Listed according to panel and order of presentation. All titles are hotlinks to each paper except where noted.

Panel 1 -- Vonnegut After the American Century

From Ground Zero to Eternity: Hiroshima, Testimony, and the Lessons of History in Vonnegut’s Later Novels.

    Fumika Nagano, Seikei University, Tokyo.

Now it’s the women’s turn: The Art(s) of Reconciliation in Vonnegut’s Bluebeard. 

    Tom Hertweck, University of Nevada, Reno.

            KVS 2009 Presentation Hertweck.pdf

The miracle age of organ transplants and other forms of therapeutic vivisection: Medicine and Medical Ethics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Work.

            KVS 2009 Presentation Beck.pdf

From the Bomb to Barack: Vonnegut Chronicles the Death of Sociological Structuralism and the Birth of Postmodernity.

    Kevin Boon, Pennsylvania State University.

Panel 2 -- Open Session

“Like bugs trapped in amber”: The Chaos of Composition in Slaughter-house Five. 

    Todd Atchison, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

            KVS 2009 Presentation Atchison.pdf

The Fraudulent Light in Mother Night.

    Susan Farrell, College of Charleston.

            KVS 2009 Presentation Farrell.pdf

Kurt Vonnegut and the Paradox of Perception. 

    Loree Rackstraw, University of Northern Iowa.

            KVS 2009 Presentation Rackstraw.pdf

The Voice of Kurt Vonnegut.

    Nick Curry, Maryville University, and Jeremy C. Ellis, Managing

     Editor, The Dirty Napkin.   

            KVS 2009 Presentation Curry and Ellis.pdf