JJ
on the Bay
THE SARASOTA
JAMES JOYCE BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
at the
University of South Florida at Sarasota / Manatee
January 31 –
February 2, 2002
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 31, 2002
5:30-8:00 p.m.
Welcoming reception and registration for participants in the Charles Ringling mansion (now College Hall) at sunset on Sarasota Bay.
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2002
8:30 a.m.
Welcoming remarks:
Brandon Kershner, Zack Bowen, Peter French, and Joan
Saunders at
Sudakoff Center on USF Sarasota/Manatee campus
9:00-10:30 a.m.: SESSION I
I.A: Carnival
Comedy. Chair: Morris Beja (Ohio State
U)
1. Zack Bowen
(U of Miami), "‘Cyclops': Joyce's Version of the Irish
Renaissance"
2. Eric Smith
(U of Florida), "I Have Been A
Perfect Pig: A Semiosis of
Swine in ‘Circe'"
3. Thomas
Rice (U of South Carolina), "Condoms, Conrad, and Joyce"
I.B: Joyce Among the Media. Chair: Adrian Peever
1. Jolanta
Wawrzycka (Radford U), "Electronic Joyce, Part 2"
2. Adrian
Peever (Barry U) , "‘Then I Woke': Michael Joyce's Hypertext Wake”
3. David
Earle (U of Miami), "The ‘Eumaeus' Episode and the Side Show"
4. John Harty
(Prairie View A&M U), "Joyce as Movie"
10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.: SESSION II
II.A: Joycean Miscellany. Chair: John S. Slack
1. John S.
Slack (Florida Memorial College), "A Chance of Danger, the
Danger of
Chance: Risk-Taking and Risky Players in Dubliners"
2. Jared M.
Greene (Harvard U), "‘[Babe]L before [Pente]K[ost]' and the
‘Misunderstruck
aim for an ollo': Joyce, Derrida
and the
Sequence of Translation"
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2002 (cont.)
3. Richard
Londraville (SUNY Potsdam), "A Portrait of the Artist and The
Faerie
Queen"
4. Janis
Londraville (SUNY Potsdam), "The Joyce-John Quinn
Correspondence"
II.B: Musical Performance. Chair: Patrick Reilly
1.
Patrick Reilly
(CUNY), "Plaiting the Air: Language
and Musical
Allusions in ‘Sirens'"
2.
Kenneth Robbins
(Louisiana Tech U),
"John
Cage's ‘Alphabet': James Joyce on Stage"
3. Cameron
Bushnell (U of Maryland), "Music: A Site of Contestation in
Joyce's ‘The Dead'"
12:00-1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00-2:30 p.m. SESSION III
III.A: One Thinks of Homer:
Classical Context. Chair: Andrew
Spencer
1. Andrew Spencer
(Texas Christian U), “‘Tell Us in Plain Words’:
Elements of
Orality in ‘Telemachus’”
2. Aysha D. Bey (U of Alabama at Birmingham),
“Joyce’s
(Re)Visionist Cosmology: The Logos as the
Unified Field
Theory”
3, 4. Keri
Ames (U of Chicago) and Stephanie Nelson
(Boston U),
“Looking for Athena in Joyce’s Ulysses”
III.B: The Ends of History. Chair: Ellen Carol Jones (St. Louis U)
1.
Tom Sheehan
(Florida Atlantic U), “Anarchism and Joyce’s Politics:
Benjamin
Tucker”
2. Julie Fann (UNC Chapel Hill), “‘History is a
Nightmare
from which I
am Trying to Awake’: The End of Stephen’s ‘Mirror Stage’ in Ulysses”
3. Silvia Fiore (U of South Florida), “Myth,
History, and the Heroic
Mind: Vico in
Joyce”
4.
Susan Bazargan
(Eastern Illinois U), “The Bildungsroman as Cultural
Capital.”
