D.H. Lawrence: New Life, New Utterance, New Perspectives
Conference Program
(Provisional--Last updated 6/2/14)
All panel sessions and included meals will be at the University of Milan’s lakeside conference centre, the Palazzo Feltrinelli.
(Printable version of the program is available for download. AlsoPanel Guidelines for Chairs and Speakers is also available to print.)Program Abstracts in a Printable Word File
Email list for registered delegates can be found in the members-only section of the DHLSNA Directory (You must first login)
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.
MONDAY 23 JUNE
1:00–4:30—Registration (Palazzo Feltrinelli Foyer)
5:00–7:00—Opening, Welcome and Keynote Address. (Aula Magna)
Welcome Address by Professor Francesca Orestano, University
of Milan: "D.H. Lawrence's Oscar".
Keynote Address: Simonetta de Filippis, Jill Franks and
Stefania Michelucci: “D.H. Lawrence: Language and
Cultural Translation”
7:30–9:20— Welcome Dinner, courtesy of the Mayor of Gargnano
9:30-10:00--World Premiere of a short film adaptation of Lawrence's Rawdon's Roof (written in Italy in 1927). We hope to follow this exclusive screening with a brief Skype question and answer session with the film's New York producer and director, Monica Tidwell, and some of the actors from the cast. (Sala Castellani)
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TUESDAY 24 JUNE
9:30–11:00—Concurrent session I
Panel 1: D.H. Lawrence & Italy I (Chair: Paul Eggert) (Aula Magna)
Nick Ceramella: Lawrence at “The Theatre”: Meeting Actors
and Audience
Andrew Harrison: “If You Love Me, Send Me Something to Read”: Lawrence’s Reading in Gargnano
Samir Dayal: After New Gods: D.H. Lawrence, Italy and
“Foreignness”
Panel 2: D.H. Lawrence & Other Writers I (Chair: Stefania
Michelucci) (Aula C)
Elizabeth Fox: Pat Barker’s Life Class as Sequel to D.H.
Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Gaku Iwai: Which Class Does Lawrence Belong to? Lawrence’s Place among Working- and Middle-Class Writers of Mining Novels
Panel 3: Sexuality (Chair: Jill Franks) (Aula A)
Masashi Asai: How to Have Meaningful Relationships with the Other—Lawrence, de Sade, Bataille
David Ellis: Love and Sex in Lawrence and Stendhal
Matthew Kochis: Lawrence’s Brangwen Brothers: The Tom, Dick, and Harry of Subversive Sexuality
Panel 4: Drama (Chair: Simonetta de Filippis) (Aula B)
Nora Stovel: Minerva Victrix: The Daughter-in-Law: A Power
Play
Zeynep Atayurt-Fenge: From the Pits to the Kitchens: The Dynamics of Food and Eating in The Daughter-in-Law and The Fight for Barbara
11:00–11:30—Coffee break
11:30–1:00—Concurrent session II
Panel 1: Biography I (Chair: Jacob Wells) (Aula B)
Barbara Kearns: The Elephant in the Womb
Frank Morral: The Drunken Father in Lawrence’s Early Autobiographical Works: An Alternative View
Panel 2: Philosophy & Theory I (Chair: Sharon Warner) (Aula C)
Michael Bell: Lawrence, Philosophy and the Novel: A Nagging
Question
Indrek Manniste: D.H. Lawrence, Technology, and the Sense of
Enframing
Youngjoo Son: Rethinking Thing Theory: Lawrence’s “Things”
and Heidegger’s Jug
Panel 3: Wartime (Chair: Judith Ruderman) (Aula Magna)
Nanette Norris: 1914—Two Sides to War: “England My
England” and "Vin Ordinaire"
Nancy Paxton: From The Sisters to The Rainbow: Redefining
Romance in Wartime England
Akiko Yamada: The Symbolic Meanings of the Snake and the Sickle: A Study of “England, My England”
Panel 4: The Body, the Spirit (Chair: Eleanor Green) (Aula A)
Pamela Wright: “For when I am weak, then I am strong”: D.H. Lawrence’s Use of the Apostle Paul’s “Thorn in the Flesh” Theme in “The Thorn in the Flesh”
Hiroaki Inami: The Eagle and the Dove: Binary Opposition Hidden in Polarity: Philosophy in Twilight in Italy
1:00–2:00—Lunch
2:00–4:00—Break (with optional visits / short walking tours)
Walks to be repeated on Thursday; exhibition times and details to be confirmed. Further options may be available: sign up for all options at registration.
