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