Problems with Authority - Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e

FRIDAY, 21 JUNE
19:00 – 20:30
Special Event: Poetry Reading & Wine Reception at St. Isidores
College
A special reading in Irish & English hosted by Mícheál Mac
Craith & made possible through the generous support of The
Irish Literature Exchange
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Aifric Mac Aodha
Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature
e Culture Straniere
Academic &
Social
Programme
21.00
Social Event: Farewell Dinner
Il Giardino di Albino, Via Zucchelli, 29
Awards Ceremony of the Father Fahrt, S.J Memorial Prize
Cover image by David O'Kane
09:30-11:00
Panel 10: The Clowning of Science I: Ancient Authorities
Chair: Dieter Fuchs -Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Meltem Gürle (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul) – The Third Man
Argument: Problems of O’Brien’s Dualistic Ontology
Julia Jordan (Cardiff University) – The Atomic Swerves of Flann
O’Brien
Noam Schiff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Morality, Science,
& the Death Drive in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman
Panel 11: Myles en Abyme: O’Nolan’s Cross References
Chair: Neil Murphy - Aula C
Erika Mihálycsa (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj) – On the Whatness of Pots & Knotty Policemen: The Metamorphic Languages
of Watt & The Third Policeman
Fabio Luppi (Università Roma Tre) – Footnotes versus Allusions,
Reversing the Obvious: Hidden, Real, & Fake Authorities / Authorships
in The Dalkey Archive & The Third Policeman
Tamara Radak (University of Vienna) – ‘walking forever on falling
ground’: Flann’s Footnotes & the Destabilisation of Textual Hierarchies
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00
Panel 12: The Clowning of Science II: Let’s get ‘Pataphysical!
Chair: Robert Maslen - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
John Coyle (University of Glasgow) – Christ on a Bike: Flann & Jarry
Julian Gough (Author, Berlin) – The Technology of Philosophy:
Flann O’Brien & Ray Kurzweil
Maria-Ana Tupan & Marin Cilea (University of Bucharest) –
O’Brien & The Fold
Panel 13: Bottled for Export: O’Nolan in Europe
Chair: Erika Mihálycsa - Aula C
Simona Vannini (Università Roma Tre) – O’Brien, Pirandello,
Unamuno, & Pessoa: The Author as a Legion of Selves
Francesco Laurenti (IULM University Milan) – The Challenge
of Translating Proper Names in the Works of Brian O’Nolan
Inmaculada Lara-Jaén (Independent Scholar) – The ‘Conundrum’ of Humour in the Spanish Translation of Flann O’Brien’s
The Third Policeman
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30
Panel 14: Bodily Harm
Chair: Carol Taaffe - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Thomas Jackson Rice (University of South Carolina) – ‘Eat or be
eaten’: Flann O’Brien as Cultural Cannibal
Richard T. Murphy (University of South Carolina Upstate) – Flann
O’Brien & the Interrogation of Torture
Paul Fagan (University of Vienna) – ‘I’ve got you under my skin’:
Narcissism in ‘John Duffy’s Brother’ & ‘Two in One’
Maebh Long (The University of the South Pacific) – ‘a tidal surge of
vomit’: Brian O’Nolan & Women
16:30-17:00: Break
17:00-18:00
Keynote: Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania) – West of Eden:
Authenticity and Authority in O’Brien & Ford
Chair: Ruben Borg
19-21 June 2013
Sala Conferenze
‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
via del Valco di San Paolo, 19
Realizzaione tecnica e organizzativa a cura del personale del Centro
Multimediale e degli Uffici Amministrativi del Dipartimento di Lingue,
Letterature e Culture Straniere
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Problems with Authority:
The II International Flann O’Brien Conference
WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE
8:30-9:15 Registration - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
9:15-10:00 Welcome
Mario Panizza – Rettore dell’Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Francesca Cantù – Preside della Facoltà di Lettere
Giuseppe Grilli – Direttore del Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e
Culture Straniere
Richard Ambrosini – Direttore del Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale
per gli Studi Irlandesi e Scozzesi
Amal Kaoua – Irish Embassy to Italy
Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, & John McCourt – Conference Convenors
10:00-11:00 Keynote: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp) – Flann
O’Brien’s ‘wide mind’ and Enactive Cognition: The Third Policeman
between Ulysses & The Unnamable
Chair: John McCourt
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00
Panel 1: Writing between the Lines: O’Nolan’s Genetic Disorders
Chair: Dirk Van Hulle - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Catherine Ahearn (Boston University) – Which Authority?: Drafts
