29^th Ezra Pound International Conference: ONLINE

Kyoto, Japan

京都

24-26 June 2022

Ezra Pound and Friendship

朋友信之 (Analects 5.26)

With friends one is one

2 is 2 (Canto XCIX/725)

Co-Conveners

Walter Baumann, Emeritus, University of Ulster

John Gery, University of New Orleans

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)

EPIC-Kyoto Conference Committee:

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University) (Chair)

Mark Byron, University of Sydney

Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)

Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)

Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)

Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University)

Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)

Aya Yoshida, 京都大学 (Kyoto University)

EPIC-Kyoto 24-26 June 2022 Program: ONLINE Split Sessions

FRIDAY, 24 June 2022

Block I

Friday, 24 June, 20:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /

07:00-11:45 (New York) /

12:00-16:45 (GMT London)

20:00-21:15 (Kyoto): Opening Session 1

1. Welcome and Opening Plenary

Chair: Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)

Welcome Remarks

Mary de Rachewiltz, Brunnenburg, Italy

Sanehide Kodama, 同志社女子大学名誉教授 (Doshisha Women's University)

21:15-21:45: Pause

21:45-23:00: Sessions 2A and 2B

2A. Pound’s Modernist Friends I: Ford, Yeats, Hauptman, and Early Poems

Chair: Krista Rascoe, Tarrant County College

Mary Maxwell, Independent

Bos Amic: Ford Madox Ford’s Notes and Annotations to his Copy of Pound’s Lustra

Karina Ibragimova, Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносов (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

The Spirit of Friendship: The Creation of Ezra Pound’s “Planh”

Maki Tachibana, 奈良女子大学 (Nara Women’s University)

Hauptmann and Pound: The Sunken Bell and “The Summons”

2B. Pound and Basil Bunting

Chair: Aya Yoshida, 京都大学 (Kyoto University)

Diana Collecott, University of Durham

Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting: A Decade of Friendship, 1923-1933

Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)

The Resonant Poetics: Hojoki and Basil Bunting’s “Chomei at Toyama”

Alex Niven, Newcastle University

Editing Bunting’s Letters

23:00-23:30: Pause

23:30-00:45: Sessions 3A and 3B

3A. Pound in Print, Pound Edited

Chair: Roxana Preda, Independent

Michael Coyle, Colgate University

“She really adores him from afar”: A Close Reading of Pound’s Third Folio

Giuliana Ferreccio, Università degli Studi di Torino

Pound, Scheiwiller and the Brahmans

Richard Dean Taylor, Late of Universität Bayreuth and Michael Kindellan University of Sheffield [Paper edited and read by Michael Kindellan]

On Editing Pound’s “Cantos”: A Synopsis

3B. Pound, Kitasono, and Japanese Friends

Chair: Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)

Giovanna Epifania, Bari, Italy

From Clarity of Imaginative Vision to “transfusion of blood”: Translation and Avant-garde Poetics in Pound, Kitasono and the De Campos Brothers

Miho Takahashi, 関西大学 (Kansai University)

Pound’s Dream Stage and His Japanese Friends: Pound’s Correspondence with His Japanese Friends

Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University

Rising Sun in Ram Sign: EP, Kit-Kat, and the Bilocated “Hokku”

SATURDAY/FRIDAY, 24-25 June 2022

Block II

Saturday, 25 June, 06:00-12:00 (Kyoto) /

Friday, 24 June, 17:00-23:00 (New York) /

Friday, 24 June, 22:00-04:00 (GMT London)

06:00-07:15: Sessions 4A and 4B

4A. Pound’s Modernist Friends II: Gaudier-Brzeska, the Dadaists, and Joyce

Chair: Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna

Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Vorticist Portraits of Pound

Christian Bancroft, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

“Epistemology of the ferox”: On the Wildness of Pound’s Parisian Years

Krista Rascoe, Tarrant County College

Pound and Joyce: “Making it new” through Friendship and Language

4B. Pound on Friendship

Chair: Svetlana Ehtee, University of New Brunswick

Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan

Pound, Friendship and Courtly Love

Espen Grønlie, Universitetet i Oslo

Pound and the Notion of the Philosopher-King

Sean Mark, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris

Ezra Pound, Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Friendship

07:15-07:45: Pause

07:45-09:00: Sessions 5A and 5B

5A. Pound’s Asian Legacy in American Poetry

Chair: Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida

David Lanoue, Xavier University of Louisiana

Anglo-American Poetry Pre-Pound to Post-Pound: How Circles of Friends Changed Everything

