Note: You must wear your badge to receive the local transportation gratuity.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions or meetings are held in the Camille Saint-Saëns Grand Ballroom, Hôtel des Trois Couronnes
Saturday, June 26
12:00-6:00 pm (please sign up for a specific time to register)
Registration (Trois Couronnes, Club)
8:30 am-5:30 pm
Excursion to Montreux, Vevey, Chillon Castle, and Gruyères. Lunch at La Fleur de Lys.
Meet at the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes at 8:30 am. We have to check each name before getting on the bus, so please be on time. Buses will depart promptly at 8:45 am. We will return you back to individual hotels when the excursion is over. DO NOT BE LATE.
7:30-8:30 pm
Opening Cocktail Party Reception
Hôtel des Trois Couronnes, Terrace
Dinner (on your own)
8:00 am-1:30 pm (please sign up for a specific time to register)
Registration (Trois Couronnes, Club)
8:00-9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mr. Thomas Brugnatelli, General Manager, Hôtel des Trois Couronnes
Jackson R. Bryer (U of Maryland), President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society; Ruth Prigozy (Hofstra U), Executive Director and Conference Co-Director; James H. Meredith (US Air Force Academy), Conference Director; and Kim Moreland (George Washington U), Program Director
John Kuehl Fellowship Fund Recognitions
Presented by Ruth Prigozy (Hofstra U), Executive Director, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society:
Allison Fisher
Somdatta Mandal
Yukiko Sawasaki
NOTE: Program sessions and coffee breaks are for full participants only, please.
9:15-11:00 am
Session 1: “Fitzgerald and Henry James,” Chair, Cathy Barks (U of Maryland)
1. “Daisy Miller: Vevey vs. Geneva,” Nancy Comley (Queens College, CUNY)
2. “The Great Gatsby and Daisy Miller,” Kim Moreland (George Washington U)
3. “Tendering Type,” Heidi Kunz (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College)
4. “‘The Hotel Child’ and Daisy Miller,” Niko Lewis (US Air Force Academy)
11:00-11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am-12:45 pm
Session 2: “Tender Is the Night I,” Chair, William Blazek (Liverpool Hope U College)
1. “Music and Openness in Tender Is the Night,” Anthony J. Berret (Saint Joseph’s U)
3. “Reversed Sex Roles, Acting, and Social Control,” Jamal Assadi (College of Sakhnin for Teachers’ Education)
3. “Europe and America in Tender Is the Night,” Claus Secher (The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen)
12:45–2:00 pm
Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:15 pm
Session 3: “Hemingway’s Switzerland,” Chair, Fred Kiley (US Air Force Academy)
1. “Hemingway’s Americans,” Ronald Berman (U of California, San Diego)
2. “Autobiography and/or a Sense of Place: Hemingway’s ‘Homage to Switzerland,’” Somdatta Mandal (Visva Bharati U)
3. “A Walk Back to the Hotel in the Rain: Switzerland and A Farewell to Arms,” James H. Meredith (US Air Force Academy)
3:15-3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30-5:15 pm
Session 4: “The Great Gatsby,” Chair, M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College)
1. “Ethics and The Great Gatsby,” Phillip Sipiora (U of South Florida)
2. “Discovering the Source of Gatsby’s Greatness: Nick’s Eulogy of a ‘Great’ Kierkegaardian Knight,” Jaimé L. Sanders (U of South Florida)
3. “Fitzgerald Pays Homage to Great Europeans: Keats and Kant in The Great Gatsby,” Horst Kruse (U of Muenster)
4. “What the Dickens?—Great Expectations and Gatsby,” Peter Hays (U of California, Davis)
5:15-5:45 pm
Session 5: “Swiss Poster Art: An Exhibition and Conversation,” Bez Ocko (Hofstra U)
5:45-7:30 pm
2. “A Swiss Imprisonment: Re-opening the Case of Nicole Diver,” Laura Rattray (U of Hull)
3. “Fitz, Freud, and Daddy’s Little Girl: Tender Is the Night’s Incest Motif in Social and Literary Context,” Jonathan Fegley (Middle Georgia College)
4. “Tender Is the Night and Renaissance Literature,” Akiko Ishikawa (Tokyo)
6:00-7:00 pm
Registration (Trois Couronnes, Club)
Dinner (on your own)
8:00 am-5:30 pm
Excursion to Castle Prangins, lunch at the Hotel de La Paix, Lausanne, and Olympic Museum
Meet at the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes at 8:00 am. We have to check each name before getting on the bus, so please be on time. Buses will depart promptly at 8:15 am. We will return you to individual hotels when the excursion is over. DO NOT BE LATE.
