News
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Talk at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin
On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 5 p.m. the James Joyce Centre in Dublin hosted a talk on “James Joyce’s Zurich” by Martin Mühlheim, General Manager of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation. When Joyce decided to leave Ireland in 1904, he and Nora Barnacle intended to move to Zurich. Things didn’t quite work out this way…
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Podcast über die Foundation im Kulurplatz Talk von SRF Kultur
On the occasion of Bloomsday 2026, “Kulturplatz Talk” – a series of podcasts produced by Switzerland’s national broadcaster – featured an interview with Martin Mühlheim (in German). The talk is available online but can also be downloaded here.
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Artikel zu Finnegans Wake in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung
To mark Bloomsday 2026, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) – one of Switzerland’s leading newspapers – published a full-page article on Finnegans Wake. The wonderful essay is entitled “Die Welt ist ein Buch und das Dasein ein Spiel mit dem Chaos: Warum James Joyces Finnegans Wake das Leben ein bisschen leichter macht” (i.e. “The World…
Events & Workshops
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04.11.2026: The Flood Has Not Ended – Floating Words and 21st Century Displacement
Part of the Series “Poetographies: Literary Dialogues at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.” As an exiled author in Switzerland, Wagdy El Komy (originally from Egypt) has experienced first-hand the complexities of displacement and belonging in our current era. In this talk, we will discuss two short stories recently published by Weiter Schreiben Schweiz, the platform…
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04.12.2026: Online Lecture “Joyce and the Easiest Prejudice” 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…