Fall Convergence 2017
SPECULATION
September 30, 2017
University of Washington Bothell
North Creek Events Center
OVERVIEW
This Fall Convergence will focus on SPECULATION and its many diverse dimensions. We are in a uniquely speculative moment—speculative fiction, speculative realism, and projective poetry mingle with futurisms of all manners, including speculation on the end of the world as such. Across the domains of experimental writing and philosophy, the question of whether we can see ourselves in these speculums, becomes crucial to understanding the singular act of writing in a world of multiplicities, emergent and abiding.
Presentations by: Christian Bök and Arthur Kroker
AND Rae Armantrout Amaranth Borsuk Rebecca Brown micha cárdenas Jo Cook Sarah Dowling Jeanne Heuving Ted Hiebert Anastasia Hill Greg Lundgren Donato Mancini Joe Milutis Adalaide Morris Allison Morton Charles Mudede Lance Olsen Nisi Shawl
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00 Book Sales
9:00 Welcome
Jeanne Heuving, Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics
9:10 Reading the Future
Moderator: Sarah Dowling
Greg Lundgren, The Philanthropist is Dead
Lance Olsen, Dreamlives of Debris: Reading the Past as the Present Future
Adalaide Morris, Attention Poets, Attention Critics: Writing, Interpretation, and the Speculative Practice of Black Study
10:30 Christian Bok: The Unkillable Poet
Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk
12:15 Lunch and Book Sales
1:00 Publication Panel
Moderator: Joe Milutis
Donato Mancini, Reading Too Much Into It, More Than I Intend
Jo Cook, Why?
2:15 Nisi Shawl: Reading and Conversation
Moderator: Rebecca Brown
Break
3:30 Arthur Kroker: Hybrid Bodies: DIY Flesh, Neurobots and Blended Reality
Moderator: Ted Hiebert
Interlocutors: micha cárdenas and Charles Mudede
5:00 Reading the Future
Moderator: Jeanne Heuving
Rae Armantrout
Anastasia Hill
Allison Morton
Book Sales