Beat days at the University of Agder

The University of Agder arranges beat days the 4th and 5th of November. This year we have guest lecturers from Denmark and the Netherlands, a European film premiere and presentation of Sigmund Ro's brand new book!

Full program below:

Thursday, 4 November, 2010 UiA B3-007

1215-1400 Screening of Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy

Lecture by Søren Hattesen Balle, Aalborg University

"Voice(-)Over(,) Sound Track and Silent Movie: Mediating Beat Authority in Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy (1959)"

Thursday, 4 November, 2010 Sørlands Kunstmuseet

1900 Screening of Mary Kerr's "San Francisco's Wild History Groove"   [European Premier]

1950 Dr. Frida Forsgren, Comments of the film

2010 Sigmund Ro from his new book Rebeller i Paradis: Beat Litteratur 1945-1965

[Lecture will be in English]

Friday, 5 November, 2010 UiA B2-002

1015—1200

Lecture by Dr. Jaap van der Bent, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

            "The Transition from On the Road to Visions of Cody"

Friday 5 November, 2010 UiA A7-006

1300—Lunch for "Authenticity Project" participants & Guests

1415—Johan Schubert Moen, University of Agder, "Entropy and Meaning; creation through decay?"

1445— Dr. Frida Forsgren, University of Agder, "Capturing the moment: Sketching the Beat Aesthetic"

1515—Søren Hattesen Balle, Aalborg Univeristy, " Monsters of Drawing and Writing Matter - Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara's Stones (1957-1960)"

1545—Professor Martha Patterson, Fulbright, University of Agder, "Harlem Renaissance Detective Fiction as Satire"

1615—Dr. Michael J. Prince, University of Agder, "Authenticity, Irony, and Satire in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"