Friday, June 13
09:00 Visit to the Deutsches Museum (www.deutsches-museum.de)
14:00 Mark
Quinn (University College Dublin): “In the Shadow of the
Masters: Dante, Joyce and Pynchon”
14:35 Clément
Lévy (Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne): “As Far as Thomas Pynchon ‘Loves Cameras’”
15:10 Charlie
Wesley (Binghamton University, New York): “Realism,
Surrealism, and Awe: The Artistic Expression of Thomas Pynchon and Neo
Rauch”
15:45 Coffee
16:00 Toon
Staes (University
of Antwerp): “‘When You Come to a Fork in the Road’ –Marcuse, Gravity’s
Rainbow and Against the Day
16:35 William
Clarke (University of Warwick): “‘It’s My Job, I can’t Back Out’: The
‘House’ and coercive property relations in Pynchon’s Vineland”
17:10 Coffee
17:25 Francisco
Collado-Rodríguez (Universidad de Zaragoza): “Science,
Intertextuality, and the Role of V. in Pynchon’s Against the Day (or
the Literary Effects of Trauma in Contemporary America)”
18:00 Colin
A. Clarke (SUNY-Suffolk Community College): “Exploding
the Western: Pynchon, Wister, and Cooper”
18:35 Luc
Herman and John Krafft (University of Antwerp, Miami
University-Hamilton): “Race in Early Pynchon: Rewriting Sphere in
V.”
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Thursday, June
12
09:00 Ali
Chetwynd (Sofia): “Pynchon’s Vocabulary of Curves: Circular Motion Metaphors Beyond the
Rocket Arch”
09:35 Georgios
Maragos (Panteion University, Athens): “A Medium no Longer: How
Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchon’s Works”
10:10 Jeffrey
Severs (University of Texas - Austin): “Pynchon’s Dogs”
10:45 Coffee
11:00 Rod
Taveira (University of
Sydney): “‘Shadow
Factories’: Allegorical Technologies of Entertainment in Against the Day”
11:35 James
Gourley (University of Western Sydney): “Reading Against the Day
in the Modern Context”
12:10 Lunch
14:00 Frank
Palmeri (University of Miami): “Plutocratic Dystopia, Anarchist Utopias
in Pynchon’s Against the Day”
15:35 Graham
Benton (California State University, Maritime): “Daydreams and
Dynamite: Anarchist Possibility in Against the Day”
15:10 Coffee
15:25 Stefen
Showers (Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois): “Mathematics
in Against the Day”
16:00 Terry
Reilly (University of Alaska at Fairbanks): “Narrating
Tesla in Against the Day: I.G.L.O.O., H.A.A.R.P., and Other Forms of
Ionospheric Weirdness”
18:00 Kroatia vs. Germany
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Conference program: (scroll down for more /
download the program as an
Excel file)
Click on each speaker’s name to listen to the audio recording of the paper.
In order to save a file to your disk, right-click on it and select “Save
destination as…”.
Wednesday, June
11
9:00 Registration
9:45 Welcome
10:15 Heinz Ickstadt (FU Berlin):
“Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon”
11:00 Keith
O’Neill (SUNY-Dutchess): “Against the
Master: Pynchon’s Wellsian Art”
11:35 Gilles
Chamerois (Brest University): “The
Incorporation of, among Other Things, America in Against the Day”
12:10 Lunch
14:00 Manlio
Della Marca (University of Rome “Sapienza”): “‘All
That Is Solid Melts Into Air’: Between Hardware and Software. Memory and
Signs in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49”
14:35 Douglas
Lannark (Independent scholar): “Pilgrimage
& Transcendence – A Sketch”
15:10 Coffee
15:25 Celia
Wallhead (University of Granada): “Kit and Kim: Espionage in Against
the Day”
16:00 Michael
Sinding (Justus Liebig University, Giessen): “Crusades Begin as
Pilgrimages: Pynchon’s New Medievalisms”
16:35 Coffee
16:50 Michael
Harris (Central College, Pella, Iowa): “The
Tao of Thomas Pynchon”
17:25 Charles
Hollander (Independent scholar): “Pynchon,
Satire, and The Moral Instinct”
20:00 Visit to the Hofbräuhaus (www.hofbraeuhaus.de)
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Saturday, June
14
09:00 Simon
de Bourcier (University of East Anglia): “Travels in the Fourth
Dimension in Against the Day”
09:35 Inger
H. Dalsgaard (University of Aarhus): “Fast Forward/Rewind: Against the Direction
of Time”
10:10 Coffee
10:25 J.
Paul Narkunas (CUNY-John Jay College): “Time’s
Fractured Arrows: Pynchon’s Against the Day, Ethnic Genocide, and
the ‘Macedonian Question’”
11:00 Lovorka
Gruic-Grmusa (University of Rijeka): “Intrigue, Revenge and Bloodshed: Mapping the
Balkans in Against the Day”
11:35 Samuel
Thomas (Durham University): “Metković to Mostar: Pynchon and the
Balkans”
12:10 Lunch
14:00 Fabienne
Collignon (University of Glasgow): “A Vortex, Inside Light”
14:35 Zofia
Kolbuszewska (University of Lublin): “Heliography and Paramorphosis:
Thomas Pynchon’s DeLIGHTful Counter-Narratives”
15:10 Coffee
15:25 Jessica
Lawson (University of Iowa): “‘The Real and Only Fucking Is Done on Paper’:
Penetrative Readings and Pynchon’s Sexual Text”
16:00 Richard
Hardack (University of
California, Berkeley): “‘Say
Something Once, Why Say It Again?’: Eternal Return and Free Indirect
Radicalism in Against the Day”
16:35 Coffee
16:50 Leyla
Haferkamp (University of Cologne): “‘Particle or Wave?’ The ’Function' of the
Prairie in Against the Day”
17:25 Hanjo
Berressem (University of Cologne): "Vectors and [Eigen]Values:" The Mathematics
of Movement in Against the Day
Farewell / City
foundation festival to mark the 850th anniversary of Munich (more
information).
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