Indiana State University

Humanities Fest 2002!
March 22, 2002
Holiday Inn, Terre Haute

As an antiphonal to the announced demise of the Humanities department and its B.A. and M.A. programs we offer in the spirit of a wake the Humanities Fest, a vocal medley of creative readings and scholarly presentations by some of our former students, to acknowledge and to celebrate achievements of graduates and friends of the Humanities.

We thank those who came from as near as Indiana and from as far as California and Massachusetts, Florida and Minnesota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Switzerland to be here to recall fondly what once was
and to assert what continues to be.

Schedule of Events

Greetings, Jolynn Kuhlman, Interim Assoc. Dean, ISU School of Graduate Studies

Ed Warner, Chair Session One 9:00-10:00

Graeme Reid, "Of Mice and Men, Presidents and Politicos: Burns and America"
Marilyn Bisch, "Burning Waste With a Hard, Gem-like Flame"
Steve Hawks, "The Chainsaw: An Experimental Essay in the Melvillean Style"

David Johnson, Chair Session Two 10:30-11:30

Ching-yen Yang Sawatsky, "Home and Exile in First- Generation Chinese-American Fiction"
David Wedaman, "The Poetry of Apollinaire and Mayakovsky as Applied Bergsonism"
John Potter, "Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in Humanities"

Don Jennermann, Chair Luncheon 12:00-1:00

Greetings, Tom Sauer, Interim Dean, ISU College of Arts and Sciences
Guest comments and reflections

Harriet McNeal, Chair Session Three 1:30-2:30

Dale Hoover "Preliminary Findings in a Late 14th-Century Florentine Choir Book"
Doug Martin, "Mimetic Prosody in Whitman's 'Cavalry Crossing a Ford'"
Eric Apfelstadt, "A Renaissance Recommendation"
Pat Dolan, "The ILIAD in 'Eumaeus'"

Neal Canon, Chair Session Four 3:00-4:30

David Wedaman, A Reading of Recent Poems
Richard Miley, "Breaking for Hallucinations"
Marilyn Bisch, A Reading of Recent Poems
Craig Smith, A Reading from his new novel, "A NATURAL BORN HUSTLE ARTIST"
Doug Martin, A Reading from "Moon-Time: The Country Born in November"

Social Hour 5:00-6:00

Return to Humanities Homepage