Joyce's Ireland: A Celebration of the Bloomsday Centenary
June 11-17th 2004 (w/ conference June 11-12)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
The Department of English at the University of Kansas will celebrate the
100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the landmark day on which James Joyce's
Ulysses is set, with a week-long celebration of late 19th to early 20th
century Irish culture. The Bloomsday centenary also coincides with the
centenary of the Abbey Theater, the national theater of Ireland. Part of
this celebration of Irish culture will include a two-day interdisciplinary
conference.
We hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Joyce and to Irish
culture more generally, from academics and non-academics alike.
Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional
presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. Although the
Joyce centenary is the occasion for the celebration, papers and panels need
not be limited to Joyce's work. Possible topics may include but are by no
means limited to the following:
-- Ireland and commodity culture
-- The Irish Diaspora
-- Ireland in the World Wars
-- Irish literature and popular culture
-- The geography of the Irish imagination
-- Mythic Ireland
-- etc.
Participants will have the opportunity to visit the Spencer Library, which
houses an extensive selection of Joyce and Yeats materials, including a
first edition of Ulysses in French, signed by Stuart Gilbert and inscribed
by Joyce to his daughter Lucia. The Library also houses the P.S. O'Hegarty
Collection, a group of over 25,000 pieces that includes Abbey Theatre
programs, plays, political ephemera, the complete output of the Cuala and
Dun Emer Presses, and much more. The Spencer Special Collections represent
one of the finest collections of Irish materials in North America. Further
descriptions can be found at <http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/sc/irish.htm>.
Music, performances, and public lectures are planned for the conference
weekend and beyond. Those who are able to stay until Bloomsday will be able
to enjoy more events and may take part in a public marathon reading of
Ulysses, beginning at 8 am on June 16 and continuing until the late morning
of June 17.
Please send paper and performance abstracts of 250 words or less and panel
abstracts of 750 words or less to the conference committee by January 31st
2004 to:
Please provide contact information including a mailing address for the
purposes of forwarding all itineraries, programs and conference information.
All Program and Bloomsday Celebration updates will be available at the
following address in the coming weeks:
<http://people.ku.edu/~kconrad/joycesireland.html>
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