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PROGRAM PDF | BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

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May 17^{th |} Venue — Cinema Ideal

• 7 p.m. — Screening of And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead, by Billy Woodberry

May 18^th 

10:30 a.m. Guided Visit to the Modern Arts Center (CAM) | Venue — Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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2:00 p.m.  Opening Session | Venue — FLUL Amphitheater III

• Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), Director of Literatures, Arts and Cultures (LAC), Head of the English Department, Head of ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, American Corner Coordinator, Coordinator of Research Group 3 on American Studies, Project Coordinator of American Studies Over_Seas

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2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Session I — “America I’ve given you all”: Reflections on the 250^th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America

Chair: Teresa Cid

• “Celebrating the Idea of ‘America’ — Whitman and Ginsberg on the 250^th Anniversary of US Independence,” Edgardo Medeiros da Silva, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP) and ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “Democratic Imagination and the American Road,” João M. Palaio, ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies

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3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Coffee break

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3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Session II — “Jack still jumps with the same beat genius as before”: Visions of Kerouac

Chair: Camila Querino

• “In Search of the Lost author — Jack Kerouac, an American Proust?,” Mário Avelar, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “Pomes All Sizes and the Collapse of Meaning in Kerouac’s World,” Margarida Pereira Martins, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “’Nowhere to Go, But Everywhere’: On Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals,” Tomasz Sawczuk, University of Bialystok

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5 p.m. Session III — Roundtable

Moderator: Adelaide Meira Serras

• “The University — How we would like it to be(at),” with Anne Waldman, Mário Avelar, Seth Perlow, and students of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL): Catarina Mogas, Erina Puka, Inês Rocha, Isabel Lopes, João Francisco André, Mariana Bicudo, Matilde Maia Azevedo, among others

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6:30 p.m. Reception with finger food and Porto de Honra

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Session IV — Film Screening and Roundtable | Venue — CINEMA IDEAL

9 p.m. Screening of Outrider, by Alystyre Julian

10:30 p.m.— Roundtable

Moderator: José Duarte

• “Beats, Intermediality, Diversity and Inclusion,” with Alystyre Julian and Billy Woodberry

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May 19^th

Venue — FLUL Amphitheater III

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9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Session V — “I never dreamed the sea so deep”: Fluid geographies and embodiments in poetry

Chair: Isabel Alves

• “Beat Waves and Rising Tides: Decolonial Knowledge and Indigenous Sovereignty in Oceania,” Ana Cristina Gomes da Rocha, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
• “Psyche Preborn. H. D. and the Embryology of Marine Life,” Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex

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10:45 – 11:00 a.m.  – Coffee break

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11:00 – 12:30 a.m. Session VI — “Till I find peace for thee, O Poetry”: Experimenting with forms and themes

Chair: Bernardo Palmeirim

• “Brenda Hillman’s Reportorial Poetics and Experiments with Poetry,” Nuno Marques, University of Azores and ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “Transreal Poetics: N. H. Pritchard and the Politics of Form Beyond the Beats,” Simon Eales, Independent researcher and poet
• “Erasing American Independence,” Seth Perlow, Georgetown University

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12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Session VII — “Everything that sings is holy”: On Allen Ginsberg’s Centennial

Chair: Diana V. Almeida

• “The Eye Altering Alters All: Allen Ginsberg’s Responses to William Blake,” Camila Querino, ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “Allen Ginsberg, Poe, Jazz, the Bomb, and the Underground,” Margarida Vale de Gato, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
• “The Village Psalms: A Poetic Dialogue Between Maya Deren and Allen Ginsberg,” Mariana Bicudo Cunha, ULICES/CEAUL – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies

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2:00 p.m. – Beatnik piKniK

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5:00 p.m. – Guided tour for guests | Venue — Casa Fernando Pessoa

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6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – Anne Waldman and “The weight of the world is love”

• Poetry Reading by honor guest Anne Waldman, Diana V. Almeida, Elsa Maurício Childs, with soundscape by Francisco Rebelo, followed by Q&A with Waldman

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7.30 p.m. – Closing Session

Still from Outrider, a film by Alystyre Julian about Anne Waldman