Laura (Riding) Jackson in the Twenty-First Century - A conference at Cornell University
28 October 2010

Sponsored by the Laura (Riding) Jackson Board of Literary Management and the Rare and Mansuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Session one
Time: 9.30 am - 11 am
Moderator: Mark Jacobs

• Carla Billitteri University of Maine
  A "Visibility of Blindness": Laura (Riding) Jackson's Poetics of Intuition
• Jack Blackmore Nottingham Trent University
  Notes for a reading of "One Self" by Laura Riding
• Christina Whitney University of Denver
  Poetry as "Lying Discourse": Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Growing Distrust of Rhetorical Poetics

Session two
Time: 11.30 am - 1 pm
Moderator: Elizabeth Friedmann

• Jeff Hamilton Washington University
  Kairotic Rhetoric and the Counter-pastoral in Laura Riding's Though Gently
• Roxanne Warwick Nottingham Trent University
  The Courtesies of Authorship: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Establishment of English
• Barrett Watten Wayne State University
  The House of Language: Laura (Riding) Jackson's Rational Meaning and the Truth of Experience

Lunch break
Time: 1 pm - 2 pm

Session three
Time: 2 pm - 3.30 pm
Moderator: John Nolan

• Julia Fiedorczuk University of Warsaw
  A Home Made of Words: Some Remarks on The Telling
• Carroll Ann Friedmann University of Virginia
  The Spirituality of Being Men and Women
• Anett Jessop University of California, Davis
  Laura (Riding) Jackson's "Universal Linguistic Solution"

Reception
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm