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Irish Voices: Three Readings with Irish Authors
Organized by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies, and hosted by the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. Details on the readings with Lucy Caldwell, Caoilinn Hughes, and Lisa McInerney can be found at:
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Zurich Workshop 2026: “Architecture and City Planning”
The Zurich James Joyce Workshop 2026 on “Architecture and City Planning” takes place from August 3 to 7, 2026. From the role that the pantry plays in “The Dead” to the description of Stephen Dedalus’s school environment or the recurring focus on trains and tramlines in Ulysses, architecture and city planning feature prominently in Joyce’s
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Ulrich Blumenbach erhält Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
Congratulations to Ulrich Blumenbach – who is currently working on a German translation of James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake – on being awarded the prestigious Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis for translation! Ulrich Blumenbach receives this award in recognition of his many outstanding translations from English into German. He has previously received several other awards, including the Heinrich
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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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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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Joyce Symposium (Krakow, June 15–19, 2026)
The IJJF have announced that the Joyce Symposium for 2026 will be held in Poland, in the beautiful city of Krakow, hosted by the Jagiellonian University (June 15–19, 2026). Call for papers will be posted in September, 2025.
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Visual Highlights from Our Visitors’ Books Online
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation holds a collection of visitors’ books that date back all the way to 1985, the year when the Foundation was established. A gallery with some visual highlights from these guestbooks is now available on our website.
