CFP: The 2007 International James Joyce Conference

"JOYCE IN AUSTIN"

"Bring a stranger within thy tower." (Ulysses 14.365)

The 2007 International James Joyce Conference, Endorsed by the International James Joyce Foundation, The University of Texas at Austin, June 13-17, 2007

The 2007 International James Joyce Conference will be hosted by the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. The event will feature plenary presentations and readings by Vicki Mahaffey, Paul Muldoon, Tom Staley, and Sean Walsh; a round-table discussion with all the plenary speakers; panels on Samuel Beckett‚s letters (Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld), Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Cullingford), Tom Stoppard (Ira Nadel), contemporary Irish poetry, and such other Joyce-related topics as copyright (with Carol Shloss, David Olson, and Robert Spoo), the Harry Ransom Center, film, gender, music (Charles Rossman and Martin Dowling), race, Shakespeare (Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski), and "the wake of the Wake"; live performances of Stoppard's Travesties by the Austin Shakespeare
Festival; Joycean music and film; a small exhibition of Joyce and Stoppard holdings at the Ransom Center; a boat cruise on Town Lake.

We welcome proposals and abstracts for both additional panels and individual papers, and especially encourage submissions of work linked in some way to the Harry Ransom Center holdings. Proposals and abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Non-plenary papers and presentations are limited to a maximum of 20 minutes. Submissions must include name, contact information, institutional affiliation or independent scholar status, and a list of any special equipment needed for your presentation.

** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 1, 2007 **

Proposals may be sent via email or snail mail to Alan Friedman friedman@uts.cc.utexas.edu , Charles Rossman rossman@mail.utexas.edu, or James Joyce Conference, Department of English, University of Texas, 1 University Station B5000, Austin, TX 78712.

For more information about the conference, including registration forms, please visit our website