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Pynchon's New Worlds

International Pynchon Week 2017

La Rochelle, June 5-9, 2017

Program

Day 4: Thursday 8 June
Auditorium - Médiathèque: Médiathèque Michel-Crépeau, Avenue Michel-Crépeau
09:00-10:30
COMMUNICATION 1, THE INTERNET
  Chaired by Miriam Fernández-Santiago
  Melissa Leismer, Georgios Maragos and Doug Stark
⇒ 09:00-09:30
'[C]omputer horror tales’: The Evolution of the Internet in Thomas Pynchon’s Universe
  Georgios Maragos
⇒ 09:30-10:00
The Moment of 9/11 Pitted Against the Momentousness of the Deep Web: Reversing Reality
  Melissa Leismer
⇒ 10:00-10:30
Chaotic DeepArcher: Technology and Liminality in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
  Doug Stark
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
 
10:45-11:45
COMMUNICATION 2, THE CRYING OF LOT 49 AND BEYOND
  Chaired by Martin Eve
  Tore Rye Andersen and Xavier Marcó del Pont
⇒ 10:45-11:15
'Just mail the letter': Circulation and the Epistle in The Crying of Lot 49
  Xavier Marcó del Pont
⇒ 11:15-11:45
Distant Voices: Pynchon’s Telephones
  Tore Rye Andersen
11:45-14:00
Lunch
 
14:00-15:30
NEW WORLDS ON SCREEN
  Chaired by Xavier Marcó del Pont
  Arkadiusz Misztal and Richard Moss
⇒ 14:00-14:30
'This ole world in Minerva’s dreams’: An Animated Adaptation of The Crying of Lot 49
  Richard Moss
⇒ 14:30-15:00
Δt and Pynchon’s Vision Machines: Photography and Cinema in Against the Day and Gravity's Rainbow
  Arkadiusz Misztal
15:30-15:45
Coffee Break
 
15:45-17:15
SOURCES, EDITS AND INFLUENCES
  Chaired by Michel Ryckx
  Ali Chetwynd, Matthew Cissell, Nina Engelhardt and Harald Engelhardt and
⇒ 15:45-16:15
Minstrel-Island Mysogyny and the Edits to V.
  Ali Chetwynd
⇒ 16:15-16:45
Thomas Pynchon and the Meyerhof Salon: Pynchon’s Habitus, the US Literary Field and His Authorial Practice
  Matthew Cissell
⇒ 16:45-17:15
The Momentum of Pynchon’s Secret Formula: Gravity's Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Mathematico-Ethical Fiction
  Nina Engelhardt and Harald Engelhardt
20:00-22:00
Dinner