GENETIC NETWORKS

a second conference on genetic joyce criticism organized by the Antwerp James Joyce Centre

University of Antwerp, 10-11 December 1998

Although genetic and textual approaches have been central in recent discussions about the work of James Joyce and although genetic criticism has even been described as the new paradigm in Joyce studies, the many initiatives in the field have not managed to create the necessary research infrastructure that justifies the label of "paradigm". The reasons for this are varied: literary scholarship does not have a tradition of cooperation, both the copyright situation and the different controversies about Gabler's Ulysses and Rose's Finn's Hotel have muddied the waters, and finally and perhaps most importantly, the different "schools" in genetic criticism may have been far too busy sniping at each other to explore the possibility of active cooperation.
 Since 1989 the Antwerp Joyce Centre has attempted to mediate between the different schools by initiating contacts and exchanges. Since the last genetic conference in Antwerp (Genitricksling in 1997), several ambitious collaborative projects have been set up. Sam Slote and Luca Crispi have begun work on a genetic introduction to Finnegans Wake, which will contain contributions from seventeen different critics and which will introduce geneticism to a wider audience. Mikio Fuse has started a collaborative web-publication, Bill Cadbury is working on the Finnegans Wake drafts. Mike Groden's Hypermedia edition of Ulysses will contain a strong genetic component, and more and even bigger initiatives are in the final stages of preparation.
 This sudden burst of energy on different fronts necessitates some form of coordination. It is not only essential that everybody working in the field should be kept informed of the evolution of all these different projects, but also that we should develop some form of cooperation. Ideally we should be able to set up a giant genetic network.
Thursday, December 10, 1998
 

Conference locations:

Thursday, 10 December 1997

UFSIA
(University of Antwerp)
Grote Kauwenberg 18
Block D, Room D.015
B- 2000 Antwerp
 

Friday, 11 December 1997

MuHKA (nr. 10 on the map - next page)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Leuvenstraat 16-30
B-2000 Antwerp
Tel.: (32 3) 238.59.60

Contact address:

Antwerp James Joyce Centre
UIA-GER (University of Antwerp)
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk (Antwerp) - Belgium
Tel.: +32 3 820.27.82
Fax: +32 3 820.27.62
lernout@uia.ua.ac.be
landuyt@uia.ua.ac.be
dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be
 
 

PROGRAM

Thursday, December 10, 1998  - Antwerp, UFSIA, Grote Kauwenberg 18, Block D,Room D.015

9.00   Welcome & coffee

9.30   Geert Lernout (Antwerp)
  Introduction: Cooperation

10.00  Joe Schork (Boston)
  "Genetic Traces of Gibbon in the Joyce Archives"

10.30  Coffee Break

11.00  Sam Slote (Boston) and Luca Crispi (Buffalo)
  "A Progress Check on the Textual Guide to Finnegans Wake"

11.45  Discussion

12.30  LUNCH

14.00  Erika Rosiers (Florida Atlantic University)
  "Some Linguistic Sources of Finnegans Wake: Jespersen in Notebooks VI.B.2 and VI.B.6"

14.30  Aida Yared
  "Dating Joyce's Reading of Burton's Arabian Nights"

15.00  Coffee Break

15.30  Nathan Tenny (San Diego)
  "Readable Genetics via Markup Representations"

16.00  Bill Cadbury (Oregon)
  "Some Issues and Results of Genetic Representation"

16.30  Katarzyna Bazarnik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
  "A Global View on Finnegans Wake"

Friday, December 11, 1998 - Antwerp, MuHKA (Museum of Contemp. Art), Leuvenstraat 16-30

9.30  Dirk Van Hulle (Antwerp)
  "Transmissional Variation in as the History Lesson: Dead Ends in the Work's Progress"

10.00  Mikio Fuse (Tokyo)
  "Working on a Provisional Genetic Mailing List"

10.30  Coffee Break

11.00  Vincent Deane (Dublin)
  "Declarations of Intent"

11.45  Round-Table Discussion
  (Robert Bertholf, Luca Crispi, Vincent Deane, Daniel Ferrer, Geert Lernout)

12.30  LUNCH

14.00  Inge Landuyt (Antwerp)
  "Coping With Sources: Papal Presences in Notebook VI.B.4"

14.30  Wim Van Mierlo (Florida Atlantic University)
  "How Wellington Became Willingdone: Textual and Historical Representations in Finnegans Wake"

15.00  Coffee Break

15.30  Luca Crispi (Buffalo)
  "A James Joyce Scrapbook: Joyce's Newspaper Clipping Archive at Buffalo"

16.00  Finn Fordham (London)
  "Mapping Echoland"

16.30  Discussion

Participants:

Katarzyna Bazarnik
Dept. of English
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Al. Mickiewicza 9
zenkasi@vela.filg.uj.edu.pl

Robert Bertholf
Poetry/Rare Books Collection
420 Capen Hall
Box 602200
Buffalo, New York 14260-2200
USA
bertholf@acsu.buffalo.edu

Bill Cadbury
1500 Skyline Park Loop,
Eugene, Oregon, 97405
USA
bcadbury@oregon.uoregon.edu

Luca Crispi
94 Dartmouth Avenue
Buffalo NY 14215
USA
crispi@acsu.buffalo.edu

Vincent Deane
38 Anna Villa
Ranelagh
Dublin 6
Ireland
vdeane@tinet.ie

Daniel Ferrer
ITEM/CNRS
61, rue de Richelieu
75002 Paris
France
ferrer@item.msh-paris.fr

Finn Fordham
38a Albert Street
London NW1 7NU
UK
c.j.Warman@qmw.ac.uk

Mikio Fuse
Dept. of English
Univ. of the Sacred Heart
4-3-1 Hiro'o
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8938
Japan
imnoman@bb.mbn.or.jp

Ingeborg Landuyt
Heiligstraat 175
2620 Hemiksem
Belgium
landuyt@uia.ua.ac.be

Geert Lernout
UIA - GER
Universiteitsplein 1
2620 Wilrijk
Belgium
lernout@uia.ua.ac.be

Erika Rosiers
1496 SW 30th Terrace
Fort Lauderdale FL 33312
USA
eros5339@acc.fau.edu

Joe Schork
961 High Street
Dedham MA 02026-4220
USA
schork@umbsky.cc.umb.edu

Fritz Senn
Brummatt 1
8103 Unterengstringen
Zurich
Switzerland
joyce@es.unizh.ch

Sam Slote
107 Gordon Street #5
Alllston MA 02135
USA
slote@bu.edu

Nathan Tenny
12920 Ilene St
Poway, CA 92064
USA
ntenny@qualcomm.com

Dirk Van Hulle
UIA - GER
Universiteitsplein 1
2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be

Wim Van Mierlo
1496 SW 30th Terrace
Fort Lauderdale FL 33312
USA
wvmierlo@miami.edu

Aida Yared
3210 Acklen Avenue
Nashville TN 3712
USA
Aida.Yared@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu
 

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