Kenneth White International Conference Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June 2024

Kenneth White International Conference

Travels in Euramerasia

Room One A The Square, University of Glasgow Friday 14 June 2024

Hillhead Library Saturday 15 June 2024

Programme

Friday 14 June

9.30 Tea/coffee

9.50 Welcome: Stephen Forcer, GU Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Chair: Norman Bissell, Director, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics

10.00 Prof Cairns Craig: Kenneth White: Travels in Euramerasia

10.30 Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania, USA: Homa and Ónoma: Remembering Kenneth White

11.00 Panel on German Philosophy and Geopoetics: Chair: Prof Ullrich Kockel, UHI

Jeff Malpas, Philip Tonner, Martina Kolb

11.30 Break (tea/coffee)

11.45 Gavin Bowd, University of St Andrews: The post-Maoist geopoetics of Jean-Claude Pinson

12.15 Monika Kocot, University of Lodz, Poland: On Following and Returning to Zōka: Kenneth White and Matsuo Bashō

12.45 Steven Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Edinburgh University: Kenneth White and Dugald Semple: Fairlie and the North Ayrshire connection

13.15 Buffet Lunch & Exhibition of books by Stéphane Bigeard, Cairns Craig, Norman Bissell, Gilles Fabre (Lunch in ARC)

14.00 Expressing the Earth film 90 mins (dir. Glenda Rome)

15.30 Film Q&A Panel Chair: Alyson Hallett

Glenda Rome, Patrick Corbett, Norman Bissell

15.45 Break (tea/coffee)

16.00 Norman Bissell, Director, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics:

Precursors of Geopoetics: the Jargon Group and Open World Poetics

16.30 Olivier Salazar-Ferrer, University of Glasgow: Gilles Deleuze and Kenneth White

17.00 Poetry and Music Performances: Compere: Dave Francis

Alyson Hallett, Patrick Corbett, Norman Bissell, Régis Poulet, Alan Spence, Alastair McIntosh, Philip Tonner and Dan Luck, Mark Sheridan, Gilles Fabre

19.00 Close

Saturday 15 June at Hillhead Library, Byres Road, Glasgow

9.45 Assemble at Hillhead Library

10.00 Haiku Walk by the River Kelvin led by Gilles Fabre, Dublin poet & publisher

12.30 Sandwich Lunch

13.00 Luke Devlin, GalGael Trust: The Unmapped Land: Geopoetics as ressourcement in the hour of chaos

13.30 Ramona Fotiade: University of Glasgow: Kenneth White: Nomad Mind

14.00 Régis Poulet, President of the International Institute of Geopoetics:

Kenneth White, from Alaska to Hokkaido: The Idea of the North

14.30 Prof Charles Forsdick, University of Cambridge: Kenneth White: ‘étonnant voyageur’

15.00 Tea/ coffee/Kyoto tea

15.15 Les Cygnes sauvages film

15.30 Film Q&A Priscilla Leal Torres, Paris publisher and Régis Poulet

16.00 Prof Patrick Corbett, Heriot-Watt University: Kenneth White – Grounded in Geology

16.30 Panel on Kenneth White’s Legacy Chair: Prof Cairns Craig

Régis Poulet, Ramona Fotiade, Gavin Bowd, Norman Bissell, Martina Kolb, Alastair McIntosh, author & activist.

17.00 Close

Host or Publisher Scottish Centre for Geopoetics