Poetry. Experience. Attention.

10:00 – 11:00 · Plenary talk

Room: Auditorium 1

• Professor Mikael Males, University of Oslo: "Are you Experienced and Attentive Enough? Old Norse Poetry as a Conceptual and Analytical Challenge."
• Moderator: Professor Jon Gunnar Jørgensen, University of Oslo

11:15 – 12:15 · Plenary talk

Room: Auditorium 1

• Professor Derek Attridge, University of York: "Lyric Criticism: A Report on Experience?".
• Moderator: Professor Ole Karlsen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

13:30 – 15:00 · Paper session 1

On Translation. Room: Auditorium 1
Moderator: Christian Refsum

• Guofan Xiong and Valentina Ramirez: “From 鹿柴 to "En la ermita del parque de los venados": Translation between cultures, languages, and supports.”

• Rachel Rankin: “Breaking the Window: Three Experiences of ‘Septemberkveld’ by Halldis Moren Vesaas.”

• Camille Fort: “To Queer or not to Queer: Translating  Carol Ann Duffy’s Rain.”

Poetic Address: The Apostrophe. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Claudia Benthien

• Jonathan Culler: “Apostrophe as Attention”
• Jane Hedley: “Apostrophe in Poems of Mourning”
• Claus K. Madsen: “Apostrophe and Semantic Patterning as Shaping Poetic Attention”

New Materialism. Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Antje Schmidt

• Rosa Berbel: “Matter Matters: A Poetics of ‘Geoexperience’ in La piedra alada [The Winged Stone] by José Watanabe” 
• Danila Sokolov: “Thresholds of Form in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Lyric”
• John Westbrook: “On Rilke, Rabies, and the Threat of Poetry”

Diffracted Self and Lyric Interaction in Multimedia Poetry. Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator: Kirsten Stirling

• Antonio Rodriguez: “The Voice is no Longer the Subject. Lyric Interaction and Multimedia”
• Philip Mills: “Intention or Attention? The Case of Poetic Documents”
• Melina Marchetti: “From Multimedia Metaphor to an Augmented Lyrical Experience”

After Confession: Race, Response, Repair. Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Anastasia Nikolis

• Bellamy Mitchell: "The Impact of Apologies as a Confessional Narrative Form in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen"
• Anastasia Nikolis: "After Autobiography: Lyric Disclosure and the Confessional Tradition"
• Melissa Parrish: "Saying What Happened: On Confessionalism’s Enduring Masks"

Mood, Intensity, Tuning. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Hans Kristian S. Rustad

• Eva Zettelmann: “Lyric Mood”
• Thomas Austenfeld: “Poetry is Tuning!”
• Eleonore De Felip: “Attention and Lyrical Intensity: Annotations to Paul Celan’s poem “Psalm (1961)

Visual Art and Poetic Expression. Room Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Karin Nykvist

• Marit Grøtta: “Contemplating a Portrait Photograph: Rilke’s ‘Jugend-Bildnis meines Vaters’”
• Ana Barroso: “Ocean without a shore: Memories of tragedy and redemption. Confluences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Bill Viola’s video art”
• Agata Hołobut: “The Taste of Rothko - Abstract Expressionism Re-Expressed”

The Social Event: Room: Seminarrom 5
Moderator: Johan Alfredsson

• Carina Agnesdotter: “‘Light a fire under your rage’: From peace movement to #MeToo”
• Jessica Brofsky: “The Microaggressive Lyric”
• Karolina Petterson: "But what’s the point of teaching poetry? - A systematic literature review on the legitimacy of poetry in educational contexts"

15:30 – 17:00 · Paper session 2

Poetry and Historical Perception. Room: Auditorium 1
Moderator: Bjarne Markussen

• Gunilla Hermansson: “Poetry meant to be sung as a challenge to literary history”
• Esther T. Hu: “Victorian Women Poets and the Poetry of Experience: Voice, Performance, and Song”
• Trond Haugen: “The musical-poetic origin of modern Norwegian poetry”

Tuning into Reality. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Ranveig Kvinnsland

