The James Joyce Centre in Dublin has a truly impressive lineup of events for Bloomsday 2014. The festivities will begin on June 10 and culminate on Bloomsday. Events leading up to Bloomsday include walking and bus tours tracing locations from Joyce’s works, a literary pub crawl, a streetside brunch, and public talks featuring Irish authors and other experts. There will also be exhibitions of work from American photographer Lee Miller, Robert Berry’s illustrations of “The Dead,” and a showing of John Huston’s The Dead at the Irish Film Institute. This year’s observance of Bloomsday is of particular importance because it coincides with the centenary of the publication of Dubliners. There has already been a myriad of events related to this anniversary, and during the week leading up to Bloomsday, the Joyce Centre will participate in several others, highlighted by several showings of Declan Gorman’s theatrical portrayal of Grant Richards and Dubliners’ fraught publication history. Finally, on Bloomsday The Joyce Centre will host a full Irish breakfast, participate in public readings MC’d by Peter Sheridan, and then complete the scheduled events with a showing of Romping Through Ulysses—James Joyce meets Rocky Horror and a Bloomsday Festival Wrap Party. View the Centre’s itinerary here to see the full schedule and a detailed description of each event. Also note that many of these events require advance booking and are located throughout the city. You can plan your Bloomsday celebration and purchase tickets all on the Centre’s page.
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Irish filmmaker PadraigTrehy is trying to complete his experimental film Shem the Penman Sings Again. The film, which Trehy has been working on for four years, is “about James Joyce and his love of music and song as exemplified in his relationship with the great Irish tenor John McCormack.” The film focuses on Joyce’s memories of singing with McCormack in 1904, but also highlights the intersections between Joyce’s work and music throughout his life. In addition, Trehy has shot the film to evoke the early twentieth-century cinematic style that so enthralled Joyce. The website features more information about the film, still images, a teaser trailer, and other footage. It also includes a link to a crowd funding page where you can view a video of Trehy speaking about the project as well as more information about the film’s progress and plans for completion.
University College Dublin has released the program for its 2014 James Joyce Research Colloquium. The Colloquium will take place on the 10-12 of April and celebrate the centenary of Dubliners by focusing on historical, digital, and archival approaches to the short story collection. There will be keynote addresses from Ann Fogarty, Andrew Gibson, and Vicki Mahaffey in addition to many other panels. The event is open to the public and free of charge, but advance registration is required. To view the full program and to register follow this link.
On April 5th, Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts will host an event entitled “Joyce and the Digital Humanities.” The event will consist of a series of talks, presentations, and a roundtable discussion on digital topics that relate to Joyce studies capped off with a reception with entertainment by Brian O’Donovan and Aedin Moloney. Participants in the event include Sean Latham, Orla Murphy, Joe Valente, Marjorie Howes, Joseph Nugent, and a Keynote Address by Fintan O’Toole. Attending the event is free, but it is necessary to register in advance. For the event’s full schedule and registration follow this link.
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Late last year, a development company submitted a plan to the Dublin City Council to demolish the Ormond Hotel, the setting for the “Sirens” episode of Ulysses, and replace it with a much larger hotel. Recently, the City Council rejected the plan because the proposed structure would dwarf the surrounding buildings and shade them from their normal periods of daylight. Several parties, including the Dublin James Joyce Centre, opposed the project in order to preserve the site as a historical landmark and a remnant of Ireland’s literary past. Thanks to RTE for the article and image.
As we posted earlier this year, from October 31st through November 1st the Institute of English Studies at the University of London will be holding a symposium on Joyce’s Dubliners in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the short story collection’s publication. The symposium will feature plenary talks from Professor Clair Willis from Queen Mary and Professor Andrew Gibson from Royal Holloway. Click here to for the CFP and proposal submission instructions.
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Last week the sad news reached us that the French scholar, critic, and translator André Topia died after a long struggle with illness. He was an expert in English-language literature who translated into French some of the masterpieces of modernism (including Lord Jim and Tess of the D’Ubervilles) while also writing eloquently about Joyce’s work. An important bridge between the study of English and French modernism, his loss will be felt broadly within and beyond the Joyce world.
