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23rd EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“ROMA AMOR: Pound, Love and Rome”

Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei Rome, Italy

30 June - 4 July 2009

Rome, Albergo d’Italia, via Quattro Fontane (1938-1941)

Conference website: http://lowres.uno.edu/ezrapound/

23rd EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“ROMA AMOR: Pound, Love and Rome” Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei

Rome, Italy 30 June - 4 July 2009

Conference website: http://lowres.uno.edu/ezrapound/

SPONSORS

University of New Orleans

Ezra Pound Center for Literature website: http://lowres.uno.edu/brunnenburg/ Department of English website: http://english.uno.edu/

Centro Studi Americani website: http://www.centrostudiamericani.org/ Università di Roma Tre website: http://www.uniroma3.it

Comune di Roma http://www.comune.roma.it/was/wps/portal/pcr Libreria La Diagonale http://www.ladiagonale.it/contatti.php

CONFERENCE STAFF

Co-Conveners John Gery, University of New Orleans

Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova

Conference Advisory Board Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova Walter Baumann, University of Ulster Helen May Dennis, University of Warwick John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary) Alan Golding, University of Louisville Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia David Moody, University of York William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre

Centro Studi Americani Senator Giuliano Amato, President Peter Alegi, Vice President Karim Mezran, Executive Director

Centro Studi Americani Administration

Giusy De Sio, Public Relations and Cultural Activities Manager Valeria De Mori, Cultural Office Assistant

University of New Orleans Triche Roberson, Ezra Pound Center Associate William Lavender, Program Consultant & Webmaster Svetlana Nedeljkov, Conference Staff

Università Degli Studi Roma Tre

Viviana Fabiani, Conference Staff Flavia Sabina Molea, Conference Staff Giulia Napoleone, Conference Staff

Images Front Photo: Wide World Photos. Ara Pacis. Detail

Monday, 29 June Walking Tour and Pre-Conference Reception and Dinner: Santa Maria in Trastevere.

5:30 pm: Short Walking Tour of Old Rome. For those who meet at Campo dei Fiori, by

the Statue of Giordano Bruno, Caterina Ricciardi will conduct a brief tour across the Tiber to Santa Maria in Trastevere. Tour ends back at the reception.

Tuesday, 30 June Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei 1st Floor (upstairs), , Michelangelo Caetani, 32, Largo di Torre Argentina, Roma 9:00 am -5:00 pm: Registration 9:30-10:30 am: Greetings and Opening Remarks

Welcome from Centro Studi Americani: Karim Mezran, Biancamaria Tedeschini Lalli

Chair: Biancamaria Tedeschini Lalli, Professor Emeritus, Università di Roma Tre Barbara Arnett Melchiori, Università di Roma Tre: “Browning’s Scorpion” 10:30 -11:00 am: Welcome coffee break 11:00 am-12:30 pm: Session 2. Baedekers to Pound’s Rome Chair: Caterina Ricciardi, Università di Roma Tre 1. Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genoa: “Pound’s Rome: The Returning of

the Gods” 2. Lucile Dumont, Dublin: “Rome and the Cantos: A Poetical Fusion” 3. Catherine E. Paul, Clemson University: “Ezra Pound in Mussolini’s Rome”

12:30-1:45 pm: Buffet Lunch Centro Studi Americani 1:45-2:15 pm: Special Performance

Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University: “‘Eros Drowned’ or Dear Ezra: Best wishes, à bien, Margaret Cravens [A Monologue]”

2:30-3:45 pm: Concurrent Sessions 3 Session 3A. Pound and SPQR Main Hall Chair: Peter Liebregts, Leiden University 1. Jo Berryman, California Institute of the Arts: “Amo Ergo Sum Propertius,

Mauberley, and Caravaggio’s ‘Omnia vincit Amor’”

2. Stephen Wilson, University of Coimbra: “‘Greeks to Their Romans’: Ezra Pound’s Visions of Empire”

3. Stephen Romer, University François Rabelais: “Venus at Terracina, or the Mediterranean Sanity”

Session 3B. Pound and Modernist Women Room “Amor” Chair: Yoshiko Kita, Japan’s Women’s University 1. Andy Trevathan, University of Arkansas: “Pound’s Love and the Poem as

