Thursday, September 22 (Room C.002)

09.00                            Registration

09.40                            Toon Staes - Opening of the conference

10.00-11.00                First keynote speaker: Stephen J. Burn, Northern Michigan University - "A Paradigm for the Life of Consciousness": Closing Time in The Pale King

11.00-11.15                Coffee break

11.15-12.35                Adam Kelly (University College Dublin/Harvard University) - From Logic and Culture to History and Politics: Wallace's Career Trajectory from the Perspective of The Pale King

                                      Jan Hammerquist (BA, Brandeis University) - "Polyphony and Flux": Dave Wallace at Zero-Degree

12.35-14.10                Lunch break

14.10-15.40                Mark Peter West (University of Glasgow) - Abide: Structures of Commitment from Infinite Jest to The Pale King

                                      Ryan Blanck (Independent scholar) - What the Hell is Water?

                                      Charles Nixon (University of Leeds) - The Pale King as Ethical Engagement: Maturity, self-consciousness and respect as the basis of Wallace's post-postmodern politics

15.40-16.00                 Coffee break

16.00-17.30                David Hering (University of Liverpool) - Pieces of The Pale King Building Narratives Without an Author

                                      Clare Hayes-Brady (Trinity College Dublin) - "Palely Loitering": Pallor, Death, and the Supernatural in The Pale King

Friday, September 23 (Room C.002)

09.30-10.50                Brittany Lang (The College of New Jersey) - "This Terror of Silence With Nothing Diverting to Do": The Dialogic Concept of Boredom within The Pale King                                       

                                      Allard den Dulk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Boredom and the Bliss of Meaningful Existence: The Pale King viewed in Light of Kierkegaard's Existentialist Philosophy

10.50-11.05                Coffee break

11.05-12.25                Emily J. Hogg (Queen Mary, University of London) - How It "Actually Makes Us...Feel, Inside": Subjective Politics in The Pale King

                            Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus University) - Pay Attention!: On the Cruelty of Incuriosity in the Work of Wallace and his Real Enemies

12.25-14.00                Lunch break

14.00-15.20                 Conley Wouters (Brandeis University) - "What Am I, a Machine?": Information and Entertainment in Infinite Jest and The Pale King

                                      Matthew Balliro (University of Rhode Island) - The Digitized Subject: David Foster Wallace and the Mode of Information

15.20-15.40                Coffee break

15.40-16.40                Second keynote speaker: Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College - Trickle-Down Citizenship: Taxes and Civic Responsibility in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King

17.40                            Closing of the Conference