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A 3-day Conference in recognition of the 50th anniversary of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch,  New York City, Oct. 8-10, 2009


October 8: New York University, Fales Library
Panel discussion on the influence of Naked Lunch: “The Children of William S. Burroughs”

October 9: Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
“Fifty Years of Naked Lunch: from the Interzone to the Archive… and back.”

1:00PM: Keynote “From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch”
Oliver Harris, Professor of American Literature, American Studies, Keele University

2:30PM: Short papers
  Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library
    “William S. Burroughs: The Writer as Avant-Garde Archivist”
  Brian E. C. Schottlaender, The Audrey Geisel University Librarian,University of California,San Diego
    “Manifestations, Multiple Versions, and Showstoppers: Collecting the Various Guises of Naked Lunch”
  Regina Weinreich, Professor in Humanities & Sciences, The School of Visual Arts,New York City
    “Honing the Word Hoard: Kerouac, Tangier and Naked Lunch”

4:30PM:  Panel Discussion: on William S. Burroughs & Naked Lunch:
Moderator: Ann Douglas, Parr Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Speakers: Barry Miles, Author; Visiting Fellow, Liverpool School of Art and Design, John Moores University
          Bradford Morrow, Novelist; Editor, Conjunctions; Professor of Literature, Bard College; and
          Barney Rosset, Publisher, Evergreen Review and founding publisher, Grove Press

6:00PM: Reception and viewing of the exhibition: Naked Lunch: the First Fifty Years in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 6th floor Butler

October 10, the School of Visual Arts: SVA will host an evening of film and performances, including a screening  of The Beat Hotel, a new documentary by Alan Govenar. Poet Anne Waldman and others (to be announced) will read from Naked Lunch.

Additional RBML-related events
Please visit the calendar on the Alumni and Friends Gateway, and RBML Book History Colloquim.