Schedule

All symposium events will be held
at the UI Museum of Art, Lasansky Room

7:00 pm	Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University) Keynote speech: The Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book "Walt Whitman and U.S. Print Culture: The Medium and the Man."
	Tour of Exhibit with Ed Folsom and David Schoonover.

9:00 am	Ed Folsom (University of Iowa), Introduction to the Symposium
9:30 am	Matt Miller (University of Iowa): “The Cover of the 1855 Leaves of Grass.”
10:15 am	Amy Hezel (University of Iowa): “The Census of the 1855 Leaves of Grass : A Report.”
11:00 am	Karen Karbiener (New York University): "Loving Language From the Letter On Up: The Working Origins of Whitman's Poetry."
11:45-1:30	Lunch on your own (we recommend the Iowa Memorial Union, just across the river). Presenters' lunch provided by the UI Press in the Museum of Art.
1:30 pm	Cathleen A. Baker (Legacy Press, Ann Arbor): “Prying Through the Strata: Characterizing the Papers Used in the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass ”
2:15 pm	Ted Genoways (University of Virginia): “Making Drum-Taps .”
3:00 pm	Betsy Erkkila (Northwestern University): "Insurrection, the Paris Commune, and Late Whitman: The 1871 Leaves of Grass."
3:45 pm	Jerome Loving (Texas A&M University): "The 1882 Edition of Leaves of Grass : Foreground and Background."
4:30 pm	Charles Green (University of North Carolina): “David McKay, Whitman's Last Publisher.”

9:00 am	Gary Schmidgall (Hunter College): " 'Damn 'em, God bless 'em!': Walt Whitman and Horace Traubel on the Makers of Books."
9:45 am	Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “Rethinking Whitman Books in the Digital Age.”
10:30-12:30	Panel on Whitman as Bookmaker, with Cathleen Baker, Betsy Erkkila, Ed Folsom, Gary Frost, Ted Genoways, Charles Green, Ezra Greenspan, Karen Karbiener, Jerome Loving, Kenneth Price, Gary Schmidgall, David Schoonover, and Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University).