a) Walk to Villa Igea and visit a local Limonaia, with Stefania Michelucci and Jill Franks
b) Walk to San Tommaso with John Worthen
4:00–-5:30—Concurrent session III
Panel 1: Psychoanalysis I (Chair: Ron Granofsky) (Aula Magna)
Peter Balbert: The Dark Secret and the Coccygeal Continuum: From Oedipus to Debasement to Maturity in The Lost Girl
Howard Booth: Reaching out in Anguish: Reconsidering Lawrence’s Pre-War Engagement with Italy
Richard Feinberg: The Nature of Paul Morel’s Suffering
Panel 2: Stylistic Analysis (Chair: Matthew Kochis) (Aula B)
Tonya Krouse: Aesthetic Crisis and Narrative Momentum in
Women in Love
Violeta Sotirova: The Enactment of Feeling: A Stylistic Analysis
of Love Scenes in The Rainbow
Laurence Steven: Lawrence, Revision, and the "Over-Emphatic
Explicitness" of Theory
Panel 3: D.H. Lawrence & Other Writers II (Chair: Jane Costin) (Aula C)
Dieter Mehl: D.H Lawrence and Max Mohr
Naveed Rehan: Lawrence’s Debt to Pater and Wilde
Garry Watson: Lawrence and Tradition(s)
Panel 4: Ecocriticism (Chair: Holly Laird) (Aula A)
Adina Ciugureanu: From Organic Nature to Secular Apocalypse
with D.H. Lawrence
Marina Ragachewskaya: D.H. Lawrence and a New Ecological
Consciousness
Catherine Brown: Lawrence’s Alpine Theology
5:45–7:15— Keynote Address: Neil Roberts: “Jessie Chambers, Frieda Lawrence, and the Rewriting of Sons and Lovers” (Aula Magna)
7:30–9:00—Dinner
9:00–10:00—“D.H. Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame,” screening of BBC documentary introduced by writer and director, Rupert Edwards. (Sala Castellani)
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WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE
9:30–11:00—Concurrent session IV
Panel 1: Biography II (Chair: Andrew Harrison) (Aula A)
Kumiko Hoshi: Reading Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence as a Metabiography
Carmen Musat: D.H. Lawrence’s Mr Noon and the Descent into Oneself: The Short Way from Biography to Fiction
Joyce Wexler: Chasing the Writer
Panel 2: Spirituality & Religion I (Chair: Masashi Asai) (Aula B)
Simonetta Ferrini: Taoist Wisdom in “The Spinner and the Monks”: An Ideal Dialogue between D.H. Lawrence and Zhuang-zi
Jung-A Hwang: The Dichotomy between Bios and Zoe in D.H.
Lawrence
Rosemary Ross Johnston: “[A] New Part of the Soul Woke Up Suddenly”: Lawrence and a Poetics of Learning.
Panel 3: Poetry (Chair: Christopher Pollnitz) (Aula Magna)
Dawid De Villiers: Shadow of All Things: Oceanic Alterity in the
Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
Holly Laird: D.H. Lawrence as a Poet: A Reintroduction
Nak-chung Paik: Who Comes After the Subject’s Death? An Attempt at a Literal Reading of “The Ship of Death”
Panel 4: Reviews (Chair: Nancy Paxton) (Aula C)
Courtney Carter: Lawrence’s Review of Georgian Poetry:
Manifesto for a New Age
Annalise Grice: “That’ll help perhaps to advertise me”: Lawrence’s “The Georgian Renaissance” Review in Rhythm
Betsy Sargent: Should Phoenix Rise from its Flames?
11:00–11:30—Coffee break
11:30–12:30—Concurrent session V
Panel 1: Art (Chair: Nanette Norris) (Aula Magna)
Margaret Storch: Abstraction and “the heat of life”: Lawrence
and Contemporary Art
Helen Wussow: Caravaggio and D.H. Lawrence: Vulgarity to
Sainthood
Panel 2: Dance (Chair: Nora Stovel) (Aula C)
Sergio Crapiz: Dancing Bodies: D.H. Lawrence and Antonin
Artaud’s Poetics of Cruelty
Flora de Giovanni: Identity, Performance and Ritual in The Lost
Girl
Panel 3: Gender & Nation (Chair: Francesca Orestano) (Aula A))
Feroza Jussawalla: Transnational, Postcolonial Lawrence?
