Conferences
General Information
To honor the lifetime achievement of Tom Staley, the 2007 Joyce Conference will be hosted by 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; academic panels on Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Tom Stoppard, contemporary Irish poetry, and such other Joyce-related topics as film, the Harry Ransom Center, music, race, Shakespeare, "the wake of the Wake," and women; a performance of Stoppard's Travesties by the Austin Shakespeare Festival; Joycean music and film; an exhibit of Joyce and Stoppard holdings at the Harry Ransom Center; a boat cruise on Town Lake.
For more information or to be placed on the conference mailing list, please contact:
Alan Friedman
friedman@mail.utexas.edu
OR
Charles Rossman
rossman@mail.utexas.edu