CfP: The XVI “James Joyce Italian Foundation” Conference

The XVI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

Prismatic Joyce

Conference Dates: 1-2 February 2024 

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 12, 2023

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Keynote speakers:

  • Sun-Chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University
  • Patrick Hersant, Université Paris 8
  • Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation

Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 143th birthday. 

After the Ulysses centenary celebrations, 2024 marks a hundred years since the first piece of Work in Progress was published in the transatlantic review. From then, what in 1939 would have become Finnegans Wake started appearing in fragments giving Joyce’s ouvre a “prismatic shape”. In this conference we will reflect on the ways in which the various works by Joyce interact as if in perennial dialogue, and how they still affect us in new ways and why. We will also explore how they have been reconfigured and re-oriented in different languages and cultures through translation.

We invite scholars to send proposals for a 20-minute contribution. The Conference will be the occasion to present unpublished papers and works in progress on Joyce to an international audience. 

Related topics include, but are not limited to:

– Joyce’ kaleidoscopic works

– Interactions between Joyce’s works and internal intertextuality 

– Prismatic refractions of Joyce’s work in translation

– Translations as part of Joyce’s poly-system

– Continuities and discontinuities in Joyce Studies

– Rites of passage, eternal change, and transition between Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

– Art and life in Joyce’s works

– Translocutions and the evolution of language patterns in Joyce 

Please send an abstract (500 words maximum in length) along with a short “narrative” bio-sketch (300 words maximum in length) ONLY TO joyceconference@gmail.com

Please send two separate Word files

Selected papers will be published.


The Conference includes a Joyce birthday party.

Deadline for proposals: 12 November 2023 

Accepted speakers will be notified no earlier than 26 November 2022

On arrival, participants will be expected to sign up for membership of The James Joyce Italian Foundation (Students: 35 euro; Individual Membership: 45 euro; Institutions: 50 euro; Supporting members: 70 euro). Accepted speakers will have to arrange their own accommodation and travel. 

Please visit the James Joyce Italian Foundation website for updates: https://thejamesjoyceitalianfoundation.it

ALL PAPERS WILL BE DELIVERED IN PRESENCE. 

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The XVI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference

Programme

 

31 January

20.30 – Welcome Gathering (Venue: Fiddler’s Elbow – Via dell’Olmata, 43)

1 February

 

9.00-9.30 – REGISTRATION

9.30-9.45 – OFFICIAL OPENING (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

  • Giorgio de Marchis, Head of Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Università Roma Tre
  • Patricia O’Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to Italy
  • Franca Ruggieri, Honorary President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation
  • Enrico Terrinoni, President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation

 9.45-10.30 – PLENARY 1 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Serenella Zanotti

  • Patrick Hersant, Université Paris 8: “‘A hysterical letter from the translatress of the Portrait’: Joyce and Savitzky in Paris, 1920”

10.30-11.00 – COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30 – PANEL 1 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Fabio Luppi

  1. Andrew Biswell, Manchester Metropolitan University: “Ways Into the Labyrinth: Anthony Burgess Reading Finnegans Wake
  2. Yuhan Wu, Wuhan University: “Joycean Prophecy: Traversing the Paths of Estrangement and Return in Finnegans Wake
  3. Taura Napier, Wingate University, North Carolina: “Anna Lynchya Pourable and Ligatureliblous Mobmauling: Joyce’s Prismatic Effects”
  4. Maria Teresa Caneda Cabrera, University of Vigo: “‘We are still learning to be James Joyce’s contemporaries’: Reading Joyce through the Prism of Vulnerability Studies”

 12.30-14.00 – LUNCH

14.00-15.30 – PANEL 2 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Ira Torresi

  1. Trisevgeni Bilia, University of Oxford: “Translation as a Struggle: Translating James Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece”
  2. Monica Paulis, University of Antwerp: “‘Padre O’Flynn ne farebbe lepre di tutti quanti’. Translating theSoundtrack of Everyday Life: Universality and Singularity of Folk and Pop Culture in Joyce’s Works”
  3. Arianna Autieri, Goldsmiths, University of London: “Interdisciplinary Joyce: Prisms, Translations and Experimentations”
  4. Vitor Alevato do Amaral, Fluminense Federal University: “Another Portrait in Portuguese: A Retranslation Approach”

15.30-17.00 – PANEL 3 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Sabrina Alonso

  1. Mitchell Kooh, Univeristy of Notre Dame: “Towards a Joycean Theo-Poetics of ”
  2. Michal Moussaffi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “The Frame in (and around) James Joyce’s Ulysses
  3. Erika Mihálycsa, Babeș-Bolyai University: “‘Silk of the kine’: Exploitative animal tropes in Ulysses and their post-Joycean rewritings
  4. Sabrina Alonso (Zürich James Joyce Foundation) & William Brockman (Pennsylvania State University): “Looking around in Ulysses

