Schedule:
8:30 Welcome and invocation of the gods
9:00-10:30 Academic
Joel Hawkes (UVic) – “I sent you lately the 8th episode (Lestrygonians)”: Ulysses and the urgency of modernist letters”
Emily Murphy (UBC) – “Marushka or Lucia or Lucy Maria or Mary”: Joyce, Identification, and Cultural Memory in Comics”
10:45-12:15 Creative
Saba Pakdel (UVic) – “Mo[u]rning Molly: Absence Re-Imagined. Chapter 18 in Poetry”
Matthew Huculak (UVic) – “(not) Celebrating Ulysses: A Global Perspective”
Sarah Esmaeeli – “Enclosed Between Two Worlds”
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:30-3:00 Academic
Shabnam Bozorgi (UofG) – “Joyce and Nizami in One Room: The Structural and Conceptual Affinities Between Ulysses and Haft Peykar”
Bahare Saghazade and Shahab Sadati (IAU) – “James Joyce’s Ulysses Is Propelled by Seeking Phallus: A Lacanian Reading”
3:15-4:45 Creative
Farima Tolu (IAU) – “The Legend of Ulysses: An Iranina Destiny”
Kevin Spenst (SFU) and Julian La Brooy– “Creative Response to Chapter 11 of Ulysses”
5:00 Keynote – Judith Paltin (UBC) – “’Me. And me now.’ Reading Ulysses with ‘a mind of winter’”
7:00pm: Bloomsday event at James Joyce Bistro
Join us as we celebrate the 100th birthday of James Joyce’s monumental masterpiece, Ulysses! The English Department at the University of Victoria, under the auspices of the O’Neil Fund for Irish Studies, and with the generous support of the Faculty of Humanities, the UVic Libraries, the James Joyce Bistro, and Hoyne Brewing Company, welcomes you to a full day of scholarly and creative reinterpretations of Ulysses at the COAST HOTEL ON THE INNER HARBOUR (not, as previously announced, the Delta), followed by a Bloomsday Blow-Out at Peacock Billiards.
So come along as we enjoy poetry, readings, scholarly papers, and a keynote lecture by Dr. Judith Paltin of UBC’s English Department, and then party the night away “Circe”-style to ring in the start of another 100 years of this maddening, tender, and endlessly fascinating work.
(Need to catch up on your Joyce? Munro’s Books has got you covered.)
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