2005 RJA CONFERENCE INFORMATION          

 

2005 Conference Program

 

CONFERENCE FACTS

CONFERENCE

A conference program is enclosed below.  A map of the University of Reno (UNR) campus is available on their web-site: www.unr.edu .  Just enter “campus  map” in the search window.  On the “campus virtual tour” page, Mackay Science Building is #15; on the “printer-friendly map” Mackay Science Building is MS.  I am still working on parking; I’ll send around that information when I get it.

 

POETRY READING

Our annual poetry reading will  be  held on Friday evening, February 18th, 2005.  Location TBA.

 

RECEPTION

The RJA will sponsor a reception at the Sienna Hotel on Saturday evening, February 19th, 2005, from 6:00-7:30, in Lexie’s Lounge.  Appetizers, beer and wine will be available.  The Sienna is located at One South Lake Street.

 

LODGING INFORMATION

IMPORTANT NOTE: WHICHEVER OPTION YOU CHOOSE FOR LODGING IN RENO, PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!  OUR CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND, AND AS RENO IS A DESTINATION CITY, HOTELS WILL FILL EARLY!

We have reserved a block of twenty (20) rooms at the Siena Hotel in downtown Reno.  The address is One South Lake Street.  This is a new hotel, and it is focused more on being a resort hotel than a casino.  Please visit their web-site: www.sienareno.com   These rooms are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Room rates are as follows:    Friday, 02/18/05:             $99.00

                                            Saturday, 02/19/05:          $99.00

                                            Sunday, 02/20/05:            $69.00

If you will be arriving before Friday, room rates for Wednesday and Thursday will be $69.00—make sure you remind them that the conference rates apply for these days, too.

All rates are subject to Washoe County room tax.

Here are their instructions for reserving your room:

Individuals will be responsible for making their reservations directly to the hotel reservations department by calling 877-743-6233 and identifying themselves as being a part of the Robinson Jeffers Association group to obtain group rate.  Individuals are responsible for room, tax, and incidentals.

The cut-off date is 01-19-2005 at which time the unused portion of our room block will be released for general sale.  If you need to cancel your reservation you must do so 48 hours in advance; otherwise you will be charged the full amount of the first night’s rate.

Check in time is 3:00 PM and check out time is 12:00 Noon.  The following complimentaries have been awarded to your group: $5.00 breakfast credit per day per registered guest valid in Contrada Café or Room Service and airport transportation (advance reservations with flight numbers required).

Should you wish to stay elsewhere, Reno is nothing if not chock-a-block with casinos and hotels!  If you try any of the usual on-line booking sites—hotels.com, expedia.com. orbitz.com—you will find many, many listings.  I also suggest a visit to this site: www.gorenotahoe.com  They offer the best hotel rates I’ve seen on-line (their offerings are more limited than the other sites, however).  Here is a list of hotel/casinos within walking distance of the University of Nevada (UNR) campus: 

  • GOLDEN PHOENIX HOTEL AND CASINO
    255 N. Sierra Street, Reno, NV  89501
    0.2 Miles East of Reno (City Center)

  • SANDS REGENCY
    345 North Arlington Avenue, Reno, NV  89501
    0 Miles North of Reno(City Center)

  • HARRAH'S HOTEL RENO
    219 North Center Street, Reno, NV  89501
    0.3 Miles East of Reno (City Center)

  • CIRCUS CIRCUS HOTEL & CASINO – RENO
    500 N. Sierra Street, Reno, NV  89503  
    0.2 Miles Northeast of Reno (City Center)

  • SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO
    407 North Virginia Street, Reno, NV  89501  
    0.2 Miles Northeast of Reno (City Center)

  • ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO
    Heart Of Downtown / Reno

  • GOLDEN PHOENIX HOTEL & CASINO
    Downtown / Reno

  • SHOWBOAT INN
    Downtown / Reno

  • PLAZA ON THE RIVER
    Plaza Resort Club 121 West, Reno, NV  89501  
    0.3 Miles Southeast of Reno (City Center)

The following are within walking distance from UNR and I would classify them as economy lodging:


  • SPEAKEASY HOTEL
    200 E. 6th St., Reno, NV  89501
    0.4 Miles Northeast of Reno (City Center)

  • SUPER 8 RENO/UNIVERSITY AREA
    1651 No. Virginia Street, Reno, NV  89503
    1.1 Miles North of Reno (City Center)


  • ECONO LODGE RENO
    666 North Wells Avenue, Reno, NV  89512
    0.9 Miles Northeast of Reno (City Center)

  • DAYS INN RENO 701 E. 7th, Reno, NV  89512  
    0.9 Miles Northeast of Reno (City Center)

  • FITZGERALD CASINO HOTEL
    255 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV  89504  

 

DINING

Please visit http://www.newsreview.com/reno/  This is the "alternative press" of Reno--read, arts and entertainment rag.  I do find these kinds of papers helpful when visiting a city, though, and The News and Review does provide a lengthy section of restaurant reviews (from homepage, click on "eating" then click on "reviews").

