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2025 Workshop: Joycean Noise

The 2025 Workshop on “Joycean Noise” took place from August 3 to 8, 2025 and was organized by Frances Ilmberger.

The list of speakers was as follows:

  • Fritz Senn: “Overview”
  • Christine O’Neill: “‘Bip!’ goes Bloom’s Trouserbutton: Noise in Joyce”
  • Frances Ilmberger: “Breaking Silence”
  • Tim Conley, “Corpophonics”
  • Trish Bilias: “‘clang tinkle boomhammer’ (FW 15.4125): Noise Experiments in ‘Circe’”
  • Maria Parino: “‘A telephone in the coffin’: Acoustic Devices in “‘Hades’”
  • Kazuhiro Doki: “Music, Onomatopoeia, and Noise in the ‘Sirens’”
  • Bill Brockman & Sabrina Alonso: “Jing. Stop.”
  • Talia Abu: “Ghostly Voices in Finnegans Wake: A Gothic Reading”
  • Armağan Ekici: “Strategies in Translating the Sound Effects”
  • Sun-Chieh Liang: “‘Have you here?’ (FW 44.17): The Oriental Noise”
  • Meg Harper: “Loud, Hear us! (FW 258)”
  • Mikio Fuse: “’woman formed mobile or man made static’: The Ear and the Radio in Finnegans Wake II.3″
  • Karl-Heinz Barthelmas: “‘… perhaps a funny funeral’: Some Remarks on ‘Hades’”

The workshop also included a guided city tour on Joyce and Modernism and a boat trip with dinner at Halbinsel Au.