IV JAMES JOYCE BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE IN ROME “WHY

Comitato scientifico
Franca Ruggieri, John McCourt, Enrico Terrinoni
Realizzazione tecnica
Claudio Mosticone, Roberto Parlavecchio
Segreteria amministrativa
Giuliano Passeri, Anna Siepracki, Daniela Tosoni,
Sabina Truini, Luigi Veraldi, Margherita Zei
Per informazioni
[email protected]
tel. ++39 06 57338999
Sede del convegno
Sala Conferenze "Ignazio Ambrogio"
via del Valco di S. Paolo, 19
accesso anche da via Ostiense, 234
METRO B "MARCONI"
Il convegno internazionale “Why Read Joyce in the 21st
Century” (“Perchè leggere Joyce nel ventunesimo secolo”), organizzato dalla James Joyce Italian Foundation
in occasione del 128° anniversario della nascita dello
scrittore irlandese, si propone di discutere la questione
della ricezione dell’opera joyciana nel nuovo millennio,
sia all’interno della comunità accademica, che nell’orizzonte più ampio e trasversale del lettore comune. Il convegno vede la partecipazione di studiosi provenienti da
26 università di tutto il mondo, rappresentative di 13
paesi (Italia, Irlanda, USA, Regno Unito, Spagna, Danimarca, Ungheria, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Canada,
Francia, Taiwan).
Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate
IV JAMES JOYCE
BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE IN ROME
“WHY READ JOYCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”
“Why Read Joyce in the 21st Century” is an international conference organized by the James Joyce Italian
Foundation on the 128th anniversary of James Joyce’s
birth. It will be the occasion for debating the reception
of James Joyce’s works in the new millennium, both in
relation to the critical output of the academic community and to the more general response of the common
reader. The conference will host speakers from 26 universities and 13 countries across the world (Italy, Ireland, USA, UK, Spain, Denmark, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria, Austria, Canada, France).
1-2-3 FEBRUARY 2011
SALA CONFERENZE “IGNAZIO AMBROGIO”
VIA DEL VALCO DI SAN PAOLO, 19
1 FEBRUARY
PROGRAMME
20,30 James Joyce Birthday Conference Welcome Night: Birthday
Jollyfications, by Liam Healy, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce
Clermont-Ferrand - Fiddler’s Elbow, via dell’Olmata, 43
2 FEBRUARY
8.30 Registration
MORNING
9.00 Official Welcome
Guido Fabiani, Rector, Università Roma Tre
Francesca Cantù, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Università Roma Tre
Otello Lottini, Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Università Roma Tre
Franca Ruggieri, President James Joyce Italian Foundation, Università Roma Tre
9.45 Chair: Barbara Arnett, Università Roma Tre
Plenary: Spurgeon Thompson, CTL College, Limassol, Cyprus, A Return to
Interpretation: A Marxist Postcolonial Finnegans Wake
10.30 Break
11.00 PANEL I, RE-CONSTRUCTING JOYCE
Chair: Richard Ambrosini, Università Roma Tre
Benjamin Boysen, University of Southern Denmark,
Joyce’s Politocomedy” On James Joyce’s humorous deconstruction of ideology in
Finnegans Wake
Maria Vaccarella, King’s College London, “Strichnine by my
illnest”: James Joyce in Medical Humanities Curricula
Jess Hylton & Katherine LaRosa, Radford University, James
Joyce in the Digital World: Bringing Dubliners to a New Generation
Emanuela Zirzotti, Università Sapienza, Roma, Have you ever “seen”
Joyce? The role of the Internet in the popularization of the man and his work
11.00 PANEL II, JOYCE AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Chair: Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation
Annalisa Volpone, Università di Perugia, When he left the beach the
sea was still going on: Walcott re-verses Joyce
Mark Quinn, University College Dublin, Unweaving the Rainbow:
Divining Joycean echoes in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Antonio Viselli, University of Toronto, Between Myth and Mythology:
the Multiple Ulysses in La luna e i falò by Cesare Pavese
Silvia Annavini, Università di Trento, “Written and Unwritten Joyce”.
