UMCS: Międzynarodowy Tydzień Pynchonowski

Międzynarodowy Tydzień Pynchonowski (International Pynchon Week) to doroczna konferencja poświecona wszystkim aspektom życia i twórczości Thomasa Pynchona – jednego z najwybitniejszych a jednocześnie najbardziej tajemniczych pisarzy amerykańskich, słynącego ze skłonności do ukrywania swojego wizerunku przed mediami. International Pynchon Week odbywa się co dwa lata w innym mieście europejskim (w 2008 roku gospodarzem było Monachium). Organizatorami polskiej, ósmej edycji Tygodnia Pynchonowskiego są Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski oraz Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wszystkie referaty i prezentacje odbędą się od 9 do 12 czerwca w sali obrad Rady Wydziału Humanistycznego UMCS, w budynku Nowej Humanistyki UMCS. Podczas tegorocznej edycji imprezy referaty wygłoszą pynchonolodzy i pynchoniści z USA, Chin, Włoch, Grecji, Francji, Niemiec, Wielkiej Brytanii, Irlandii, Hiszpanii, Holandii, Węgier, Finlandii, Chorwacji, Danii i Polski. Uczestnicy wydarzenia to nie tylko pracownicy naukowi – w imprezie wezmą również udział m.in. tłumacze prozy Pynchona z Francji, Węgier i Polski. Program 09 czerwca 08.30-09.15 Rejestracja 09.15-09.45 Otwarcie konferencji 09.45-11.15 Session I chair: Zofia Kolbuszewska Ali Chetwynd (University of Michigan), Inherent Obligation: Ethical Relations and The Demands of Patronage in Recent Pynchon David Letzler (CUNY), Pointsman and the Preterite: On Character and Theology in Gravity\'s Rainbow Birger Vanwesenbeeck (SUNY, Fredonia), The Crying of Lot 49 and the Politics of Mourning 11:15-11:30 Przerwa 11:30-13:00 Session II chair: Luc Herman Martin Paul Eve (University of Sussex), ‘It sure\'s hell looked like war\': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon\'s Against the Day and Don DeLillo\'s Underworld Gilles Chamerois (University of Brest), Pynchon, Leone, and Dynamite Jesse E. Sherwood (SUNY, Fredonia), Pynchon\'s Wild West: The American Myth in Against the Day and Other Works 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session III chair: Sean Molloy Panel: Thomas Pynchon and Politics: Power, Spectacle and Transcendence Robert J. Lacey (Iona College), Pynchon on Totalitarianism: Power, Paranoia, and Preterition in Gravity\'s Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49 Seán Molloy (University of Edinburgh), Between and Beyond Bakunin and Nietzsche: Thomas Pynchon and the Politics of Transcendence. Dara Waldron (Limerick Institute of Technology), Thanatoids and Death by Television: Politics and/of the Spectacle in Thomas Pynchon\'s Vineland 16:00-16:15 Przerwa 16:15-17:45 Session IV chair: Sascha Pöhlmann Richard J Moss (Durham University), Ernst Bloch‘s European Reichs in Pynchon\'s Imagined Europe Matthias Mosch (Durham University), Faust and the Faustian in Gravity\'s Rainbow Terry Reilly (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Hans Kammler and Gravity\'s Rainbow: Or, The Kammlerstab Takes a Road Trip 10 czerwca 09:00-10:30 Session V chair: Paweł Frelik Huei-ju Wang (National Chi Nan University), The Figure of the Private Eye in Pynchon from The Crying of Lot 49 to Inherent Vice Arkadiusz Misztal (Gdańsk University), Varied Modes of Detection: a Forensic Investigation into Thomas Pynchon\'s The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice Paolo Simonetti (Università di Roma “Sapienza”), “Bye bye Black Dahlia”: Thomas Pynchon and the “Inherent Vice” of detective fiction 10:30-10:45 Przerwa 10:45-12:15 Session VI chair: Michael Harris Keith O\'Neill (SUNY, Dutchess), Inherent Vice\'s Monster Mash: Pynchon and the Gothic Doug Haynes (University of Sussex), The Virtues of Vice: ‘Black Humour\' in Inherent Vice and Beyond Celia Wallhead (Univeristy Of Granada), The Ineludible Flaws In Hippiedom And Fascism In Thomas Pynchon\'s Inherent Vice 12:15-14:15 Lunch 14:15-15:45 Session VII chair: Terence Reilly Xavier Marcó del Pont (Royal Holloway, University of