Palimpsest: Ed ascoltando al leggier mormorio…” 2. Nephie Christodoulides, University of Cyprus: “‘A wondrous holiness hath

touched me’: Divine Love in Ezra Pound’s ‘Hilda’s Book’” 3. Evelyn Haller, Doane College: “Pound, Woolf and Yeats: An Unexpected

Confluence” 4:15-5:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions 4 Session 4A. Pound and Fascism in the 1930s Main Hall Chair: Tim Redman, University of Texas at Dallas 1. Mario Faraone, Università di Trieste: “‘Shooting of fighting lions in a cage?’:

British and Italian Press Receptions of Ezra Pound’s Writings and Statements about Mussolini and Fascism in the 1930s”

2. David Barnes, University of London: “Marinetti’s Rome, Dazzi’s Venice, Pound’s Italy: Culture and Politics”

3. Serenella Zanotti, Università per Stranieri of Siena: “Pound’s Readings of Italian Fascism and the Creation of the Mussolinian Myth”

Session 4B. Mythology in The Cantos Room “Amor” Chair: E.P. Walkiewicz, Oklahoma State University 1. Rama Kundu, Burdwan University: “Pound’s Metamorphosis of ‘Philomel’:

Analysing the ‘Unanalysable’” 2. Giuliana Ferreccio, Università di Torino: “The Nymphs are not departed:

Undine and the ‘Pathosformeln” 3. Janna Kantola, University of Helsinki: “From Rome to Scandanavia: Nordic

Elements in The Cantos” 6:00-7:30 pm: Special Event: Reception Musei Capitolini

EPIC participants will be welcomed by Rome City Council’s Authorities, at the Musei Capitolini (a short walk from the Centro Studi Americani), followed by a visit to the Palazzo dei Conservatori and a reception on Terrazza Caffarelli.

Wednesday, 1 July Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei 9:00 am - 5:00 pm: Registration 9:30-10:45 am: Concurrent Sessions 5 Session 5A. Pound’s Roman Connections Gallery Chair: Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia 1. Anne Conover, Washington, D.C.: “‘Beyond civic order, l’amor’: Olga, Ezra

and Benito Mussolini” 2. Caterina Ricciardi, University di Roma Tre: “Ezra Pound and the Foundation of

the Centro Italiano di Studi Americani: 1936” 3. Stefano Maria Casella, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM-

Milan/Feltre: “‘Ez, Franz & Nini’: Pound and the Monottis in Rome 1935-1999”

Session 5B. In the Sequence of the Musical Phrase: The Cantos Room “Amor” Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney 1. Alex Pestell, University of Sussex: “Measure and Performativity in The

Cantos” 2. Sean Pryor, University of New South Wales: “Love and the Line in the Late

Cantos” 3. Richard Taylor, University of Bayreuth: “Soundscape and Formations of

‘Absolute Rhythm’ in The Cantos” 11:15 am-12:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions 6 Session 6A. Pound, Love, and the State Gallery Chair: Catherine E. Paul, Clemson University 1. David Ten Eyck, Nancy University: “‘Beyond Civic Order: l‘AMOR’: Law

and Love in Pound’s Paradise” 2. Leo Marchetti, Università di Pescara: “The Unsellable Time of Corporate

Socialism” 3. David Ayers, University of Kent: “The Russian Revolution and the

Responsibility of the Artist” Session 6B. Who Is Speaking? Pound and Identity Room “Amor” Chair: David Barnes, University of London 1. Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville: “The Cosmopolitan and the Amorous

Event: Ezra Pound, Walking” 2. Sarah Parry, University of British Columbia: “Schizophrenic Discourse in The

Cantos: A Textual Analysis” 3. Tony Lopez, University of Plymouth: “Darwin in Rome: Pound and Stein” 12:30-1:15 pm: Special Event: Museum Tour: Palazzo Venezia

Guided visit to the museum of PalazzoVenezia (Advanced Reservation required: €4/person)

