This week in Mexico City:
¿Quién es?: William S. Burroughs Revisited
September 4-8, 2006, UNAM, Facultad de filosofía y letras, aula de Consejo Técnico
Monday 9/4
Session 1. William S. Burroughs in the Context of American Literature
Round Table guided by Allen Hibbard
Tuesday 9/5
Session 2. William S. Burroughs and the Beat Generation
Philip Walsh: “Burroughs, Psychopolitics and American Counterculture”
Session 3. William S. Burroughs in Mexico
Rob Johnson: “Cruzar el río: William S. Burroughs Jumps the Puddle from Texas to Mexico”
Oliver Harris: “Burroughs’ Mexican Triptych: Junky, Queer, and Yage”
Wednesday 9/6
Session 4. Overcoming the Beat: William S. Burroughs Beyond the Beat Generation
Katharine Streip: “Cut-Ups and Sampling”
Session 5. Virus B23: Images and Reproduction in Global Arts
Davis Schneiderman: “Pack Up Your Ermines!: Extra-illustration and Plagiary in the Burroughs Legacy”
Thursday 9/7
Session 6. Cutting Up Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of William S. Burroughs.
Oliver Harris: “Cut Up or Shut Up”
Session 7. He is a writer
Allen Hibbard: “William S. Burroughs a literary saboteur”
Jeffrey Miller: “Freedom of Speech & Press, A Case Study: Early Routines and the Great Naropa Poetry Wars at Cadmus Editions”
