The “North American James Joyce Conference”:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/conference/ will be here in Ithaca next week. The program runs 21 pages long, and at a rough count I think there are something like 250 papers being offered. It would be fun to attend some (I think) but the only registration option they have is $110, which is meant to cover a whole host of meals etc as well. And it’s somewhat immoral to sneak into a conference without paying registration. There is a roving reading of _Ulysses_ on Bloomsday as part of the festivities and I might pop along to see some of that. Fellow Ithacans should be aware of the English professors incoming!