Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, attended the XXI International James Joyce Conference held at the Universite Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France, June 15-20. In addition to co-moderating two reading sessions he delivered a paper, "Joyce's Nymph of the Yews and the Controversy over the Nude in Painting and Sculpture," on the panel "Joycean Erotics" that he organized and chaired. At the conference, the tustees of the International James Joyce Foundation nominated Briggs for membership on the board.