Joe Survant, Western Kentucky University

Thinking about View from the Stork Building Two Years Later

Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University

Chinese “Variations” in Kentucky: Survant’s Project in View from the Stork Building

5B. Pound among the Philosophers: Ascetic, Nihilistic, and Asemic EP

Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University

Timothy J. Cook, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Pound, Heidegger, and Arendt: Ascetic Origins of The Pisan Cantos

John Allaster, McGill University

Ezra Pound and Dynamic Emptiness

Chengru He, University of Utah

Ezra Pound, Asemic Writing, and the Globalization of Language

09:00-09:30: Pause

09:30-10:45: Sessions 6A and 6B.

6A. Pound’s Modernist Friends III: Pound’s and Yeats’s Working Friendship

Chair: Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University

Youngmin Kim, 동국대학교 (Dongguk University), 杭州师范大学 (Hangzhou Normal University)

Translation as Medium of Transductive Friendship: Yeats and Pound’s Collaboration via the Fenollosa-Pound Connection

Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)

Pound’s kyogen: The Protagonist

Courtney Ruffner, State College of Florida

“Camminare con un amico nel biuio è meglio che camminare da solo nella luce”: A Friendship Rooted in Alchemy: Yeats and Pound

6B. Deep Time in the Archive: Revisiting Pound’s Chinese Poetics (Special Session)

Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney

Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)

“Mr. Mori’s Explanation”: The Historical Contexts of Ernest Fenollosa’s History of Chinese Poetry Notebooks

Ryan Johnson, University of Sydney

“Like Milton + Donne!”: Chinese Literary History According to the Ernest Fenollosa Notebooks

Yuxin Zhang, University of Sydney

Ezra Pound’s Transcriptive Poetics in the Confucian Odes

10:45-11:00: Pause

11:00-12:00: Special Event: Demonstration of the Making of a Noh Mask

Chair: Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)

Teiichi IBA, Noh Mask Artist, Shiga Prefecture

Demonstration of the Making of a Noh Mask

SATURDAY, 25 June 2022

Block III

Saturday, 25 June, 20:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /

07:00-11:45 (New York) /

12:00-16:45 (GMT London)

20:00-21:15: Sessions 7A and 7B

7A. Pound’s Post-War Asian Reception

Chair: Yoshiko Kita, 中央大学 (Chuo University)

Wenting Li, 四川外国语大学 (Sichuan International Studies University)

The Manuscript of Ezra Pound's Translation of Shih-Ching by Confucius

Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University)

Pisa & Beyond: Japan’s Post-WWII Response to Pound

Seda Şen, Başhkent University

Making Ol’ Ez New: The Rediscovery and Reception of Ezra Pound in Turkey

7B. Pound’s Younger Friends among the Avant-Garde

Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan

Rong Ou, 杭州师范大学 (Hangzhou Normal University) and Xioafang Liu, 上海外国语大学 (Shanghai International Studies University)

An Oriental Dance Between Cy Twombly’s Painting and Pound’s Poetry

Felix Marzillier, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis and the Music of West German Avant-Garde Composers

21:15-21:45: Pause

21:45-23:00: Sessions 8A and 8B

8A. Readings in The Pisan Cantos

Chair: Courtney Ruffner, State College of Florida

Mark Byron, University of Sydney

Wanjina

Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida

Natural Ezra Pound: Geocritical/Ecocritical Reading of The Pisan Cantos

Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

“[T]wo halves of the tally” (82/547): Canto 82 63 Years Later

8B. Pound and Women: Friends, Figures, and Family

Chair: Diana Collecott, University of Durham

Paula Camacho, Universidad de Granada

Ezra Pound and His Female Friends: From Hilda Doolittle to Iris Barry

Emilie Georges, Université Paris Nanterre

The Feminine Other in Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Carol Shloss, University of Pennsylvania

Tribute to Mary from Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound

23:00-23:30: Pause

23:30-00:45: Sessions 9A and 9B

9A. The Poetics of the Late Cantos

Chair: Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca

Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba

“No Time, No Books, No Friends”: Ezra Pound on the Gift of Friendship

Asa Chen Zhang, University of Michigan

“Lose All Companions”: Rock-Drilling with/in Ling, and Canto 85’s (In-) Communicability

Duncan Poupard, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ezra Pound, Naxiologist

9B. Pound and Younger American Poet Friends

Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova

Kent Su, 上海外国语大学 (Shanghai International Studies University)

