Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms:

Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present

This conference is part of the "Poetics, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present" CIRA project.
Friday, June 10, 2005
9:00 AM - 10:30 PM
UCLA
9:00 am-5:30 pm: Presentations and panels in 306 Royce Hall
7:45 pm-10:30 pm: Film Screenings in 314 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, the UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, Chain, the UCLA International Institute, Palm Press, West Coast Line, and Xcp: Crosscultural Poetics.
9:00-9:30 Announcements and Opening Remarks (306 Royce Hall)

Prof. Walter K. Lew, English Dept., Mills College.
9:30-10:45 Translation's Role in East Asian Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism

"Heterolingual Love: Kim Ôk's International Affections" • Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University.

"Treacherous Translation: Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the Korean Tale Ch’unhyang-jôn (The Tale of Spring Fragrance)" • Serk-bae Suh, History Dept., UC, Los Angeles.

Moderator: Koichi Haga, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC, Los Angeles
10:45-12:00 Anarchism and Poetry in East Asia During the 1930s

"Advertising Tower: Anarchist Poetry at the Nexus of Commerce, Censorship, and Avant-Garde Art Movements in Prewar Japan" • Prof. William Gardner, Modern Languages & Literatures Dept., Swarthmore College.

"Anarchism in East Asia in the Early 20th Century" • Prof. Dongyoun Hwang, Asian Studies, Soka University, Aliso Viejo.

Moderator: Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain
Lunch
1:15-2:30 Other Internationalist Poetries of Resistance

"Apocrypha & Avant Garde: (Early) (South) American Strategies concerning 'Modernism'" • Prof. Heriberto Yepez, Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana.

"'Blame Me on History': The Drum Generation and South African Modernism(s)" • David Buuck, History of Consciousness Dept., UC, Santa Cruz, editor of Tripwire.

Moderator: Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University
Break
2:45-4:00 Histories of Internationalist Poetry and Reforming "Creative Writing" in the U.S.A.

"T/heres: What Pacific Poetries Might Add to the Teaching of Creative Writing" • Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain.

"Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry" • Prof. Mark Nowak, College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, editor of Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics.

"Towards Decolonizasian: Integrating Pedagogies, Editorial Practices, and Cultural Organizing North of the Border" • Prof. Rita Wong, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver),
editorial board member, West Coast Line.

Moderator: Prof. Walter K. Lew, Mills College
4:00-5:30 Readings of Poetry, Translations, Poetics

Nowak, Choi, Gardner, Lew, Yepez, Buuck, Spahr.
7:45-11:00 Films (314 Royce Hall)

Introduced by Prof. Vinay Lal, Dept. of History, UCLA, who will also lead a discussion session after the screenings.

A Night of Prophecy, dir. Amar Kanwar (India, 2002). 77 min. Documentary / cinematic poem.

The Poet of Linge Homeland (Penyair Negeri Linge), dir. Aryo Danusiri (Indonesia, 2000). 25 min. Documentary.

A Poet, Unconcealed Poetry (Puisi tak terkuburkan), dir. Garin Nugroho (Indonesia, 1999). 50 min. excerpt. Cross-genre, historical feature film.

For notes on the participants, updated details and web links, please visit the website:: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp.

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Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Walter K. Lew
Lew@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp


Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present