P l a c e:

R e g i s t r a t i o n:

P r o g r a m:

Please see below.

A c c o m m o d a t i o n:

Please see the hotels listed after the program.

I n f o r m a t i o n :

For further information, please get in touch with Vaska Tumir at Vtumir@conestogac.on.ca

Tuesday, June 8

9:30 am

Informal Transit of Venus observation: place TBA

10:30 -- 11:00 am

Keynote address: Arnold Cassola, Pynchon's Malta

11:00 -- 12:45 pm

Bruno Arich-Gerz, The Comet and the Rocket: Intertextual Constellations about Technological Progress in Bruno Schultz's "Kometa" and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Douglas Lannark, A Chronological Examination of Love in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Arek Misztal, Fixed Stars and Zenith-Star Locations in Mason & Dixon

Lunch Break

2:00 -- 3:45 pm

Thanassis Douvris, Thomas Pynchon, "Ocular" Writer
Evert Rutgers, Pynchon vs. Dutch History: Fictionalizing History and Historicizing Fiction
Daniel Fusch, Pynchon's Historiography of Extinction

Coffee Break

4:00 -- 5:45 pm

Celia Wallhead, Mason & Dixon and Hamlet
Charles Hollander, Thomas Pynchon: American Dante?
Katherine Streip, Pynchon and Proust: Art, Identity and Time

6:00 pm

Walking Tour of Valletta 

Wednesday, June 9

9:00 -- 10:45 am

Zak Smith, Illustrating Gravity's Rainbow
Neil Brooks, Watching the Vineland Channel: Prescient Clarion or Disposable Novel for a Disposable Culture
John Lewis, Told Sorrows: Pynchon's Dead Soldiers and the Motives for Fiction

Coffee Break

11:00 -- 12:45 pm

Damian Ward Hey, Pynchon's Signifying Duck: History and Fanciful Extension in Mason & Dixon
Bernd Klähn, Blinded by the Light: Astronomy and Quantum Optics in Pynchon's Novels
Katrin Amian, Cultural Work of 'Guesswork': Reconsidering Pynchon's V.

Lunch Break

2:30 -- 3:45 pm

Robert McLaughlin, History and Narrative Tension in Pynchon's Novels
Frank Palmeri, General Wolfe and the Weavers: Re-envisioning History in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

4:15 pm

Cruise of the Grand Harbour (Embarking at 4:00 pm)

Thursday, June 10

9:00 -- 9:30 am

Keynote address: Peter Serracino-Inglott

9:35 --11:00 am

Luc Herman and John Krafft, Fast Learner: A Typescript of V.
David Cowart, V. in the Classroom

Coffee Break

11:15 -- 1:00 pm

Michael Sinding, A Return to the Excluded Middle Ages
Samuel Thomas, Blank Cheques: Invisibility and Economy in Mason & Dixon
Gilles Chamerois, The Silent Discourse of the "Unreadable Map-scape": The Cartography of Mason & Dixon

Lunch Break

2:30 -- 4:15 pm

Luca Briasco, "Hic Sunt Leones": The Visto, the Equator and Other Remarkable Lines
Paolo Prezzavento, Writing is a Sirius Business: Astrology, Astronomy and the Dog Star in Mason & Dixon
Eleonora Lacorte, Croissants and Ketchup: Cuisine in Mason & Dixon

Coffee Break

4:30 -- 5:45 pm

Giuseppe Costigliola, A Comparative Analysis of Mason & Dixon and John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor
Umberto Rossi, The Rifles: The Fire as a Symbol and Firearms in Mason & Dixon

Friday, June 11

9:00 -- 10:45 am

Terry Reilly, Tempus Incognitus: Temporality and the Shapes of Time in Mason & Dixon
Creon Upton, Mason and Dixon's Sentimental Journey: Approaches to Death Clément Lévy, On Lines and Figures: Mason & Dixon and The Castle

Coffee Break

11:00 -- 12:45 pm

Galena Eduardova, Four Parables of Affectivity: Or, How to Make Yourself a Community According to The Crying of Lot 49
Zdenik Fucik, Man Is Only Real at the Points of Decision: Artaud, Gravity's Rainbow, and the Architecture of the Book
Graham Benton, Pynchon's Topographica Americana: City Planning, Urban Blight and the Wild West

Lunch Break

2:00 -- 3:45 pm

Noeme Klingl, Deconstructing the US as a Nation in Gravity's Rainbow
Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Alternative Beginnings in Gravity's Rainbow
Zofia Kolbuszewska, The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): An Apocryphal America in Mason & Dixon

Coffee Break

4:00 -- 4:30 pm

Keynote address: Deborah Madsen

5:00 pm

Bus Tour of Pynchon's Malta

A c c o m m o d a t i o n: Below is a list of hotels offering special conference rates. Except for Victoria Hotel (four stars), all of the Sliema hotels listed are in the three-star category. We recommend The Metropole. The public transport connection between Sliema and Valletta is excellent. Buses run every 10 minutes, and the ride itself takes about 15-20 minutes. A bus ticket (one way) costs 12 cents.

Valletta

Sliema

Website at http://www.hotelcastillemalta.com

For reservations, contact: Ronald De Giorgio at info@hotelcastillemalta.com

Website at http://www.metropolemalta.com

For reservations, please contact: Rachel Cucciardi at info@metropolemalta.com

Website at http://www.grandharbourhotel.com

For reservations, contact: Mario Demanuele
Manager, at info@grandharbourhotel.com

Phone no.+356 - 21246003
Fax No.+356 - 21242219

Website at www.roosendaal.com.mt

Rates per person, bed and breakfast basis:
Twin room: LM 12 per person per night
Single room: LM 16 per night
For reservations, contact: Suzanne Nygren at snygren@roosendaal.com.mt OR Maryse Attard Montalto at maryse@roosendaal.com.mt OR Raphael Borg at admin@roosendaal.com.mt

Tel: (00356) 21333565 - 21333570
Fax:(00356) 21333558 - 21333560

 For reservations, contact: John Busuttil at
john@maltahotel.net

Website http://www.newtowerpalacehotel.com

For reservations, contact: John Mifsud at info@newtowerpalacehotel.com

Phone: +356-21337271/2/3/4
Fax: +356 21 311235

Website at http://www.victoriahotel.com

Rates on a bed-and-breakfast basis:
Twin, per person, per day: LM 17.50
Single, per day: LM 25.00

For reservations, contact: Patrick Paris,
Sales & Marketing Manager, at pparis@victoriahotel.com