Living Literature Center Presents its Spring Conference 2003 - Literature of the Sixties

Living Literature Center Presents its Spring Conference 2003 - Literature of the Sixties

TAHLEQUAH Northeastern State Universitys Living Literature Center announces its Spring Conference 2003. Titled Literature of the Sixties, the free conference runs April 11 through the 12 in the University Center of the Tahlequah campus. A full slate of events focusing on the sixties theme are planned. A schedule follows.

Friday, April 11
6:30-7 p.m.: Registration and Reception, University Center - Redbud Room
7:30-9:30 p.m.: REVOLUTION presented by The Sequoyah Institute, NSU Center for the Performing Arts

Saturday, April 12
7:30-8 a.m.: Coffee and Danishes, University Center
8-9 a.m.: Dr. Christopher Malone, Course Introduction - Bodies in Protest: Literature of the Sixties"
Christopher Malone is assistant professor of English and director of the Living Literature Center at Northeastern State University. His work on modern and contemporary poetry has appeared in several journals and collections of essays, most recently in Joyce and the City (Syracuse University Press, 2002). Malone and his wife Amy, both natives of Oklahoma, are the parents of two sons, Jacob and Caden. Malone will examine the body as a site of resistance in the literature, film, and songs of the sixties.
9-10:30 a.m.: Film - The Beats
11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Dr. Cida Chase, It Started with Pocho: Outstanding Fiction in Chicano Literature," Tahlequah Public Library
Cida Chase is an assistant professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Oklahoma State University and an Oklahoma Humanities Council Territory Speaker. Her public lecture at the Tahlequah Public Library is made possible by a grant from OHC. Dr. Chase will examine how the Chicano novel of today emerged from the troubled years of the mid-1960s and the outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement.
12-1 p.m.: Lunch, University Center - Cedar Room
1-2 p.m.: Katherine Duff Smith, Adrienne Rich: Poet As Activist In The Burning of Paper Instead Of Children
Katherine Duff Smith has attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Bard College, and is now completing her English B.A. at Northeastern State University. Her research interests include 20th-century poetry and 19th-century Cherokee printing. She works full-time for the Sequoyah Institute and lives in a log cabin on the Illinois River with her dog and cat. Smith will discuss the poetry of Adrienne Rich, in particular the poem The Burning of Paper Instead of Children, and the way it reflects changing attitudes in the '60s about gender roles and female empowerment.
2-3 p.m.: Paul Lormand, The Growth and Change of the Sixties Movie Musicals
Paul Lormand has been the director of the Sequoyah Institute at Northeastern State University since August of 2001. Originally from Kaplan, LA, a small Cajun, agricultural community, Lormand began his career in the arts at 13 years old as a church organist and choir director for Holy Rosary Catholic Church. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and obtained a BA in Communications/English. Lormand spent 16 years in Memphis, TN, where he obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre at the University of Memphis. Before coming to Tahlequah, Lormand served as executive director for the Schauer Arts and Activities Center in Hartford, WI, and the head of the department of Performing Arts and UL-Lafayette. Lormand will discuss the changing character of movie musicals in the sixties.
3-4 p.m.: Mark Malaby, The Hard Hats, The Outlaws, and the Kids: A look at one of the Sixties Failed Revolutions
Mark Malaby is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at Oklahoma State University and has taught classes on the Sixties, Protest Film, and the History of Rock and Roll.
While the decade of the 1960s is remembered as a time of revolution in the areas of music, fashion, and social norms, it was also part of a preplanned political agenda. In this lecture, Malaby will touch briefly on the origins of the Marxist movement of the sixties left and then use film excerpts to show the day it all came crashing down.
4-5:30 p.m.: Film - Dutchman, discussion
5:30-6:30 p.m.: In-class essay, class evaluation

4/9/03

Published: 2003-04-09 00:00:00