{"id":26435,"date":"2013-06-02T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T06:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=26435"},"modified":"2013-06-02T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T06:51:34","slug":"tau-honors-prof-karen-alkalay-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=26435","title":{"rendered":"TAU Honors Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poet\/professor Karen Alkalay Gut will be honored at Tel Aviv University with a day-long conference: What do we talk about when we talk about poetry? The conference will take place in Gilman 496, on the Tel Aviv University campus, from 9:00 – 16:00, and will be open to the public.<\/p>\n

The conference program:<\/p>\n

9:00 – 9:15 Gathering<\/p>\n

9:15 – 9:30 Opening Words: Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser<\/p>\n

9:30 – 10:20 First Panel. Chair: Dr. Hedda Ben-Bassat<\/p>\n

* Dr. Noam Reisner – “The Autumn of the Body: Yeats and the art of Growing Older”<\/p>\n

* Ron Ben-Tovim – “War Taught Me Irony: Online Soldier Poetry as Lingual Prosthesis”<\/p>\n

* Maya Alon – “The Collective and the Solitary: Elements of Unity and of Fragmentation in Jim Morrison’s and Syd Barrett’s Psychedelic Poetry”<\/p>\n

10:30 – 11:20 Second Panel. Chair: Dr. Milette Shamir<\/p>\n

* Avshalom Guissin – “Hybrid Hibernia: To find and define the Irish-American poetic voice”<\/p>\n

* Nadja Rumjanceva – “Roots in the Air: Construction of Identity in Anglophone – Israeli Writing”<\/p>\n

* Dr. Dara Barnat – “Poetry, Influence, and the Mentorship of Karen Alkalay-Gut”<\/p>\n

11:30 – 12:20 Third Panel. Chair: Prof. Jerome Mandel<\/p>\n

* Prof. Chanita Goodblatt – “Miracles and Darkness: Poetry and Sickness, on the poetry of Karen Alkalay-Gut and L.E. Sissman”<\/p>\n

* Dr. Roi Tartakovsky – “The Poet Who Escaped from the Plot: Karen Alkalay-Gut’s Research and Poetry”<\/p>\n

12:20 – 13:30 Lunch Break<\/p>\n

13:30 – 14:20 Poetry reading by Elaine Feinstein. Chair: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher<\/p>\n

14:30 – 16:00 “\u05d7\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d1\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8” Living in Poetry<\/p>\n

Poetry readings of Karen Alkalay-Gut’s poems by Prof. Sasson Somekh, Dr. Dara Barnat, Rafi Weichert, Rachel Halfi, Motti Goldman, Amir Or, Yael Gloverman, Shlomit Halevi.<\/p>\n

Closing words: Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut.<\/p>\n

Links: Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut website<\/a>, facebook event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Poet\/professor Karen Alkalay Gut will be honored at Tel Aviv University with a day-long conference: What do we talk about when we talk about poetry? The conference will take place in Gilman 496, on the Tel Aviv University campus, from 9:00 – 16:00, and will be open to the public. The conference program: 9:00 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}