and Textual Variants in the Manuscripts of Brian O’Nolan
Adam Winstanley (University of York) – ‘Tell me, sir, did you ever study
Bach?’: De-Composing Musical Authority in Flann O’Brien’s At SwimTwo-Birds
Ian Ó Caoimh (University College Dublin) – My Brother’s Biographer:
Ciarán Ó Nualláin & Flann O’Brien
Panel 2: Stage Frights: O’Nolan’s Forgotten Scripts
Chair: Ondřej Pilný - Aula C
Daniel Keith Jernigan (Nanyang Technological University) –
Exhuming Faustus Kelly: Myles na gCopaleen as Metanarrative
Invention
Kerry Wendt (Emory University) – Flann O’Brien & the
Accidents of Illusion: The Novel as a Self-Evident Sham &
Bertolt Brecht’s Alienation Effect
Thierry Robin (Universitè de Brest) – The Handsome Carvers, Flann
O’Brien & Bertrand Leclair’s ‘Rout Theory’
13.30-15.00 Lunch
15:00-16:30
Panel 3: Spaced Out: Remapping O’Nolan’s Landscapes
Chair: Thierry Robin - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Gülden Hatipoğlu (Ege Üniversitesi, İzmir) – Authority & Space in
Flann O’Brien’s Story-Worlds
Alison Lacivita (University of Southern Mississippi) – The Artificial
Manure Ring: Agriculture in O’Brien
Laura Lovejoy (University College Dublin) – ‘A stale spent smell’:
Sin & the Olfactory Landscape of At Swim-Two-Birds
Panel 4: Some Dissembling Required: The Comic Writer as Master
of Disguise
Chair: Catherine Flynn - Aula C
Alana Gillespie (Utrecht University) – In Defence of ‘gap-worded’
Stories: Brian O’Nolan on Authority, Reading, & Writing
Siún Ní Dhuinn (University College Dublin) – Problems with
Authority: Authorship & the Authentic Author in Myles’s Irish
Language Works
Jürgen Meyer (Erfurt University ) – Brian O’Nolan’s Anti-Authoritarianism
16.30-17.00 Break
17:00-18:30 Special Event
‘John Duffy’s Brother’: An Evening with Mikel Murfi &
Mark O’Halloran
Chair: Keith Hopper - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
A Dramatic Reading of ‘John Duffy’s Brother’
A Screening of the short film John Duffy’s Brother
Q&A Session
20:00 Reception
Hosted by His Excellency Mr Patrick Hennessy, Irish Ambassador
to Italy, Villa Spada al Gianicolo, Via Giacomo Medici
THURSDAY, 20 JUNE
10:00-11:00 Keynote: Carol Taaffe – Dead Funny: The Afterlife
of Cruiskeen Lawn
Chair: Paul Fagan
11:00-11.30 Coffee
11:30-13:00
Panel 5: No One Likes a Know-It-All: O’Nolan & the
Encyclopaedic Ideal
Chair: Maebh Long - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Ruben Borg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Reading Flann
with Paul: Modernism & the Topos of Conversion
Elisa Severini (Università Roma Tre) – Omniscience & Non-Sense
Dieter Fuchs (Technical University of Koszalin) – The Dalkey
Archive: A Menippean Satire against Authority
Panel 6: Gross Impieties: Suspicious Readings of The Hard Life
Chair: Thomas Jackson Rice - Aula C
John McCourt (Università Roma Tre) – Taking the piss out of the
Pope: Mr Collopy & Fr Fahrt in Rome
Paula Tebay (Independent Scholar) – A Suspicious Reading of
Flann O’Brien’s The Hard Life
Brian Doherty (St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow) – Dogmatic Banter:
Flann O’Brien versus The Jesuits
13:00-14.30 Lunch
Lunchtime Screening: ‘Flann O Brien: The Lives of Brian’
Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’ (Dir: Maurice Sweeney;
Mint Productions / Radio Telefís Éireann 2006)
14:30-16:00
Panel 7: Resurrecting the Corpus: The Short Fiction of
Flann O’Brien
A Roundtable discussion - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Keith Hopper (Oxford University/St Mary’s University College)
Neil Murphy (Nanyang Technological University)
Jack Fennell (University of Limerick)
Panel 8: Active Resistance: Reading O’Nolan’s Politics
Chair: Jed Esty - Aula C
Alan Girvin (University Centre Doncaster) – Angry Young
Irishmen: The Role and Status of the Public Intellectual in At
Swim-Two-Birds
André Forget (Dalhousie University) – Sweeny in the Trees: At
Swim-Two-Birds & Decolonizing the Mind
Christian Hayden (Independent Scholar) – Post-Postcolonialism in
Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
16:00-16.30 Break
16:30-18:30
Panel 9: Local Boy or Foreign Correspondent: O’Nolan in
the Irish Times
Chair: John McCourt - Sala Conferenze ‘Ignazio Ambrogio’
Robert Maslen (University of Glasgow) – Competing Fantasies of
Ireland: James Stephens & Flann O’Brien
Ondřej Pilný (Charles University Prague) – Author-Character
Encounters in Brinsley MacNamara’s The Various Lives of Marcus
Igoe & Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck, University of London) – ‘The Streets of
Nineteen Forty’: Flann O’Brien & Patrick Kavanagh
Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley) – ‘To them the
half-said thing is the dearest’: Cruiskeen Lawn, Japan, & the Second
World War
20:30 Special Event: Reading Evening
Fiddler’s Elbow, Via dell’Olmata, 43, 00184 Rome
Julian Gough – ‘The iHole’
Mikel Murfi & Mark O’Halloran – Myles na gCopaleen’s ‘Two
in One’