The XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference

4 February

8.30pm

Welcome Gathering

Venue: Fiddler’s Elbow – Via dell’Olmata, 43

5 February

8.30-10.00

REGISTRATION

10.00-10.15

OFFICIAL OPENING (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

• Simone Trecca, Head of Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Università Roma Tre
• Elizabeth McCullough, Ambassador 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: Enrico Terrinoni

• Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame, “An Encounter: Yeats. Versus Joyce”

11.00-11.30

COFFEE BREAK

11.30-13.00

PANEL 1 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Antonio Bibbò

1. Richard Barlow, University of St Andrews, “Joyce’s Libraries”
2. Sabrina Alonso and William Brockman, Independent scholar & Pennsylvania State University, “‘Caro figliolo’: The Letters of James Joyce to Helen and Giorgio Joyce”
3. Andrew Goodspeed, South East European University, “‘Is This Your Revenge?’: Oliver Gogarty’s Literary Criticism of James Joyce’s Writings”
4. Marija Girevska, Cyril and Methodius University, “Who’s ‘I’ Anyway? Joyce, Swift, and the Remix of the Self”

13.00-14.30

LUNCH

14.45-16.00

PANEL 2 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: William Brockman

1. Katherine Fleming, Queen Mary University of London, “Ulysses Wakes Up: James Joyce and Classical Allusion”
2. Gabrielle Moyer, Stanford University, “Reading Ourselves Alive or How We Dead Awaken”
3. Sun-chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University, “Joyce’s Theatrical World of ‘Chinchin Childaman’ (FW 304n2)”

16.00-16.15

COFFEE BREAK

16.15-17.45

PANEL 3 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Sabrina Alonso

1. Fraser Cattini, University of Liverpool, “From Dada to Dedalus: Joyce, Fluviana and the ‘Readymade’”
2. Declan Houten, University of Liverpool, “‘The Forms Imagination Takes’: James Joyce, Mainie Jellett and 1920s Irish Abstract Art”
3. Martin Mühlheim, Zürich James Joyce Foundation, “Drawing Away from Joyce’s Dubliners. Comics Adaptations of “Araby,” “Eveline,” and “Two Gallants”
4. Erika Mihálycsa, Rareș Moldovan, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, “Jingling It in Romanian: Reorchestrating the Soundscape of Ulysses in the New, 2023 Romanian Translation of Ulysses”

19.00-21.00

IRISH EMBASSY – Villa Spada, Via Giacomo Medici 1

Launch of James Joyce: A Political Life, by Frank Callanan, followed by a Reception

6 February

9.00-10.30

PANEL 4 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Andrew Goodspeed

1. Ivan Visioli, Independent scholar, “It Is Strange Where You Get Ideas for Stories: Joycean Inspirations from Anatole France to Gone with the Wind”
2. Natalia V. Ursul, NRU Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, “The Art of Contamination: Hybrid Word Formation and Polyglot Consciousness in Joyce’s Works”
3. Maria Parrino, Independent scholar, “‘Ahbeesee defeegee kelomen opeecue rustyouvee doubleyou’: Pronunciation Issues in Ulysses”
4. Trisevgeni Bilia, University of Cyprus, “Joyce’s ‘World of [Greek] Words’”

PANEL 5 (Room D)

Chair: Maria Vita Cambria

1. Iren Boyarkina, University of Tuscia and Sapienza University of Rome, “Multimodality in James Joyce”
2. Maryam Najafi, Haliç University Instanbul, “Translating Joyce: Censorship, Cultural Adaptation, and Political Mediation in Iranian and Turkish Contexts”
3. Eliso Pantskhava, Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University, “Translating Joyce in Georgia: Nico Kiasashvili -100”
4. Natia Kvachakidze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Translating Urban Narratives: Story Titles in Georgian Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio”

10.30-10.45

COFFEE BREAK

10.45-11.30

PLENARY 2 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Serenella Zanotti

• Annalisa Volpone, University of Perugia, “‘Shut your eyes and see’: Joyce’s revisions of Blake”

11.30-13.00

PANEL 6 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Andrea Binelli

1. Duygu Mazak, Sapienza University of Rome, “The Ghosting of Words: The Living Language of Joyce’s Ulysses”
2. Victor Fermino da Silva, Independent scholar, “Ulysses, Education and the Transference of Meaning”
3. Irina D. Rasmussen, Stockholm University, “Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom: The Beginnings”
4. Meinhard Rauchensteiner, Independent scholar, “Ulysses Revolutionary Dispositif of a novel”

PANEL 7 (Room D)

Chair: Taura Napier

1. Andaç Çelik, Sapienza University of Rome, “Between Speech and Silence: Narrative Identity in James Joyce’s Dubliners”
2. Patrizia Ubaldi, Independent scholar, “Gretta Conroy, the Simulacrum of the Joycean Feminine”
3. Taura Napier, Wingate University, “Ligatureliblous Mobmauling and Lyncheon Partyng: Joyce’s Verbal Landscapes of Exile and Return”
4. Maia Gabadadze, Tamari Mardaleishvili, Akaki Tsereteli State University & Central European University, “‘I Will Not Serve’: Familial and Societal Pressures in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga”

13.00-14.30

LUNCH

14.30-15.00

A conversation with Fritz Senn (Zürich James Joyce Foundation), with Bill Brockman and Sabrina Alonso

15.00-16.30

PANEL 8 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Giuseppe Episcopo

1. Saloni Shokeen, Binghamton University, New York, “Do Rivers Speak in Joyce’s Novels? Looking at Intersections of Words and Waters”
2. Muirín Kramer, Queen Mary University of London, “Interpolating, Improvising, Intermezzo: Sally Rooney Responds to Ulysses”
3. Laura Albertini, Independent scholar, “After How Many Coincidences Can We Still Call It Chance? Joycean Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells”
4. Giuliana Bendelli, Università del Sacro Cuore, Milano, “How the Italian Poet Roberto Sanesi Reawakened Finnegan and Viceversa”

PANEL 9 (Room D)

Chair: Irakli Tskhvediani

1. Tamari Iremadze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “From Vortices to Voices: Joyce, Pound, and the Sound of Modernism”
2. Anzor Kiknavelidze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “Atonal Syntax: Schoenberg’s Op. 11 and the Grammar of Joyce’s ‘Sirens’”
3. Irakli Tskhvediani, Akaki Tsereteli State University, “Joyce’s Modernist Gesamtkunstwerk: Ulysses and Wagnerian Total Art”
4. Nino Tsurtsumia, Akaki Tsereteli State University Kutaisi, “Echoes of the Past in Modern Streets: Historical Allusions in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Zurab Karumidze’s From the Wine-Dark Sea”

16.30 – 17.45

PANEL 10 (Sala Ignazio Ambrogio)

Chair: Fabio Luppi

1. Sonja Duric, Fakultet za menadžment, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, “Translating Ulysses in the 1950s, 1990s and 2000s – Ulysses in Serbian and Croatian”
2. Chiara Sciarrino, Università di Palermo, “Music, Meaning, Translation: Re-voicing ‘Sirens’ in Italian”
3. Şaziye Çıkrıkcı, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, “Understanding Joyce’s Dublinersin Turkish: Kardeşler as a Contact Zone for Translation”

17.45

CONCLUSIONS

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Fabio Luppi, Franca Ruggieri, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti