‘Outside his jurisfiction’: Joyce’s Non-Fiction
March 23rd-25th
DAY 1 Friday March 23rd, 2012
8.45-9.45 REGISTRATION (coffee and tea)
9.45-10.00 INTRODUCTION
10.00-11.30 PANEL 1: Joyce as Reader/Critic, Chaired by John Bowen (University of York)
“Joyce’s View of Realism: A New Source” Maria Grazia Tonetto (Sapienza, University of Rome)
“On the Centenary of the Centenary of Charles Dickens” Brian H Murray (Kings College, London)
“‘The Art of Presenting a Character’: Joyce’s Essay on the Centenary of Charles Dickens” Elaine Wood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11.30-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-13.30 PANEL 2 “Putting truth and untruth together”: Fiction and Non-Fiction, Chaired by John Nash (University of Durham)
“‘Truth and Untruth Together’: Reading Joyce’s Non-Fiction” Grace Holtkamp (University of Edinburgh)
“‘He chronicled with patience’: Early Joycean Progressions between Non-Fictionality and Fiction” Hans Walter Gabler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and IES, University of London)
“Animal States in the ‘Epiphanies’: Joyce Between Fiction and Non-Fiction” Katherine Ebury (University of York)
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 PANEL 3: Joyce in/of Italy, Chaired by Lawrence Rainey (University of York)
“Before his Jurisfiction: Joyce Among Italian Publishers Before 1960” Sara Sullam (Milan University)
“‘Formal Perfection’ and ‘Vain Subtleties’: Joyce’s Italian Middle Ages” James Robinson (University of York)
“Writing Drama, Writing Betrayal: A Different Approach to Joyce’s Triestine Journalism and Lectures” James Fraser (University of York)
16.00-16.30 DRINKS
16.30-17.30 KEYNOTE
“Second-Hand News: The Marginalities of Joyce’s Non-Fiction” John McCourt
18.00-19.00 PERFORMANCE:
A dramatic reading of a selection of Joyce’s correspondence, performed by students at the University of York.
DAY 2 Saturday March 24th, 2012
09.30-11.00 PANEL 4: Joyce’s Ireland, Chaired by Frank Shovlin (University of Liverpool)
“‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’: History, Idealism and the Celtic in ‘Realism and Idealism in English Literature’” Alastair Cormack (Greshams School)
“140km/hr: An Appaling Pace in 1903” Philip Keel Geheber (Trinity College Dublin)
“Imperialism and Nature in ‘The Mirage of the Fishermen of Aran’” Alison Lacivita (Trinity College, Dublin)
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00 PANEL 5: Biography, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Chaired by Matt Campbell (University of York)
“A Stylistic Analysis of Joyces Early Prose Style(s)” James Horton (University of Edinburgh)
“Reselling Ulysses after Shakespeare and Company” Luca Crispi (University College Dublin)
“‘…for frankness’ sake’: Confessional Structures in Giacomo Joyce” J. T. Welsch (York St. John University)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 PANEL 6: Non-Fictional Beginnings: Non-Fictional Sources for Joyce’s Fiction, Chaired by Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
“James Joyce and the Table of (Phonetic) Law” Sylvain Belluc (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
“‘Well, I follow a literary occupation, author-journalist’: Anticipating Bloom in Joyce’s Journalism” Prof. Brian Caraher (Queens, University Belfast)
“Banned Writer / Poet / Singer: Joyce / Mangan / Sullivan” David Vichnar (Birkbeck, Visiting Scholar
15.30-16.00 DRINKS
16.00-17.30 WORKSHOP—KEVIN BARRY
19.30-22.30? CONFERENCE DINNER
Three course meal with wine, followed by coffee and tea, to be served in York’s King’s Manor.
DAY 3 Sunday 25th March, 2012
9.30-11.00 PANEL 7: Joyce and Politics, Chaired by Katy Mullin (University of Leeds)
“Systemic Violence in Joyce’s L’Irlanda alla sbarra” Arthur Rose (University of Leeds)
“Into the (Non-Fictional) Silence: The Expatriate Nationalism of Joyce’s Triestine journalism and lectures” Frank Callanan (Law Library, Dublin)
“‘Sensational trial[s],’ ‘unfacts,’ and Miscarriages of Justice: From L’Irlanda alla sbarra to Finnegans Wake” Adrian Hardiman (Law Courts, Dublin)
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00 PANEL 8: Epistolary Joyce, Chaired by Hugh Haughton (University of York)
“Joyce / Leon / Weaver: A Study in Tyranny” Terence Killeen (Independent Scholar, James Joyce Centre Research Scholar)
Rome / Dublin: Letters and Italian Writings: Franca Ruggieri (Universita Roma Tre)
“Joyce and the Epistolary Arts: the Jahnke Bequest at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation” Nick Morris (SUNY, Buffalo)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00 KEYNOTE
“‘Done with failure?’: Joyce and Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century“
Emer Nolan (NUI Maynooth)
15.00-15.30 DRINKS
15.30-17.00 PANEL 9: “insufficiently malestimated notesnatcher”: Joyce’s Notebooks, Scarlett Baron (University College London)
“Phenomenology of Fiction as Aesthetic Truth in James Joyce’s ‘Epiphanies’” Jurate Levina (University of York)
“Joyce’s Aesthetics: From Fiction to Non-Fiction” Matthew Creasy (University of Glasgow)
“Reconsidering Joyce’s ‘Notes on Business and Commerce’” Matt Hayward (University of Durham)
17.00-17.30 CLOSING REMARKS
