Draft of the program for IPW Durham

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Yea. Three days is about right...Can't imagine a whole week of that stuff, Good God!



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From: Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
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Subject: Draft of the program for IPW Durham


LINES, LEGACIES, ANNIVERSARIES:
NTERNATIONAL PYNCHON WEEK 2013

enue: Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre (near
he main library), Durham University.
Supported by the Department of English Studies:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/
Conference website:
http://www.ipw2013.com/

DAY ONE (5th August)

:30-9:45 — registration
9:45-10:00 — opening address

0:00-11:30 — V-LOCATIONS
Clément Lévy (Università degli Studi di Napoli, L’Orientale): ‘Paris for Love?’
Umberto Rossi (independent scholar, Rome): ‘Florence’.
Paolo Simonetti (Università degli Studi di Roma, Tor Vergata): ‘Malta’.
break
11:45-13:15 — RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, MYTH
Joanna Freer (Sussex University): ‘The Religion and Politics of the
ast in Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon’.
Richard Moss (Durham University): ‘Channel Hopping for the Soul:
apping the New Age’.
Jennifer Backman (Palomar College): ‘Katabasis, Orpheus, and V.:
homas Pynchon’s Obsessive Returns to the Underworld’.
lunch
14:45-16:15 — HISTORY, POLITICS, NATIONHOOD
Thomas Schaub (University of Wisconsin, Madison): ‘Lightning in
merica: The Role of Benjamin Franklin in Mason & Dixon’.
Chris Wright (Newcastle University): ‘The Importance of Being British’.
Ericka Wills (Illinois State University): ‘“Who will be left to
emember”: Representations of the Colorado Coalfield War in Pynchon’s
gainst the Day’.
break
16:30-18:00 — SOURCES & INTERTEXTS I: FILM
Jeeshan Gazi (University of Essex): ‘Pynchon’s Nineteen Eighty-Four:
ineland, the Filmic Object and Social Control’.
Paul McCormick (Ohio State University): ‘Belatedness and the Legacy of
ravity’s Rainbow as an American Cinematic Novel’.
Abeer Fahim (American University of Sharjah): ‘Approaching Pynchon
hrough Embodiment: Morphing and Doubling in Gravity’s Rainbow’.

AY TWO (6th August):

:30-11:00 — SOURCES & INTERTEXTS II: MUSIC
Barry Lewis (University of Sunderland): ‘Three-Minute Takes on
hree-Year Books: Pynchon’s Legacy in Popular Music’.
George Twigg (University of Exeter): ‘“Sell Out With Me Tonight”:
opular Music, Commericalization and Commodification in Vineland, The
rying of Lot 49 and V.’.
John Joseph Hess (Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic
niversity): ‘Music in Mason & Dixon’.
break
11:15-12:45 — SOURCES & INTERTEXTS III: POPULAR / FOLK / COUNTER CULTURE.
Sean Carswell (California State University Channel Islands): ‘A
kulele Guide to Contemporary Rebellion’.
Sally E. Parry (Illinois State University): ‘Floating Above History:
he Chums of Chance in Against the Day’.
Jeffrey Severs (University of British Columbia): ‘Pynchon and the 1962
eattle World’s Fair’.
lunch
14:30-16:00 — RESISTANCE, POWER, TERROR
Robert McLaughlin (Illinois State University): ‘Displacing the
resent: Against the Day, 9/11, Anarchism and Terrorism’.
Michael Maguire (Penn State University): ‘September 11 and Political
nnocence in Against the Day’.
Georgios Maragos (Athens, Greece): ‘“For every They there ought to be
 We”: The (Almost) Equivalence of Power and Resistance in Mason &
ixon and Against the Day’.
break
16:15-17:45 — PATTERNS & STRATEGIES
David Kipen (Southern California Public Media / Libros Schmibros
ending Library & Used Bookshop): ‘Hysteron Proteron with a Vengeance:
id Pynchon Have His Whole Corpus Mapped As of 1963?’
Matthew Cissell (University of the Basque Country): ‘The Author’s
orld and the World of the Author’.
Russell Backman (University of California, Davis): ‘The Moderniad:
homas Pynchon’s Novels as Contemporary Epic Cycle’.

