Papers Presented at the Emily Dickinson International Conference Trondheim, Norway August 3–5, 2001

Friday, August 3

Cognitive Approaches to the Economy of Language in Dickinson's Poetry
Chair: Connie Kirk, Mansfield University, PA
Anna Chesnokova, Kyiv State Linguistic University, "Human Immortality and Love Eternity in Dickinson and Lesya Ukrainka"
Cynthia Hallen, Brigham Young University, "The T-Unit as a Measure of Syntactic Complexity in Selected Dickinson Poems"
Lilach Lachman, Tel-Aviv University, "'The Degree Zero of Spatiality': Time- space and Audience in Dickinson's Vacuity Scenes"

Slants of Dickinson Among Late Twentieth-& Twenty-first Century Poets
Chair: Cynthia Hogue, Bucknell University
Nick Selby, University of Glasgow, "'but tell it slant': How(e) to Read Dickinson
Cristanne Miller, Pomona College, "'Voice' and the Dickinsonian Zeroed Self in Poetry by Adrienne Rich, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Rae Armentrout"
Taffy Martin, University of Poitiers, "Zero as Target: Dickinson and Ted Hughes on 'The dark hold of the head'"

Workshop A: The Dickinson Electronic Archives and Technologies
of Distribution-Voice, Manuscript Page, Printed Page, and the Screen
Discussion leader: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
Lena Christenson, Lund University, "Back to the Future: The Electric 'Return' to the Manuscript Page"
Laura Lauth, University of Maryland, "Real Audio and 'Titanic Operas: Poet's Responses to Dickinson's Legacy'"
Geoffrey Schramm, National Endowment for the Humanities, "The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture ONLINE"
Marta Werner, D'Youville College, "Dickinson and Photography"
Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, "Give Peace a Chance: A Proposal to End the 'Dickinson Wars'"

Opening Plenary Session
Filling in the Circle: Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
Welcoming Remarks, Domhnall Mitchell, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Neil Klopfenstein, Cultural Attaché, U.S. Embassy Moderator: Cristanne Miller, Pomona College
Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University, "Plied from Nought to Nought: the Field of Dickinson's Refusals"
Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University, "Being in the Body"
Christa Buschendorf, Goethe University, "'That precarious gait': Dickinson's Poetics of Experiment"

Award Presentation
Distinguished Service Award presented to Brita Lindberg Seyersted
Address: Martha Ackmann, Mount Holyoke College, "Morphing Emily Dickinson"

Saturday, August 4

Dickinson's Nineteenth-Century Community of Women
Chair: Barbara Kelly, EDIS Bulletin Book Review Editor
Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate University, "Emily Dickinson and the Community of Women"
Cheryl Walker, Scripps College, "Silver Balls and Golden Bowls: Dickinson's Valuable Echoes"
Paul Crumbley, Utah State University, "'As if for you to choose - ': Conflicting Textual Economies in Dickinson's Correspondence with Helen Hunt Jackson"

Language Approaching Zero
Chair: Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University
Antoine Cazé, University of Orléans, "'Tropic Show,' or Dickinson's Helio- tropes"
Daniel Fineman, Occidental College,"After Zero: The Dickinson 'Effect'"
Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil, "'Intimate immensity' in Emily Dickinson"

Workshop B: The Fleeing of the Biographied: Finding
Dickinson among Her Poems and Letters
Discussion leader: Polly Longsworth, Independent Scholar
Natalya Bezrebra, Kyiv State Linguistic University, "Finding Dickinson among Her Poems and Letters"
Stephanie Tingley, Youngstown State University, "Emily Dickinson as Woman of Letters"
Cindy Dickinson, Dickinson Homestead, "Presence in Absence: The Challenges of Telling Dickinson's Story at the Homestead"
Norbert Hirschhorn, M.D., "The Life and Health of Dickinson: A Physician Considers the Evidence"
Lesley Wheeler, Washington and Lee University, "Openness and Closure in Dickinson's Lyric"

Dickinson and the Moderns
Chair: Taffy Martin, University of Poitiers
Vivian Pollak, Washington University, "'the wholesomeness of the life': Marianne Moore on Dickinson"
Benjamin Friedlander, University of Maine, "An Arctic Region of the Mind: Reading Dickinson After the Holocaust"

Dickinson's Fluid Texts and Processes
Chair: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
Fred White, Santa Clara University, "The Higher Dialectic: Multiple Surfaces of Truth in Dickinson's 'Worksheet' Poems"
Connie Ann Kirk, Mansfield University, "Climates of the Poet's Creative Process: Dickinson's Epistolary Journal"
Idilko Csorba, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, "'Now I lay thee down to Sleep': The Problematic Co-Existance of Variant Meanings and Readings"

"Seeing" Dickinson in Her Time
Chair: Mary Elizabeth K. Bernhard, Independent Scholar
Karen Dandurand, Indiana...