Sunday 9 July Conrad conference POSK

Yumiko Iwashimizu

Schoemberg when he imagines kicking Ricardo and Jones is like Jim when he imagines
his heroic life.

Tor Ehler Exile, Adaptation, Identity

John Tiernan exile applied to Europeans. Refugees a contrast? What is the difference
between an exile and a refugee. Are they isolated from the culture they have left.
Refugees a community in exile?

Yoko Okuda

Nostromo, identity and desire

Is there something of Buddhist renunciation (self-forgetfulness) in Emilia Gould?

Does Conrad value self-forgetfulness? Cf egoism

Nostromo egoism vs Emilia selflessness

Decoud puts his pen at the service of the nation to legitimate himself in the eyes of
Antonia (Ambrosini). He is another figure who gets carried away by his pen! And the
words that he writes which take him away from his cynicism but also end in his death.

Brendan Kavanagh

Nigger of the Narcissus

NB Poland the Quixote of Europe? Nation of Quixotes?

Contagious atmosphere Cough as symbolic contagion of socialist ideology

Peter Sloterdijk The nomotop theory of normativity worked through in metaphors

drawn from the body or physical sciences?

Notes on lifes and letters

And the multitude feels it too

Malika
Conrad as a cultural sociologist
Rapprochement between Conrad and Pierre Bourdieu

Remy Arab Fuentes

When bastard befalls
Conrad and Genealogy
The idea of genealogy in Conrads fiction

Genealogy in the sense of family relation was a hot topic in 19C literature
Conrads novels contain many family genealogical issues foundlings, absent parents,
etc.

Testimony to an anxiety regarding genealogy.

Ninas choice a choice in genealogy

Notes to Almayers folly deals with genealogy: decivilised man (Alice Meynell)

Meynell argues genealogy works backwards to justify the present circumstances though
reference to illustrious forefathers.

But in the future none of us is safe from subsequent degeneration.

Is there a difference between bastardy and miscegenation?

Ninas genealogy is discontinuous but because of miscegenation not bastardy. Is

miscegenation the same kind of discontinuity as bastardy?

Almayers struggle is to legitimate his daughter.

[But Almayers vision is not a ghost: it is Ali who labels it a spirit, and thus takes control
of Almayers story in an ironic inversion of power.]

Said collapse of the genealogical line into plurality: a break in the line? But caused by
what? Beginnings: intention and method

Conrads palimpsestic genealogy

Conrad denies his characters a natural genealogy. Bastardy is everywhere.

Against the myth of perfect origin, against the of ?

Intermingling and bastardies. The man-of-mixture

NB for publication Oxford series on Modernism has books on violence. Mark Wollaeger
(Tenessee).

The first mate is a Polish count, a very quiet fellow: some new Torrens documents

Helen Chambers

Author and the cinematograph Mary Burgogne

William Atkinson Lord Jim: The Testimony of Animals

Dogs exist at the limits of discourse marking the boundary of the unsayable

Is Steins response to the butterfly actually a response to a near death experience?

Stein not heroic because he prevails by pretending to be dead.

The meaning of a tale is only achieved when it is finished, when it is dead. See Agamben
perhaps?

The Patusan episode is Marlows opportunity to capture, kill and encase Jim.

Man is marginalised by Stein (not a masterpiece) but it is man who makes that
judgement and takes control of the world with his panoptical authority.