ANNOUNCING THE 2001 NATIONAL JAMES JOYCE CONFERENCE
EXTREME JOYCE/READING ON THE EDGE
Berkeley, California 1 - 7 July 2001
I. CALL FOR PAPERS
The rubric is yours to interpret as you will. It has been
invoked by the siting of this conference at the western edge of the
West, and its timing at the threshold of the twenty-first century.
Elijah is coming! Papers, presentations, and interactivities
catalyzed by thinking on ideas of extremity, the edge, the end, the
fringe, the threshold, the eschatos, the limit, the border=8A are, not
to the exclusion of others more extreme, encouraged. Possible lines
of inquiry might include:
Joyce and Futurity: Joyce and the Future/Joyce in the Future
Joyce, Children, Childhood, and Pedagogy
Ludic Joyce: Joyce, Play, and Games/Joyce and Comedy
Heterodox Reading Protocols: Wild Reading, Group Reading, New Forms of Reading
Joyce and Asia/ Joyce in Asia
Avant-Textual Studies/Joycean Genetics
Joyce and Technology/ Hypermedia Joyce/Cybernetic Joyce
Joyce in Popular Culture
Aleatory Joyce
Joyce and Anarchy/ Joyce, Bakhunin, and Anarchism
Dionysian Joyce: The Poetics of Intoxication/Literature and Addiction
Joyce, Trespass, Risk
Sublation and Sublimation not by Jane Austen
The Death of Literature / The Death of Theory
The Poetics of Pyrotechnicality
And, Perennially, Millenarianism and the Millennial
Special consideration will be given to proposals that involve
interactive and workshop activities.
Proposals for panels or papers should be sent by March 25 to:
Joyce at Berkeley 2001
c/o Department of English
322 Wheeler Hall # 1030
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-1030
e-mail: jj2001@uclink.berkeley.edu
Please note that panel sessions will last 1 hour 30 minutes or 1 hour
45 minutes, and that the presentation of papers should take no
longer than 15-20 minutes.
Inquiries: jj2001@uclink.berkeley.edu