 

OTHER ATTRACTIONS

Reno is close to Lake Tahoe, and many of the Sierra ski areas.  Of course, there are endless gambling and show options!  The National Bowling Stadium is in Reno, as is Harrah’s Car Museum.  I suggest a little digging around on the internet will help you find whatever you might be interested in.

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

STRONG MUSIC AND HARD-EDGED WISDOM:

ROBINSON JEFFERS AS POLITICAL POET

ROBINSON JEFFERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, FEBRUARY 19-20, 2005

MACKAY SCIENCE BUILDING, ROOM 215

 

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 2005

 8:00-8:30--Continental Breakfast

 8:30-9:00--Jim Baird: “Remarks from the President of the Robinson Jeffers Association”

 9:00-10:00--Max Oelschlaeger: Title TBA

 10:30-12:00—Panel I: Inheritance and Legacy: Identifying Jeffers’ Politics

    Chair:
    Robert Zaller, Drexell University: “Jeffers, Son of Jefferson: A Poet’s Politics”
    Peter Quigley, University of Hawaii, Leeward Campus: “Mapping Jeffers Political Trajectories”
    Adam B. Tavel, University of Toledo: “‘Sacred Madness’: Robinson Jeffers’ Dear Judas and the Politics of Cultural Fundamentalism”
    ShaunAnne Tangney, Minot State University: “Old Violence is Not Too Old to Beget New Values: Robinson Jeffers as Public Poet"

12:00-1:30—lunch on your own

1:30-3:00 —Panel II: Jeffers’ Responses to War

    Chair:
    Rob Kafka, UCLA: “War, Idealism, and the Young Jeffers”
    Jim Baird, University of North Texas: “Pearl Harbor: Why Fly the Flag?”
    George Hart, California State University, Ling Beach: “To Keep One’s Own Integrity: Jeffers, Everson, and the Crisis of World War II”

3:00-4:30 —Panel III: Hopelessly Fatalist?  A Panel Discussion on Jeffers, Service Learning, and Activism—presented by Kathleen Hickey, California State University, Long Beach, Noelle Leiblic, California State University, Long Beach, Corey Lewis, University of Nevada, Reno, and C. Travis Webb, California State University, Long Beach. 

    Chair: George Hart, California State University, Long Beach

  

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 2005

8:00-8:30—Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:30—RJA Business Meeting

9:30-10:30-- Shaun Griffin and Chris Cokinos: “Jeffers and Conetmporary Political Poets: A Reading by Shaun Griffin and Christopher Cokinos”

11:00-12:30—Panel I: Disorderly Politics, Disquiet Poetics

    Chair:
    C. Travis Webb, California State University, Long Beach: “The Long Dying: Jeffers, Spengler, and the Fallacy of Progress”
    Matthew Murray, Riverside Community College: “Through the Strained Fabric”
    Aaron K. DiFranco, University of California, Davis: “Chiving the Deep: The Double Axe as Transgressive Pastoral”
    Karen Lawson, University of Nevada, Reno: “If It Would Make You Happy: The Politics of Gender in ‘The Loving Shepherdess’”

 12:30-2:00—lunch on your own

 2:00-3:30—Panel II: Influences and Intersections

    Chair:
    Abhijeet Paul, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: “On a Hawk: Robinson Jeffers and Jibanananda Das”
    David Johansson, Brevard Community College: “Bukowski’s Only Hero”
    Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach: “Two Genres: Jeffers as Seer and Prophet”

3:30-5:00—Panel III: The Role of Science in Jeffers Politics

    Chair:
    Ronald P. Olowin, St. Mary’s College of California: “Cosmic and Political Landscapes of Robinson Jeffers"
    Stuart Noble-Goodman, University of Redlands: “Jeffers and the Politics of Discovery”
    David Copland Morris, University of Washington, Tacoma: “‘Sadly Smiling’” The Double Edge of Jeffers’s Environmental Politics”