The 2018 Annual Trieste Joyce School

University of Trieste, 24 June - 30 June 2018

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The 22nd annual edition of the Trieste Joyce School was held from 24 to 30 June 2018.

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The afternoon seminars were about:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with Paul Devine
Dubliners with Caroline Elbay
Finnegans Wake with Terence Killeen
Ulysses with Fritz Senn
Joyce in Irish Poetry with Ron Ewart.

Other social and cultural events that took place over the course of the week included:

  • An opening ceremony followed by a reception hosted by His Excellency Colm O Floinn, Irish Ambassador to Italy;
  • A dinner at an Osmiza (traditional Karst farm);
  • An evening of Music, Song and Poetry with J. T. Welsch at a local well-known Osteria;
  • A Walking Tour of Joyce's Trieste;
  • An evening recital with Pedro Halffter, Artistic Director, Teatro de la Maestreanza, Sevilla;
  • A night at the Opera: La Traviata at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi;
  • An evening of Poetry with Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan;
  • A farewell dinner.

Speakers and artists included:

WRITERS IN RESIDENCE AND SPECIAL GUESTS

  • Theo DorganTHEO DORGAN is a leading Irish poet, prose writer and translator. He was born in Cork in 1953 and is an MA graduate of University College Cork. He has lived in Dublin for many years. His acclaimed volumes of poetry include: Greek (2010), What This Earth Cost Us, (2008), Days Like These (with Tony Curtis &ers; Paula Meehan) (2008), Sappho's Daughter (1998), Rosa Mundi (1995), The Ordinary House of Love (1993). His prose works include TIME ON THE OCEAN, A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town (2010), and SAILING FOR HOME (2006).
    He is also known for his film and radio documentaries and for his work as a presenter of literature programmes on radio and television. He served for over a decade as editor of Poetry Ireland, as a member of the Arts Council and was elected a member of Aosdána in 1999. .
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  • Paula MeehanPAULA MEEHAN is a renowned Irish poet and playwright. She was born in the working-class area of Finglas in North Dublin and earned degrees from Trinity College and Eastern Washington University. She is the author of the poetry collections Return and No Blame (1984); Reading the Sky (1986); The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (1991); Pillow Talk (1994); Mysteries of the Home (1996); Dharmakaya (2001), which won a Denis Devlin Award; Six Sycamores (2004), with the artist Marie Foley; Painting Rain (2009) and Geomantic (2013). In 2016, she published Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them, essays deriving from her lectures as Ireland Professor of Poetry in which she charts her relationship with community (emblematised by bees), family (emblematised by bears), and selfhood (emblematised by water). Her plays for children and adults have been staged widely and performed for radio. Meehan has also held workshops with inner-city communities and in prisons. Her numerous honours and awards include the Marten Toonder Award, the Butler Literary Award, and the post of Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2015, she was inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame for her achievements in poetry. She most recently won the 2017 Society of Author's prestigious Cholmondeley Award..
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SPEAKERS AND SEMINAR LEADERS