• Karin Nykvist: “Tuning into Reality: Reading contemporary documentary lyric”
• Robin Jewel Smith: “Renunciations of Victimhood: An Analysis of How Post-Confessional Poetry is More than Mere Survival  - in the poetry of Donika Kelly, Ocean Vuong, Paul Tran and Olena Kalytiak Davis” 
• Sabina Ivenäs: “Traveling Through Time: (Postmigrant) Poetry in Motion & Towards a New Poetic Experience”

Writing and Poetic Experience. Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Benjamin Yazdan

• Vladimir Feshchenko: “Language-Game as Poetic Device: Carla Harryman’s Performance Writing”
• Annkathrin Sonder: “Creating and transforming poetic attention in Rose Ausländer’s writing process” 
• Dunja Dušanić: “’DOWN WITH GUTENBERG!’: Orality and Experience in Clandestine Poetry”

Poetry Located in (Media) Landscapes: Between Attention and Distraction. Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Claudia Benthien

• Claire Gheerardyn: “Experiencing Poems in Landscapes: The Case of Simon Armitage’s Stanza Stones”
• Bianca Hein: “The poetic experience within an expanded notion of poetry”
• Anne Karhio: “Poetry, technology, and the ethics of attention in the work of Paul Mudloon and Nick Laird”

Lineation and Attention. Room: Seminarrom 5
Moderator: David Caplan

• Roi Tartakovsky, "Lineation as Such"

• David Caplan, "Lineation as a Method and a Defense"

• Stephen Guy-Bray, “Structures of Expression"

(In)disciplines of Criticism. Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator: Thorstein Norheim

• Peter Stein Larsen: “The struggle of the poetic genre field”
• Erica Camisa Morale: “What can East Slavic Early Modern Poems Tell Us about the Nature of Lyric?”
• Tessie Prakas: “Lyric (In)Discipline”

Spinning Poetic Webs: The Entangled Nature of Poetic Experience. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Ralph Müller

• Ezra Sibyl Benisty: "Caught in a Poetic Web: The Creepy-crawlies That Made Renaissance Poetry"
• Gabriela Lazaro: "“Mal Envuelto”: The Unrepeatable Reading Experience"
• Philip Lindholm: "“Only Gossamer”: The Material Webs of Romantic Poetry"
• Adela Sophia Sabban: "Christoph Meckel, “Manuskriptbilder”"

Poetry and Affects: Pain and Pleasure in Experiences of Reading. Room: Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Bellamy Mitchell

• Chloé Thomas: “The experience of ‘bad’ poetry”
• Kathrin Wittler: “Experiencing the Loneliness of the Lyric”
• Gulsin Ciftci: “Haunting Forms: Reading Grief in Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of”

09:30 – 10:30 · Plenary talk

Room: Auditorium 1

• Lucy Alford, Wake Forrest University: “Human Position: Details in Periphery.”
• Moderator: PhD Emma Helene Heggdal, University of Oslo

10:45 – 12:45 · Paper session 3

Song Poetry: Narrative voices, dramatic monologues Room: Auditorium 1
Moderator: Hadle Oftedal Andersen

• Ulf Cronquist and Torben Knap: “‘What is the price of experience - do men buy it for a song?’ The Lyrics of Van Morrison in Relation with William Blake”
• Cecilie Takle: “Both Words and Worlds: The Figure and Character Eva in Håkan Hellström’s Sung Poetry”
• Bjarne Markussen: “Kae Tempest – between rap and spoken word poetry”
• Åshild Aspøy: “The pastoral experience. Sensations of solace and joy in Carl Michael Bellman's nature poetry”

Poetic Play Against Power Structures. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Sissel Furuseth

• Johan Alfredsson: “The Overturning Potential of Poetic Language”
• Karin Ulvelid: “Where does the Bridge of Poetry lead?” 
• David Powelstock: “Attunement to Folk Poetry as a Foundation for the Social Lyric: The Case of Nikolai Nekrasov” 
• Judhajit Sarkar: “A Poetics of Excess and Excreta: The Scatological Universe of a (Not So) Classical Urdu Poet”

Long Poems and Duration. Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator: Peter Stein Larsen

