The James Joyce Italian Foundation

On 26th May 2006 The James Joyce Italian Foundation, JJIF, is founded, with the main aim to promote the study and research of European intellectuals who consider James Joyce standing at a crossroads of literary and cultural tradition.

The Association is independent, non-profit-making and based in Rome.

Read the Statute of the Association.

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Il 26 maggio 2006 si è costituita The James Joyce Italian Foundation, associazione apolitica, aconfessionale e senza fini di lucro che si pone l’obiettivo di promuovere la riflessione sugli intellettuali europei che riconoscono, direttamente o indirettamente, la vita e l’opera di James Joyce come “significativo crocevia della tradizione letteraria e culturale dei secoli precedenti”.

E’ possibile consultare direttamente lo Statuto dell’Associazione.

James Joyce Symposium 2010 – Prague, Czech Republic 2010

The XXII International James Joyce Symposium will be held in Prague from 13 to 18 June 2010. The event will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Donald F. Theall (1928-2008).

The title given to the Symposium is “Praharfeast” (FW 541.24) because, as the host commettee proposes, this “meeting of minds” should be a type of feast, a “symposium” in the original sense of the term.

Proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes duration may be presented on any aspect of Joyce studies, especially 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. The final deadline for submission of proposals is 1st March 2010.

All paper proposals must be submitted individually, by completing the required fields in the symposium Registration form, but panels and multiple panels on a given topic may also be  proposed using the proper Registration form. For further information visit the symposium website.

James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century – Durham, UK 2010

Durham University is pleased to announce the international and interdisciplinary conference “James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century” to be held at St.Chad’s College, Durham University from 14th to 17 April 2010.
The conference is organized in association with the Leverhulme-funded project “Consumer Culture, Advertising and Ireland, 1848-1921″ and it will focus on Joyce’s relationship with the nineteenth century, into which he was born and educated.
Keynote speakers include Anne Fogarty, Luke Gibbons, Andrew Gibson, Emer Nolan and Jennifer Wicke, and will result in a major new volume of essays.

Papers are invited on any aspect of Joyce’s relationship to the nineteenth century or on topics germane to the “Consumer Culture, Advertising and Ireland, 1848-1921″ project. Issues may include:

Joyce in Progress: Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome

The proceedings of the James Joyce Graduate Conference held in Rome in February 2008 were published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in September 2009 with the title Joyce in Progress.
The volume, which includes an afterword by Umberto Eco, is dedicated to Professor Giorgio Melchiori.

“The essays gathered in the volume are the fruit of the First Annual Graduate Conference in Joyce Studies held at the Università Roma Tre in February 2008 and organized by the Italian James Joyce Foundation. They are testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce’s writings and the ongoing liveliness of debate about the writer and his works and contexts”.

The table of contents and the foreword of the editors – Franca Ruggieri, John McCourt and Enrico Terrinoni – can be download from the Cambridge Scholars Publishing website or from this link:

• Joyce in Progress (pdf)
  

III JJIF James Joyce Graduate Conference – Dublin, Ireland 2010

A graduate conference to mark the 128th birthday of James Joyce will be held at the James Joyce Research Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland on 22nd and 23rd January 2010. The conference will be organized by University College Dublin in association with Università Roma Tre.
Plenary speakers include Professor Franca Ruggieri, Dr Fritz Senn and Professor John McCourt.
Twenty-minute papers are invited on all facets of Joyce’s work by doctoral and post-doctoral students who are currently working on Joyce and on aspects of modernism and/or of twentieth-century literature. The conference will be an opportunity to present work in progress on Joyce to an international audience.

Abstracts of about 300 words, a cv and a brief outline of your research project should be emailed by 31 October 2009 to Professor Anne Fogarty: joyceresearchcentre@ucd.ie.

Musicillogical Joyce – Zurich, Switzerland 2009

From 2nd to 8th August 2009, the James Joyce Zurich Foundation organises an international workshop on “Musicillogical Joyce”.
The topic of this year is music in all possible and profitable aspects: references, structures, songs, opera, sound, rhythm, performance, Joyce’s impact on composers, etc.
The Foundation charges a nominal fee of Swiss Fr. 100 for one whole intensive week. There will be early morning sessions including presentations and interaction on the topic. Some evenings are devoted to social gatherings and musical performances. The mid point, on Wednesday afternoon, is devoted to a Joycean city walk and the customary and ritual boat trip on the Lake of Zürich topped by a dinner.

For further information visit the web site of Zurich James Joyce Foundation.

James Joyce Research Colloquium – Dublin 16-18 April 2009

From 16 to 18 April 2009 the Joyce Research Colloquium will be held in Dublin at Trinity College and UCD.
This international colloquium aims to provide a forum for the discussion of current and future developments in James Joyce Studies by leading Joyce scholars. It also sets out to facilitate active exchange between graduate students and practitioners in the field of Joyce Studies on the challenges and problems of undertaking research on Joyce.
Speakers will analyse and debate the usefulness of particular methodologies and theoretical positions for aspects of research projects that they have concluded or their applicability for works in progress. The utility of historicist, material and textual approaches to Joyce will particularly be addressed.

Giorgio Melchiori – In Memoriam

The James Joyce Italian Foundation, with its President Franca Ruggieri and the members of the executive committee, Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Carla Marengo, John McCourt, Paola Pugliatti, Romana Zacchi, and its honorary trustee Umberto Eco, wishes to announce the death of its honorary trustee, Professor Giorgio Melchiori, father of Joyce Studies in Italy and renowned member, critic, essayist, translator.
May he rest in peace.

During the non-religious funeral at Università Roma Tre, some of his friends and scholars wanted to remember the figure of Professor Melchiori as a man, a scholar, a teacher and, above all, a friend, as proved by each speech.

Franco Antonio Belgiorno – In Memoriam

The James Joyce Italian Foundation, with its President, Franca Ruggieri and the members of the Executive Committee, Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Carla Marengo, John McCourt, Paola Pugliatti and Romana Zacchi, offers its heartfelt sympathy at the sudden death of Franco Antonio Belgiorno, writer, essayist and much appreciated collector of Joycean volumes and translations.
May he rest in peace.

Luigi Schenoni – In Memoriam

The James Joyce Italian Foundation, with its President, Franca Ruggieri and the members of the Executive Committee, Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Carla Marengo, John McCourt, Paola Pugliatti and Romana Zacchi, and its honorary members, Umberto Eco and Giorgio Melchiori, wishes to offer its sympathy at the death of Luigi Schenoni, honorary member, poet and essayist, brilliant and passionate translator of Finnegans Wake, and esteemed member of the International Joyce Community.
May he rest in peace.

II JJIF James Joyce Graduate Conference – Rome, Italy 2009

The James Joyce Italian Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 James Joyce Graduate Conference which will be held in Rome on February 2-3.
The Foundation is seeking graduate students and young scholars interested in Joyce, the man, the writer and his context to take part in the conference, which will be held at the Università Roma Tre, Italy, on February 2-3, 2009, Joyce’s one hundred twentyseventh birthday, and is being organised in collaboration with the James Joyce Reserach Centre, University College Dublin and the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
It will be the occasion to present unpublished papers and works in progress on Joyce to an international audience.
Emerging Joyce scholars are invited to send proposals for a 20-minute contribution to be discussed at the one-day and a half conference on current trends in Joyce and modernist scholarship. The general theme of the conference is “James Joyce: Metamorphosis and Rewriting”. Related topics include but are not limited to: