MONDAY, JUNE 17
PRE-CONFERENCE GATHERING, 5:00 - 8:00 PM CET RECTORATE ATRIUM, 1 Student Square (in an event of rain: FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY, 50 m away)
This should be the final version of the programme, with the latest changes taken into consideration. Any new change will be duly noted.
PLEASE NOTE: This link is valid for the first three days of the conference (June 18-June 20), at the Faculty of Philology
https://zoom.us/j/96709673920?pwd=VpLLeSSpIYAXvD0JL9gDH3RJZ1kfCU.1
TUESDAY, JUNE 18 FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY, HALL 11
CONFERENCE OPENING 9:30 - 10:00 AM
MORNING SESSION 10:30 - 12:00
"Punctuation and Graffiti-marks"
- Gregory Marks “Now everybody—”: Pynchon, Hegel, and the Caesura of Modernity
- Tore Rye Andersen Pynchon’s Rude Manicule
LUNCH BREAK 12:00 - 2:00 PM
NOON SESSION 2:00 - 4:00 PM
"Translation and Eastern European Publication and Reception"
- Gyongyver Jenei The Network of Scientific Notions in Gravity’s Rainbow and Its Hungarian Translation
- Lukasz Barcinski Reflexive Techsthetics: Encyclopaedically Marked Items (EMIs) in the Polish translations of works by Thomas Pynchon
- Diana Benea The Circulation and Reception of Thomas Pynchon's First Novels in Communist Romania
- Roman Vasylenko Publishing Thomas Pynchon in Poland
AFTERNOON SESSION 4:30 - 6:00 PM
"Archival and Historical Presence and Absence"
- Jeffrey Severs Pynchon’s Pig War: Speculations on His Unpublished Fiction of the San Juan Islands
- Terry Reilly Appendix to the Appendix: “The St Regis Bell” and the Value of Hard Copy Analog Archives
- Eric Sandberg “In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity
ZOOM LINK:
https://zoom.us/j/96709673920?pwd=VpLLeSSpIYAXvD0JL9gDH3RJZ1kfCU.1
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY, HALL 11
MORNING SESSION 9:00 - 11:00 AM
"Bodies and Selves"
- Zofia Kolbuszewska Thomas Pynchon’s Neobaroque Bodies
- Andrin Albrecht Thomas Pynchon’s Kirghiz I: Performances and Subversions of Romantic Authorial
- Tamas Gabor Molnar The Death and Survival of the Moth in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
- Burak Sezer Hypermaskelyne: Science and Virility in Pynchon
NOON SESSION 11:30 - 1:30 PM
"Prose Fiction and its Uses"
- Ali Chetwynd Word Engineer: the Proper Prose Pynchon
- Mitch Bibby Pynchon's 'Scenes of Reading'
- Sascha Pöhlmann The Private and the Public in Mason & Dixon
- Sanita Delić A Portrayal of Digital Modernity in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
LUNCH BREAK 1:30 - 3:00 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 - 4:30 PM
"Vineland"
- Patrycja Austin Whose Land Is It? Vegetal and Human Cohabitants of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
- Neda Mandić The Female Revolutionary Characters and the Masculinist Power Structure within Pynchon’s Vineland
- Remy Louchart Vineland and the Vikings
VISIT TO THE NIKOLA TESLA MUSEUM, 51 Krunska St. 5:30 PM (the visit is optional, but certainly worth the time)
ZOOM LINK:
https://zoom.us/j/96709673920?pwd=VpLLeSSpIYAXvD0JL9gDH3RJZ1kfCU.1
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY, HALL 11
MORNING SESSION 9:00 - 11:00 AM
"Metaphysical Moments/Locations"
- Alexander Popov “No zones but the Zone”: Reading Gravity’s Rainbow through Genre Theory and Metaphysics
- Matthew Cissell Kwisatz Kid, or Kit's Big Leap from Baikal to Paris: How'd He Do That?
- Aleksandra Vukotić Pynchon’s and DeLillo’s (Techno) Convergences and Departures in Bleeding Edge and Zero K
- Valentine Alloing “It produced rats and paranoia.” Waste and the City in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge and Don DeLillo’s Underworld
NOON SESSION 11:30 - 1:00 PM
"Pynchon and Music"
- Christian Hänggi "Und jetzt alle—" Translating the Songs of Gravity’s Rainbow
- Justin St. Clair Streaming Pynchon: Auditory Scene Analysis in Literature
- Dorothea Rebecca Schönsee Flying on Bartók’s Scale: Polymodality as a Transformative Force in Thomas Pynchon ‘s and Don DeLillo’s Renditions of Financial Futures
LUNCH BREAK 1:00 - 3:00 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 - 4:30 PM
"Pynchon and Film"
- Samuel Thomas (Military) Industrial Light & Magic: Pynchon and Star Wars
- Rebeca Pérez Acosta Inherent Vice: The Narrative Variant of the Literary and Cinematographic Discourse
SHOP TALK 4:30 - 5:30 PM
CONFERENCE DINNER 8:00 PM, Azbuka Restaurant, 2 Kralja Milana Street
ZOOM LINK:
https://zoom.us/j/6220982794?pwd=TiYrmchwC1G7vyyztzgFa51S6af3ej.1&omn=93870236408
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA, 1 Skerlićeva Street
MORNING SESSION 9:00 - 11:00 AM
"Predecessor Intertexts"
- Romina Kipouridou The Borgesian Thomas Pynchon
- Dominik Steinhilber Gravity’s Rainbow and the Ulyssean Tradition: Joyce’s Mass and Pynchon’s Church Year
- David Leupold Modernities in Contest between Post-Revolutionary Armenia and Postwar USA: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963)
NOON SESSION 11:30 - 1:30 PM
"Pynchon and Older Traditions"
- Matthew Nelson ‘[A]n oceanic impression’: Thomas Pynchon’s V., David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, and American Sea Gothic
- Dominika Bugno-Narecka Hypnerotomachia Pynchoni, or the Traces of Renaissance Humanism in The Crying of Lot 49
- Damir Gruda Pynchon in Comparative Perspectives with Some American Poets on the Poems of the Sanjak of Novi Pazar
LUNCH BREAK 1:30 - 3:00 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 - 4:30 PM
"Pynchon Seen through the Ideological Prism"
- Ben Brown The Evolution of Neoliberal Ideology in Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge
- Nina Muždeka Decoding Colonial Shadows: Unravelling the Threads of Dutch Colonialism in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity’s Rainbow
- Birger Vanwesenbeeck Beyond the Performance Principle: Pynchon Reads Marcuse
CONFERENCE CLOSING up to 5:00 PM