• Ole Karlsen: “The long poem in Norwegian contemporary literature”
• Mantra Mukim: “Lyric Impossibility: Muktibodh, Césaire, and the Experience of Long Poems”
• Irmtraud Huber: "Reading for the Line - Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and the Form of the Verse Novel”
• Isobel Palmer: “‘Ну вот опять / ты умудрился опоздать’ [Well how predictable / Now you’ve gone and missed it all]: German Lukomnikov’s montage of distractions”

Meaning and Materiality. Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Marit Grøtta

• Herbert Tucker: “What’s the Matter with Poetry”
• Andreas Lombnæs: “What Everybody Knows. Presentation and representation in lyric poetry, á propos Jan Erik Vold’s poem ‘Det alle vet’ (1968)”
• Jane Griffiths: “Making, Knowing and Judging: James Ryman and 21st-Century Poetics”
• Will Waters: “Do Poems Exist?”

Rhythm and Attention. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Heather Dubrow

• Mathew Mewhinney: “Listening for Life: Breath, Rhythm, and Reading in a Modern Japanese Prose Poem”
• Jordana Infeld: “Ceaseless rhythm: waulking’s constraint and freedom”
• Sofie Njåsdatter Johannessen: “Repetitions and interruptions in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric”
• Kjell Andreas Oddekalv: “The Long Lines of André 3000”

Experimental Poetry. Room: Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Vadim Keylin

• Julie Koblížková Wittlichová: “Experiments without form. Neo-avantgarde poetry by lens of aesthetic anti-empiricism” 
• Richard Müller: “The Cybernetics Moment in Experimental Poetry of the 1960s, and New Modes of Reading and Perception”
• Olga Sokolova: “Attention shifts in contemporary Italian poetry: new roles of Channel and Code”
• Ivan Sokolov: “Russian Twenty-First Century Analytic Lyric”

The Challenges and Potential of Cross-Disciplinary and Multilingual Terminology of Lyric Theory. The Case of the Compendium ‘Poetry in Notions’. Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Antonio Rodriguez

• Ralph Müller
• Kirsten Stirling
• Philip Mills
• Philip Lindholm
• Antonio Ridriguez

The Figure of the Small. Room: Seminarrom 5
Moderator: Claus Madsen

• Emmanuel Reymond: “The Sovereign and the Beast: the figure as issue of attention in the poetry of Jørn H. Sværen”
• Tin Lemac: “Stylistic Model and Typology of Poetic Image”
• Christian Zehnder: “Attention to the Small: A Central Trope of the Poetry of the Soviet Underground”
• Marcelo Pellegrini: “Eugenio Montejo: Poetry as an Experience of Heteronymic Synesthesia”

13:45 – 14:45 · Plenary talk

Room: Auditorium 1

• Associate Professor Susan Kiguli, Makerere University: "Oral Poetry in African Contexts: Performers, Texts and Styles"

• Moderator: Professor Hans Kristian S. Rustad, University of Oslo

15:00 – 16:30 · Paper session 4

Eco-Poetics and its Possibilities. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Antonio Rodriguez

• Jahan Ramazani: “Poetry and Climate Change: Elegy, Anticipatory Mourning, and Ecocritique”
• Avery Slater: “Personhood and Petromodernity”
• Denise Brassard: “L’écriture des pierres dans la poésie de Madeleine Gagnon”

Cognition and Poetic Touch. Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Emma Helene Heggdal

• Helena Van Praet: “Touching the Reader: Bodily Images and Affective Knowledge in Rozalie Hirs’s and Anne Carson’s Poetry”
• Delphine Rumeau: “Poetry and Touch: Experiencing Whitman”
• Francisco Javier Calderón de Lucas: “When the body reads a poem: Reading scenarios for Maria-Mercè Marçal’s poetic work”

Unexpected Encounters: Poetry in the Digital Age. Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Karin Nykvist

• Claudia Benthien: “Odes to Miami: The Poetik Entanglement between Urban Space and Online Sites”
• Vadim Keylin: “(Post)Human Voices: Authenticity, Liveness and Synthesized Speech”
• Antje Schmidt: “Who Creates the Landscape? Technocene Encounters between Humans, Machines and Nature in Digital Poetry” 

Close Reading as Attentional Practice. Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator: Ewan Jones

