All Day Location: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center,
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut Street, sixth floor
9:30-10:15 am Coffee and light breakfast
10:15-10:30 am Welcome
Lynne Farrington, University of Pennsylvania
10:30-11:30 am Session 1: Spring and Fall Leaves
Chair: Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania
Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Nicole Gray
Printers of the Kosmos: Reimagining How Leaves of Grass Came to Be
Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin
'My own personal, authenticated volume': Walt Whitman, David McKay, and
the Making of the 'Deathbed Edition' of Leaves of Grass
11:30 am-12:30 pm Session 2: Materializing the Self
Chair: Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania
Jay Grossman, Northwestern University
Manuprint
Michael Warner, Yale University
Dying in Public: On Late Whitman
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:00 pm Pop-up Whitman exhibition open
2:00-3:00 pm Session 3: Formats of Printing and Writing
Chair: Laura Helton, University of Delaware
Meredith McGill, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
The Long Foreground: Whitman and the Newspaper Poetry of the 1840s
Don James McLaughlin, University of Tulsa
Whitman's Aesthetics of Paralysis: Embodied Penmanship, the Herbert Gilchrist
Depictions, and an Early Manuscript Concept for Specimen Days
3:00-4:00pm Session 4: Radical Poetics
Chair: Tyler Hoffman, Rutgers University, Camden
Edward Whitley, Lehigh University
Whitman's Poe
Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine
Whitman's Silence
4:00-4:30 pm Coffee break
4:30-5:00 pm Student Panel: Presentations on Whitman Projects
Penn Manuscript Collective, University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Hartland
Tat Hang Henry Hung
Liang Kelly
Nicholas Plante
Walt Whitman and the People's Press, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Finkel
Whitman Curatorial Seminar, Rutgers University, Camden
Emily Helck
Youth Council, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Sophie Feinstein
Madalyn Stokes
5:00-6:00pm Session 5: The Good Gray Poet: Late Whitman and the Early Afterlife: A Conversation
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Ed Folsom, University of Iowa