JJ on the Bay

 

THE SARASOTA JAMES JOYCE BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE

at the University of South Florida at Sarasota / Manatee

January 31 – February 2, 2002

 

Tentative Program as of 1/24/2002

 

 

 

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.