conrad: conflict and solidarities

CONRAD: CONFLICT AND SOLIDARITIES
The Joseph Conrad Society of America
Vancouver | 13-16 August 2014
Fairleigh Dickinson University – Vancouver
Conference Organizers: J.H. Stape and Debra Romanick Baldwin
WEDNESDAY |13 AUGUST
11 a.m. – noon.
Packets and Badges available at Welcome Desk
Noon – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. SESSION 1 (ROOM 130) – GREETING AND PLENARY 1:
Chair: Debra Romanick Baldwin, University of Dallas
Greeting and Welcome to Fairleigh Dickinson University–Vancouver
Cecil Abrahams, Provost, FDU–Vancouver
Mark Larabee, US Naval Academy
“Conrad and the Spaces of War”
2:45 – 4 :15 p.m. SESSION 2 (ROOM 130): JCSA PERSPECTIVES
Chair: James Gifford, FDU–Vancouver
Christopher GoGwilt
2015 JCSA President-Elect
Brian Richardson
JCSA Past President
John G. Peters
Conradian Solidarities: Switching Loyalties,
Switching Scripts
Action, Silence, Death: The Power of the
Unspoken in Conrad’s Plots
Conrad and The Epistemology of Space
JCSA Past President
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Break
4:30 – 5:45 p.m. SESSION 3: PRAXIS AND PERFORMANCE
Chair: Ellen Harrington, University of South Alabama
Johan Warodell
Lance Lee
Mark Deggan
Peeping into Conrad's Locked Drawer: An
Unfinished Novel and Two Unpublished Drawings
“Tremolino,” Trem, and the Stein Passage
Conrad’s Ecocritical Globalism: Performative
Ecologies at Patusan
6 p.m. Wine & Cheese hosted by Cecil Abrahams, Provost, FDU-Vancouver
THURSDAY |14 AUGUST
9:30 – 10:45 a.m. — SESSION 4: PLENARY II
Chair: John G. Peters, University of North Texas, Editor, Conradiana
Allan H. Simmons, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham
“Rescuing Conrad from his Editors”
10:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Morning Coffee
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. SESSION 5: VICTORY IN ITS CENTENARY YEAR
Chair: Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, London
Judith Paltin
“Murdering Silence”: Problems with Theory of
Mind in Victory
Robert Dearle
Unnatural (Meta)physics: Inertia as Enlightened
False Consciousness in Victory
Ellen Burton Harrington Gender, Solidarity, and the Case of Mrs. Schomberg
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Break
2 – 3:15 p.m. SESSION 6: CONRADIAN SEARCHINGS
Chair: Daphna Erdnast-Vulcan, University of Haifa
Christie Gramm
Yasuko Shidara
Debra Romanick
Baldwin
Omniscient Fathers: Almayer, the Parson and
the Silliest Fish
Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn: Searching for Echoes
between the Two Wanderers/Observers
Conradian Eros and the Question of the
Knowing Reader
3:50 p.m. “NOT QUITE SAMBURAN”: DEPARTURE FOR EXCURSION TO
HORSESHOE BAY AND DRINKS PARTY/CASH BAR
Bay Moorings, Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver.
Meet in Main Lobby of Fairleigh Dickinson.
“…on high over the sea, lonely, its colour effaced by sunshine, its
horizon a heat mist, a mere unsubstantial shimmer in the pale and
blinding infinity overhung by the darker blaze of the sky.”
FRIDAY | 15 AUGUST
9:30 –10:45 a.m. — SESSION 7 (ROOM 130): PLENARY III
Chair: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London
“Conrad, the ‘Polish Problem,’ and Transnational Activism”
10:45 –11:15 a.m. Morning Coffee
11:15 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. SESSION 8: POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION
Chair: Véronique Pauly, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-enYvelines
George Zbigniew Gasyna
Derek Chisholm
Pei-Wen Clio Kao
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Solidarity/Solitude: Conrad's Poland as an
Imagined Community
Forget and be at Peace! “Karain” and the
Economical Impact of Globalization on
Traditional Cultures, 1880–1914
Whose Youth? Whose Death? Disrupting the
Unequal Encounter between an Ascending
West and a Decaying East in “Youth”
Lunch Break
2 – 3:15 p.m. SESSION 9: CONRAD AND CONFLICT
Chair: Mark Larabee, US Naval Academy
Brendon Kavanagh
G. W. Stephen Brodsky
William Atkinson
3:15 – 3:45 p.m.
“Invigorating electric belts”: The Ghosting of
Vibration in The Secret Agent
An Act Cruel and Absurd: Conrad, Duels, and War
Posthumanist Conrad: The Beasts and the
Sovereign
Refreshments
3:45–5 p.m. SESSION 10: SCREENING OF VICTORY (1919)
Directed by French cinema pioneer Maurice Tourneur, and starring
Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, and Wallace Beery (62 min.).
SATURDAY | 16 AUGUST
9:30 – 10:45 a.m. – SESSION 11 (ROOM 130): PLENARY IV
Chair: Christopher GoGwilt, Fordham University
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, University of Haifa
“Conrad, Malinowski, and the Anxiety of Storytelling”
10:45 –11:15 a.m.
Morning Coffee
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. SESSION 12: “HEART OF DARKNESS”
Chair: John G. Peters, University of North Texas
Melissa Lee
Joseph Conrad and Hospitality: Postcolonial
Legacies, The Comparison of Language and
The Other in Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness and A Fringe of Leaves:
Eco-interpretations
Inscriptions of Resistance in Heart of Darkness
Xiang Lan
Charley Wesley
12:30 –1:45 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:45 – 3 p.m. SESSION 13: SEMINAR I: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CONRAD
A roundtable discussion led by Christopher GoGwilt, featuring
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Robert Hampson, Ellen Burton Harrington,
John Peters, and Brian Richardson.
3 – 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments
3:30 –4:30 p.m. SESSION 14: SEMINAR II: CONFLICTS AND SOLIDARITIES
IN THE CLASSROOM — TEACHING THE SECRET AGENT
An open seminar discussion led by Debra Romanick Baldwin, inviting
your experiences and thoughts on the challenges and opportunities of
teaching The Secret Agent in particular – and perhaps Conrad in
general – in today’s political, cultural, and intellectual context.
7 p.m. GALA DINNER AND AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Morocco West Restaurant, 795 Jervis Street, at Jervis and Robson.

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