About the idea

Our theme is doubling/doubles.

If he could get to the heart of Dublin,
Joyce ventured, then he could get to the heart
of all cities of the world.  This suggests that all cities are potentially doubles of each other. 
Dublin could find its essence doubled elsewhere: Trieste, Zurich, Paris, Lublin.

Or Krakow..  

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Plenary speakers and special guests

PLENARY SPEAKERS

  • Dr Valérie Bénéjam, Nantes Université
  • Mary Costello, winner of the Irish Novel of the Year Award for Academy Street, author of The China Factory, Barcelona, and The River Capture
  • Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer prize winning author of Witz, Book of Numbers, The Netanyahus
  • Dr Julie Weng, Texas State University

SPECIAL GUESTS

  • Áine Stapleton, dance artist and filmmaker, director of Medicated Milk, Horrible Creature  and Somewhere in the body
  • Michael Joyce, pioneer creator of hypertext fiction, including afternoon. a story, twilight, and co-author of Lasting Image, poet and novelist (War outside Ireland)
  • Carolyn Guyer, pioneer author of hypertext fiction, including Quibbling, creator and curator of ‘Mother Millennia’ collaborative web work, co-author of Lasting Image
  • Zenon Fajfer, Polish poet, playwright, creator of Liberature, a new literature genre,
    co-author, with Katarzyna Bazarnik, of Finnegans Make after Thought, Word and Deed of Mr James Joyce (premiered in Dublin 1996)
  • Zachary Leader, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London and author of Ellmann’s Joyce, The Life of Kingsley Amis and the two-volume Life of Saul Bellow, alongside multiple works of criticism and scholarship. He is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Practical info

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Programme

We are delighted to provide an outline for the XXXth Joyce Symposium in Krakow.  The registration will start from 9 am on Monday 15th in Collegium Novum, in front of the Aula on the 1st floor, and will be available each day from 9 am to 5 pm.A welcome from the Jagiellonian University will be held at 10 am in …

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Registration

The on-site registration will be available from 9 am on Monday 15th at the registration desk in Collegium Novum, on the 1st floor, next to the Aula, and will be available each day from 9 am to 5 pm. During the registration process, you were asked to read and accept the Symposium Regulation, the Information …

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IJJF Scholarships

The International James Joyce Foundation is sponsoring up to ten scholarships for graduate students and early career researchers to attend ‘This is Dyoublong’: The XXXth International James Joyce Symposium.  Scholarships can be used to cover early bird registration and travel and accommodation costs (the value of recipients’ awards will be determined by the scholarship committee up to a maximum of €1,000). Applicants should submit a copy of their paper …

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Contact

HOST COMMITTEE

Katarzyna Bazarnik
Bożena Kucała
Katarzyna Biela
conference secretaries: Justyna Kiełkowicz and Katarzyna Piecuch

e-mail address: ijjfkrakow2026@uj.edu.pl or k.bazarnik@uj.edu.pl

Institute of English Studies
Jagiellonian University
al. Mickiewicza 9a
31-120 Kraków
Poland

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway University of London)
Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck University of London)
Katarzyna Bazarnik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

IJJF OFFICERS

President: John McCourt (University of Macerata)
Vice-President: Ronan Crowley (KU Leuven) 
Executive Secretary: Jeffrey Drouin (University of Tulsa)

IJJF SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Ulkar Asgarova (Azerbaijan University of Languages)
Henry Barlow (University of Oxford)
Skylar Fetter (Yale University)
Jasper Harrington (University of Melbourne)
Hou Xiaoshan (University of Bristol)
Jiamei Li (University of Auckland)
Sharif Mardi (Independent Researcher)
Nina Milonet (University of Lille)
Elisa Moy (University of Oxford)
Jack Rodgers (Harvard University)
Clara Scholz (Independent Researcher)
Lochie Springett (University of Oxford)

SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE

Paul Fagan (University of Vienna)
Onno Kosters (Utrecht University)
Stephanie Nelson (Boston University)

EMERGING SCHOLARS AWARD COMMITTEE

Shinjini Chattopadhyay (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield)
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (University of Bristol)

COMPLAINTS AND CONCERNS COMMITTEE

Talia Abu
Anne-Marie D’Arcy
Finn Fordham
The substitutes: Richard Barlow and Teresa Caneda-Cabrera

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