Reading the Other in D.H. Lawrence
Jacob Wells: D.H. Lawrence, Masculinity and Morality: A Study
for All and None
Panel 4: Psychoanalysis II (Chair: Fiona Richards) (Aula B)
John Horrocks: The Horses in The Rainbow
Joseph Shafer: D.H. Lawrence’s Demons and the Ghosts of Twilight in Italy: A Resistant Hauntology
12:45–5:00—CONFERENCE EXCURSION
Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera. Ten kilometres or
so south of Gargnano, this striking complex of buildings and
gardens with superb views over the lake was the former estate
of Lawrence's contemporary, the Italian playwright, poet and
novelist, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). See the
"Excursions" page for further details. Delegates to make their
own arrangements for lunch (there is a cafe' in the grounds and
other options available in Gardone).
5:30–7:30—Special Panel: The Cambridge Edition (Aula Magna)
Linda Bree: Publishing the Cambridge Edition
John Worthen: “The work is both of us”: Frieda in The
Cambridge Text of Women in Love
Christopher Pollnitz: How are The Poems Different and What Difference Will the Cambridge Edition Make?
Paul Eggert (Chair): Editorial Practice and Theory, and Publishing Constraints, in the Cambridge Lawrence: A Response
7:30–9:00—Dinner
9:00–10:00—Celebration! To mark the completion of the Cambridge Edition and the publication of The Poems—with Christopher Pollnitz and other Edition editors. Organised in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, represented at the conference by Linda Bree. (Aula Magna)
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THURSDAY 26 JUNE
9:30–11:00—Concurrent session VI
Panel 1: D.H. Lawrence & Italy II (Chair: Catherine Brown) (Aula B)
Georgia Leefe: Lawrence’s Alienation by Industrialization and
War
Yumiko Sumitani: Lawrence’s Affectionate Gaze at Men in Italy: A Transition of His Understanding of Eugenics
Panel 2: D.H. Lawrence & Other Writers III (Chair: Laurence
Steven) (Aula C)
David Game: D.H. Lawrence, Zane Grey and the Idea of
North-West Western Australia
Sean Matthews: D.H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, Again
Jane Stafford: Pit Villages, Garden Parties, D.H. Lawrence and
Katherine Mansfield
Panel 3: Music (Chair: Joseph Shafer) (Aula Magna)
Bethan Jones: Soundscapes from Symbols: Contemporary Musical Settings of Lawrence’s Nature Poetry
Sue Reid: Man Who Has Come Through: Anthony Burgess on
“Lorenzo” and Music
Fiona Richards: “[T]he age-unbroken silence of the Australian bush”: Peter Sculthorpe and D.H. Lawrence
Panel 4: Animals & Other Consciousness (Chair: Tonya Krouse) (Aula A)
James Phelps: “Flesh cometh only out of flesh”: Darwinian
Considerations of D.H. Lawrence
Jamie Johnson: Human-Animal Relations in D.H. Lawrence:
Calling Anthropomorphism into Question
Hiroko Mizuta: Foreign Bodies in The Plumed Serpent
11:00–11:30—Coffee break
11:30–1:00— Keynote Address (Mark Spilka Lecture): Carol Siegel: “D.H. Lawrence, Mentor” (Aula Magna)
1:00–2:00—Lunch
2:00–4:00 / 5:45—Break (with optional short visits / walking tours)
See also Tuesday. Further options may be available; sign up for all options at registration.
a) Walk to Villa Igea and visit a local Limonaia, with Stefania Michelucci and Jill Franks
b) Walk to San Tommaso, with John Worthen
4:00–5:30— CCILC (Co-ordinating Committee for International D.H. Lawrence Conferences) meeting to discuss proposals submitted (prior to conference) for the 14th International D.H. Lawrence Conference. (Aula C)
5:45–7:15— Concurrent session VII
Panel 1: Psychoanalysis III (Chair: Theresa Thompson) (Aula Magna)
Ron Granofsky: “The Far-off Come Near”: The Uncanny, Estrangement, and Attachment in The Rainbow
Seolji Han: Sons and Lovers and the Modern Melancholia
Misook Kang: Lawrence and Lacan on “The Transformation of
Hamlet”
Panel 2: Lawrence and Women (Chair: Jamie Johnson) (Aula C)
Ana La Paz: New Eve and New Adam: Lawrence’s Vision of Equality between the Sexes in The Rainbow and Women in Love
Richard Owen: D. H. Lawrence and Rina Secker
7:30–9:30— Gala Event, with awards announced and short address from
H.T. Moore Award winner.