DAY THREE (7th August):

:30-11:00 — GENRE, MYSTERY & FRAMING
Kyle Smith (Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands):
“All those feathers and he still can’t fly”: Spies, the albatross of
elf and lines of flight in Gravity’s Rainbow’.
Hue-ju Wang (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan): ‘Playing a
Hard-boiled Private Eye”: Tyrone Slothrop’s Investigation into the
Slothrop Surveillance”’.
David Letzler (City University of New York): ‘Introducing the
ircumfabulation: On Mason & Dixon and Genre’.
break
11:15-12:45 — SPATIALITY & TEMPORALITY
Arkadiusz Misztal (Gdańsk University): ‘Reading Pynchon’s Book of
ours: Narrative Chronometrics and “mythical hours” in Gravity’s
ainbow’.
James Gourley (University of Western Sydney): ‘Temporal Torsion:
heories of Time in V. and Against the Day’.
Michael Harris (Penn State University): ‘Thomas Pynchon: Artist of the
articular’.
lunch
14:30-16:00 — EPISTEMOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, POSTMODERNISM
Ali Chetwynd (University of Michigan): ‘The Imperative Dimensions of
o-existent Worlds, from V. to Against the Day’.
Simon de Bourcier (University of East Anglia): ‘Reading McHale reading
ynchon, or, is Pynchon still a postmodernist?’
Kathryn Hume (Penn State University): ‘Attenuated Realities: Pynchon’s
rajectory from V. to Inherent Vice’.
break
16:15-17:45 — BODIES, MATTER, SPECTRALITY
Zachary Rowlinson (Sussex University), ‘“nostrils a-flare with some
ast twinkling of geniality”: Towards an Olfactory Pynchon’.
Tiina Käkelä-Puumala (University of Helsinki), ‘Ghosts in Against the Day’.
Zofia Kolbuszewska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin),
American Golem(s), sentient matter and automata in Mason & Dixon’.
Evening: Wine reception in St John’s College, details tbc.
DAY FOUR (8th August):

:30-11:00 — SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY I: PERSPECTIVES, CODES & ANXIETIES
Xavier Marcó del Pont (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘“Ever
crutinizing from above”: Reading Pynchon’s aerial views’.
Katie R. Muth (University of St Andrews): ‘Sferics and Cyphers:
ynchon’s Codes and the History of Informatics’.
Grace Halden (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘The dominance of
echnology in Gravity’s Rainbow: the light bulb and the cybernetic
pocalypse’.
break
11:15-12:45 — SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY II: FORCES, PHYSICS, MATHS
Nina Engelhardt (Edinburgh University): ‘Destroying the Poetry of the
ainbow? Newton and the Fictitious Force Gravity in Gravity’s
ainbow’.
Robert Tindol (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies): ‘Mason &
ixon and Quantum Chromodynamics’.
Michael Harris (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu): ‘Images of Mathematics’.
lunch
14:30-16:00 — THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Sebastian Huber (Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich): ‘“It has
appened before but there is nothing to compare it to now”: Evental
ontinuity and Rupture in Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day’.
Gary Thompson (Saginaw Valley State University): ‘Pynchon and Liminality’.
Petrus van Ewijk (Antwerp, Belgium): ‘The disappearing protagonist:
yrone Slothrop in Gravity’s Rainbow, Wyatt Gwyon in William Gaddis’s
he Recognitions, Hal Incandenza in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite
est and William F. Kohler in William Gass’s The Tunnel’.
break
16:15-17:45 — AUTHORSHIP, PUBLISHING & EDITING
Foteini Dimirouli (Oxford University): ‘“They hide, you seek”: The
lusive Author of Slow Learner’.
Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus University): ‘Blurbing Pynchon’.
Terry Reilly (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) and Gilles Chamerois
Université de Bretagne Occidentale):  ‘“A minor adjustment or two”:
evisions to the Proofs of Against the Day’.
closing remarks


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