“Joyce and the East”
2026 Suzhou James Joyce Symposium
Agenda
June 6 Saturday 8:30-12:00
Tianshu Building 403 (Dunxing Hall)
Tencent Meeting Room: 962832659
Session 1
Finn Fordham
Finnegans Wake imagines China
Guo Jun
James Joyce’s Orientalism and Oriental Imagery: deterritorialization and reterritorialization
Session 2
Lu Jiande
Oriental Trade in Ulysses
Vicki Mahaffey
When East meets West
Shen Fuying
Where Does Joyce Meet Cao Xueqin？: A Dialogical Reading of Finnegans Wake and A Dream of the Red Chamber
Liu Yan
James Joyce and the Society of Jesus, Eastern Perspective and Cosmopolitanism
June 6 Saturday 14:00-17:00
Group 1: Joyce and the Orient
Nanyong Building, West 108
Tencent Meeting Room: 168611901
Group 2: Joyce and Contemporary Literature
Nanyong Building, West 115
Tencent Meeting Room: 482125224
Group 3: Finnegans Wake and others
Nanyong Building, West 116
Tencent Meeting Room:405154166
June 7 Sunday 9:00-12:00
Tianshu Building 403 (Dunxing Hall)
Tencent Meeting Room: 206332351
Session 3
Kang He
Gerty is a shooting star
Che Qianzi
The Back Kitchen of the Swamp
Cao Bo
The Introduction of Joyce into China
Session 4
Xiao Jian
“The Unfinished Divine Comedy”: Implicit Dialogues with Dante in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Sun Feng
Liberation on Two Wheels: The Bicycle Imagery in Ulysses and the Narratives of “New Women” in the East and the West
Dai Congrong
James Joyce’s Reading of Yogi Philosophy
