About this Event
Boston College, 300 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/sites/irish.htmlA 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