James Schuyler: A Morning For The Poet

Saturday, November 4^th, 9:00am – KJCC Center, NYU

Darragh Park, “Portrait of James Schuyler,” 1991, pencil on vellum, 12 x 9 inches. Private collection, courtesy of Raymond Foye.

When you read this poem you will have to decide

Which of the “yous” are “you.”

—The Morning of The Poem

Please join us for a morning of short talks to celebrate James Schuyler’s centenary. Talks will range across many different aspects of Schuyler’s life and writing, and speakers will include those who knew the poet alongside younger writers. Free entry, all welcome. More details to follow soon.

Register here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/james-schuyler-a-morning-for-the-poet-tickets-717220986277?aff=oddtdtcreator).

This event is part of the three-day program Always More Roses: James Schuyler at 100. With special thanks to our co-organisers and co-presenters at Dia and to our sponsors: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Turtle Point Press, and the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium and Some Contemporary Poetries at NYU.

We also hope to see you at It Goes, It Goes: James Schuyler Centenary Celebration at Dia Chelsea and Hymn To Life at the Poetry Project.

Speakers:

Tom Carey — Introductions

Stephanie Burt — Did Schuyler Write Love Poems?

Rona Cran — “(the heart / thumps) in / disposable houses”: James Schuyler’s Contingent Homes

Jeff Dolven — Gentle Letdowns

Andrew Epstein — “Subtle and Suppressed”: James Schuyler’s Elegy for Frank O’Hara

Tonya Foster — Being, and Hymns to It

Peter Gizzi — James Schuyler: Anthropologist of His Nervous System

Kamran Javadizadeh — How Is a Poem Like a Phone Call: On James Schuyler and the Phatic Function

Nathan Kernan — Presenting Jane: The Summer of 1952

John Koethe — James Schuyler, Darragh Park and The Morning of the Poem

Simon Pettet — James Schuyler’s Art Writings: A Personal Recollection 

Emily Skillings — Giving Up the Poem: Teaching and Writing through Schuyler’s Digressions

Tracie Morris — James Schuyler writing: A paler blue

Guest lecture: Vincent Sherry

Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War

Professor Vincent Sherry (Washington University in St. Louis)

Tuesday March 22nd, 5pm

NYU English Department, 244 Greene St, Event Space

Professor Vincent Sherry has written acclaimed work on topics including modernism, decadence and the first world war. His books include Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (Cambridge 2014), The Great War and the Language of Modernism (Oxford 2003) and Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and Radical Modernism (Oxford 1993). Now, on March 22nd, he is coming to NYU to give a guest lecture entitled ‘Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War.’ After the lecture there will be time for questions and a drinks reception.

The event is free, and there is no need to RSVP. if you have any questions, please contact nyumoderncolloquium@gmail.com

For more on Professor Sherry’s biography click here.

Co-Sponsored by the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium

& NYU Cultures of War and the Post-War Research Collaborative

Henri Bergson Reading Group

This April, the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium will be hosting a reading group mini-series on Henri Bergson for M.A. and Ph.D. students in the English and Comparative Literature departments at NYU and other New York colleges. Bergson’s 1889 Time and Free Will (originally titled Essai sur les données immediates de la conscience), in which Bergson explains the theory of duration (la dureé), was an important work for the philosophy of time and consciousness, for literary modernism, and for twentieth century continental philosophy.

Whatever you work on, getting to grips with Bergson’s Time and Free Will could be advantageous. We will be reading a modern English translation. Here are the exact details:

The book is divided into three sections; correspondingly, the reading group will meet three times. The meetings will take place on April 6th, 13th, 20th at 5.30-7.30 in 194 Mercer Street, Room 205. There will be a fourth session on April 27th: this final event will be an opportunity to discuss the text, and how it might inform our work, not in a seminar but in the more casual setting of a wine reception. This last will take place in the NYU Department of English Event Space (244 Greene St, Room 102) at 5.30pm.

Click here to RSVP.

Spring 2011 Modern Colloquium Dates

The Modern Colloquium will convene on the following dates of the Spring 2011 semester. All sessions take place in the Great Room (Room 222 of 19 University Place). Details on the sessions will follow.

Friday, February 25, 3-5pm

• Lecture by Richard Godden: “Bret Easton Ellis: Fictions of Fictitious Capital.” Richard Godden, Professor of English at UC Irvine, is the author of William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (2007); Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution (1997); and Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer (1990).
• Suggested reading for Richard Godden’s talk includes the opening section of Lunar Park, called “Beginnings,” and this short selection: Lunar Park.

Friday, March 25, 3-5pm

• TBA
  

Friday, April 15, 3-5pm

• Lecture by Paul Crosthwaite: “‘Like a Flood or an Earthquake’: Trauma and the Representation of Financial Crises.” Paul Crosthwaite of Cardiff University is the author of Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II (2009) and the editor of Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (2010).