California Joyce Redux
Presented by the Southern California Irish Studies Colloquium and organized by Laura O’Connor.
California Joyce Redux is a one-day conference on James Joyce bringing together scholars and Joyce aficionados from throughout the western region.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Gateway, Room 1030
Keynote Address by Margot Norris
Presenters include: Gregory Castle, Vincent Cheng, Tony Crowley, Kevin Dettmar, Kimberly Devlin, Greg Dobbins, Enda Duffy, David Lloyd, Bonnie Kime Scott, Carol Shloss, and many other faculty and graduate students.
In addition to featuring papers by these distinguished Joyce scholars, we will also have seminars led by David Lloyd and Enda Duffy, in which pre-circulated papers will form the basis for an extended discussion.
Registration is free, but RSVP is required. Please RSVP to juliapanko AT umail DOT ucsb DOT edu
Seminar abstracts (access for registered seminar presenters)
Tentative Schedule:
8:30-9:00—Coffee and welcome
9:00-10:30
Panel 1
Kevin Dettmar (Pomona): What’s the Opposite of Allusion?
Carol Shloss (Stanford): Privacy and the Misuse of Copyright
Enda Duffy (UCSB): The Sunglasses of James Joyce
10:30-10:45—Coffee break
10:45-12:15
Panel 2
Tony Crowley (Scripps): Logodaedalus: Joyce and the History of the Language
Kimberly J. Devlin (UC Riverside): Alphabetic Archaeology in Finnegans Wake
Gregory Castle (Arizona State): The Consolation of Aesthetics in ‘Nestor’
12:15-12:45—Lunch Break
12:45-2:45—Seminars led by Enda Duffy and David Lloyd (concurrent)
2:45-3:00—Coffee break
3:00-4:30
Panel 3
Vincent Cheng (U of Utah): Joyce and the Hellmouth
Gregory Dobbins (UC Davis): ‘How many broken hearts are buried here’: James Joyce and the cultural politics of the Maudlin
Bonnie Kime Scott (CSU San Diego): Greening Joyce: Does Joyce have a Place in Ecocriticism?
4:30-4:45—Coffee break
4:45-6—Keynote address
6:30 on—Party (We regret that, because of space constraints, we can only accommodate those who have previously submitted their party RSVP.)
Directions
Out-of-towners who would like assistance navigating Orange County may contact Annie Moore, visitors liaison, at imoore AT uci DOT edu
Driving to and Parking at UC Irvine
Walking from Mesa Parking Structure to Humanities Gateway Conference Venue
Driving from Mesa Parking Structure to Party