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Conference Schedule
Friday, April 2, 2004
5:00-6:00pm Exhibit Opening: Lines Drawn in the Sand.
The Life and Writings of Allen Ginsberg
Rare Book Collection, Melba Remig Saltarelli Room, 3rd Floor Wilson Library
6:00-7:00pm Talk by Bill Morgan
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, 2nd Floor Wilson Library
Saturday, April 3, 2004
9:00am Conference Opens
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, 2nd Floor Wilson Library
9:15-10:15am Keynote address by Ann Charters
Discussion
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45-12:00pm Current Scholarship on the Beats
Hilary Holladay, Moderator; Gordon Ball, Tim Hunt, Jennie Skerl, Matt Theado
12:00-1:30pm Break for lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:40pm Talk by Nancy Peters, City Lights Books, followed by a Panel on alternative publishing with Barney Rosset of Grove Press, Bob Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop, and Steven Clay of Granary Books
2:40-3:10pm John Cohen
3:10-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Viewing of the 1959 classic Beat film, Pull My Daisy with Introduction and Discussion
by David Amram
4:30-7:00pm Break for dinner (on your own)
7:00-8:30pm Reading and Performance by Michael McClure and David Amram
111 Carroll Hall


The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2 and 3, 2004