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2010 Prague James Joyce Symposium
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Oct 19, 2009 03:38 PDT
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--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Louis Armand <louis_-@yahoo.com> wrote:
| | From: Louis Armand <louis_-@yahoo.com>
Subject: 2010 Prague James Joyce Symposium
To: in-@jamesjoyce.cz
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 3:08 PM
On
behalf of the International James Joyce
Foundation, we invite you to the XXII International
James Joyce Symposium in the =E2=80=9CGolden City=E2=80=9D of
Prague, 13-18 June 2010.
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Proposals
for individual papers of 20 minutes duration are welcome on
any aspect
of Joyce studies, especially those that focus on the
relationship of
Joyce to Prague
and the heritage of Central European modernism in the arts,
philosophy
and theory--particularly the legacies of structuralism and
the Prague
linguistic circle.
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***Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 March 2010***
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Prague is at the centre of Europe
as Joyce is at the centre of the tradition of European
modernism, and
it is fitting that the major European author of the
twentieth century
be honoured in the city that is the very heart of modern
Europe.
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Historically,
some of the earliest translations of Joyce=E2=80=99s work
appeared in Prague,
and the first President of the Czechoslovak Republic--T.G.
Masaryk-was
even believed to have annotated a first edition of Ulysses,
although
only the first French edition survives in the Masaryk
archive today.
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Nowadays
the work of Joyce represents a major focal point of
philological
research at Charles University, where the first electronic
journal of
Joyce scholarship was founded in 1994: Hypermedia Joyce
Studies. Since
2003 a biannual Joyce colloquium has taken place in Prague,
augmented
by a series of book publications through the Litteraria
Pragensia
imprint.
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Charles University is itself one of the oldest universities in
Europe,
having been founded in 1348. Moreover, the Department of
Anglophone
Literatures and Cultures was the original home of Prague
Structuralism,
whose legacy--through the work of Rene Wellek
and Roman Jakobson--has had an enduring impact on Joyce
scholarship
internationally. It is only fitting that Joyce=E2=80=99s work be
celebrated in
such an environment, in a country that was also the
homeland not only
of Kafka, but of Freud, Mahler and Husserl.
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Patron:
We
are proud to announce that the patron of the XXII
International James
Joyce Symposium is the former Czech President, dissident
and
playwright, Vaclav Havel.
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Dedication:
It is the wish of the host committee to dedicate the 2010
Symposium to the memory of Prof. Donald F. Theall
(1928-2008).
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More Information:
Symposium website http://www.jamesjoyce.cz
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