We were delighted to welcome our James Joyce Centre Research Scholar Terence Killeen to deliver his talk “Universal Joyce?” on the evening of March 9th 2020 as the second lecture in our Spring/Summer series. James Joyce’s last work, Finnegans Wake, is meant to be a universal epic, covering the whole of world history, and operating at […]
Category archives: Lectures
“Throwing Shapes: The Morphing Feminine in Joyce” – Dr. Caroline Elbay
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 […]
“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 […]