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