Filed under: Conferences, Lectures, & Schools
The Dublin James Joyce Summer School will be held July 4-10, 2011. Daily academic schedules include morning lectures at Newman House, seminars in the afternoon on Joyce’s works, followed by workshops at the National Library of Ireland. This year’s speakers are Professor Tim Conley (Brock University), Dr Luca Crispi (University College Dublin), Professor Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago), Dr Catherine Flynn (Stanford University), Professor Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin), Professor Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway University), Dr Joseph Hassett (Washington, DC), Professor Barry McCrea (Yale University), Dr Christine O’Neill (Dublin), and Dr Fritz Senn (James Joyce Foundation, Zürich).
Additionally, various social and cultural events are scheduled throughout the week, including tours of Dublin, visits to concerts and the Abbey Theatre, and other historic sites.
For information about registration, accommodation, and available scholarships (deadline for scholarships is April 30), visit the Joyce Summer School website.
Filed under: People
The James Joyce Estate has given permission to 52-year-old singer/songwriter Kate Bush to use Molly Bloom’s soliloquy for the lyrics to her song “Flower of the Mountain.” In 1989, Bush first approached the estate to use extracts from Ulysses for her song “The Sensual World,” but she was refused. Bush’s new album Director’s Cut, which includes “Flower of the Mountain,” is a revisiting of those 1989 tracks, and this time–twenty years later–the James Joyce estate has agreed to Bush’s use of “Ulysses.” Director’s Cut will be released on May 13.
This will not be Bush’s first literary song: watch her music video of her song “Wuthering Heights.”
More information on Bush and the JJ Estate can be found here.
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