International Pynchon Week 2019
SCHEDULE
TUESDAY 11 JUNE
Centro Studi Americani, Via Michelangelo Caetani 32
10:00-11:10 AM
REGISTRATION
Opening Remarks
Giorgio Mariani, Sapienza University of Rome
Rodney Ford, US Embassy in Rome
I - Pynchon and the Publishing Industry (Chair: Giorgio Mariani)
11:30-12:30 AM
11:30 Terry Reilly (University of Alaska-Fairbanks) - Pynchon's “The Secret Integration” and the Saturday Evening Post
11:50 Jeffrey Severs (University of British Columbia) - The Hot Center of the American Literary Establishment: Candida Donadio and the Growth of Pynchon's Career
12:10 Discussion
12:30 AM-2:00 PM Lunch break
II - Pynchon in Italy (Chair: Ugo Rubeo)
2:00-3:00 PM
2:00 Paolo Simonetti (Sapienza University) - Publishing Pynchon in Italy, or The Bompiani Papers
2:20 Christian Hänggi (University of Basel) - From Vivaldi to “Volare”: Pynchon's Love for Italian Music
2:40 Discussion
III - Bones, Death and the Hereafter (Chair: Eric Sandberg)
3:00-4:20 PM
3:00 Burak Sezer (University of Cologne) - From Rainbows to Stonebows: Ossifying Mathematics in Gravity's Rainbow
3:20 David Kipen (University of California at Los Angeles) - Facing the Prospect of Thomas Pynchon's Obituary
3:40 Michael Harris (Central College) - Of Spirits, Ghosts, and the Bardo
4:00-4:20 Discussion
4:20-4:50 PM Coffee Break
IV - History vs. Counter-History (Chair: Luc Herman)
4:50-6:10 PM
4:50 Eric Sandberg (City University of Hong Kong) - Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge: History, Memory, Nostalgia
5:10 Romina Kipouridou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - Historiography and Eschatology in Thomas Pynchon
5:30 Frank Palmeri (University of Miami) - Composite and Asynchronous Histories in Pynchon and Whitehead
5:50-6:10 Discussion
WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE
Edificio Marco Polo, Aula Magna
Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4
VI - Bleeding Edge (Chair: Inger H. Dalsgaard)
10:00-11:20 PM
10:00 Thoren Opitz (LMU Munich) - Pynchon and Martial Arts
10:20 Sergej Macura (University of Belgrade) - Real News, Fake News: Mimetic Language Games in Bleeding Edge
10:40 Jaime Harrison (Queen’s University Belfast) - “It Could Never Happen Today. Nobody's in Control of the Internet”: Bleeding Edge's New Media Intertexts
111:00-11:20 Discussion
11:20-11:50 AM Coffee break
VII - Pynchon's Sensory Cartographies (Chair: Ali Dehdarirad)
11:50-13:10 AM
11:50 Heidi LaVine (Westminster College) - The Nose Knows: Mapping Pynchon's Olfactory Topographies
12:10 Keith Wilhite (Siena College) - Private Eyes: Mapping the Megalopolis in Pynchon's California
12:30 Justin St Clair (University of South Alabama) - Hear Ye, Hear ye: Audioposition and Sound Judgement in Pynchon's Fiction
12:50-13:10 Discussion
13:10 AM-15:10 PM Lunch break
15:30 A Walking Tour of San Lorenzo and the Città Universitaria.
THURSDAY 13 JUNE
Edificio Marco Polo, Aula Magna
Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4
10:30-11:00 AM Coffee Time
VIII - Body Matters (Chair: Zofia Kolbuszewska)
11:00-12:20 AM
11:00 Gregory Stephen Marks (La Trobe University, Australia) - “Falling Away from What is Human”: Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic
11:20 Patrick Sherwood (Independent scholar) - The Connections of Pynchonian Women
11:40 Doug Haynes (University of Sussex) - Pynchon's Pornographies
12:00-12:20 Discussion
12:20 AM-2:40 PM Lunch break
IX - Paranoia, Invasions, Conspiracies: Pynchon's Narratives of Menace (Chair: Ali Chetwynd)
2:40-3:40 PM
2:40 Inger H. Dalsgaard (Aarhus University) - The American Reading Conspiracy: Paranoid Interpretations of US History and Pynchon Novels
3:00 Nina Muždeka (University of Novi Sad) - Killing Dodoes, Sending Doodlebugs: Reading Gravity's Rainbow as an Invasion Narrative with a Postmodernist Twist
3.20-3:40 Discussion
3:40-4:40 PM Coffee break & Great Pynchonian Shoptalk
Introduced and coordinated by John KRAFFT, professor emeritus, University of Miami
20:00 PM
Social Dinner
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ARROSTICINI DIVINI
Via dei Messapi 14
FRIDAY 14 JUNE
Edificio Marco Polo, Aula Magna
Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4
X - Annihilation and Nihilism (Chair: Paolo Simonetti)
9:30-10:50 AM
9:30 Bryian M. Santin (Concordia University Irvine) - Fascism for Freedom: Notes Toward a Pynchonian Genealogy of Fascism and Postwar US Conservatism
9:50 Richard Moss (Durham University) - Blicero Through the Lens of Early Nazi Occultism
10:10 Paolo Prezzavento (Independent Scholar) - “A Dream of Annihilation”: Anarchic Plots and the De-humanization of Love and Politics
10:30-10:50 Discussion
10:50-11:20 AM Coffee break
XI - Visual Pynchon (Chair: Yorgos Maragos)
11:20-12:40 AM
11:20 Gilles Chamerois (Université de Brest) - “Staring at the Wallpaper” in Pynchon
11:40 Angelo Grossi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) - “When They Went to Movies He Would Fall Asleep”: Film Spectatorship and Cinematic Apparatus in Gravity's Rainbow
12:00 Dominika Bugno-Narecka (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) - “Messages From Beyond”: On Verbal Representations of the Non-Verbal in the Works of Thomas Pynchon
12:20-12:40 Discussion
12:40 AM-2:40 PM Lunch break
XII - Pynchonesque Vistoes: New Perspectives (Chair: Umberto Rossi)
2:40-4:00 PM
2:40 Samir Sellami (Independent Scholar) - From Gravity to Grace
3:00 Ali Dehdarirad (Sapienza University) - Alternative Worlds, Subjunctive Urbanisms: Postnational Visions in Against the Day
3:20 Gary Thompson (Saginaw Valley State University) - Pynchonian Jeremiads
3:40-4:00 Discussion
4:00-4:30 PM Coffee break
XIII - Adaptations (Chair: Gilles Chamerois)
4:30-6:00 PM
4:30 David Coughlan ( U. of Limerick, Eire) - Mason & Dixon and Pynchon and Miller & Pynchon and Maurer
4:50 Umberto Rossi (Independent Scholar) - V. vs. V for Vendetta: From Pynchon to Moore and Back
5:10 Kostas Kaltsas (University of Southampton/Bath Spa University) - “In the Father Without Knowing Him” The Somewhat Strange Case of a 'Reluctant' Pynchon Epigone
5:30-6:00 Discussion and conclusion