DATE: 3 - 10 July 2016
VENUE: James Joyce Centre, North Great George's Street, Dublin 1
Joyce’s revolutionary novel depicting the personal and intellectual struggles of Stephen Dedalus as a schoolboy and UCD student was published in New York on 29 December 1916. Personally 1916 was a talismanic year for Joyce but he was also keenly aware of its political importance and worked determinedly to ensure that his text appeared in this key year. A Portrait was in effect Joyce’s contribution to 1916.
This project will probe the legacy and impact of A Portrait, investigating its importance as a revolutionary text and as a work of world literature reflecting on crucial years in Irish history through the optics of the Bildungsroman, a form he completely reinvents. The lecture series will allow for an examination of the cultural contexts of 1916 as a pivotal year in the formation of the nation and of UCD as an institution. The lectures will also create a space for reviewing the continuing but changing significance of Joyce in Irish cultural history and of A Portrait as a quintessential Irish text and a classic of international literature.
Public lecture series February- June 2016
For bookings contact www.jamesjoyce.ie (under Education) or anne.fogarty@ucd.ie
UCD James Joyce Research Centre in association with the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
2 February 2016, Physics Theatre, Newman House, 85 St Stephen’s Green, 18.30
The Coming-of-Age-Novel After Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916-2016
Readings and talks by Belinda McKeon, Paul Murray and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne followed by a discussion
25 February 2016, Fitzgerald Debating Chamber, Student Centre, UCD, 18.30
Professor José Roberto O Shea (Universidade de Santa Caterina, Brazil)
The Process and Challenges of Translating Joyce: Stephen Hero as a Case in Point
7 March 2016, James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, 18.30
Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame)
Modernism in the Streets: Joyce and Pearse in 1916
4 April 2016, James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, 18.30
Dr Emer Nolan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Where is 1916 in Joyce?
5-6 May 2016, Conference, James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Centenary Readings of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Keynote speakers: Frank Callanan, SC, Dublin; Professor Gregory Castle, Arizona State University
9 May 2016, James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, 18.30
Dr Ronan Crowley (University of Passau)
Trieste-Zurich-Paris: Joyce’s Geographies of Reading, 1914-22
3- 10 July 2016, Dublin James Joyce Summer School, James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Dr Valérie Bénéjam (University of Nantes), 9.30, Wednesday 6 July 2016
A Portrait of the Artist as a Repressed Dramatist
[For further details on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School see: www.joycesummerschool.ie]
This project has been funded by
Professor of James Joyce Studies at UCD and Director of the UCD Research Centre for James Joyce Studies
ABOUT:
Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies, UCD School of English, Drama and Film. She has been Academic Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997, was President of the International James Joyce Foundation, 2008-2012, and has organized three international Joyce symposia., 2 in Dublin in 2004 and 2012 and one in London in 2002. She is co-editor of Joyce on the Threshold(University of Florida Press, 2005), Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses (University of Florida Press, 2009), Imagination in the Classroom; Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2013) and Voices on Joyce (UCD Press, 2015). She has published widely on aspects of modern Irish writing, especially fiction and the short story, and is currently completing a study of the historical and political dimensions of Ulysses.
Lecturer, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
ABOUT:
Luca Crispi is co-editor of How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake (2007) and author of Joyce’s Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses (2015). He is a founding co-editor with Anne Fogarty of the Dublin James Joyce Journal (2008- present). He was the James Joyce and W.B. Yeats Research Scholar at the National Library of Ireland, 2003-7, and co-curator of the exhibitions James Joyce and Ulysses and The Life and Works of W.B. Yeats and was the James Joyce Scholar-in-Residence, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, from 1996 to 2003.
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