Conference Sessions (Current as of October 22, 2010)
1. Illness & Psychology: 1. Bock, Martin (University of Minnesota, Duluth), “Champel-Les-Baines Ephemera,” 2. Kaplan, Carola (California State University, Pomona), “Navigating Trauma in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: A Voyage from Sigmund Freud to Philip Bromberg.” 3. Harrington, Ellen Burton (University of South Alabama), “Dead men have no children”: Conrad’s “The Idiots” and “Amy Foster.”
2. Intertextuality: 1. Levin, Yael (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Interruption of Writing: Uncanny Intertextuality in Under Western Eyes.” 2. Richardson, Brian (University of Maryland), “Unexpected Intertextuality: The Trope of the Book in the Jungle in Conrad and After.”
3. Literary Parallels: 1. Pudełko, Brygida (Opole University, Poland), “Turgenev and Conrad’s Emphasis on Visual Impression.” 2. Szczypien, Jean M (Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY), “The New Religion in Zygmunt Krasiński’s The Undivine Comedy and The Secret Agent.” 3. Ching, Yuet May (Chinese University of Hong Kong),“Fragments of a Mosaic: Conrad and Pound” 4. Ege, Sema (University of Ankara, Turkey), “Conrad, ‘The End of the Tether,’ and Wells, The Mind at the End of the Tether.
4 & 6. Philosophical & Political Issues: 1. Baldwin, Debra Romanick (University of Dallas), "Skepticism and the Problem of Moralism: Conrad's Response to Galworthy's A Man of Devon" 2. Le Boulicaut, Yannick (Catholic University of Angers), “Crossing the shadow-line” 3. Pedot, Richard (University of Paris), “Secrecy and intimate alterity in ‘The Secret Sharer’” 4. Potts, Christopher (Claremont Graduate University), “The Shadow-Line: Conrad’s Reflection” 5. Watts, Carl (University of Victoria, Canada), “Nostromo, The Revenge for Love and the Nationalisms of Modernism” 6. Pietka, Rachel (Chapman University), “A Discarded Jewel: Narrative Partialities in Lord Jim.” 7. Isokawa, Katherine (University of California, Los Angeles), “Conrad’s Stopped Clocks.” Respondent: Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
5. Race: 1. GoGwilt, Christopher (Fordham University), “Racial Economies of Reading Romance: Conrad’s Creole Family Romance and ‘A Smile of Fortune.’” 2. Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A (University of Kelaniya), “Joseph Conrad: Racism and The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” Respondent: Andrea White (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
7.
Film: 1. Kestner, Joe (University of Tulsa), “Two Cinematic Versions of ‘The Secret
Sharer.’” 2. Fuery, Patrick (Chapman University), “The Heterotopia of the Double: Conrad,
Malick, and the Sublime”
8.
Matters of Style:
1. Hawthorn, Jeremy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “’No need of words’: Joseph Conrad’s use of the
typographical ellipsis in Under Western Eyes and ‘The Secret Sharer.’” 2.
Baxter, Katherine Isobel (University of Hong Kong), “In Other Words: Conrad, Derrida and Linguistic
Estrangement” 3. Epstein, Hugh (Joseph Conrad Society of the United
Kingdom), “The Rescue: Style and the Physics of
Sensation”
9. Life
and Works:
1. Luyat, Anne (University of Avignon, France), “Tensions Between the Mask and the Pen: The Teacher of
Languages as Heteronym” 2. Caufield, James (University of
California, Los Angeles), "Sickness, Suffering, and
Schopenhauer: Conradian Pessimism and the 1910 Breakdown" 3. Peters, John
(North Texas University).
“The Composition and Publication History of JC’s Set of Six.” 4. Zacks,
Aaron (University of Texas, Austin), “Authorial Unrest in Tales of Unrest.”
10.
Pedagogy & Other Practical Matters:
1. Henthorne, Tom (Pace University), “Conrad Don’t Surf: Teaching Modern Classics to Resistant
Readers.” 2. Tim Middleton (Bath Spa University, UK), “Writers as Cultural Heritage? A comparative study
of Conrad and James place in contemporary cultural tourism in Kent” 3. Burke,
Michael (St Louis Community College-Meramec), “Unspeakable Writes: Using Heart of Darkness in English 101.”