News
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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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Ab Januar 2026: Neue Dubliner-Lesegruppe
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…
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Forthcoming: Anthony Burgess, A Shorter Ulysses
Edited by Andrew Biswell from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and published by Galileo Publishers, Anthony Burgess’s A Shorter Ulysses will be available from late November, 2025. As stated on the publisher’s website: “This radical reduction of the novel, containing the key episodes which stand at the heart of the novel, includes an introduction and…
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New Joyce Signpost on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse
Have you ever had trouble finding the Zurich James Joyce Foundation? If so, you’ll be pleased to learn that there’s a new signpost in town! Just walk down Bahnhofrstrasse from Zurich Main Station and keep a lookout on your left. You’ll find the new signpost on your left, at the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Augustinergasse.…
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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.
Events
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22.05.2026: Online Lecture with Pol Vouillamoz: Finnegans Wake
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 on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. Zurich time. In November 1982, Jacques…
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09.05.2026: Irish Voices (III) – Lisa McInerney
Join us for a free reading and discussion with Lisa McInerney, author of the award-winning Cork trilogy The Glorious Heresies, organized by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies. Lisa began her writing career with the blog The Arse End of Ireland, which chronicled an Ireland “populated by chancers, boy racers, beleaguered mammies, local hard…
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25.04.2026: «Seine gichtigen Klauen plumpsten Akkorde»
Als der Musiker und Künstler Roman Rutishauser diesen Satz im Ulysses von James Joyce entdeckte, war er begeistert: Wie oft krampft man vergeblich nach Worten, um Musik zu beschreiben, nur um einmal mehr feststellen zu müssen, dass es dafür letztlich keine Worte gibt. Umso deutlicher hört man beim Lesen förmlich das Bild vom Klavierspieler und…