Programme

Words and Music: Celebrating the Songs of Dylan and Cohen

Universitat de Barcelona, 29.9.2017

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks

Dr Bill Phillips (Chair, Department of Modern Languages and English Studies)

Dr Salvador García Fortes (Vice-Rector, Arts & Culture)

9:15 - 10: 15 Plenary Lecture, "Bob Dylan and the Art of Storytelling" (Chair: Dr Bill Phillips)

Prof. Mark Ford, University College (London)

10:15 - 11:30 Panel: Dylan and Tradition (Chair: Dr Cristina Alsina)

1. Sandra Gómez Garrido (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), “'Walking a Road Other Men Have Gone Down': Echoes of the American Folk Song in Bob Dylan’s Representation of the Common Man"

2. Mara González de Ozaeta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), "El héroe sebe ser auténtico o el papel de la intertextualidad y la repetición en la obra de Bob Dylan"

3. Mario Jurado Bonilla (Universidad de Córdoba), "Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes and Nonsense Literature"

11:30 - 11:45 Break

11:45 - 1:00 Panel: Translation and Narrative (Chair: Dr Rosa González)

1. Raquel Merino-Álvarez and Alejandro Ros-Abaurea (Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitate), "40 años de traducciones al español de canciones de Leonard Cohen"

2. Ángel Chaparro (Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitate), "Cohen, Dylan, Vegas y la traducción de canciones"

3. David Owen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), "Teaching Narrative Unreliability through Dylan’s 'Tangled up in Blue'"

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 2:45 Panel: But Are They Poets? (Chair: Dr Rodrigo Andrés)

1. Vicente Araguas (Universidade da Coruña), "Dylan: Letras y Poemas"

2. Rosa González (Universitat de Barcelona), "Algunes claus de la vigència popular i reconeixement acadèmic a Bob Dylan "

3. Alberto Manzano (translator), "Servicio de Rescate Jikan"

2:45 - 3:15 Musical Tribute with the Faculty of Filologia Choir and Dr David Owen (UAB)