About this Event
Kenneth White International Conference
Travels in Euramerasia
Room One A The Square, University of Glasgow Friday 14 June 2024
Hillhead Library Saturday 15 June 2024
Programme
Friday 14 June
9.30 Tea/coffee
9.50 Welcome: Stephen Forcer, GU Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Chair: Norman Bissell, Director, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics
10.00 Prof Cairns Craig: Kenneth White: Travels in Euramerasia
10.30 Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania, USA: Homa and Ónoma: Remembering Kenneth White
11.00 Panel on German Philosophy and Geopoetics: Chair: Prof Ullrich Kockel, UHI
Jeff Malpas, Philip Tonner, Martina Kolb
11.30 Break (tea/coffee)
11.45 Gavin Bowd, University of St Andrews: The post-Maoist geopoetics of Jean-Claude Pinson
12.15 Monika Kocot, University of Lodz, Poland: On Following and Returning to Zōka: Kenneth White and Matsuo Bashō
12.45 Steven Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Edinburgh University: Kenneth White and Dugald Semple: Fairlie and the North Ayrshire connection
13.15 Buffet Lunch & Exhibition of books by Stéphane Bigeard, Cairns Craig, Norman Bissell, Gilles Fabre (Lunch in ARC)
14.00 Expressing the Earth film 90 mins (dir. Glenda Rome)
15.30 Film Q&A Panel Chair: Alyson Hallett
Glenda Rome, Patrick Corbett, Norman Bissell
15.45 Break (tea/coffee)
16.00 Norman Bissell, Director, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics:
Precursors of Geopoetics: the Jargon Group and Open World Poetics
16.30 Olivier Salazar-Ferrer, University of Glasgow: Gilles Deleuze and Kenneth White
17.00 Poetry and Music Performances: Compere: Dave Francis
Alyson Hallett, Patrick Corbett, Norman Bissell, Régis Poulet, Alan Spence, Alastair McIntosh, Philip Tonner and Dan Luck, Mark Sheridan, Gilles Fabre
19.00 Close
Saturday 15 June at Hillhead Library, Byres Road, Glasgow
9.45 Assemble at Hillhead Library
10.00 Haiku Walk by the River Kelvin led by Gilles Fabre, Dublin poet & publisher
12.30 Sandwich Lunch
13.00 Luke Devlin, GalGael Trust: The Unmapped Land: Geopoetics as ressourcement in the hour of chaos
13.30 Ramona Fotiade: University of Glasgow: Kenneth White: Nomad Mind
14.00 Régis Poulet, President of the International Institute of Geopoetics:
Kenneth White, from Alaska to Hokkaido: The Idea of the North
14.30 Prof Charles Forsdick, University of Cambridge: Kenneth White: ‘étonnant voyageur’
15.00 Tea/ coffee/Kyoto tea
15.15 Les Cygnes sauvages film
15.30 Film Q&A Priscilla Leal Torres, Paris publisher and Régis Poulet
16.00 Prof Patrick Corbett, Heriot-Watt University: Kenneth White – Grounded in Geology
16.30 Panel on Kenneth White’s Legacy Chair: Prof Cairns Craig
Régis Poulet, Ramona Fotiade, Gavin Bowd, Norman Bissell, Martina Kolb, Alastair McIntosh, author & activist.
17.00 Close
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
GBP 25.00
