Conference Programme

WEDNESDAY 11th September, University of Vienna, Helene-Richter-Saal

From 18.30     Opening Reception and welcome address from Dr Dieter Fuchs, Director of the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies.


THURSDAY 12th September, University of Vienna, Helene-Richter-Saal

09.30–10.00    Tea / Coffee


10.00–11.00    ‘all fat, without nerve’: Marriage, Misogyny, and the Joyce Circle
Chair: Ronan Crowley

Paul Fagan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): We Two Together: James Joyce, Margaret Cousins, and the Feminist Celibacy Movement

Georgina Nugent (University of Vienna): ‘With apologies to Miss Gertrude Stein’: Joyce on Stein


11.00–11.30    Tea / Coffee


11.30–13.00    ‘The latest gossip about “The Crowd”’: Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Mina Loy
Chair: Katy Mullin

Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool): Objects of Affection: Mina Loy’s Material Responses to James Joyce

Hannah Roche (University of York): The Hidden Bosom: Djuna Barnes’s Joyce

Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester): Shem-the-Penman and Pen Performer: Joycean ‘great talkers’ in the work Djuna Barnes


13.00–14.30    Lunch


14.30–16.00    Dear Little Wifey: The Women in Joyce’s Familial and Professional Network [DIGITAL PANEL]
Chair: Clare Hutton

Joshua Kotin (Princeton University): Women at Shakespeare and Company

Francesca Mancino (SUNY, The Graduate Centre): Tracing Beach and Joyce’s Partnership through the Archive

Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin): ‘I hate women who know anything’: The Long Relationship of James Joyce and Mary Colum


FRIDAY 13th September, University of Vienna, Helene-Richter-Saal

09.00–09.30    Tea/ Coffee


09.30–11.00    Mr Nice Joyce / Mr Nasty Joyce
Chair: Georgina Nugent

Lucy McCabe (Trinity College Dublin): Lucia Joyce and visual culture: Entanglement and affinity

Emily Bell (Loughborough University): “the brave woman had manfully helped”: Gendered Labour and Joyce’s Archive

Ronan Crowley (Goethe University Frankfurt): A Library User


11.00–11.30    Tea/ Coffee


11.30–13.00    Silly Novels by Lady Modernists
Chair: Karina Jakubowicz

Beci Carver (University of Exeter): Joyce Going Blind Reading Anita Loos

Annie Williams (Trinity College Dublin): ‘A Post-Joyce World is No Longer Shockable’: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Dorothy Richardson’s Menstrual Fictions

Karina Jakubowicz (Florida State University): ‘Illiterate and underbred’: Virginia Woolf and James Joyce’s Class Consciousness


13.00–15.00    Lunch


15.00–16.30    Live, Laugh, Lesbians
Chair: Georgina Nugent and Ronan Crowley

Katy Mullin (University of Leeds): ‘I knew no one so easy to talk with’: Joyce’s Lesbian Affinities

Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol/ University of Turku): Reading Deadness: Elizabeth Bowen takes on Joyce

Clare Hutton (Loughborough University): Networks of Association and Intimacy: The Letters and Legacies of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach


16.30–17.00    Closing remarks (Georgina Nugent and Ronan Crowley)

From 19.00     Conference Dinner: ASPIC, Garnisongasse 10, 1090 Wien.