Filed under: Conferences, Lectures, & Schools
Pierced butnot Punctured
a workshop at the James Joyce Foundation in Zürich
early August 2011
Note the notes of admiration! See the signs of suspicion! Count the hemisemidemicolons! Screamer caps and invented gommas, quoites puntlost, forced to farce! (FW 374.08-11)
The topic of this workshop is punctuation in Joyce, from the tiret and the semicolon to the exclamation mark and the period (or lack thereof). These “paper wounds” (FW 124.03) can inspire a diverse range of critical discussions and participants are invited to bring to bear on Joyce’s semicolons and apostrophes a number of approaches, questions, and interests, including but not limited to
• visuality: the page as “Ispace”
• orality and voice
• music: the scored page
• intertextuality and quotation
• logic and rhetoric
• time and the reader
• error and gaps in the text
• genetic criticism and compositional practices
• theoretical/aesthetic implications of punctuation
The Joyce Foundation workshops emphasize interaction in a small setting and are composed of free but carefully researched presentations. Participants will offer their findings in a concise way so as to stimulate responses and ample discussion. Early (9:30) morning sessions will be set apart for emerging themes or close looks. In pointed contrast to large conferences with their strict limitation on speaking time, the emphasis is on interaction and immersion. Follow-up or ad hoc sessions can be added.
There will be absolutely no reading of papers, no reciting of typescripts, no extended lectures.
Previous workshops (on Cyclops, Oxen of the Sun, Synaesthesia, Documentary InSights, Repetition/Negation, Dreaming, Chance/Coincidence, Kitsch, Expectation, Performance, Alienation, Material Joyce, Naming, Errors, Musicillogical Joyce, NurturingJoyce) are listed on the Joyce Foundation website (www.joycefoundation.ch).
Spaces are limited to twenty participants. If you are willing to take part and agree to follow the above guidelines, contact the organizers below.
Please include the (non)word “PunkJoyce” in your correspondence so it will not go astray.
ORGANIZERS:
Fritz Senn fritzsenn@mac.com
Elizabeth Bonapfel elizabeth.bonapfel@nyu.edu
Tim Conley tconley@brocku.ca
Filed under: People
To honor the life and memory of Ken Monaghan, the James Joyce Centre in Dublin has opened a Book of Condolences for signing. If unable to stop by the Centre (35 North Great George’s St.), please follow the facebook discussion board link below to submit messages of condolences. The book will then be passed on to the Monaghan family.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=69200547017&topic=16385
Filed under: People
The sad news just reached us that Ken Monaghan died yesterday. Mr. Monaghan, born in 1925, was the son of Joyce’s sister May and was among that branch of the family that remained in Dublin and welcomed intrepid Joyce scholars to a city they often knew only from the pages of a book. He was a memorable presence at the 2004 Bloomsday centennial, one of the many events to which he lent his generous energies. In a 2001 essay that appeared in the Joyce Studies Annual, Mr. Monaghan recalled the Dublin of his youth, a city not unlike the one his uncle has fled. “My mother,” he wrote, “was proud of her eldest brother and had copies of Dubliners and Portrait which she read, but at the same time she was conscious of his reputation in Ireland and would say to my two sisters and myself that while we should never deny that we were related to Joyce, we did not have to advertise the fact either.” Times have changed, of course, and Joyce has passed into the Irish national consciousness, his flame kindled not just by the power of his work and the efforts of scholars, but by the steady often quiet work of Mr. Monaghan himself. He will be missed–and remembered well.
As is always the case when JJQ comments on the loss of one of its members, the comments section will remain open for other to share their memories.
<Photo from the collection of Fritz Senn>
Filed under: Table of Contents
The current issue of JJQ, 46.3-4 (Spring/Summer 2009), guest edited by Vike Martina Plock, is now available, featuring articles centered around the theme of “Joyce and Physiology” by Plock, Valérie Bénéjam, Ariela Freedman, Aida Yared, Katherine Mullin, Mark S. Morrisson, David Rando, Sam Slote, and Bill Brockman’s Current JJ Checklist (107). The front cover for this issue features a c. 1900 photograph of the entrance to the National Library of Ireland in Kildare Street. Copies are currently available to subscribers.
The table of contents for the current issue is listed below:
Filed under: Conferences, Lectures, & Schools
The Dublin James Joyce Centre has announced the schedule for its 2010 autumn lecture series. The schedule includes four speakers, led off on Tuesday 21 September by Angelo Bottone from University College Dublin who will deliver a talk on “John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University: from the 1850′s to Joyce.” The talk is open to the public and admission is free.
Three other speaker are scheduled to appear this fall:
- Myles Dungan, “Victorian Chameleon: James O’Connor and Parnellite Invincibility”
- Nicholas Greene, “Shaw, Joyce and the Habit of Derision”
- Terence Killeen, “Joyce as Journalist/Journalism in Joyce”
A complete schedule, including dates and times can be found in the Centre’s current newsletter.
Filed under: Exhibits & Displays
On Wednesday 6 October, the American Symphony Orchestra will open its Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall with a performance entitled “James Joyce.” The program features a pair of pieces by composers whose work Joyce admired: George Antheil’s “Ballet Méchanique” and Othmar Schoeck’s “Lebendig Begraden, Op. 40.” In addition, this performance will will feature the U.S. premiere of a cantata by Mátyás Seiber entitled “Ulysses” that was inspired by Joyce’s epic novel.
