WHERE /
ABOUT THE EVENT /
The Body Poetic: Poetry Now II
December 28, 2017
“I sing the body electric”
Walt Whitman
Jointly sponsored by the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University
SCHEDULE /
10:00 – 11:00 – Keynote lecture: Stephanie Burt, Harvard University . "Don't Read Poetry." Chair: Jenn Lewin, University of Haifa
11:15-12:45 – Panel 1: Formal Bodies. Chair: Keren Omry, University of Haifa
David Caplan, Ohio Wesleyan University: HIV/AIDS and the Question of Poetic Form
Sarah Gilead, University of Haifa: Keats’s ‘This Living Hand’: Three Bodies
Roi Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University: Rhyming Bodies and Antibodies
12:45-13:45 –
Buffet lunch
13:45-15:15 – Panel 2: Revising the Body. Chair: Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University
Deni Kasa, Tel Aviv University: Grace and the Politics of Embodiment in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa: Poetry and Other Fluids: John Stuart Mill's Affect Theory
Marcela Sulak, Bar-Ilan University: In Black and White: The Serial Poem as Dragnet
Irena Rudiakov, University of Haifa: "This Beauteous Form" - The Sonnet as a Repurposed Body in John Donne's La Corona and the Holy Sonnets
Poetry takes its key terms from corporality and is deeply engaged with the body in both personal and political ways. Poetry Now is an annual event devoted to the research and writing of poetry in Israel. This year's conference explores how poetry maps new body identities.
Sammy and Aviva Ofer Observatory, Eshkol Tower, 30th floor, University of Haifa
15:30-17:00 – Panel 3: Gender and the Body. Chair: Alex Feldman, University of Haifa
Sola Ogunbayo, Olabisi Onabanjo University: Mythopoeia of the Female Body in Christopher Okigbo and Ben Okri
Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Disciplinary Body in American Women's Poetry
Zohar Wieman-Kelman, Ben-Gurion University: The Yiddish Body Erotic-Poetic
Michal Calo, Ben-Gurion University: From Myth to Self: Muriel Rukeyser’s Reclamation of the Body
17:15-18:15 – Poetry Reading. Chair: Dara Barnat
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Rachel Tzvia Back
Stephanie Burt
David Caplan
Michael Dickel
Yosefa Raz