• Ewan Jones: “Reading in a Darkened Room: I. A. Richards and the Uses of Distraction”
• Jane Partner: “From Early Modern to Late Modernist: Experimental Typography, Visual Experience and States of Poetic Attention”
• Atti Viragh: “Hermeneutics, Close Reading and Attention” 

Book Presentation: Song poetry. Room: Auditorium 1

• Bjarne Kristian Markussen (moderator)
• Ole Karlsen
• Gisle Selnes
• Liv Kreken
• Sigrun Blaavarp
• Ingrid Skjerdal

Making the Lyric Present: Contemporary Poetry and Audience. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Reena Sastri

• Reena Sastri: “The repatterning of experience in Williams and Glück”
• Elizabeth Sarah Coles: “Reading with Anne Carson and Susan Howe”
• Peter Howarth: “The Structural Effects of the Poetry Circuit”

Lineation and Experience: Room: Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Sissel Furuseth

• Hal Coase: “'subsisting in layered zone': Barbara Guest, twining and tabularity” 
• Peter Groves: “Enjambment and the Management of Attention in the English Pentameter” 
• Jakub Vaněk: “Ritual, experience and care in Charlotte Delbo’s Days and Memory” 

A Listening Poetics: Room: Seminarrom 5
Moderator: Hans Kristian S. Rustad

• Karen Leeder: “Towards a Listening Poetics. Ulrike Draesner and Alice Oswald attending with the ear”
• Iona Reluca Petrescu: “The Inhuman Voice: Poetics of Expression in Non-Anthropocentric Lyricism (Guillevic, Hartnett, Stoica)”
• Mikayla C. Bortscher: “Listening, Responding, Song Writing”

20:00 – 21:00 · Poetry reading at Litteraturhuset

Address: Wergelandsveien 29 (google.com)

• “Poetry as a Shared Experience. Ten theses on Poetry Reading”. Associate Professor Louise Mønster, Aalborg University
• Poetry reading by Tone Hødnebø, Heather Dubrow, Susan Kiguli, and Denise Brassard.

09:30 – 10:30 · Plenary talk

Room: Auditorium 1

• Professor Magali Nachtergael, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne: “Media Poetry and Performance: an Embodied Dynamics of Attention”.
• Moderator: Postdoctoral Fellow Kjell Andreas Oddekald, RITMO, University of Oslo

10:45 – 12:15 · Paper session 5

Nature, Connection, Poetic Expression. Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Åshild Mogstad Aspøy

• Mateusz Kucab: “Being Sentient. Ecology-Experience and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry”
• Leira Araújo-Nieto: “Nature is the home of the unwanted: Lyrical analysis of The Grove’s Tremor, by Mariza Cino”
• Thor Magnus Tangerås: “Experiencing Connectedness to Nature through attending to strangeness”

Song Poetry, Performance and Methods. Room: Auditorium 1
Moderator: Cecilie Takle

• Hadle Oftedal Andersen: “Shaun Ryder: ‘Most of these men sing like Serbs’”
• Mallory Chipman: “Untamed Melodies: Songwriting, Selfhood, and the Music of Alberta Birds”
• Michael Prince: “Imminent and Striated Spaces in Harry Partch’s The Wayward” 

Ambiguity and Defamiliarization. Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Renata Senktas

• Nursan Celik and Gulsin Ciftci: “Ostranenie in Digital Poetry: Revisiting Viktor Šklovskijs notion of defamiliarization”
• Jan Musil: “The Violence of Tradition in David Harsent's Poetry” 
• Robert Britten: “(T)reading Carefully: Uncertainty in Perception and Poetry”

Images, Textures, Poetry. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Peter Stein Larsen

• Joosep Susi and Agnes Neier: “Lyric crisis or prosperity? The dialogue of poetry and photography in contemporary Estonian poetry”
• Ingrid Beate Hestvik Skjerdal: “Text and textiles – fabric and ekphrasis in the Scandinavian medieval ballad”
• Eva Pitronová: “Exploring the “imagepoems” of Ellen Einan”

Poetry and Theatre. Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator:

• Irene Beatriz Olalla-Ramírez: “Poetry in Maeterlinck’s theatre: non-narrative devices in Pelléas et Mélisande and L’Oiseau bleu”
• Markel Hernández-Pérez: “Poetry on stage in the plays of Maria Velasco” 

