SYMBIOSIS: Writing/Life/Literature
First Annual Syntext/SynThink Graduate Student Conference
Loyola Marymount
University
April 4th, 2008
10:00-10:30 am (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Welcoming Remarks:
Paul Harris and Gail Wronsky
10:30-11:00 am (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
‘Looking Through the Bent-backed Tulips’ in a New Way
Louise Kling
11:00-11:30 am (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Break
11:30 am-12:00 pm
(BCLA Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Jean-Michel Basquiat:
A Human Contact Zone
Betzi Richardson
12:00-12:30 pm (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Presentations: Daniel Krause and Mike Petitti
12:30-1:30 pm (History
Department Terrace UHall 3500)
Lunch
1:30-2:00 pm (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
An Updating of
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland
Maria Judnick
2:00-2:30 pm (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Presentations: Laurence Dumortier and Rob Rabiee
2:30-3:00 pm (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
The Hip Hop Gospel and
an Argument About The Other
Derrick Fernando
3:00-3:30 pm (BCLA
Dean’s Conference Room UHall 4600)
Break
3:30-4:30 pm
(Marymount Institute UHall 3002)
Readings
by Poet Gail Wronsky and Graduate Student Poets
5:00-7:00 pm
(Marymount Institute UHall 3002)
Reception / Buffet Dinner
7:00 pm Performance
(Marymount Institute UHall 3002)
Select Snippets: Graduate Student Mythologies
“No” & “Yes” Susan Banyas Spoken Word/David Ornette
Cherry Organic Grooves
”Vowel Movements” Jazz-Poetry Performance by Paul Harris
& David Ornette Cherry
Jazz Performance, David Ornette Cherry with Ensemble for
Improvisers
All events in University Hall, 1 LMU Drive (turn off Lincoln,
south of Jefferson, north of Manchester)
Parking is free. Obtain a permit at the gate on LMU Drive, and park
underneath University Hall, the big building on your right.
For driving directions: http://www.lmu.eduhttp://www.lmu.edu/resources/Campus_Maps/Driving_Directions_-_Main_Campus__Westchester.htm
Questions: pharris@lmu.edu; (310) 338-4452