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The British Association for American Studies is holding a conference at the University of Manchester, April 12-15, 2012. There will be two Beat-related sessions, one of which will be chaired by Oliver Harris (in his capacity as president of the European Beat Studies Network -- see ebsn.eu.)

Friday 13th April - European Beat Studies Network Panel

Chair - Oliver Harris (University of Keele)

Joanna Pawlik (University of Manchester), “Honorary Beats, Honorary Surrealists.”
Simon Warner (University of Leeds), “Feeling the Bohemian Pulse: Locating Patti Smith within a Post-Beat Tradition.”
Frida Forsgren (University of Agder, Norway), “Kinder, Küche, Kirche: The Woman in beat Art Culture.”

Saturday 14th April - Beat panel

Loni Reynolds (Roehampton University), “The Catholic (Sacra)Mental: Religious Loss in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.”
Robert W. Jones II (University of Leicester), “Sex-Rays, Semantics, and Cybernetics: William S. Burroughs in the borderlands of American Thought.”
Camilla Dubini (UCL), “Diane di Prima: Domestic Beat.”

For more info:

http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjec ... /baas2012/