The third talk in our Autumn/Winter lecture series at the James Joyce Centre took place on Monday 4th November 2019. We welcomed Dr. Caroline Elbay, and she gave her lecture entitled, “Throwing Shapes: The Morphing Feminine in Joyce”. Dr. Elbay discussed in the Modernist literary context, the term ‘metamorphosis’ which elicits immediate associations with Franz […]
Category archives: Lectures
“Making Joyce – Translating Joyce for Live Theatre Performance” – Sinéad Murphy and Darina Gallagher
The second talk in our Autumn/Winter lecture series at the James Joyce Centre took place on Monday 14th October 2019. Sinéad Murphy and Darina Gallagher delivered their performative lecture on “Making Joyce – Translating Joyce for Live Theatre Performance”. Sinéad and Darina’s lecture focused on their process of translating Joyce for theatre performance and included […]
“Joyce in Performance” – Dr. Jonathan Creasy
For the first talk in our Autumn/Winter lecture series at the James Joyce Centre on Monday 16th September 2019, Dr. Jonathan Creasy delivered a talk on “Joyce in Performance.” “He ought to have either died naturally or on the scaffold high. Like actresses, always farewell positively last performance then come up smiling again” – “Eumaeus”, Ulysses. […]
“James Joyce and Revolutions: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Havana 1964” – A Talk by Teresa Caneda Cabrera
For the third instalment in our Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture Series , we were delighted to welcome Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera to the James Joyce Centre to deliver her talk on the role played by the 1964 Cuban translation of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Cuban revolutionary politics. Teresa’s fascinating talk detailed the climate of Cuban […]
‘One and eightpence too much’ – Reuben J Dodd Junior, from Dublin to the BBC, 1904 to 1954’- A Talk by Pat Callan
For the second instalment in our Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture Series, it was a pleasure to welcome Pat Callan to the James Joyce Centre to deliver his talk on Reuben J Dodd Junior, a Dublin-based solicitor, and one of the many real Dubliners who appeared in Joyce’s Ulysses. Pat’s fascinating talk detailed the legal […]