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A day-long conference at Boston College with speakers Fintan O'Toole of the Irish Times, Catherine Flynn of UC Berkeley, and Joseph Valente, University of Buffalo. This event is free and open to the public, but please register at nugentjf@bc.edu to let us know you'll attend. RSVP at https://forms.gle/QpHa3TngQRa4kcUR7 or email nugentjf@bc.edu

JOYCE AND FLANN: AN INSOLUBLE PANCAKE
Connolly House Saturday, March 30, 2019

9 a.m.          Coffee and Pastries

9:30 a.m.   Welcome: Professor James H. Murphy

9:45 a.m.    Joyce, Flann, and ‘Humor, the Handmaid of Sorrow and Fear’” Professor Catherine Flynn, U.C. Berkeley

10:30 a.m.   Coffee

10:45 a.m.   Panel: My Life With Flann

Christian Dupont          Director, The Burns Library, Boston College
Catherine Flynn            UC Berkeley
Patrick Lonergan          Professor of Theatre, NUI, Galway
Brian O’Donovan          WGBH / A Celtic Sojourn
Thomas O’Grady           Professor of English, U. Mass., Boston
Charles M. Sennott      National Public Radio / The Ground Truth Project
Joseph Valente              Distinguished Professor, University of Buffalo

11:45 a.m.                    Technological Flanneurs                    Alex Benoit
                                       Podcasting Flannites                          Benjamin Bertrand
                                       In Cavan there was a Great Fire      Elizabeth Petretti

12:15 p.m.                         Lunch                      Flann Hilarity with David Gullette

1:30 p.m.    Waking the Word A Collaborative Reading of Finnegans Wake with:
Catherine Flynn
Teddy Lehre
John Lurz
Richard Kearney
Joseph Valente
Rachael Young

2:15 p.m.    A Special Place in Hell: Time, Brexit & The Third Policeman
                   
Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times

3:45 p.m.        Tea and Cakes

4 p.m.           Tour of the Exhibition of Flann O’Brien artefacts and papers
                         Burns Library,  led by Christian Dupont    

Refreshments

Further Hilarity from David Gullette