Day 0: Wednesday, Oct 22nd
7:30-8:30 pm The Wine Room (520 Ramona St, Palo Alto, CA 94301)
Optional Welcome Drinks
Day 1: Thursday, Oct 23rd
8:30-9 am Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Morning Reception: Coffee and Pastries
9-9:30 am Levinthal Hall (SHC)
Introductions with Celine Shanosky and Jon Tadmor
9:30-10:30 am Levinthal Hall (SHC)
Day 1 Opening Lecture: Cristanne Miller
“Playing w fire is ^a^ great sport deal of fun”: Moore’s “Compositional Method” as Illuminated by her Notebooks”
10:30-10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 12 pm Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Moore, Ecocriticism and Ethics
Christian Daichi Carlson, Graduate Student, UVA; “The world is / but a circumstance': Anxiety and Futurity in Marianne Moore's Ecopoetics”
Chiaki S. Bems, Lecturer, Riga Technical University; “In Pursuit of Sophistication: Moore, Progress, and Ethics”
Brenna Courtney, Graduate Student, Yale; "Marianne Moore's Monkey Puzzler"
Moderated by Jeff Westover, Professor, Boise State
12:00-12:15 pm
Break
12:15-1:30 pm Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Forms of Moore
Sarah Berry, Assistant Professor, University of Dallas; “Another Armored Animal: Moore’s Syllabics”
Emily Lobb, Graduate Student, Princeton; "Marianne Moore and the Refusal of Form"
Katherin Yu, Graduate Student, Stanford; "A Modernist Prosodic Operation on the Aesopic Tradition: Marianne Moore’s Verse Translations of the Fables of La Fontaine"
Moderated by Regina Pieck, Assistant Professor, Stanford
1:30-2:30 pm Patio (SHC)
Lunch: Wraps by CoHo
2:30-3:45 pm Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Moore, Attention and Metaphor
Meg Schoerke, Professor, San Francisco State University; "‘Efforts of Attention’: Re-evaluating Marianne Moore’s Poetics of Looking in the Attention Economy”
Amrita Bakshi, Graduate Student, University of Alabama; “A Soft Uninvented Music”: Marianne Moore’s Orchestra of Acoustic Metaphors and Authentic Sounds
Meredith Kelly, Graduate Student, Southern Methodist University; “Moore and the Metaphysicals: Metaphor and Paradox in Marianne Moore’s ‘Poetry’ and George Herbert’s ‘Prayer (I)’”
Moderated by Sarah Berry, Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
3:45-4:00 pm
Break
4:00-4:45 pm Levinthal Hall (SHC)
Moore Digital Archive Session with Cristanne Miller
4:45-5:15 pm
Break
5:15-6:15 pm Levinthal Hall (SHC)
Mantis Poetry Reading
Heather Cass White, “On Being Wrong About Marianne Moore”
Readings by Catherine Barnett and Robyn Schiff
Introduction by Roland Greene, Director of Stanford Humanities Center and Professor, Stanford University
6:15-7:30 pm
Extended Break
7:30 pm Bevri (335 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301)
Conference Dinner
Day 2: Friday, Oct 24th
8:30-9 am Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Morning Reception: Coffee and Pastries
9-10 am Levinthal Hall (SHC)
Day 2 Opening Lecture: Elizabeth Gregory
10:00-10:15 am
Break
10:15-11:30 am Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Moore and Gender
11:30-11:45 am
Break
Anna James, Assistant Professor, Franklin College;“Enjambed, Engendered: Marianne Moore, Trans Realism, & Readerly Desire”
Jeffrey Careyva, Writing Fellow, Harvard; “Marianne Moore and the Affective Projection of Male Embarrassment”
Minsun (Elizabeth) Kim, Graduate Student, Seoul National University; “Global Post-Human Kinships: Exploring the “Evolving Body” and Fluid Shifts in Marianne Moore’s “The Pangolin” and Kim Hyesoon’s “I’m OKAY, I’m Pig!”
Moderated by Celine Shanosky, Graduate Student, Harvard
11:45 am-1:00 pm Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Moore’s Ecologies
Roger Gilbert, Professor, Cornell; “Moore as Animal Poet: A Genealogical Perspective”
Celine Shanosky, Graduate Student, Harvard; "Marianne Moore's Asexual Poetics"
Holly Ponce, Graduate Student, University of Delaware; “The Botanical Worlds of Marianne Moore: Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis, or Something in Between?”
Moderated by Jon Tadmor, Graduate Student, Stanford
1:00-2:15 pm Board Room (SHC)
Flash Round and Lunch
“Moore’s Fertile Resistance”
Panelists: Amrita Bakshi, Chiaki Bems, Brenna Courtney, Emily Lobb, Meg Schoerke, Xiangyi Pan
Moderated by Celine Shanosky and Jon Tadmor
Bowl lunch provided by Zareen’s.
2:15-2:30 pm
Break
2:30-3:45 pm Board Room (SHC)
Panel: Moore and Her Communities
Chelsie Malyszek, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampden-Sydney College; "From MM to JM: The Correspondence of Marianne Moore and James Merrill"
Jeff Westover, Professor, Boise State; "An Introduction to Moore’s Miscellaneous Notebook, 1930-1943"
Xiangyi Pan, Graduate Student, National Chung Hsing University; “Beyond the Animal: Reading Marianne Moore in Dialogue with Sima Xiangru’s Shanglin fu”
Moderated by Lea Pao, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
3:45-5:30 pm Board Room and Patio (SHC)
Closing Reception: Poetry Readings and Celebration
Reading selections of Marianne Moore and their own work:
John Shoptaw, Senior Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Taylor Light, Graduate Student, Southern Methodist University
Refreshments by CoHo will be served.