Амфитеатар Народне библиотеке Србије

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA, 1 Skerlićeva Street

    MORNING SESSION 9:00 – 11:00 AM

 “Predecessor Intertexts”
 – Romina Kipouridou: The Borgesian Thomas Pynchon
– Dominik Steinhilber: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Ulyssean Tradition: Joyce’s Mass and Pynchon’s       Church Year
– David Leupold: Modernities in Contest between Post-Revolutionary Armenia and Postwar USA: Mkrtich Armen’s Yerevan (1931) and Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1963)

    NOON SESSION 11:30 – 1:30 PM

“Pynchon and Older Traditions”
– Matthew Nelson: ‘[A]n oceanic impression’: Thomas Pynchon’s V., David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, and American Sea Gothic
– Dominika Bugno-Narecka: Hypnerotomachia Pynchoni, or the Traces of Renaissance Humanism in The Crying of Lot 49
– Damir Gruda: Pynchon in Comparative Perspectives with Some American Poets on the Poems of the Sanjak of Novi Pazar

   LUNCH BREAK 1:30 – 3:00 PM

   AFTERNOON SESSION 3:00 – 4:30 PM

“Pynchon Seen through the Ideological Prism”
– Ben Brown: The Evolution of Neoliberal Ideology in Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge
– Nina Muždeka: Decoding Colonial Shadows: Unravelling the Threads of Dutch Colonialism in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
– Birger Vanwesenbeeck: Beyond the Performance Principle: Pynchon Reads Marcuse

CONFERENCE CLOSING up to 5:00 PM