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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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“So This Is Dyoublong?”: 30th International 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.
Events & Workshops
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22.10.2025: James Joyce’s Dublin Women
“The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” (Dubliners) Dreamy teenager, ambitious mother, emotionally unfulfilled wives: Joyce shows us female characters constricted by society, yearning for something different and struggling for personal freedom – including some who achieve it. Readings in German and English (incl. translation).…
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25.10.2025: James Joyce’s Dublin Women
“The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” (Dubliners) Dreamy teenager, ambitious mother, emotionally unfulfilled wives: Joyce shows us female characters constricted by society, yearning for something different and struggling for personal freedom – including some who achieve it. Readings in German and English (incl. translation).…
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05.11.2025: Frau Minne und James Joyce
Ein Brückenschlag zwischen jüdischem Mittelalter und literarischer Moderne Schauplatz Brunngasse: Eine wohlhabende jüdische Familie gibt im 14. Jahrhundert prächtige Wandmalereien in Auftrag. Doch am 23. Februar 1349 kommt es in Zürich zu einem Pogrom, bei dem die Männer der jüdischen Gemeinde umgebracht, die Frauen und Kinder vertrieben werden. Leopold Bloom: Die Hauptfigur des 1922 veröffentlichten…