  • Patrick CallanPATRICK CALLAN is a historian of early twentieth century Dublin and Ireland. He has researched and published on the recruiting campaigns for the British Army in Ireland during the First World War (his Ph D topic), cultural aspects of Irish history (such as the transmission of history in schools), as well as Irish literary and journalistic figures such as William Bulfin, D. P. Moran and Sean O�Casey. He has represented the Irish Military History Society at international conferences, and last year spoke in Cameroon on the impact of the Easter rising on emerging anti-colonial movements. Following his retirement as a deputy principal in an Irish community school, he has turned his attention to the representation of Dublin in Ulysses, and the broadcasting of Joyce�s work on the BBC. He has had articles on Joycean themes accepted by the James Joyce Quarterly, Dublin James Joyce Journal, and the Historical Journal of Film, Television and Radio. Pat is a visiting research fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, and an occasional lecturer in education at Maynooth University.
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  • Paul DevinePAUL DEVINE studied History at the University of Manchester and English Language and Literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has attended and participated in many Joyce symposiums and summer schools. His publications include contributions to A New & Complex Sensation, Essays on Joyce's Dubliners and Moments of Moment, Aspects of the Literary Epiphany where he wrote upon Leitmotif and Epiphany in the works of George Moore.
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  • Katherine EburyKATHERINE EBURY is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include life-writing, modernism, psychoanalysis and law and literature. Her first monograph, Modernism and Cosmology, appeared in 2014, and she is the co-editor of Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings: Outside His Jurisfiction (appearing with Palgrave in 2018). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Irish Studies Review, Joyce Studies Annual and Society and Animals. She has just commenced an AHRC-funded project on the death penalty, literature and psychoanalysis from 1900-1950, which is running from 2018-2020.
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  • Caroline ElbayCAROLINE ELBAY lectures at Champlain College, Dublin (a satellite campus of Champlain College, Burlington, VT.) where she teaches courses in Irish literature, academic writing, and Irish music. She has also taught on the ALBA Modular degree programme at All Hallows College (Dublin City University), where she is a member of both the Programme Board and Exam Board; and on the Intergenerational Learning Programme at Dublin City University. Caroline is the co-founder and facilitator of a life long learning programme at the Dublin James Joyce Centre.
    A graduate of St. Patrick's College Drumcondra (Dublin City University), where she earned a B.A. (First class honours) in English, and Music; and subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she read for both the Higher Diploma in Education, and an M.Phil in Anglo Irish Literature. She is an experienced educationalist, and has taught at primary, secondary and third level.
    She was awarded a PhD by Queen's University Belfast, where her research focused on representations of gender, anti-feminism, and anti-Semitism in the works of James Joyce and Otto Weininger.
    Enjoying a lifelong interest in Irish writers, Caroline was awarded the inaugural National Library of Ireland James Joyce Dedicated Scholarship in 2008. She has lectured widely on Joyce, both in Ireland and abroad, and include the International James Joyce Symposium in Utrecht (NL), James Joyce Summer School, Trieste, (IT), and the annual lecture series at the Dublin James Joyce Centre, where she also facilitates the 'Ulysses for All' study groups.
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  • Ron EwartRON EWART lectured for many years at the University of St Gallen. He has also been a long-term member of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation. He is an expert on modern poetry and an authority on Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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  • James FraserJAMES FRASER Dr James Fraser is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. His first monograph, Joyce and Betrayal, appeared with Palgrave in 2016. James is also the co-editor with Katherine Ebury of the forthcoming Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings 'Outside His Jurisfiction' (2018). His current research deals with Joyce's responses to portraiture and Irish discourses of heroism, respectively and he is at the beginning of a book project on modernism and hospitality. He is a former managing editor of Modernism/modernity. The intriguing title of his talk in Trieste is 'A Portrait of the Artisan as a Young Man': Joyce at the turning point from author to artist..
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  • Caetano Waldrigues GalindoCAETANO WALDRIGUES GALINDO teaches at Universidade Federal do Paranà, Brazil. As a translator, he has published some 40 books, which include Joyce's Ulysses (2012), Finn's Hotel(2014), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2016), and Dubliners (forthcoming, 2018). His Ulysses translation won the Prêmio de traduçâo da Associaçâo Paulista de Cr�ticos de Arte 2012. His book "Sim, eu digo sim" (2014) is the first and only general introduction to Joyce's "Ulysses" in Portuguese. His first collection of short stories ("Ensaio sobre o entendimento humano", 2013) received a national award in Brazil.
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  • Marija GirevskaMARIJA GIREVSKA teaches at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. She has published a study on English Surrealism in literature and painting, entitled Guardians of the Unconscious: English Surrealism (2015), and another book exploring Gothic fiction in Irish, British and American literature, entitled Will-o'-the-Wisp: Gothic and Fantastic Short Stories (2017). She was awarded Golden Pen Award for the Macedonian translation of James Joyce's Ulysses in 2013. Other notable literary translations include Lolita by V. Nabokov (in collaboration with J. Ilievska), and poems by D. Gascoyne, R. Penrose, T. Bruinja, W. Burroughs, E.E. Cummings, M. Holub, B. Brecht, I. Bachmann. Currently she is working on a second Master's thesis, "Remembering the Scripture: The Old Testament in Joyce's Ulysses.".
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  • Margaret KelleherProfessor MARGARET KELLEHER was awarded the Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama in 2012. For the previous five years, she was founding director of An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions, at NUI Maynooth. Her books include The Feminization of Famine (published by Duke UP and Cork UP, 1997) and the landmark publication The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006), co-edited with Philip O'Leary. She was a contributing editor to Field Day Anthology Volumes 4 and 5, and editor of the special issue on the Irish Literary Revival for Irish University Review (2003). Her primary research interests include nineteenth-century literature, famine literature, women's writings, cultural history, and the historical relationship between literature in English and Irish.