London), Paranoid Reading: Narrative Structure and Organisational Devices in Thomas Pynchon\'s Against the Day and Inherent Vice Petrus van Ewijk (University of Antwerp), The ARPAnet Trip: The Network from Gravity\'s Rainbow to Inherent Vice Michel Ryckx (developer, Eindhoven, Netherlands), Abundancy and Dialogue in Pynchon Criticism: A Possible Model for a Computed Secondary Bibliography 15:45-16:00 Przerwa 16:00-17:30 Session VIII chair: Tomasz Basiuk Kate Delaney (MIT), Hoop dreams: the soundtrack of Inherent Vice Sascha Pöhlmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Pynchon\'s Games Gary Thompson (Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan), Performing Pynchon 18:30-20:30 Przyjęcie (Dworek Struga aka. Staropolski, Poczekajka) 11 czerwca 09:00-10:30 Session IX chair: Sascha Pöhlmann Paweł Stachura (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Literary Spaces in Pynchon, Strugatskie, and Dukaj Giuseppe Episcopo (University of Edinburgh),Time Overdrive / Space Override–Pynchon Antinomies Clément Lévy (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne), “Back to Gondwanaland!” or, Pynchon\'s Myths of Earth 10:30-10:45 Przerwa 10:45-12:15 Session X chair: Kate Delaney Nick Holdstock (University of Edinburgh), “Can you tell me, please, where is reality?”: Imagined Utopias in Inherent Vice Maximilian Heinrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Roads Not Taken: Historical Crossroads And Their Potential In Against the Day Joanna Freer (University of Sussex), Daylit Fictions and Dark Conjugates: The Political Role of Fantasy in Thomas Pynchon\'s The Crying of Lot 49 and Against the Day 12:15-14:15 Lunch 14:15-15:45 Session XI chair: Jeffrey Severs Jola Feix (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich), Reading Against the Day with the Chums of Chance Nina Engelhardt (University of Edinburgh), Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Thomas Pynchon\'s Against the Day Simon de Bourcier (University of East Anglia), The Æther in Against the Day 15:45-16:00 Przerwa 16:00-17:30 Translators on Pynchon I chair: Andrzej Antoszek Christophe Claro (France), Against the Clock: Pynchon Proofreader János Székely (Hungary), Reinventing the Reinvented Sentence Joanna Urban (Poland), Mason & Dixon → Mason i Dixon 17:30-17:45 Przerwa 17:45-19:15 Translators on Pynchon II chair: Andrzej Antoszek Piotr Siemion (Poland), The Obsolescence of Lot 49 Robert Sudół (Poland), Buddhism in Gravity\'s Rainbow Douglas Lanark (Germany/Denmark), The Year of the Metal Tiger 12 czerwca 09:00-11:00 Wycieczka do Kaplicy Świętej Trójcy 13:00-14:30 Session XII chair: Gary Thompson Tiina Käkelä-Puumala (Institute for Art Research, University of Helsinki), ”There Is Money Everywhere”: Representation, Authority, and the Money Form in Against the Day Jeffrey Severs (University of British Columbia, Vancouver),“The abstractions she was instructed to embody”: Women and Capitalism in Against the Day Lovorka Gruic Grmusa (University of Rijeka), The Symbolism of Light and Darkness in Against the Day 14:30-14:45 Przerwa 14:45-16:15 Session XIII chair: Gilles Chamerois Michael Harris (Central College, Pella, Iowa), Pynchon and Race: V. Reconsidered Georgios Maragos (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens), Moving Images: Light-capturing Technologies, Reality, and the Individual in Thomas Pynchon\'s Twentieth Century Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland), Always judge a book by its cover – reading Pynchon\'s paratexts 16:15-16:30 Przerwa 16:30-18:00 Session XIV chair: Arkadiusz Misztal Matthew Cissell (University of the Basque Country), Locating Pynchon in the Literary Field (A Critique of Reviews of Against the Day) Michael Sinding (University of Giessen), Framing Monsters: Pynchon\'s Multiple and Mixed Genres Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus University), Mapping the World: Pynchon\'s Great Global Novel 18:00-18:15 Zamknięcie konferencji