ALSC First Annual Conference (1995)
Minneapolis, MN, September 22-24, 1995
Friday, September 22
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Panel: A Remarkable Flowering: The University of Minnesota Humanities Program, 1950-65. Discussion, talks and readings will feature some of the original participants in the program, including former director Ralph Ross and former faculty and students. Moderator: Norman Fruman (Minnesota).
7:30 p.m. Welcoming remarks by President Ricardo Quinones. Introduction of the keynote speaker by Thomas Clayton (Minnesota).
“Author, Author!” – Keynote address by Bernard Knox, Director Emeritus of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard.
Saturday, September 23
9:00 – 11:50 a.m. Panel: Intellectual Craftsmanship: How to Read a Book. Introduction by Marsha S. Collins (North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
- Roger Shattuck (Boston University): “A Reciprocating Engine—like Proust.”
- Rosanna Warren (Boston University): “Alcaics in Exile: Auden’s ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud.”
- Sven Birkerts (poet and critic): “Reading and Depth of Field.”
- Robert Alter (UC, Berkeley): “Reading for Style in Dickens.”
12:00 noon. Buffet Luncheon
1:30 – 4:20 p.m. Panel: Dante and the Western Canon. Introduction by Patricia Sloane (CUNY).
- Ricardo Quinones (Claremont McKenna): “The ‘Scandal of the Inferno’ in an Age of Atrocity.”
- Paul Cantor (Virginia): “ The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy and Islamic Philosophy.”
- Steven Botterill (UC, Berkeley): “Dante’s Poetics of the Sacred Word.”
- Robert Pinsky (Boston University): “A Contemporary Translation of Dante’s Inferno.”
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. General membership meeting: plans and strategies, organization.
6:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Banquet
Stanley Crouch: “Mr. Bellow, Mr. Sammler, and Mr. Crouch. Art and Society on our Planet.” Introduction by Avrom Fleishman (Johns Hopkins).
Sunday, September 24
9:00 – 11:15 a.m. Panel: Poet and Critic. Introduction by Frank R. Cunningham (South Dakota).
Poems read by poets John Hollander (Yale) and Mark Strand (Johns Hopkins); criticism by Charles Berger (Utah) and Eleanor Cook (Toronto); responses by the poets.
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Reflections on the Convention. Introduction by Helen Killoran (Ohio University, Lancaster). Commentaries by Lee Rust Brown (Utah) and John Ellis (UC, Santa Cruz)
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