Attention and the Imaginary. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Mads Claudi

• Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz: “Vivifying Attention in Enlightenment Aesthetics and Romantic Poetry”
• María Elena Higueruelo: “Anne Carson’s Poetics of Transparency”
• Josef Hrdlička: “To See the Invisible: Poem as a Scene” 

Embodiment and the Lyric. Affect, Attention, and Actualization. Room: Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Louise Mønster

• Aurelia Cojocaru: “Feminist rationalism/ rationalist feminism: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s poetics of self-actualization”
• Edvard Lia: “‘One of the most powerful images in our time of powers’: Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs as Eco-Lyrical Meditation on the Earth as Unhomely Home
• Johan Magnus Staxrud: “Embodiment of song lyric – Experience and attention”

The Poetics of Automobility: Room: Seminarrom 5
Moderator: Joel Duncan

• Joel Duncan: “Poetic Drive at a Standstill: William Carlos Wiliams, Frank O’Hara, and Claudia Rankine” 
• Ian Davidson: “Mobility and the lyric in the poetry of Bill Griffiths”
• Justin Parks: “The Man in the Ditch and the Overturned Wreck: The Car Accident Poem and the Limits of Automobility” 

13:15 – 14:45 · Paper session 6

Rethinking Lyric Communities: Room: Auditorium 3
Moderator: Francesco Giusti

• Francesco Giusti: “Gestural Communities: Lyric and the Suspension of Action”
• Laura Banella: “Dante and Lyric Communities (1290-1550)”
• Nicolas Longinotti: “Empty deixis - transferable communities. Petrarch’s addressees in the 15th-century verbo-visual commentary to the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta”

Norwegian Stev - reperforming viking poetry: Room: Seminarrom 1
Moderator: Jacqueline Ekgren

• Jacqueline Ekgren: “A Living Oral Tradition with Viking Roots: Norwegian Nystev Features Found in Old Norse Skaldic Poem ‘Málsháttakvæði’”
• Joe Siri Ekgren: “Syllable duration in accentual poetry: audio analysis of kveding, the living oral tradition of Norwegian Stev”
• Jon Storm-Mathisen: “‘Nystev’, like ‘Gamalstev’, share roots with Old Norse poetry”

Contaminations: the Language in the Landscape: Room: Seminarrom 2
Moderator: Paola Del Zoppo

• Paola Del Zoppo: "To bee here and there: Liminal presence in German ultra-contemporary nature poetry"
• Amelia Valtolina

Between Realism and Dreams. Room: Auditorium 2
Moderator: Mads Claudi

• Christian P. Weber: “Literary Realism Reconsidered: Goethe for Example”
• Thorstein Norheim: "Attention on form. Some remarks on Henrik Nordbrandt’s dream poetry in Drømmebroer [Dream Bridges] (1998)"

The Lyric Self and Selfhood. Room: Seminarrom 3
Moderator: Claus Madsen

• Yuki Tanaka: "Travel and Attention: On Jenny Xie’s Eye Level"

• May Mergenthaler: "Light as Medium of Experience in the Poetry of Greiffenberg and Brockes"

• Oren Yirmiya: "'Yet, I Shall Wake Up from the Dreadful Dream of Biography' – Lyric Personhood and Self-Estrangement in the Poetry of Shimon Adaf"

Archaic and Classic Forms. Room: Seminarrom 4
Moderator: Helena Van Praet

• Otto Swaantje: "'Unter den Alpen gesungen': Hölderlin’s Variation on the Sapphic Stanza"
• Knut Olav Nordstoga Sandvik: "The Poetic Function in Overdrive: Foregrounding Parallelism in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry"
• Alicia Maddalena: "The Use of Pre-Conversion Form and Vocabulary in the Old Norse Hugsvinnsmál"

14:55 · Roundtable discussion

Room: Auditorium 1

Participants

• Professor Kirstin A. Sterling, Université de Lausanne
• Professor Ole Karlsen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
• Assistant Professor Avery Slater, University of Toronto.

15:15 · Closing words

Room: Auditorium 1

• Hans Kristian S. Rustad
• Heather Dubrow
• Denise Brassard