2:30-3:45 pm: Concurrent Sessions 7 Session 7A. Magical and Mystical Signs in Pound’s Work Gallery Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulas, University of New Brunswick 1. Mohammad Shaheen, University of Jordan: “Seeing, Thinking and Knowing: A

Trilogy of Pound’s Thought” 2. E.P. Walkiewicz, Oklahoma State University: “ROMAMOROMAMOR:

Palindromic (and Iconic) Pound” 3. Scott Eastham, Massey University: “The BLAST & BLESS Balancing Act -- A

Way into the Mystical Dimension of Ezra Pound’s Poetry” Session 7B. Translations by/and Pound Room “Amor” Chair: Biljana Obradovic, Xavier University of Louisiana 1. Aileen Waters, Washington University (St. Louis): “Raising the Already

Living: The Uses of Translation for Pound’s Unique Modernism” 2. Giovanna Epifania, Università di Bari: “The Tradition of Dolce Stil Novo and

Pound’s Translation Strategies in Canto XXXVI” 3. Gerd Schmidt, School of Library and Information Science, Stuttgart: “The

Egyptian Hieroglyph as a Medium for Poetry: H.D and Ezra Pound” 4:15-5:30 pm: Session 8: Roundtable Discussion Session 8. Teaching Ezra Pound: Ezra Pound Teaching Gallery Chair: John Gery, University of New Orleans 1. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick: “‘His Penelope

was Flaubert’: Teaching Ezra Pound’s Allusiveness” 2. Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia: “Life and Poetry: The Case of

Ezra Pound” 5:45-7:00 pm: Special Event: Musical Presentation Main Hall

Margaret Fisher and Bob Hughes: “An Evening of Ezra Pound's Operas: A Love Trilogy”

7:30 pm: Special Event: Libreria La Diagonale, via dei Chiavari, 75 “Portraits: Homage to Ezra Pound.” An Exhibition

Thursday, 2 July Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei 9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Registration 9:30-10:45 am: Concurrent Sessions 9 Session 9B. Pound after World War II Gallery Chair: William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio 1. Lisa Szefel, Pacific University: “Reading Ezra Pound in the Cold War: The

Bollingen Prize Controversy of 1949” 2. Dave Cappella, Central Connecticut State University: “What’s Love Got to Do

with It?: Ezra Pound, Charles Olson and the Experience of Love” 3. Michael Kindellan, University of Sussex: “Social Affection in The Cantos” Session 9A. Pound Out of Confucius Room “Amor” Chair: Scott Eastham, Massey University 1. Hannu Riikonen, University of Helsinki: “To Follow the Middle Line: Moral

Philosophical Concepts in Pound’s Poetry and Translations” 2. Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University: “Chen Mao and the Jesuits: Conflict

and Confucianism in Canto LX” 3. James A, Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz: “‘A Dream in His

Mind’: The Confucian Odes and Pound’s Post-Rome Romance with China” 11:15 am-12:30 pm : Concurrent Sessions 10 Session 10A. Pound’s Italian Landscapes Gallery Chair: Stefano Maria Casella, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM-

Milan/Feltre 1. Anna Viola Sborgi, Università di Genoa: “‘Italian Pictures’: Ezra Pound’s and

Mina Loy’s Relationship with Italy and Futurism” 2. Francesca Cadel, Yale University: “Pasolini’s Pound: Italian Cultural

Landscapes in Post Fascist Italy” Session 10B. New Readings of The Pisan Cantos Room “Amor” Chair: Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia 1. Richard Parker, University of Sussex: “Ezra Pound and Gerhart Munch” 2. Ron Bush, Oxford University: “Love, Avicenna, and the Shape of the Pisan

Cantos” 2:00-2:20 pm: Gallery Piero Sanavio: “The Exile’s Return: EP in Paris, 1965-1966 (A Personal Recollection)” 2:30-3:45 pm: Concurrent Sessions 11

Session 11A. Pound on the Stage Gallery Chair: Evelyn Haller, Doane College 1. Mohit K. Ray, Burdwan University: “Pound’s Experimentations with the Noh:

Some Critical Observations” 2. Reka Mihalka, Eötvös Loránd University: “He Do Elektra in Different Voices:

