The programme for the forthcoming Joyce Graduate Conference is now available. This year, the Conference is organized by The James Joyce Research Centre in collaboration with The James Joyce Italian Foundation and will be held in Dublin, at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin.
The social programme includes a drink in Buswell\’s Hotel, 26 Molesworth Street, on Thursday at 20.30; a dinner, at Saagar, 16 Harcourt Street, on Friday at 20.30 and the participation to the play The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, at the Abbey Theatre, on Saturday at 19.30.
FULL PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 22 JANUARY
10.00-11.00 Plenary
Professor Franca Ruggieri (Università di Roma Tre)
Chair: Professor Anne Fogarty
James Joyce: Tradition and the Individual Talent
11.00-11.25 Coffee/Tea Break
11.25- 12.55 Aural/ Visual Joyce (Chair: Dr Catherine Morris, University College Dublin)
Chih-hsien Hsieh (University College Dublin)
“Hark the Written Words”: The Gramophone Motif in Ulysses
Lorna Mellon (Northwestern University, Evanston)
Ulysses and Noise: Controlling and Allowing Chaos
Maria Domenica Mangialavori (Università di Roma Tre)
The Aural and the Visual: Sensory Faculties in “Proteus” and “Wandering Rocks”
David Shackleton (University of Oxford)
“Tableau!”: Photography in Joyce\’s “Nausicaa”
12.55-14.30: Lunch
14.30.–15.30 Plenary (Sponsored by the Humanities Institute of Ireland)
Dr Fritz Senn (Zürich James Joyce Foundation)
Chair: Dr Marc Caball (University College Dublin)
Ulysses: Episodic Variety and Coherence
15.30-15.45 Coffee/Tea Break
15.45-17.45 Joyce and Language (Chair: Professor Brian Caraher, Queen\’s University, Belfast)
Siobhán Purcell (University College Dublin)
“He seehears lipspeech”: Textual Deafness and Linguistic Deftness in Ulysses and “The Sisters”
Elizabeth Kate Switaj (Queen\’s University Belfast)
Joyce, Berlitz, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
William Viney (University of London)
Reading Joyce\’s Waste
Sylvain Belluc (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
“These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here”: Reality, Etymology, and Poetry in “Proteus”
Antonio Bibbò (Università dell\’Aquila)
“Haveth catches everywhere”: “Wandering Rocks” and the Birth of Choral Novels
SATURDAY 23 JANUARY
9.00-10.30 Joycean Intertextuality (Chair: Dr Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin)
Ann Fallon (St Patrick\’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University)
Joyce\’s Naughty Teddy: Ovidian Echoes in “Proteus”
Sonia Buttinelli (Università di Roma Tre)
Joyce\’s D\’Annunzio: The Influence of the Italian Writer in Joyce\’s Early Works
Olga Fernandez Vicente (Universidad di Deusto)
Breaking Boundaries: Baroja the Modernist versus Joyce the Modern
Philip Keel Geheber (Trinity College Dublin)
\’Non-intention\’: Cage and Joyce
10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea Break
11.00-13.00 Theorising Joyce (Chair: Dr Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin)
Yi-peng Lai (Queen\’s University, Belfast)
“Bloom of Flowerville”: Farmer with the Heart o\’ a Nation
Alison Lacivita (Trinity College Dublin)
Finnegans Wake and Ecocriticism
Fabio Luppi (Università di Roma Tre)
Stephen Dedalus, Race, and the Irish Woman
Aingeal Clare (University of York)
“Mocked Majesty”: Games and Authority in Joyce
Camilla Mount (King\’s College, London)
Structures of Time in Ulysses and the Newspaper
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00.-15.00 Plenary
Dr John McCourt (Università di Roma Tre)
Chair: Dr Luca Crispi
“No Good Story Should be Rejected”: Yeats, Joyce, and the Problematics of Biography
15.15-17.00 Joycean Aesthetics (Chair: TBC)
Richard Barlow (Queen\’s University, Belfast)
Joyce and Scotland
Niko Pomakis (Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Reconciler of Opposites: Reading “Scylla and Charybdis”
Jonathan McCreedy (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Finnegans Wake: Characters and Archetypes
Liam Lanigan (University College Dublin)
“Wandering Rocks” and the Multi-Layered City
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