TCD is delighted to participate in the Year of Ulysses (YoU), an initiative of the Modernist Versions Project <modernistversions.com> . The project features a release of scans from the original 1922 edition, public talks by noted Joyceans from around the world, monthly twitter chats, an art competition, as well as other exciting events: all in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses.
TCD hosted the first talk by Professor Robert Spoo on ‘The Public Domains’ , a keynote during the James Joyce Conference in June 2012 (available from the MVP site). We are hosting two additional public lectures in October (which are free and open to the public) from leading Joyceans.
The first talk, by Terence Killeen, Research Scholar at the James Joyce Centre, is entitled ‘Ulysses in the Mirror of Modernism’. Mr Killeen has published many books on Joyce, including Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to Ulysses, and regularly lectures on James Joyce across Europe. Mr Killeen is a former journalist with the Irish Times, and a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.
His talk on 10th October will look at the varieties of Modernism during the time Joyce was writing Ulysses as well as the influence these may have had on the book’s reception.
The second talk, ‘Asyndetic segmenting is a Significant Structuring Device in High Modernist Narrative’ on 24 October is by the esteemed Joycean and textual scholar, Professor Hans Walter Gabler. Gabler is editor-in-chief of the 1986 Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, as well author of many other texts, including A Portrait of the Author as A Young Man. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Munich and is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Digital Repository of Ireland.
His talk centres on the 10th chapter of Ulysses — the ‘Wandering Rocks’ episode — which programmatically foregrounds the asyndetic segmenting technique – a stringing-together of its parts to procedures of segmental structuring that is recurrent in Joyce’s writing.
Please join us!
TERENCE KILLEEN
Ulysses in the Mirror of Modernism
Wednesday 10 October, 3 pm, Trinity Long Room Hub
HANS WALTER GABLER
Asyndetic segmenting is a Significant Structuring Device in High Modernist Narrative
Wednesday 24 October, 12pm, Trinity Long Room Hub