Presentation Guide
Presentation Guide
Greetings! We are delighted that you are participating in Joyce in Paris: a Colloquium. We have been wonderfully surprised by the enthusiasm that our project has generated. To facilitate the day, we are sending along this brief description to all of our speakers.
Our goal is to provide for intellectual and creative exchange in an environment of camaraderie and curiosity. We are lucky to have an impressive collection of speakers from the US, Ireland, and France. This really is a unique opportunity for cross-cultural exchange.
The Theme….
Our broad theme for the day is “Joyce in Paris”. We intend this as a capacious rather than a restrictive description. We are keen to hear about your ideas, so please let us know if there is a topic that you’d like to present on even if you feel that it doesn’t fall strictly within this parameter. Presentations should be in English.
.…Your Audience
The Colloquium is a capstone event for our summer study abroad in Ireland. As such, sixteen of our undergraduate students will take part in the morning session. The Notre Dame Summer School will join us in the afternoon and will bring along fifteen graduate students. Joining us also will be some French graduate students who are working on Joyce. Our discussions will also be enlivened by quite a few other Joyceans – many of them academics, some not – whom we’ve invited to participate though not present. We have a cap of sixty-odd people on the audience numbers.
Speaking Arrangements….
We are arranging roundtable panels of five-to-six speakers. Each person will be given ten minutes to speak. We plan for an hour of conversation (in addition to the short presentations) for each of these panels. Our aim is to introduce ideas and to foster dialogue. As you can see from the list of participants, we really have an extraordinary roster of people sharing their work on Joyce. It will be important that people adhere to the ten-minute format, as austere as that may feel. We are including ample time for discussion and socializing so that the conversations might continue to flow!
The Deadline.
Please submit your presentation title by March 14, 2025 to nugentjf@bc.edu
Thank you very much for your willingness to take part in our endeavor. We look forward to seeing you in Paris in June!
Speakers Topics
Barry McCrea: Joyce and Proust in Paris
Thomas Bartlett: Joyce and Napoleon
Richard Kearney: Joyce’s Paris Epiphanies
Finn Fordham: Rawly waking in Paris, the City of Light of Cliche
Karen Zumhagen-Yekple: Vanity of Vanities
Respondents / Moderator
Marjorie Howes, Boston College
Kelly Sullivan, New York University