    Her current research project is a study of bilingual culture in nineteenth-century Ireland which includes a chapter on Joyce.
    A leading advocate for Irish studies internationally, Professor Kelleher is Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Chair of the Irish Film Institute and a member of the Humanities Committee of Science Europe. Educated at University College Cork and Boston College, she has been visiting Professor at Concordia University Montreal, University of Sâo Paulo, Boston College and Beijing Foreign Studies University, and was recently awarded a visiting fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge. She is Director of the MA in Anglo-Irish Literature in the School of English, Drama and Film.
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  • John McCourtJOHN McCOURT is Professor of English at the Università di Macerata. Previously he taught at the Università Roma Tre (where he was director of CRISIS, the centre for research into Irish and Scottish literature) and at the Università di Trieste. He has also been part of the Trieste Joyce School since 1997 and is the author of many books and articles on James Joyce and on 19th and 20th century Irish literature including The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904 - 1920 (2000). In 2009 his edited collection, James Joyce in Context, was published by Cambridge University Press. In the same year he published Questioni Biografiche: Le Tante Vite di Yeats and Joyce (Bulzoni). This was followed by Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema (Cork University Press (2010). He is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the academic board of the Yeats Summer school. In 2015 he published Writing the Frontier Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland. In 2017, he edited a special issue of Joyce Studies in Italy entitled Joyce and Shakespeare and co-edited (with Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan) Flann O'Brien: Problems of Authority for Cork University Press. He is currently editing a collection of essays on Brendan Behan.
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  • Deirdre MulrooneyDEIRDRE MULROONEY: a dance historian, writer, and documentary-maker, since her Phd, "Orientalism, Orientation, and the Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch", (Frankfurt: Peter Lang GmbH, 2002), Deirdre has been restoring the body, and work by Irish women artists of the body to Irish Cultural History. In 2004 Deirdre's 5-part documentary series on the history of dance and physical theatre in Ireland, "Nice Moves", was broadcast on RTE Radio One. Deirdre's book "Irish Moves, an illustrated history of Dance &ers; Physical Theatre in Ireland" (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2006), was launched by Fintan O'Toole the Abbey Theatre as part of the 3rd International Dance Festival Ireland. Deirdre's Yeats-related radio documentaries, "Doreen - Telling the Dancer from the Dance" (2011: on the Abbey Theatre Ballets); "WB Yeats � Words for Music Perhaps" (2013: a two part series on Yeats and music); and "Georgie's Vision" (2016: the first ever documentary about George Yeats), were broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, and have featured at the International Yeats Society Conference (NYC) and at the Yeats Summerschool. Deirdre's film documentaries on Irish-German Modern Dance pioneer Erina Brady: "1943 � A Dance Odyssey" (RTE One Television, 2013), and "Dance Emergency/ Damhsa na hEigeandala" (TG4, 2015), have featured at several film festivals, from Galway Film Fleadh to the Belgrade-Irish Festival, to Lincoln Center NYC's Dance on Camera Festival. In May 2015 Deirdre's script for "Dance Emergency" was translated to German and published bilingually in TANZ Magazine (Berlin), while her biographical essay on Brady was published in "Selected Irish-German Biographies 2" (Trier: WVT, 2015). Deirdre is currently an occasional lecturer in Irish theatre at Gaiety School of Acting, and Visiting Researcher at UL's Centre for Irish-German Studies. She is delighted of the opportunity to present on Lucia Joyce's Modern Dance career in the city of her birth, at the Trieste Joyce School 2018. (For more info see www.deirdremulrooney.com).
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  • Laura PelaschiarLAURA PELASCHIAR is programme director of the Trieste Joyce School. She graduated in English language and literature at the University of Trieste with an MA thesis on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey. In 1994 she completed her PhD at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on the contemporary Northern Irish novel. She has worked as a translator, translating over 50 books for Mondadori, E.Elle Einaudi Ragazzi, Fazi Editore. Her research focuses mainly on the work of James Joyce and the nexus between Joycean texts, the Gothic tradition and Shakespeare. She published Ulisse Gotico (Pacini Editore) in 2009. She has also published widely on the Northern Irish novel. She teaches English literature and English language at the University of Trieste.
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  • Fritz SennFRITZ SENN is founder and Director of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation. He has written widely on all aspects of Joyce's work, especially on Joyce and translation and on Joyce's use of Classical literature. His publications include Joyce's Dislocutions, edited by John Paul Riquelme (1984), Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce, edited by Christine O'Neill (1995). A volume of interviews tracing his recollections of his life in the Joyce community, The Joycean Murmoirs, was published in 2007, edited by Christine O'Neill. A German edition of this work, Zerrinnerungen, also appeared in 2007.
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  • Sara SullamSARA SULLAM is Assistant Professor in English Literature at Milan "Statale" University. She is the author of Tra i generi. Virginia Woolf e il romanzo (Mimesis 2016), and the co-editor of Transits. The Nomadic Geographies of Anglo-American Mondernism (Peter Lang 2010, with Giovanni Cianci and Caroline Patey) and of Parallaxes. Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2014). She has published several essays on Joyce in which she pays particular attention to the making of his Italian translations. In 2016 she translated Joyce's occasional, critical and political writings into Italian (Lettere e saggi, il Saggiatore, ed. Enrico Terrinoni). Her topic in Trieste will be "Joyce the essayist, Joyce the reviewer".
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  • J. T. WelschJ. T. WELSCH is Lecturer in English and Creative Industries at the University of York. Recent essays have appeared in The Portable Poetry Workshop, Writing in Practice, The Honest Ulsterman, and critical collections on John Berryman and Elizabeth Bishop. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review, Stand, and six chapbook collections, including most recently The Hell Creek Anthology (Sidekick Press, 2015) and The Ruin (Annexe Press, 2015). Wretched Strangers, an anthology of UK migrant poetry, co-edited with Ágnes Léhoczky, is published by Boiler House Press in June of this year.
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