Italo Calvino and Joyce’s Legacy to Italian Postmodernism
Mark Corcoran, University of Galway, The legacy of Joyce in
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
13.00 Lunch Break - (Art Exhibition by Paolo Colombo)
AFTERNOON
14.30 PANEL III, READING JOYCE
Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Gabrielle Moyer, Stanford University, Being Through Nothingness
Anirudh Katoch, University of Nottingham, Joyce, Cognition and
the 21st Century?
Patricia Pericic, King’s College London, The Limits to Literature in
Ulysses and Joyce in the 21st Century
14.30 PANEL IV, JOYCE AND IRISH WRITING
Chair: Roberto Baronti Marchiò, Università di Cassino
José Manuel Estévez-Saá, Universidade da Coruña,
“Polished Looking Glasses” and “Lantern Slides”: The Impact of Joyce’s
Technique in Edna O’Brien’s Short Stories
Thierry Robin, Université de Brest, Surpassing or getting rid of the
master, writing after Joyce, from Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett to John
Banville
Giuseppina Restivo, Università d Trieste, Joyce’s Legacy in Beckett’s Theatre
Federico Sabatini, Università di Torino, Contemporary Joyce: Joycean
themes and stylistic techniques in William Trevor’s writings
16.15 Translation roundtable - Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Christine
O'Neill, Fritz Senn, Enrico Terrinoni, Jolanta Wawrzycka
19.30 Embassy of Ireland, A reception to honour Joyce’s
birthday hosted by His Excellency Patrick Hennessy, Irish
Ambassador to Italy
Presentation of the recently established Centre of Research in
Irish and Scottish Studies. Book Review: new publications on
Joyce
3 FEBRUARY
8.30 Registration
MORNING
9.00 PANEL V, JOYCE, OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Chair: Giuseppe Massara, Università Sapienza, Roma
Dieter Fuchs, University of Vienna, Popular and Classical Mythology:
Baron Bruck as an Austro-Hungarian Odysseus and the Importance of Trieste
for the Epic Geography of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Tamara Radak, University of Vienna, Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
Lodging Joyce in Contemporary Fiction
Jonathan McCreedy, University of Ulster, The Death of a Joyce
Scholar and The Further Adventures of James Joyce: The Crossroads of
Two Reading Publics
Paul Fagan, University of Vienna, “A mixer and wordpainter": Finnegans
Wake in the Age of Re-Mix Culture
10.45 Break
11.15 PANEL VI, NARRATIVE AND SYNTAX IN JOYCEAN FILM ADAPTATIONS
Chair: John McCourt, Università Roma Tre
Igor Jurilj, University of Zagreb, Narratological limitations and cinematic
interaction in movie adaptations of Joyce
Claire Culleton, Kent State University, Strick's Ulysses
Kamelija Kauzlaric, University of Zagreb, Molly Raised to the Nth:
Why Movie Mollies Differ from Each Other So Much
12.15 Carla Vaglio, Università di Torino
Plenary, Luca Crispi, University College Dublin, The Courtship of
Leopold and Molly Bloom
13.00 Lunch Break
AFTERNOON
14.00 Panel VII, JOYCE AND THE EAST
Chair: Jolanta Wawrzycka, Radford University, USA
Elena Voj, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, James Joyce’s
Periodical Reception in Romania
Bozhana Filipova, Sofia University, Between Recovering and Reading:
the Reception of Joyce's Ulysses in Bulgaria Bozhana
Veronica Kovàcs, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, The Poker
Game Called Literature - A Chapter of James Joyce’s Hungarian Reception
Ivy I-chu Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Ulysses
Backed Against the Sea: In Search of Taiwan’s Alternative Modernity
15.45 PANEL VIII, JOYCE AND THE BODY
Chair: Daniela Guardamagna, Università Tor Vergata, Roma
Maria Grazia Tonetto, Università Sapienza, Roma, The Body of Finitude
Margarita Estévez-Saá, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, James
Joyce’s Ecofeminist Endings
Erika Mihálycsa, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Horsey women and
bu(xo)m Artemises: constructions of Ulysses in translation
Cristine O’Neill, Independent scholar, The Senses of his Soul: Joyce
between Ireland and the World
17.30 Annual General Meeting of The James Joyce Italian Foundation
Some of Grazia Lodeserto works inspired by James Joyce’s
poems will be on display in the Sala Ignazio Ambrogio during
the Conference