All events will take place at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL.
The conference is free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 7

5–6 PM: Tom McCarthy, “Why Ulysses Matters”
6:30–8 PM: A. S. Byatt and Tom McCarthy readings and discussion
Reception and book signings to follow. Please understand that the both authors’ signing time will be limited; tickets for the signing will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors will open at 4:15 p.m.

Friday, November 8

9–9:15 AM: Coffee and light breakfast
9:20–9:30 AM: Opening remarks

9:30–11:30 AM: Pride and Prejudice
Deidre Lynch, University of Toronto, “Pride and Prejudice by Numbers”
Sandra Macpherson, Ohio State University, “A Pudding or a Machine”
Moderated by Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago, with a response from James Chandler, University of Chicago

11:30–1 PM: Lunch (provided)

1–3 PM: Middlemarch
Nicholas Dames, Columbia University, “Middlemarch‘s Days,”
Simon During, University of Queensland, “Kafka’s Middlemarch,”
Moderated by Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago, with a response from Elaine Hadley, University of Chicago

5:30–6:30 PM: A. S. Byatt lecture on Middlemarch and The Golden Bowl
Book signing to follow. Please understand that the author’s signing time will be limited; tickets for the signing will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors will open at 4:15 p.m.

Saturday, November 9

9–9:15 AM: Coffee and light breakfast
9:20–9:30 AM: Remarks

9:30–11:30 AM: The Golden Bowl
Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London, “The Golden Bowl: Where William and Henry Meet”
Michael Wood, Princeton University, “The Golden Bowl: Unintended Empires”
Moderated by Bill Brown, University of Chicago, with a response from Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

11:30 AM–1 PM: Lunch (provided)

1–3 PM: Ulysses
Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Textual Excess and the Reconfigured Subject”
Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame, “Ulysses: Epic or Novel?”
Moderated by Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago, with a response from Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago

3:30–4:30 PM: Fredric Jameson, Duke University, “The Persistence of Narrative”
Moderated by Leela Gandhi, University of Chicago

4:30–5 PM: Closing Remarks
Reception to follow

To request assistance, please email humanities@uchicago.edu or call 773-702-7423.