The XVII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference

Programme

 

30 January

9.00-10.00

REGISTRATION

10.00-10.15

OFFICIAL OPENING (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

  • Simone Trecca, Head of Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Università Roma Tre
  • Arianna Whelan, Embassy of Ireland, Italy
  • Franca Ruggieri, Honorary President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation
  • Enrico Terrinoni, President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation

10.15-11.00

PLENARY 1 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Fabio Luppi

  • Paul Fagan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: “‘this our funnaminal world’: Finnegans Wake, the Nonhuman and Us”

11.00-11.30

COFFEE BREAK

11.30-13.00

PANEL 1 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: William Brockman

  1. Ronan Crowley, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, “Frame Pieces”
  2. Barry Sheehan, Technological University Dublin, “James Joyce and his Norwegian Connections”
  3. Andrew Goodspeed, South East European University, “‘Ulysses tried to come into the country, you dig?’: On the Small Role of Ulysses in the Trials of Lenny Bruce”
  4. Hironao Kobayashi, Toyo Gakuen University, “Not to Be ‘sick of my own country’: How James Joyce Has Changed the Implied Meaning of Patriotism”

13.00-14.30

LUNCH

14.30-16.00

PANEL 2 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Ronan Crowley

  1. Neda Alizadeh Kashani, University of Tehran, “The Search for a Common Language: The Legacy of James Joyce’s Universal Language in Contemporary Italian Literature”
  2. Chiara Valcelli, University College Cork, “Dialogues of the Body: Language and Anatomy in Dante and Joyce”
  3. Duncan McColl Chesney, National Taiwan University, “Speaking the Body in Joyce and Faulkner”
  4. Sabrina Alonso and William Brockman, Independent scholar & Pennsylvania State University, “I can’t be so if Molly”

16.00-16.15

COFFEE BREAK

16.15-17.00

PLENARY 2

Chair: Serenella Zanotti

  • Laura Pelaschiar, Trieste University: “‘And from time to time I lie back and listen to my hair growing white. . . .’ Age, aging and old age in Ulysses”

17.00-18.30

PANEL 3 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Sabrina Alonso

  1. Andrew Basquille, Independent scholar, “Joyce and London: An Illustrated History”
  2. Natalia V. Ursul, NRU Higher School of Economics, “The Linguistic Labyrinth of Finnegans Wake: Techniques for Decoding Joyce’s Language of Dreams”
  3. Casey Gough, North Central College, “The Return of the Fallen Goddess: Finnegans Wake and Gustavo Sainz’s Fantasmas aztecas”
  4. Rareș Moldovan and Erika Mihálycsa, Babeș-Bolyai University, “Afterwits: Translating Allusions in Ulysses as ‘esprit d’escalier’”

18.30-20.00

WINE RECEPTION

31 January

9.00-10.30

PANEL 4 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Annalisa Federici

  1. Tomoya Arai, Hitotsubashi University, “The Plurilingual Temporality: Narrative Duration in ‘Eumaeus’”
  2. Gifty Ruben Prabhas, University of Hyderabad, “Extended Vision and Proximate Distortions: James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Role of Imagination in Our Times”
  3. Christopher J. Kreiser, Slippery Rock University, “I’m Not Just Making This Stuff Up: Improv Practices, Possibilities, and Readings of Ulysses”

 

PANEL 5 (Room D)

Chair: Carmela Esposito

  1. Jesse McKnight, Independent scholar, “Bookends: Reconstructing the Joyce-Valery Tete-a-tete That Never Happened”
  2. John Carney, Florida Atlantic University, “Suggestions of Assault: The Spectre of Violence in Joyce’s Dubliners”
  3. Maria Parrino, Independent scholar, “‘My dear Stevie, […] I hope you will like this story. Nonno’. Joyce and children’s literature”
  4. Zinaida Chachanidze and Nino Pkhakadze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “Bridging Literary Cultures: Exploring Cultural Differences through P4C Analysis of Dubliners in English and Georgian”

 

10.30-10.45

COFFEE BREAK

 

10.45-11.30

PLENARY 3 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Erika Mihálycsa

  • Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation: “Two Joycean Devices, in detail”

11.30-13.00

PANEL 6 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Giuliana Bendelli

  1. Marianna Gula, University of Debrecen, “Why Dubliners Again (into Hungarian)?”
  2. Carmela Esposito, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, “The ‘Ghost of Joyce Present’: The Case of Ali Smith”
  3. Giuliana Bendelli, Università Cattolica, “‘Look out, James Joyce, there’s a new kid in town!’ Patrick Mc Cabe in the wake of Joyce”
  4. Armağan Ekıcı wıth Erika Mihálycsa, Independent scholar & Babeș-Bolyai University, “Ulysses in Viennese. Nicolas Mahler’s graphic novel after Joyce”

PANEL 7 (Room D)

Chair: Irakli Tskhvediani

  1. Irakli Tskhvediani, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “(De)constructed ‘Others’: Joyce, Imperialism, and Orientalism”
  2. Eliso Pantskhava, Akaki Tsereteli State University: “Paralysis and Post-imperial Stasis: Comparing Dublin in Dubliners and Post-Soviet Tbilisi in ‘The Southern Elephant’”
  3. Tamari Iremadze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “Imperial Modernisms: Colonial Anxiety in Joyce’s Dubliners and Pound’s Imagist Poetry”
  4. Nino Tsurtsumia, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “The Palimpsest of a Colonial City: Myths of Empire and Nation in Joyce’s Dublin as Portrayed in Ulysses”


13.00-14.30

LUNCH

14.30-15.45

PANEL 8 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Jonathan McCreedy

  1. Claudia Peverini, University of Bologna, “James Joyce and Music: An Interdisciplinary Approach to His Life and Work”
  2. Jonathan McCreedy, University of Sofia, “EnJoyce the (Silent.): Writing for the First Time Through John Cage’s Roaratorio and His Mesostic ‘Serial Stor[ies]’”
  3. Giuseppe Episcopo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, “Sound of Words: Waves and Patterns in Berio and Eco’s Omaggio a Joyce”

PANEL 9 (Room D)

Chair: Fabio Luppi

  1. Maryam Najafi, Halic University, “James Joyce’s Work in Iran and Turkiye: Academia, Translation(s), and Reception”
  2. Iren Boyarkina, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, “Music in the works by James Joyce and Olaf Stapledon”
  3. Mary Lawton, Independent scholar, “James Joyce Down Under: The Prankwench Connection”

15.45 – 17.00

PANEL 10 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Marianna Gula

  1. Sun-chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University, “Joys and ‘Us’ Orientals: Buddhism in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”
  2. Arkadiusz Płonka, The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, “Unpublished Commentary on the Manuscript Lebanese Translation from James Joyce’s Ulysses (Lines: 1553–1609): Results of the Field Research (Beirut-Kfar Shima: September- October 2023)”
  3. Radostina Kumanova, Independent scholar, “Translator’s Invisibility: Jocoserious Perception of Translating the Untranslatable”

17.00

CONCLUSIONS


SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Fabio Luppi, Franca Ruggieri, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

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