Sounds of Filial Love” 3. Miho Takahashi, Tenri University: “Herakles on the Blazing Pyre: A Reading

of Women of Trachis, a Version by Ezra Pound” Session 11B. Pound’s Influence: United Kingdom Room “Amor” Chair: Stephen Romer, University François Rabelais 1. Walter Baumann, University of Ulster: “Ezra Pound’s Belfast Connection:

Allan Seaton (1916-2007)” 2. Julian Stannard, University of Winchester: “Briggflatts: An English Romance

Forged out of Pound’s Crucible of Love” 3. Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, University of Caen: “‘Humming/vortices’ of History

and Love, or Geoffrey Hill’s Telegram to Ezra Pound: ‘AMOR. MAN IN A COMA, MA’AM. NEMO. AMEN.”

4:15-5:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions 12 Session 12A. Editing Pound Gallery Chair: Richard Parker, University of Sussex 1. Anderson Araujo, University of Western Ontario: “‘To lure the reader’:

Annotating Pound’s Guide to Kulchur” 2. Trevor Sawler, St. Thomas University (New Brunswick): “Hypertext and The

Cantos” 3. Mark Byron, University of Sydney: “Digital Variorum Edition of Pound’s

Cantos: Architecture and Functionality” Session 12B. Pound’s Influence II: North America Room “Amor” Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University 1. Anita Patterson, Boston University: “Pound, Japonisme, and the Americas” 2. Stewart Donovan, Saint Thomas University (New Brunswick): “‘What Thou

Lovest Well Remains’: R.J. MacSween: Poet and Poundian” 3. Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia: “Love and Hate:

Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary Poets” 6:00-7:30 pm: Special Event: EPIC Poetry Reading Sala Capizucchi

This event will take place two blocks from the CSA. Poets: Mary de Rachewiltz, Patrizia de Rachewiltz, Maria Clelia Cardona, John Gery, Tony Lopez, Daniel Maria Mancini, Plinio Perilli, Daniele Pieroni, Hoshang Merchant, Biljana Obradovic, Stephen Romer, Ron Smith.

Rossella Pretto and Benjamin L. C. Baker read from Saturno Montanari, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Enzo Siciliano.

8:30-10:30 pm: Banquet, Ristorante Rupe Tarpea (Requires reservation in advance)

Friday, 3 July Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Antici Mattei 9:30-10:45 am: Plenary Session Session 13. Pound and Theology Gallery Chair: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster 1. William Pratt, Miami University of Ohio: “More Lasting Than Bronze:

Pound’s True Heritage” 2. Peter Liebregts, Leiden University: “Between Alexandria and Rome: Ezra

Pound, St. Augustine and the Notion of Amor” 3. Tim Redman, University of Texas at Dallas: “Ezra Pound and Roman

Catholicism” 11:15 am-12:45 pm: Plenary session Closing Session: Pound’s Life and Lives Gallery Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genoa 1. Mary de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg, Italy: “Pound and Manfredi in Purgatory” 2. Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia: “And Pounds and Pounds and

Pounds: The Lives of Ezra” 3. Emily Mitchell Wallace, Bryn Mawr College: “‘The Last Diplomatic Train

from Rome in 1942: Ezra Pound’s Passport and His Kafkaesque Nostos” 2:00-3:00 pm: Business Meeting Gallery Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster John Gery, University of New Orleans 3:30-6:00 pm: Tour to the Mithraeum, Santa Maria in Cosmedin and Santa Sabina,

Aventine (€4). Historian Maria Susanna Garroni will kindly lead us along the itinerary.

OR Special City Open Bus Tour (Stop & Go) to ArcheoRome (Catacombs, Appian Way, etc.) (€15)

Saturday-Sunday, 4-5 July Optional Excursion to Siena This excursion will provide transportation by bus from Rome to Siena on Saturday morning, 4 July. Details for the trip and a schedule of events in Siena will be provided at the Centro Studi Americani during the conference. This excursion does not provide a return trip to Rome on either Saturday, 4 July, or Sunday, 5 July, as some participants may wish to depart from Siena to other parts of Italy.