[USML Announce] Is It Rolling, Bob?

[Brad Jansen]

Bob Dylan Academic Conference Coming to UMSL This Weekend
By Annie Zaleski, Fri., Mar. 18 2011 @ 11:17AM
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?Tomorrow, March 19, scholars and fans alike will gather at UMSL for a
day-long conference to discuss Bob Dylan's connection with the
Classics. "Bob Dylan: Immigrants, Wanderers, Exiles and Hard Travelers
in the Poems, Songs and Culture of Ancient Greece and Modern America"
takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Century Rooms of the
Millennium Student Center. According to a press release from UMSL,
"Guest speakers will discuss oral tradition, the songs of the
traveler, Greek myths, Bob Dylan and Greek poetry, and Dylan's life as
Robert Zimmerman growing up in immigrant communities in Minnesota."
(The full release is below.) The event is free and open to the public,
but you have to register.