Twelfth Annual Trieste Joyce School
Provisional Programme
29 June-5 July 2008
All events will be held in the Auditorium of the Galleria d’arte moderna ‘Revoltella’ on via Diaz unless otherwise stated
Sunday 29 June
18.00 Opening Ceremony at the Auditorium of the Galleria d’arte moderna ‘Revoltella’
19.00 Reception hosted by His Excellency, Sean O’Huiginn, Irish Ambassador to Italy
Monday30 June
9.30: Brian Cosgrove: ‘Reading “The Dead”: Irony Versus Sentiment’
11.00: Coffee Break
11.30: John McCourt: ‘The use and abuse of Joyce in Ireland’
14.30: Seminars
16.30: Genetic Joyce Seminar
17.30: Walking Tour of Joyce’s Trieste (John McCourt)
Tuesday 1 July
9.30: Derval Tubridy: “‘Tripping in his Wake, I'm wracked”’: writing poetry after Joyce’
10.30: Clare Hutton: ‘New perspectives on Dubliners’
11.30: Coffee Break
12.00: Fritz Senn: ‘Joyce's Off-stageness’
14.30: Seminars
16.30: Genetic Joyce Seminar
20.00: An Evening of Music and Song at the Osteria ‘Da Marino’
Wednesday 2 July
9.30: Dieter Fuchs: ‘“Portals of discovery”: Unknown Sources for the Rewriting of the Odysseus-Archetype in James Joyce's Ulysses’
10.30: Enrico Terrinoni: "Comedy, and what went unsaid in Ulysses"
11.30: Coffee Break
12.00: Vike Plock: 'On the Hands Down': Eugen Sandow and Physical Culture in 'Ithaca'
14.30: Seminars
16.30: Genetic Joyce Seminar
Free evening
Thursday 3 July
9.30: Claudia Corti: ‘James Joyce and dramatic art’
10.30: Patrick McCarthy: ‘Ulysses: Book of Many Errors’
11.30: Coffee Break
12.00: Q&A with Anne Enright
14.30: Seminars
16.30: Genetic Joyce Seminar
20.30: An evening of Readings with Tim Conley and Booker prize winning Irish author Anne Enright
Friday 4 July
9.30: Finn Fordham: 'Joyce and the Novel and the People'
11.00: Coffee Break
11.30: Fran O’Rourke: ‘Aquinas and Joyce's Pola Esthetic’
14.30: Seminars
16.30: Genetic Joyce Seminar
20.00: ‘Joyce’s use of Irish song’ – a talk/performance by Fran O’Rourke
Saturday5 July
9.30: Sam Slote: ‘Flying by the Nets of Joyce Criticism’
10.30: Valerie Benejam: ‘Joyce's Novel Theatre’
11.30: Coffee Break
12.00: Tim Conley: ‘The Missing and the Presumably Dead’
Free afternoon
19.30: Farewell dinner at the Osmiza Milic (Coach leaving outside Revoltella at 6.45)
Seminars
Seminars are held from 14.30 to 16.00 each afternoon except Wednesday at the University.
Dubliners: Vike Plock
Ulysses: Fritz Senn
Finnegans Wake: Tim Conley
Contemporary Irish poetry: Ron Ewart
Participants are expected to register to take part in one of these seminars for the duration of the week. Please email your first and second choices to as soon as possible.
A special seminar on Joyce and Genetic Studies will be held each afternoon at 4.30. The seminar will be jointly led by Patrick McCarthy and Sam Slote.
Those wishing to take part in this seminar (numbers are limited) should email as soon as possible.