Author: Martin Mühlheim
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20.02.2026: Reading with Novelist Clare O’Dea
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host a reading with the novelist Clare O’Dea (Website: https://clareodea.com/). Moderator: Rafaël Newman. Author of two non-fiction books, two novels and a collection of articles, Clare has been telling stories of Switzerland since she first came to live in the country in 2003. Formerly an Irish Times
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04.12.2026: Online Lecture with Valérie Bénéjam
We are pleased to announce that Valérie Bénéjam (Nantes Université) will be third speaker in our new Online Lecture Series. Valérie Bénéjam’s lecture “Joyce and the Easiest Prejudice” will take place on Friday, December 4, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. Zurich time. After the German invasion of France, and while Joyce was trying to be admitted
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RTÉ Broadcast: 65th Anniversary of Joyce’s Death
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce’s death in Zurich on January 13, 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Frehner and Fritz Senn from the James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with RTÉ producer Kevin Reynolds and visited some of Joyce’s haunts in Zurich with him. You can find the RTÉ broadcast here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1551751-james-joyce-in-zurich-by-kevin-reynolds.
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May 2026: Online Lecture on Finnegans Wake with Pol Vouillamoz
We are pleased to announce that Pol Vouillamoz, who has translated Finnegans Wake into Catalan, will be the second speaker in our new Online Lecture Series. Pol Vouillamoz’s lecture “Four Words for Joyce: A Babelian Act of Love” will take place in late May 2026. The exact day and time will be announced in due
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Joyce at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature
The new exhibition “Love Loves to Love Ireland: Extremely Distant and Incredibly Close” (Dec 19, 2026 to March 8, 2026) at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature features items on loan from the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. The items include James Joyce’s original walking sticks and the suitcase in which the Foundation received the Hans
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26.04.2026: Early Birds-Event: Auf Teufel komm raus!
«Non serviam!» ruft Stephen Dedalus in James Joyces Ulysses – und zitiert damit Luzifer, den Ur-Rebellen der christlichen Welt: «Ich werde nicht dienen!» Im Vorgängerroman Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann führt Stephen genauer aus: «Ich will nicht dem dienen, woran ich nicht länger glaube, nenne es sich nun mein Zuhause, mein Vaterland oder
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27.03.2026: Online Lecture on Ulysses with Sam Slote
We are pleased to announce that Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) will be the inaugural speaker in our new Online Lecture Series. Sam Slote’s lecture “Tales of Brave Ulysses: From Swerve of Censorship to Bend of Copyright” will take place on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. Zurich time. In this lecture I will
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20.01.2026: Start of “Dubliners in 17 Sessions”
Our new reading group “Dubliners in 17 Sessions” (in English) starts on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 6 p.m. For details, please consult the PDF schedule: We also invite you to join our Ulysses and Finnegans Wake reading groups. Further information is available under Reading Groups.
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13.01.2026: “Dubliners in 17 Sitzungen” beginnt
Die neue deutschsprachige Lesegruppe “Dubliners in 17 Sitzungen” startet am Dientag, 13. Januar 2026, 18 Uhr. Alle weiteren Angaben finden Sie auf dem Flyer, den Sie hier als PDF herunterladen können: Weiterhin laden wir Sie auch herzlich ein, an den Ulysses– und Finnegans Wake-Lesegruppen teilzunehmen. Sie finden alle Angaben unter Lesegruppen.
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From January 2026: New Dubliners Reading Group
Starting in January 2026, our Tuesday 6 p.m. reading group will focus on James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners. Each session will concentrate on one of the fifteen stories (except for the final story “The Dead,” to which we will devote two sessions). Note that the Dubliners reading group will be offered in German as