SEEING JEFFERS WITH 2020 VISION
February 21 – 23, 2020
Carmel, California
Friday, February 21
Reception at Tor House
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Wine & Hors d’Oeuvres
Poetry Reading: Robert Zaller, Tim Hunt, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts
Saturday, February 22
Carmel Woman’s Club, 9th Avenue & San Carlos
8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00
President’s Welcome
James Karman, California State University, Chico
9:15
Panel I
Moderator: Gere diZerega, University of Southern California, US Biotest, Inc.
Brett Colassaco, University of Chicago
Robinson Jeffers: Poet and . . . Parrhesiastes?
Louise Economides, University of Montana
Robinson Jeffers, Geopoetry, and the Anthropocene
Respondent: Aaron Yoshinobu, Texas Tech University
10:30
Panel II
Moderator: Amy Essick, Tor House Foundation
Hadas Marcus, Tel Aviv University
‘Oh Lovely Rock’: Place Attachment in Jeffers, Lawrence, and Neruda
Arleen Tarantino, Monterey Peninsula College
The Embodied Mysticism of Robinson Jeffers
Mick McAllister, Independent Scholar, Englewood, CO
Fayne Fraser: Inhumanist in Love
12:00 PM Salad Buffet Lunch
1:30
Announcements
James Karman
1:45
Panel III
Moderator: James Baird, University of North Texas
Richard Drake, University of Montana
A Gramscian Reading of Robinson Jeffers: Give Your Heart to the Hawks and Such Counsels You Gave to Me as Historical Documents of the Great Depression
Respondent: Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
Robert Zaller, Drexel University
Jeffers on War
3:00
RJA Business Meeting
4:30
Adjourn
6:30 – 9:00
Il Fornaio (Ocean Avenue Room, Pine Inn, Ocean Avenue & Lincoln)
Dinner (pizza, salad, wine)
Panel IV
Moderator: James Karman
The Point Alma Venus Manuscript as Context and Achievement
Tim Hunt, Illinois State University
Rob Kafka, UCLA Extension
Sunday, February 23
8:30 AM
Il Fornaio Rotunda
Informal Farewell Breakfast