9:30–10:30— Outdoor concert by the Gargnano Municipal Band. [To be confirmed.]
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FRIDAY 27 JUNE
9:30–11:00—Concurrent session VIII
Panel 1: D.H. Lawrence & Other Writers IV (Chair: John Worthen) (Aula B)
Hiroshi Muto: D.H. Lawrence and John Lennon: Two British
Outsiders
Kiwook Han: Would Lawrence Agree to Deleuze’s View of American Literature? A Comparative Study of their Critical Essays on Herman Melville
Panel 2: Philosophy & Theory II (Chair: Jim Phelps) (Aula A)
Margret Gunnarsdottir Champion: To Sift the Vital Fact: Learning, Perception and World-Horizons in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Yasuhiro Kondo: Lawrence, Language and Labour
Julianne Newmark: “The Networks Come Out of Hiding”: Pluralist and Latourian Contexts for D.H. Lawrence’s Literary Criticism
Panel 3: America (Chair: Michael Bell) (Aula Magna)
Sharon Warner: New Perspectives on Rananim
Andrew Keese: D. H. Lawrence Uses Hybridity to Overcome the Postcolonial Problem in The Plumed Serpent
Panel 4: Pain, Suffering, Death (Chair: Sean Matthews) (Aula C)
Keith Cushman: The Twilight Vision of Lady Chatterley’s
Lover
Paul Poplawski: Lawrence’s Cruci-fiction: Christs in the Tyrol
and Gerald Crich in the Tyrol
11:00–11:30—Coffee break
11:30–1:00—Concurrent session IX
Panel 1: D.H. Lawrence & Italy III (Chair: Julianne Newmark)
(Aula Magna)
Jane Costin: A New Perspective on the South: Giovanni Verga
and the Red-Headed Brat
Marco Canani: Italian Landscapes: the Genius Loci or Spirit of Place in Vernon Lee’s and D.H. Lawrence’s Italian Writings
Robert Fraser: Lawrence, the Etruscans and the Fascisti
Panel 2: Spirituality & Religion II (Chair: Feroza Jussawalla) (Aula C)
Dolat Khan: The Leap into Darkness and the Quest for Meaning: Transcendence in D.H. Lawrence and the Ibn’Arabi
Theresa Thompson: Living Space in Etruscan Places
Mark Williams: “Dark Furniture”: D.H. Lawrence and the
Afterlife of Christianity
Panel 3: Reception & Translation (Chair: Indrek Manniste) (Aula A)
Aïcha Louzir: D.H. Lawrence: French Translations and
Reception
Masum Khan: The Bengali Reception of Look! We Have Come
Through! during the 1930s
1:00–2:00—Lunch
2:15–4:00—Closing session (Aula Magna)
Keynote Address: Judith Ruderman: “'Translation is no Equation': Lawrence and the Art of the Original”
CCILC proposal for the 14th D.H. Lawrence Conference presented for
approval.
Farewell
9:00—Rehearsed reading of Lawrence’s play, The Fight for Barbara (written at Gargnano, October 1912), directed by Margaret Rose, University of Milan. (Sala Castellani) [Time to be confirmed.] Please note that delegates will need to make their own arrangements for dinner.
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SATURDAY 28 JUNE
9:30–5:00—CONFERENCE EXCURSION:
Boat trip to Riva at the northernmost tip of Lake Garda, where D.H. Lawrence and Frieda first stayed in September 1912 before taking the steamer to Gargnano. There will be a short walking tour available in Riva, led by John Worthen and Paul Eggert, to Lawrentian places of interest, and there will be time for delegates to find lunch in the town.
See the "Excursions" page for further details.
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Printable Version of Conference Program
Printable Version of Guidelines for Chairs & Speakers
Program Abstracts in a Printable Word File
Email list for registered delegates can be found in the members-only section of the DHLSNA Directory (You must first login)