The 2014 Zurich James Joyce Foundation’s Workshop, running August 3-9, seeks to investigate ways in which the concepts of walking and wandering are pertinent to Joyce and his work. The workshop’s description lists topics such as “’walking repeatedly in several different directions,’ Wandering (Aengus, Rocks, …), Topography, Orientation, Erring,” etc. As always, the Zurich Workshop insists on personal interactivity during sessions, and participants are encouraged to structure their contributions to stimulate feedback and dialog rather than read their work or lecture. Organizers have limited enrollment in the workshop to twenty individuals. The workshop costs Swiss Fr. 150, which covers the week’s activities including a boat trip on Lake Zurich and a dinner. To reserve a spot at the workshop contact Fritz Senn by email via fritzsenn@mac.com and include the word “stambuling” in the subject line to ensure the message isn’t overlooked. Click here for more information on the Foundation, the 2014 Workshop, and to see a record of past workshop topics.
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Issue 49.2 (Winter 2012) is available for ordering. The issue features articles from Vaclav Paris, Deborah M. Manion, Matthew Schultz, Martin Brick, Abigail Heiniger, Thomas Dilworth, and Bill Brockman’s Current JJ Checklist (117). It also includes an entertainment from Simon Loekle. The front cover is a photo of Guiseppe Archimboldo’s Vertumnus, 1590, oil on wood, 70.5 x 57.5 centimeters, which is housed in the Sklokloster Palace Sklokloster, Sweden.
The table of contents with links to articles and abstracts from Project Muse is below.
PERSPECTIVES
“The Difference of Joyce”: The Sixth Annual James Joyce Birthday Graduate Conference Rome, Italy, 6-7 February 2013
Maria Domenica Mangialavori
Camp Ulysses: Versioning, Collation, and the Digital Ulysses, University of Victoria, 6-15 June 2013
Olivia Ferguson, Amanda Hansen, and Zaqir Virani
“Zombies! Ghosts! Cannibals! Whores!”: A Report on the Twenty-Third North American James Joyce Conference, College of Charleston, South Carolina, 11-15 June 2013
Richard J. Gerber
“Bloomsday in Victoria,” 15-16 June 2013
Robert Amos
“Open Spaces”: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School, 7-13 July 2013
John Conlan
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ARTICLES
Picturing the Wake: Arcimboldo, Joyce, and His “Monster”
Vaclav Paris
“A vision . . . sprang up before him”: Filmic Assaults on Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom
Deborah M. Manion
“Arise, Sir Ghostus!”: Textual Spectrality and Finnegans Wake
Matthew Schultz
How Does Eschatology Order This Book of Kills: Religion and Fractal Geometry in Finnegans Wake
Martin Brick
“The Supreme Question”: Gratifying the Loathly Lady in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Abigail Heiniger
Mr. Browne in “The Dead”
Thomas Dilworth
CURRENT JJ CHECKLIST (117)
William S. Brockman
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NOTES
A Letter from James Joyce to Thomas MacGreevy
Terence Killeen
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ENTERTAINMENTS
Two B- or Not!
Simon Loekle
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REVIEW ESSAY
Manliness Doubly Bound: From Parnell to Joyce
John Paul Riquelme
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REVIEWS
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity, by Jonathan Goldman
Garry Leonard
Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development, by Jed Esty
John Marx
Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern, by Neil R. Davison
Debra Shostak
Joyce Studies in Italy 11: James Joyce, Metamorphosis, and Re-Writing, edited by Franca Ruggieri
Onno Kosters
In Bed with “Ulysses,” produced and directed by Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna
Elizabeth Foley O’Connor
Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism, by Jessica Berman
Erin Hollis
The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945, by George Bornstein
Rachel Farebrother
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, by Kenneth Goldsmith
Grant Matthew Jenkins
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On January 6th, to mark the 100th anniversary of Dubliners’ publication, The Humanities Institute, University College Dublin released an application that allows users to experience Joyce’s “The Dead” in several new ways. The app includes an audio recording of actor Barry McGovern reading the story. In addition, the app features podcasts from Catriona Crowe, Mary Daly, Anne Fogarty, and Gerardine Meaney and period images and architectural drawings that provide context for the historical and artistic climate in which the story takes place and was written. Finally, the app includes a video recording of a performance of “The Lass of Augrhim” filmed in the Usher’s Island house. The app is available in Apple and Android app stores. For more information on the project and links to the app stores, click here.
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