8:45 – 9:15 – Coffee and Welcome

9:15- 10:00 – Plenary 1:  

Sally Bayley (Oxford): ‘Boundary Crossing in Bob Dylan and Emily Dickinson’

10:00-10:15 – Break

10:15-11:45 – Panel 1: Poetic and Philosophical Performance

Chair: Fiona Green

Rachel Malkin (Cambridge): ‘Public Desires, Private Desires: the Satisfactions of Wallace Stevens and Stanley Cavell’

Edward Allen (Cambridge): ‘Performative Poetics: Vocality in the Poetry of Susan Howe’

Adam Crothers (Cambridge): ‘I Took the Time to Start Writin’: Bob Dylan’s poetry on the page and onstage’

11:50-12:10 – Performance: Catherine Charlwood (Cambridge): ‘Awful tippy: The Imbalance of 1920s Dance Performances from the Castles to the Charleston’

12:15-13:15 – Lunch

13:15 – 13:45 – Performance: Jeremy Hardingham (Cambridge) with Lucy Beynon & Lisa Jeschke (live from Berlin): ‘Without Article’

13:45-15:15 – Panel 2: Urban Performance and Display

Chair: Sarah Meer

Alistair Beddow (Cambridge): ‘The City Performs: New York through the Camera’s Eye’

Thomas Turner (Birkbeck): 'Fresh! Clothing as performance in New York City, 1974-1984’

Vidya Ravi (Cambridge): ‘Voyeurism as Postdramatic Performance in Raymond Carver’

15:15 –15:45 – Break

15:45-17:15 – Panel 3: Performance and the Nineteenth-Century Canon

Chair: Sally Bayley

Peter Riley (Cambridge): ‘"[Whitman] performs well despite tough market environment": Leaves of Grass and Real Estate’ 

Simon Morley (Cambridge): ‘"It's awfully vulgar to be talking about it, but...": Henry James, Social Awkwardness and the Expansion of the Public Sphere’ 

Tom Wright (Cambridge) Listening to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘England’ at Clinton Hall, 22nd January 1850.

17:15 – 17:25 – Break

17:25 – 18:25 – Plenary 2:   

Mark Ford (UCL): ‘Bob Dylan’s Caribbean Wind’

18:25 – 19:30  Bluegrass Performance / Wine Reception