Joyce Foundation a Roma

JAMES JOYCE GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Roma, Università Roma Tre
Department of Comparative Literature
Sala “Ignazio Ambrogio”
1-2 February 2008

TIMETABLE

Friday 1 February
8.30- 9.15: Registration
9.15: Official Welcome:
Guido Fabiani (Rector, Università Roma Tre)
Vito Michele Abrusci (Dean, Faculty of Arts)
Otello Lottini (Head, Department of Comparative Literature)
Giorgio Melchiori (Emeritus Professor)
His Excellency Sean O’Huigeann (Irish Ambassador to Italy)
9.30: Introduction: Franca Ruggieri (President JJIF, Università Roma Tre, Italy)

9.45 Plenary lecture: Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
Chair: John McCourt (Università Roma Tre, Italy)

10.30-12.15: 1st Panel Session
Chair: Carla Marengo (Università di Torino, Italy)
Intermedial Joyce
1. Federico Sabatini (Università di Torino, Italy): Joyce’s visual writing: the symbolic space of the embrasure
2. Marco Camerani (Università di Bologna, Italy): Joyce and early cinema: peeping Bloom through the keyhole
3. Neda Alizadeh: Color and Sound in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. Antonio Bibbò: (Università dell’Aquila, Italy) — “Tell a graphic lie”: ekphrastic emergences in Joyce’s Ulysses
5. Mariacristina Petillo (Università Roma Tre): A minor Joyce? Pomes Penyeach set to music
Respondent: John McCourt (Università Roma Tre)

10.30-12.15 2nd Panel Session
Chair: Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation)
Drama and Voice
1. Lorenzo Orlandini: (Università di Firenze, Italy) — James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and the flesh: bodily needs in Lestrygonians, More Pricks Than Kicks and Krapp’s Last Tape.
2. Fabio Luppi (Università Roma Tre, Italy): Cathleen ni Houlihan: the poor old woman from Yeats to Joyce.
3. Sonia Buttinelli: Drama and Life: from Wagner to Joyce
4. Davide Maschio (Università di Torino, Italy) — Hugh Leonard’s Stephen D. and Dublin One: Stage Adaptations as Postmodern Works of Art and Literary Criticism
5. Davide Benini (Università di Verona, Italy) — Voices and rhythm: a quest for a model of Joyce's sound
Respondent: Carla De Petris (Università Roma Tre, Italy)

12.15-13.15: L’AGM Italian Joyce Foundation
13.15-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16.15 3rd Panel Session
Chair: Cristina Giorcelli (Università Roma Tre, Italy)
Joyce and other writers
1. Hsiu-yuan Chen (Université Paris III, France): Joyce meets Godard: Metempsychosis
2. Lea Sinoimeri (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy): Beckett e le matematiche della soggettività
3. Sara Sullam (Università di Milano, Italy) — “And confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents”. James Joyce in America: The case of William Carlos Williams.
4. Massimo Verzella (Universtà di Pescara, Italy) — Joyce’s indebtedness to Samuel Butler’s The Authoress of the Odyssey
5. Laura Talarico (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy): Katherine Mansfield: epiphanic poetics and writing of the Self
Respondent: Joan Fitzgerald (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)

14.30-16.15 4th Panel Session
Chair: Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
Ulysses
1. Taura Napier (Wingate University, USA): Deadwood Dicks: Ulysses, Cyclops and the American South
2. Timothy Holland (CUNY, USA): The Real Troubles in Joyce’s Dublin: Literature as Agent of Empire in Ulysses
3. Clay Stevens (Texas State University, USA) — 'Let Me Be and Let Me Live': The Specter of Death in James Joyce's Ulysses
4. Emanuela Zirzotti (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy): M. M. Bakhtin’s “dialogism” and “parody” in James Joyce’s Ulysses
5. Daniel Burke (Marquette University, USA) — (Dis) Orienting Haines: The Subjects of an Englishman in the Ireland of Ulysses
Respondent: Laura Pelaschiar (Università di Trieste, Italy)

16.15-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.45: 5th Panel Session
Chair: Rosa Maria Bosinelli (Università di Bologna-Forlì, Italy)
New Directions in Joyce Studies
1. Ilaria Natali (Università di Firenze, Italy) — Genetic criticism in Joyce Studies
2. Leposava Raskovic (Paderborn University, Germany): ‘What the Poem Is’ in Joyce’s Verses
3. Maria Domenica Mangialavori (Università Roma Tre, Italy): Joyce and detective fiction
4. Davide Corsara (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy) — Politics of language: Pinter directs Exiles
5. Michelle McSwiggan Kelly (Fordham University, USA) — Oceanic Longings: An Ecocritical Approach to Joyce
Respondent: Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy)

19.45: Book Launch and Buffet Reception at the Residence of the Irish Ambassador to Italy (Via Valle delle Camene 3, Rome). This event will hosted by His Excellency Sean O’Huigeann, Irish Ambassador to Italy

Brief presentations of Joyce Studies in Italy (Volumes 9 and 10), Piccola Biblioteca Joyciana (Volumes 1, 2, and 3) ed. Franca Ruggieri (Bulzoni); Joyciana, ed. Renzo S. Crivelli and Claudia Corti (Pacini); La letteratura irlandese contemporanea, ed. Renzo Crivelli (Carocci); Joyce in Trieste, ed. Geert Lernout, Sebastian Knowles, and John McCourt (University of Florida Press) (IRIC - Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, ed. Andrea Binelli, Enrico Terrinoni, and Brian Thomson. Giorgio Melchiori’s Foglie (Edizioni dell’orso) will also be presented.

Saturday 2 February
10.00-11.45: 6th Panel Session
Chair: Paola Pugliatti (Università di Firenze, Italy)
Joyce and biography
1. Valentina Paradisi (Università di Bologna, Italy): “A letters to a king about a treasure from a cat”: reflections on letter writing in James Joyce’s work.
2. Maddalena Dal Porto (Università di Trieste, Italy): James Joyce: a European in Zurich
3. Timo Müller (University of Augsburg, Germany): The Fragmented Self: Re-Reading Dubliners as Autobiographical Fiction
4. Teresa Prudente (Università di Torino, Italy): “The damned egotistical self”: self and impersonality in Virginia Woolf’s and James Joyce’s writing.
5. Sabrina D'Alessandro (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy): Self and Reference in Joyce's Portraits of the Artist from Stephen Dedalus to Shem
Respondent: Renzo S. Crivelli (Università di Trieste)

10.00-11.45 7th Panel Session
Chair: Friz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation)
Joycean Language and Translation
1. Cinzia Valenti (Università di Bologna-Forlì, Italy): Giulio de Angelis, the Italian translator of Ulysses
2. Ira Torresi (Università di Bologna, Italy): Domesticating or foreignizing foreignization? Joyce translation as a test for Venuti’s theories
3. Elisabetta Cecconi (Università di Firenze, Italy): “To let him have the weight of my tongue”. The I-narrator of “Cyclops”: a voice a character.
4. Robert Bowman (Maryland University, USA): A Hint at What Awaits: The New and Evolving Voice of “Aeolus”
5. Joey McMullen (Bucknell University, USA):“A New Soaring Impalpable Imperishable Being:” The Language of Creation in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


11.45-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.00: Concluding Reflections: Umberto Eco