Chinese Landscape and Paradise: Poundian Retrospection in Kenneth Rexroth’s Poetry

Grzegorz Kosc, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Lowell’s Translation of Dante’s Canto XV and His Dialogue with Pound

Anita Patterson, Boston University

Friendship as Instigation: Ezra Pound, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Chicago Renaissance

SUNDAY/SATURDAY, 25-26 June 2022

Block IV

Sunday, 26 June, 06:00-10:45 (Kyoto) /

Saturday, 25 June, 17:00-21:45 (New York) /

Saturday, 25 June, 22:00-02:45 (GMT London)

06:00-07:15: Sessions 10A and 10B

10A. Pound’s Modernist Friends IV: Eliot and Hemingway

Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University

Vasily Tolmatchoff, Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

The Lifelong Dialogue Between Eliot and Pound

John Gery, University of New Orleans

Curing “Per’apsez”: Pound’s Friendly Editing of The Waste Land

Roxana Preda, Independent

“We’ll see how the club furnishing holds out”: Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway in Canto 40

10B. Pound Post-War, Postmodern

Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta

Lisa Szefel, Pacific University

Ezra Pound Thinking

Panayiotes (Peter) Tryphonopoulos, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

“[T]he printed b(00)k moth-eaten [STRAIGHT-JACKET] of the western Mind”: Marshall McLuhan, Ezra Pound, and the Modernist Mosaic

Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna

From the New Age to the Zoom Age: Teaching Pound with Digital Technology

07:15-07:45: Pause

07:45-09:00: Plenary Session 11: “Old Friends the Most” I

11. “Old Friends the Most”: Pound, Correspondences, and Friendship

Chair: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

Matthew Hofer, University of New Mexico

Ezra Pound and Epistolarity

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta

H. L. Mencken’s Advice to EP: “You made your great mistake when you abandoned the poetry business”

Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley

Certitude in the Friendships of Ezra Pound

09:00-09:30: Pause

09:30-10:45: Plenary Session 12: “Old Friends the Most” II

12. “Old Friends the Most” II: Modernist Literary Friendships: A Roundtable Discussion

Chair: John Gery, University of New Orleans

Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

Zhaoming Qian, University of New Orleans

Robert von Hallberg, Claremont Men’s College

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)

Sunday, 26 June

Block V

Sunday, 26 June, 19:00-00:45 (Kyoto) /

06:00-11:45 (New York) /

11:00-16:45 (GMT London)

19:00-20:15: Special Event: Introduction to Noh Plays

A Lecture by a Noh Master

Chair: Akiko Manabe, 滋賀大学 (Shiga University)

Toshiaki Yoshinami, Noh Master of Kanze School, Kyoto

20:15-20:30: Pause

20:30-21:45: Session 13: Poetry Reading in Japanese with English Translation

13. Poetry Reading and Discussion

Chair: Matthew McLaughlin, 立教大学 (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)

Kit Kumiko Toda, Université de la Réunion

English Translations of Poems by Katué Kitasono about Ezra Pound (from Cactus Island and Egg)

Shuri Kido, 鎌倉 (Kamakura, Japan), Poet

Tomoyuki Endo, 和光大学 (Wako University), translator/reader and interpreter

Senryu Taira, 東京 (Tokyo, Japan), Senryu Soke (The Head of Senryu Family), the 18th Senryu

Andrew Houwen, 東京女子大学 (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University), translator/reader

21:45-22:00: Pause

22:00-23:15: Session 14: Poetry Reading in English

14. Poetry Reading

Chair: Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University

Ron Smith, Saint Christopher School, Poet Laureate, Virginia; Biljana Obradovic, Xavier University of Louisiana; Christian Bancroft, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; Silvia Falsaperla, Toronto, Ontario; Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University; Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida; Chengru He, University of Utah; Justin Kishbaugh, Roger Williams University; Mary Maxwell, Independent; Joe Survant, Western Kentucky University

23:15-23:30: Pause

23:30-00:45: Session 15: Business Meeting

15. Business Meeting

Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

John Gery, University of New Orleans

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)

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Ezra Pound International Conference

EPIC Advisory Committee

Massimo Bacigalupo, University of Genoa

Walter Baumann, University of Ulster

Diana Collecott, University of Durham

John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary)

Alan Golding, University of Louisville

David Moody, University of York

Akitoshi Nagahata, 名古屋大学 (Nagoya University)

Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca

Roxana Preda, Independent