3:00-5:00 p.m. Selby Library: Joyce Birthday Party. Play on the Trial of Ulysses.
Songs by Zack Bowen. Accompanied by Lise Frank.
6:45 p.m. Sarasota
News and Books: Adam Harvey, dramatic recitation from
Finnegans
Wake.
SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 2, 2002
9:00-10:30 a.m. SESSION IV – Sudakoff Center
IV.A: Women Problems. Chair: Judy Hale Young
1.
Judy Hale Young
(U of Florida), "Mortalizing the Immortal: Stephen
Takes a Fairy
Bride"
2. Sherry Burgus Little (San Diego State U),
"Stephen and the
Woman Figure
in Portrait"
3. Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech U),
"Professor
Joyce
Expounds on the Education of Women"
4. Stephanie S. Morgan (UNC Chapel Hill),
"Mother Beastly
Dead: Women's
Bodies, Disease, and the Vampire Empire"
IV.B: Filling Space. Chair: Tracey Schwarze
1. Michael Murphy, "The Man in the Gap,
the Critic in the Crevice"
2.
James Baltrum
(Robert Morris College), "Extra! Extra! Read All
About It!
Form and Content in ‘Aeolus'"
3.
Tracey
Schwarze. "Of Frauds and Failures: Stephen Dedalus,
John Henry
Newman, and the Ends of Romantic Dissent"
10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. SESSION V
V.A: Female Miscellany. Chair: Mary
Lowe-Evans
1. Heyward Ehrlich (Rutgers U), "Thirty
Men a Day: Celtic Goddesses in
Ulysses"
2.
Mary Lowe-Evans
(U of West Florida), "‘I Wouldn't Doubt You,
Tommy': The
Little Cloud on Chandler's Paternity"
3. Mary Power (U of New Mexico), "Costume
in ‘A Mother'"
12:00-1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00-2:30 p.m. SESSION VI
VI.A: All About Bloom. Chair: Michael Groden
1. Ray Linville (UNC Chapel Hill),
"Potato I Have: The
Talisman of
Leopold Bloom"
2.
Kurt Spurlock
(UNC Chapel Hill), "32 f/s/s or
All Bloom
Knows about Physics"
3. Michael Groden (U of Western Ontario),
"Privacy in Bloom"
VI.B: "Circe" and Other
Aspirations. Chair: John S. Gordon
1. John S.
Gordon (Connecticut College), "‘Circe's' Insider Information:
Accounting
for the Unaccountable"
2. Jim
Leblanc (Cornell U), "Elation and Modes of
Existential
Appropriation in ‘After the Race'"
SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 2, 2002 (cont.)
3.
Meredith
Sinclair (UNC Chapel Hill), "Help or Hindrance?
The Catholic
Church as Leech of the Irish in Ulysses"
2:30-4:00 p.m. SESSION VII
VII.A: Joycean Miscellany. Chair: Austin Briggs
1.
Austin Briggs
(Hamilton College). "James Joyce,
J.M. Coetzee,
and Elizabeth Costello"
2.
Paul Marchbanks
(UNC Chapel Hill), "Honest Tensions:
Locating
‘Idiocy' and Physical Disability in James Joyce's Dublin"
3.
Forrest K
Lehman (Boston College), "Portrait and Sketches by
Boz: A
Discordant Union of Urban Tales"
4. Alexandria Ricke (U of Florida),
"Infinite Regress in Portrait"
4:15-5:15 p.m. Sudakoff Auditorium, Presentation on the Lockwood Library
Manuscripts:
Robert Bertholf (SUNY Buffalo).
6:00-7:15 p.m. Ringling Museum exhibition and
reception.
8:00 p.m. - BANQUET: Marina Jack Restaurant (by reservation
only). Tess Hogan, performance from “Penelope.” Zack Bowen, Jolanta Wawrzycka, Patrick
Reilly, music. Lise Frank,
accompanist. Pat McCarthy, MC.