The final program as PDF. (Final update, May 12, 2011)
Refractions of Bob Dylan – Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon
May 19, Thu
Venue: Amerikahaus, Main Lecture Hall Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
14.30 – 15.00 Welcome
Glenn Guimond, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the United States in Austria.
Prof. Nikolaus Ritt, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies and Representative of the Department of English and American Studies, the University of Vienna
Dr. Eugen Banauch, Conference Organizer, University of Vienna and Hebrew University, Jerusalem
15.00 Main Lecture hall
Introductory Keynote Lecture
Chair: Eugen Banauch (Wien)
Michael Gray (Villa Leon). “How did Bob Dylan’s version of Americanness impact 1960s’ British culture?”
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 Panel A (Main Lecture hall)
Dylan Performing / America
Chair: Michael Draxlbauer (Wien)
George Rueckert (Giessen). “Visions of Johanna: Dylan’s Beat Lyrics in the Photographs of Robert Frank”
Leighton Grist (Winchester). “Mr. Pound, Mr. Eliot, and Mr. Dylan: USA and Europe, Modernity and Modernism”
16.30 – 17.30 Panel B (Salon)
Appropriations of/by Dylan
Chair: Astrid Fellner (Saarbrücken)
Klaus Karlbauer (Wien). “Death is not the End – An American icon meets a European Myth”
Ramón Reichert (Wien). “Don’t Look Back. Zur filmischen Inszenierung des Protestsängers Bob Dylan”
17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break
18.00 Keynote Lecture (Main Lecture hall)
Chair: Clinton Heylin (Somerset)
Stephen Scobie (Victoria). “Plagiarism, Bob, Jean-Luc, & Me”
May 20, Fr
Venue: Amerikahaus
10.00 – 11.30
Panel A (Main Lecture hall)
Transformative Powers of Dylan 1
Chair: Michelle Engert (Washington)
Benedict Giamo (Notre Dame). “Here, There & Elsewhere: Dylan’s Illusion of Embodiment”
J. Frederick Bell (Williamsburg). “Time Out of Mind: Bob Dylan and Paul Nelson Transformed.”
Robert McColl (Bochum). “Surplus and Demand: (In) Appropriating Dylan”
10.00 – 11.30
Panel B (Salon)
All the truth in the world...
Chair: John Heath (Wien)
Pilar Cabañas (Wien). “Polyeder Dylan: Metamorphose der Selbstdarstellung”
Christian Stiegler (Wien). “The answer my friend... – Kommunikationsformen bei Bob Dylan”
Paul Keckeis (Wien/Cambridge). “Spoken intros” zwischen akustischer und elektrischer Gitarre”
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00
Panel A (Main Lecture hall)
The old, weird America
Chair: Benedict Giamo (Notre Dame)
Jean-Martin Büttner (Zürich). “Greil Marcus and Bob Dylan: the writer and his singer”
Ulrich Rois (Wien). “Silver and Gold”: The Songwriting Partnership of Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter”
12.00 – 13.00
Panel B (Salon)
Dylan Abroad 1
Chair: Stefan Kutzenberger (Wien)
John Heath (Wien). “Not there: Die Poetik der Absenz in den Bob Dylan-Verarbeitungen Wolf Biermanns und Ilse Aichingers”
Ernst Grabovszki (Wien). “Like a Rölling Stön. Bob Dylan in der DDR”
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00
Panel A (Main Lecture hall)
Who’s not there? Dylan and Film
Chair: Susanne Reichl (Wien)
Susanne Hamscha (Berlin). “The Ghost of Bob Dylan: Spectrality and the Performance of America in I’m Not There”
Sergej Seitz (Wien). “My name it is nothing”: Dylan, “Dylan” und I’m Not There
Dominik Zechner (Wien). “Dylan, das nicht festgestellte Thier - Strategien der Subjektivierung in I‘m not There”
14.30 – 16.00
Panel B (Salon)
Dylan Abroad 2
Chair: George Rueckert (Giessen)
Max Zirngast (Wien). “Dylan and the Cantautori. The Reception of Dylan in the Italy of the 60s”
Barry Williams (Birmingham). “Bob Dylan and his Fans: The Music and the Meaning”
Martin Schaefer (Basel). “Bob Dylan in Switzerland”
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00
Main Lecture hall
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Stephen Scobie (Victoria)
Clinton Heylin (Somerset) and Michelle Engert (Washington/München). “The Evolvement of Fan Culture Throughout the Never Ending Tour”
20.30 Bunkerei
Obere Augartenstraße 1a, 1020 Wien
Dylan Tribute Concert (see EVENTS)
Mika Vember, Markus Brandstetter, Bird People.
May 21, Sat
Venue: Amerikahaus
10.30 – 12.00
Panel A (Main Lecture hall)
Transformative Powers of Dylan 2
Chair: Robert McColl (Bochum)
Paul Fagan (Wien) and Mark Shanahan. “Learning to Turn it Off: Self-Deception in Dylan”
Rob Coley (Lincoln). “‘I Don’t Believe You...You’re a Liar’: The Fabulatory Function of Bob Dylan”
Susanne Kristen (München). “A Foreign Sound to Your Ear: The Influence of Bob Dylan‘s Music on American and German-speaking Fans”
10.30 – 12.00
Panel B (Salon)
I ain‘t no prophet. And I ain‘t no prophet‘s son
Chair: Klaus Heissenberger (Wien)
Martin Schaefer (Basel). “Bob Dylan vs. Jacob Taubes - The Price of Messianism Reconsidered”
Christopher Meiller (Eisenstadt). “Dylan the prophet. Aspects of a (quasi-)religious stereotype”
Andrea Cossu (Padova). “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord: Performing the Conversion during Dylan’s Gospel Tour”
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30
Main Lecture hall
Österreich Schwerpunkt Dylan und/in Österreich
Chair: Monika Seidl (Wien)
Martin Blumenau (Wien) und Alexandra Ganser (Erlangen). “Bringing It All Back Home? Wolfgang Ambros’ Austrian Appropriations of Bob Dylan”
Eugen Banauch (Wien/Jerusalem). “‘Gruber hört heimlich Dylan’. Aneignungen von ‘Bob Dylan’ in österreichischer Gegenwartsliteratur”
Stefan Kutzenberger (Wien). “Die Dylan Installation am Stock-Im-Eisen Platz”
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00 Main Lecture hall
Round Table: Dylan und Österreich / Dylan and Austria
Moderation: Eugen Banauch
Martin Blumenau, Doris Knecht, Wolfgang Kos, Andreas Unterweger, Rainer Vesely.
Abschlussbemerkungen / Rounding-Off
20.00 Bunkerei.
Obere Augartenstraße 1a,1020 Wien
Lesungen (Readings in German. See EVENTS)
Doris Knecht, Bernhard Moshammer, Andreas Unterweger.
Open end: Ausklang und Dylan-DJ (dj mushroom)
Sun, May 22
12.15
Votivkino, Währingerstr 9, 1090 Wien.
Movie screening: I‘m Not There.
In cooperation with Votivkino, Todd Haynes’ Dylan- Biopic I’m Not There will be screened on Sunday, May 22 at 12.15. Tickets are €7.
For more info and tickets: www.votivkino.at.