17.00-17.15 – COFFEE BREAK

17.15-18.00 – PLENARY 2 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Enrico Terrinoni

  • Sun-Chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University: “The Prism and Gnomon: Refraction and Trancelation in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

18.30-20.00 – WINE RECEPTION

 

2 February

 

9.00-10.30 – PANEL 4 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Giuliana Bendelli

  1. Carmela Esposito, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”: “Giacomo’s Prism: A Joycean Outlook on Recording Memory”
  2. Katharina Rajabi, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich: “Photographic Photo Bits in Ulysses
  3. Maria Parrino, Independent scholar: “‘He looked coldly into the eyes of the photograph and they answered coldly’. Optic devices in Dubliners
  4. Giuliana Bendelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano: “The Prismatic Sign of Water in Joyce’s work”

PANEL 5 (Room D)

Chair: Irakli Tskhvediani

  1. Eliso Pantskhava, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Translating Heteroglossia: Dubliners in Georgian”
  2. Nino Tsurtsumia, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Reimagining Dublin in the Georgian Translations of Dubliners”
  3. Irakli Tskhvediani, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Translating Musicality: The Dead”

10.30-11.15 – PLENARY 3 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Ilaria Natali

  • Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation: “Another Shot at the DNA of Ulysses

11.15-11.30 – COFFEE BREAK

11.30-13.00 – PANEL 6 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Erika Mihálycsa

  1. Pierre Troullier, Aix-Marseille University: “‘Prête moi un dux’: On a Quasi-French Poem by Joyce”
  2. Marija Girevska (Cyril and Methodius University) & Meinhard Rauchensteiner (Independent scholar):“Translation and Transformation: Nationalistic Aspects in the Work and Reception of Joyce’s Ulysses
  3. Ira Torresi, Università di Bologna: “‘Blending their God, such music’ (U 11.852- 853): The Prism of Translators’ Voices in the Italian Translations of Ulysses 
  4. Jolanta Wawrzycka, Radford University, Armağan Ekici, Independent scholar, Erika Mihálycsa, Babeș-Bolyai University: “‘Full many a flower is born to blush unseen’: Multidirectional Cyclopean translations”

PANEL 7 (Room D)

Chair: Cathal Coleman

  1. Maryam Najafi, Halic     University,     Istanbul:     “Animal     Symbolism     in     James Joyce’s Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: a mythological study”
  2. Jesse McKnight, Independent scholar: “Prunes and Prisms, Runes and Rhythms: Loose Vowels and Lost Consonants in the Slide-splitting Comedy of Finnegans Wake
  3. Cathal Coleman, Maynooth University: “‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’ A Helping Hand for Bloom from Martin Buber”

13.00-14.30 – LUNCH

14.30-15.45 – PANEL 8 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Andrew Goodspeed

  1. Annalisa Mastronardi, Dublin City University: “Mary Morrissy’s Penelope Unbound: Nora Barnacle without James Joyce”
  2. Clíodhna Carney, University of Galway: “Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair: Joyce and realism”
  3. Andrew Goodspeed, South East European University: “Who Were the Rabblement? Attempting to Identify an Implied Audience”

PANEL 9 (Room D)

Chair: Fabio Luppi

  1. Maryam Najafi, Halic     University,     Istanbul:     “Animal     Symbolism     in     James Joyce’s Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: a mythological study”
  2. Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu, Çankaya University, Ankara: “‘Signature of all things’: Joyce’s Use of Language in Depicting the Soundscapes and the Diaphane of Colours in the Proteus Episode of Ulysses
  3. Stefano Pavarini, Independent scholar: “‘A Kaleidoscopic Center’: The Homeric Pattern in Ulysses
  4. Iren Boyarkina, University of Rome La Sapienza/ University of Viterbo: “The Works of James Joyce Viewed through the Prism of Natural Sciences”

15.45 – 17.00 – PANEL 10 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Jonathan McCreedy

  1. Casey Drosehn Gough (North Central College) & Federico Barea (Independent scholar): “Joyce/Yo hice’: Authorship/Translation in Marcelo Zabaloy’s Odiseo
  2. Sonja Đurić, University of Valencia: “James Joyce’s Kaleidoscopic Influence on Milos Crnjanski’s Work through Epiphany and Nostalgia”
  3. Jonathan McCreedy, Sofia University Kliment Ohridski: Portrait as Prequel, Dubliners as Spin-off’:‘Reverse-reading’ and the Conceptualisation of Joyce’s ‘Ulysphere’/Extended Universe”

17.00 – Screening of “I colori nella fabula sveviana” by Paolo Colombo

17.20 – CONCLUSIONS and JJIF ANNUAL MEETING

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Fabio Luppi, Franca Ruggieri, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti