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The 26th International James Joyce Symposium

11-16 June 2018, Antwerp.

Deadline for abstracts: Friday, 2 February 2018. 

Deadline for applications for the graduate student scholarship: Thursday, 15 February 2018. 

Registration rates: €100 students/unwaged; €120 standard rate; €150 standard rate after 30 April.

Between 11 and 16 June 2018, the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics will host the 26th International James Joyce Symposium in the city that Joyce and his family visited in the summer of 1926. Belgium is small, so much so that all of the sites Joyce toured that year (Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and, most importantly, Waterloo) are within a 100-kilometre radius of the conference venue. 

In his earliest prose writings, James Joyce described himself as an artist. His brother Stanislaus’s diary and Richard Ellmann’s 1959 biography reinforced an image of Joyce as the lone and dedicated creator who was prepared to give up everything for his art. We interpret the title of this conference as both an objective and a subjective genitive – from Joyce’s aesthetic or artistry to pictures of Cork in cork frames – and as a reminder of Joyce’s long afterlife in the creative arts. We want to explore the role of art as a socially constructed commodity in Joyce’s work as well as trace his fortunes in the fine art and rare book marketplace; we invite studies of the ways in which Joyce crafted his oeuvre, in the wake of The Art of James Joyce, A. Walton Litz’s pioneering study of the creation of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake; and we are also interested in contributions that, creatively or critically, address the impact of Joyce’s artistic persona and work on other artists, in various forms and different mediums. Given the increased visibility of the digital humanities in Joyce studies and the proliferation of multimedia responses to his work, we also encourage contributions that do not necessarily conform to the traditional scholarly paper. 

The symposium invites proposals for individual papers, fully formed panels, and multimedia/digital exhibitions. Participants are limited to one paper and one non-paper panel appearance (e.g. as panel chair or respondent). All participants must be members in good standing of the International James Joyce Foundation: non-members or members whose registration has lapsed will not be scheduled. To join or to renew your membership, please visit the Foundation website [link].

To propose an individual contribution, please submit a 250-word abstract that includes the speaker’s name and academic affiliation (if applicable) alongside the paper or project title. To propose a panel, the panel chair should submit a 500-word abstract on the panel as a whole that includes the names, academic affiliations, and email addresses of all participants; the title of the panel as well as the titles of each individual contribution; and the names and affiliations of the panel chair and respondent (if any). Please note that panels should have a maximum of four speakers. The panel chair may give a paper but please note that, in this case, it is customary for the panel chair to be scheduled last.

The deadline for proposals is 2 February 2018, Joyce’s birthday. Proposals should be sent to [log in to unmask]. For more information on the conference, please visit uahost.uantwerpen.be/joyce2018.

The International James Joyce Foundation will award six or more scholarships to help graduate students to attend the symposium. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2018. Questions, applications, and recommendations should be sent directly to the Foundation at [log in to unmask]. For more information, visit the Foundation website [link]. Please note that this is a separate application from the abstract submission process. Applicants are requested to indicate on the paper or panel proposal that they send to [log in to unmask] that they are applying for the graduate student scholarship.