6:00-7:00 pm
Registration (Trois Couronnes, Club)
6:00-7:00
Fitzgerald Society Board Meeting (TBD)
Dinner (on your own)
Wednesday, June 30—Hôtel Du Lac (Viennoise)
8:00 am-12:30 pm
Registration (Trois Couronnes, Club)
8:00-9:45 am
Session 7: “The Romantics,” Chair, Donoria Romeiro Carvalho Inge (Federal U of Espirito Santo)
1. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Native Son,” Jeanne Fuchs (Hofstra U)
2. “Rousseau and Fitzgerald: Parallels in their Work,” Maureen Goldstein (Lynn U)
3. “The Pursuit for Immortality: Is Frankenstein A Science-Fiction Novel?” Amelia Haba (Independent Scholar)
4. “The Summer of 1816,” Walter Raubicheck (Pace U)
9:45-10:45 am
Session 8: “Fitzgerald and Other Media,” Chair, Ruth Prigozy (Hofstra U)
1. “Jay Gatsby and the Little Tramp: Fitzgerald and Charles Chaplin,” M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College)
2. “Gatsby, Rhapsody in Blue, Manhattan,” Virgil Mihaiu (Music Academy “G. Dima” Cluj-Napoca)
10:45-11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am-12:15 pm
Session 9: “Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction,” Chair, Niko Lewis (US Air Force Academy)
1. “Fitzgerald’s ‘Six of One—’: An All-American Story from Switzerland,” Satyam S. Moorty (Southern Utah U)
2. “‘You only forgot to call me baby’: The Importance of ‘On Your Own,’” Bonnie Shannon McMullen (Independent Scholar)
3. “From the Romance Tradition to Modernist Writing: Fitzgerald’s ‘More Than Just a House,’” Pascale Antolin (Bordeaux U)
12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm
1. “More Than a Waltz: Why Zelda’s Novel Struck a Chord of Dissonance for the Fitzgeralds,” Allegra Johnston (US Air Force Academy)
2. “Sometimes Madness is Advantageous: Fitzgerald’s Artistic Collaboration with Psychology and Psychosis,” Gail D. Sinclair (Rollins College)
3. “Summer of ‘24—Affairs and Misunderstandings,” Scott Donaldson (The College of William and Mary)
3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee Break
Session 11: “Fitzgerald in Context I,” Chair, Susan Wanlass (California State U, Sacramento)
1. “Heroines & Husbands in George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald: Embattled Narratives of Love, Marriage and Betrayal” Kate Brooks (Independent Scholar)
2. “Fitzgerald, Updike, and Jeremiah,” Janice Byrne (College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois)
3. “Politics of Friendship in Fitzgerald,” Yukiko Sawasaki (Kansai U)
4. “Creating a ‘Critical Interface’ Between Domestic and International Perspectives on Fitzgerald’s Perception of American Culture: The Role of the Foreign Scholar,” Linda Stanley (Queensborough Community College)
5:20-6:00 pm
Julian McPhillips, President, and Leslie McPhillips, Vice President
6:00-7:00 pm
Fitzgerald Society Membership Meeting, Jackson Bryer, presiding
Dinner (on your own)
Thursday, July 1
8:00 am-12:15 pm
Excursion to Caux Palace and Expo
Meet at the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes at 8:00 am. We have to check each name before getting on the bus, so please be on time. Buses will depart promptly at 8:15 am. We will return you to individual hotels when the excursion is over. DO NOT BE LATE.
Lunch (on your own)
3:15-4: 15 pm
Workshop on The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and future conferences (Terrace, outside the Camille Saint-Saëns Grand Ballroom, Hôtel des Trois Couronnes)
5:00 pm
Champagne Party, hosted by the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes, Terrace
Dinner (on your own)
8:30-10:00 am
Session 13: “Tender Is the Night III,” Chair, Allegra Johnston (US Air Force Academy)
1. “‘Restating the Universe’: Language, Madness, and the Discourse of Feminist Revolt in Tender Is the Night,” Allison Fisher (Ohio State U)
2. “‘The Most Complicated Equations as the Simplest Problems’: Fitzgerald’s Ambivalence Toward Psychiatry in Tender Is the Night,” Doni M. Wilson (Houston Baptist U)
3. “Si le soleil ne revenait pas: Swiss Clockwork Gone Mad in Tender Is the Night,” Marie-Agnès Gay (U of Jean Moulin-Lyon3)
10:00-10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15-11:30 am
Session 14: “Fitzgerald’s Switzerland,” Chair, Kirk Curnutt (Troy State U Montgomery)
1. “Revisiting ‘One Trip Abroad’: Fitzgerald, Switzerland, and the Sense of an Ending,” J. Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State U)
2. “F. Scott Fitzgerald: American Abroad,” Stephen L. Tanner (Brigham Young U)
3. “A Decisive Stopover in ‘an antiseptic smelling land’: Switzerland as a Place of Decision and Recovery in Fitzgerald’s Fiction,” Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Jean Monnet U)
11:30-12:15 pm
Lunch (on your own)
1215-1:15 pm
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker: “Roots of a New America: Hollywood in the Age of Fitzgerald,” Lary May (U of Minnesota). Introduced by William Blazek (Liverpool Hope U College)
1:15-3: 00 pm
Session 15: “Cultural Switzerland,” Chair, Philip McGowan (Goldsmiths’ College, U of London)
1. “The Winter Escape: St. Moritz in Wharton and Fitzgerald,” Sharon Kehl Califano (U of New Hampshire)
2. “Richard Wagner and Switzerland,” John L. DiGaetani (Hofstra U)
3. “Proper Tourism,” Steve McGregor (US Air Force Academy)
4. “‘Wherever You Go There You Are’: ‘Geneva’ as a Transatlantic Signifier in the Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” David W. Ullrich (Birmingham-Southern College)
3:00-3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 pm
Session 16: “Fitzgerald in Context II,” Chair, Gail Sinclair (Rollins College)
1. “Fear in Fitzgerald’s Fiction,” Michael K. Glenday (The Open U)
2. “Fitzgerald and Provence,” Andrew Hook (U of Glasgow)
3. “Tender is the Nightmare: Haruki Murakami’s Appropriation of Fitzgerald and the Contextual Importance of His Works in Japan,” Yuji Kato (Tokyo U of Foreign Studies)
4:30-5:30 pm
Session 17: “The New York Setting of The Great Gatsby: A Documentary Film Showing,” Steven Goldleaf (Pace U)
Opening of the Montreux Jazz Festival
Dinner on your own
Saturday, July 3
Vineyard visits (on your own). Information is available at Registration, Club.
Montreux Jazz Festival (on your own)
6:30 pm
Closing Banquet—Camille Saint-Saëns Grand Ballroom, Trois Couronnes
Announcement of Honorary Membership: Horst Kruse