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-4 IF THESE STONES COULD TALK (Critical / Creative)
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-5 A Novel Focus
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-6 What was Cinema?
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-7 Poetry X Theory Detente!
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-8 Fiction Reading (Farris / Gardener-Selman / Lucas)
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
F-9 Poetry Reading: John Yau and Ronna Lebo
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Maxinne Chernoff: A Reading
9:00 PM to 12:00 AM
LCLC After Dark: A.B. Spellman Reading /Live Jazz
Saturday, February 24
9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Press Exhibits
9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
LCLC REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE RECEPTION
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-1 Philosophy and Theatre Arts: Student Plays and Pedagogy
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-3 Charles Olson 3
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-4 Poetry Reading: The Mind’s Faded Chapter and Verse (Sayre/Shaner/TBA)
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-5 Prose Explorations: Themes of blood and soil in long form fiction
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-6 New Discourses on Race and Literature
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
G-7 CW - Mixed Forms-- Congratulations! Radical Poetry Level Unlocked
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-1 American Afterlives I - Knowledge Technologies
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-2 Blake 2024 TWO
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-3 Writing the Literary Community
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-4 Coming of Age with Corso, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Beat Society Panel)
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-5 SPARE
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-6 TRAD/TRANS/TEXTS: Narayanan / Gray / Weiser (Poetry Reading)
11:15 AM to 12:45 PM
H-7 Work and Gaming
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
A Tribute to Lyn Hejinian's Life in Writing
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
Creative Writers Lunch
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-0 Memory, Mortality & Community in a Post-Pandemic World
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-1—American Afterlives II
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-2 Spare Panel
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-4 Toward an Anti-Capitalist Poetics
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-5—“Naive and Sentimental (Eco or Idyllic) Poetics”
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-6—Writing Disaster
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
I-7—Literature and/as Cult of Personality
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
ANNETTE ALLEN AWARDS POETRY PRIZE CELEBRATION
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Seminar 3B: AFTER AFTER: TRAD/TRANS/TEXTS
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-1 Spare Session
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-2—Yau II
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-3—Pinter III: Psycho Performance
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-4—Spanish Translation Panel
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-5—20th Century Fiction
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-6—The Significance Today of Calvin C. Hernton
3:45 PM to 5:15 PM
J-7—Creative Writing: Prose
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Anna Kornbluh Keynote Presentation - "Mediating Immediacy: Climate Crux and Collective Arts"
9:00 PM to 12:00 AM
LCLC After Dark: BLACK SQUARE POETS READING
Selection Options
US Dollar
 
Registration Options
Virtual Presenters
Virtual Presenters
$ 230.00 
 
Tenured or Tenure-Track Presenter Registration
Tenured or Tenure-Track Presenter Registration
$ 195.00 
 
Retired, Adjunct, or Non-Tenured Track Presenters
Retired, Adjunct, or Non-Tenured Track Presenters
$ 140.00 
 
Grad Student Registration
Grad Student Registration
$ 115.00 
 
UofL Affiliate Registration
UofL Affiliate Registration
Complimentary 
 
Non-Presenting Chair
Non-Presenting Chair
$ 70.00 
 
Non-Presenting Visitor Registration
Non-Presenting Visitor Registration
$ 25.00 
 
Independent Scholar/Creator Registration
Independent Scholar/Creator Registration
$ 140.00 
 
Exhibitor Pass (Admits 2)
Exhibitor Pass (Admits 2)
60/60 LEFT $ 275.00 
 
Non-Presenting, Zoom Attendees
Non-Presenting, Zoom Attendees
75/100 LEFT Complimentary 
 
 
Event Registration
Kick-Off Poetry Reading
Kick-Off Poetry Reading
Complimentary 

Wednesday, 7-9
 
Opening Reception
Opening Reception
Complimentary 
 
After Hours Poetry Reading, Thrusday
After Hours Poetry Reading, Thrusday
Complimentary 
 
English Graduate Organization Luncheon
English Graduate Organization Luncheon
Complimentary 
Friday Feb 23, 2024 @  12:15:PM  —  01:30:PM EST
 
Pan-African Studies and LCLC Lunch
Pan-African Studies and LCLC Lunch
16/30 LEFT Complimentary 

Friday
 
After Hours Poetry Reading, Friday
After Hours Poetry Reading, Friday
Complimentary 
 
Creative Lunch
Creative Lunch
7/30 LEFT $ 20.00 
 
Closing Reception
Closing Reception
Complimentary 
 
After Hours Poetry Reading, Saturday
After Hours Poetry Reading, Saturday
Complimentary 
 
Show interest in the Sunday excursion to UofK for the Yau
Show interest in the Sunday excursion to UofK for the Yau
Complimentary 
 
 
Add-ons
Parking Pass, Thursday
Parking Pass, Thursday
$ 10.00 
 
Parking Pass, Friday
Parking Pass, Friday
$ 10.00 
 
Visitor Pass, Thursday
Visitor Pass, Thursday
$ 25.00 
 
Visitor Pass, Friday
Visitor Pass, Friday
$ 25.00 
 
Visitor Pass, Saturday
Visitor Pass, Saturday
$ 25.00 
 
 
LCLC SEMINARS
A Celebration of Chapbooks
A Celebration of Chapbooks
Complimentary 
Thursday Feb 22, 2024 @  01:30:PM  —  03:30:PM EST
 
Trad trans: After / after
Trad trans: After / after
Complimentary 
Saturday Feb 24, 2024 @  02:00:PM  —  04:00:PM EST

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The Poetry of A. B. Spellman
The Poetry of A. B. Spellman
Complimentary 
Friday Feb 23, 2024 @  01:30:PM  —  03:30:PM EST
 
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