Conference Sessions
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.” Chair, Brian Richardson
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.” Chair, Tim Middleton
3. Literary Parallels: 1. Pudełko, Brygida (Opole University, Poland), “Turgenev and Conrad’s Emphasis on Visual Impression.” 2. Ege, Sema (University of Ankara, Turkey), “Conrad, ‘The End of the Tether,’ and Wells, The Mind at the End of the Tether. Chair, Jack Peters
4. Philosophical & Political Issues I: 1. Baldwin, Debra Romanick (University of Dallas), "Skepticism and the Problem of Moralism: Conrad's Response to Galworthy's A Man of Devon" 2. Babst, Gordon (Chapman University), "Conrad and Arendt: Identifying Persons Exemplary for their Evil." Chair, Carola Kaplan
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 & Chair: Andrea White (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
6. Philosophical & Political Issues Ii: 1. Watts, Carl (University of Victoria, Canada), “Nostromo, The Revenge for Love and the Nationalisms of Modernism.” 2. Pietka, Rachel (Chapman University), “A Discarded Jewel: Narrative Partialities in Lord Jim.” 3. Potts, Christopher (Claremont Graduate University), “The Shadow-Line: Conrad’s Reflection.” Respondent & Chair: Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
7. 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.” Chair, Richard Ruppel (Chapman University)
8.
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” Chair, Paul Gulino (Chapman
University)
9.
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” Chair, Patrick Fuery (Chapman University)
10. 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.”
Chair, Christopher GoGwilt