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Autumn at the James Joyce Centre
The trees do not resent autumn nor does any exemplary thing in nature resent its limitations
? James Joyce, Stephen Hero
Some current and forthcoming events and exhibitions that we hope you will enjoy at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin this Autumn.
The Shakespeare and Company Project:
Recreating the world of Sylvia Beach’s lending library
Thursday, 6 Oct 2022, 7pm
Free Event – Booking required
The James Joyce Centre, Dublin is delighted to host Professor Joshua Kotin (Princeton University), to discuss his work as director of The Shakespeare and Company Project, launched in 2020.
Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company was not only a bookshop. It was also a lending library. Members included Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Aimé Césaire, and Simone de Beauvoir, among many others. The Shakespeare and Company Project uses the lending library records to reveal what members read and where they lived. Users can search for specific members, and browse and read the books they borrowed. They can discover the lending library’s most popular authors, explore maps of Paris and learn about expatriate life between the world wars.
Professor Joshua Kotin is an associate professor in the Department of English at Princeton University and the director of the Shakespeare and Company Project. His research and teaching focus is on American literature, modernism, and poetry and poetics.
This event is organised in association with UCD.
Dancing in the Dark:
Re-mythologising James Joyce’s bat-like souls.
Monday 24th October at 7pm
Free Event – Booking required
In anticipation of Halloween, the James Joyce Centre is hosting a collaborative exhibition and talk by Drs. Caroline Elbay and Joyce Garvey. The exhibition will run from 24th October to 7th November and will feature original art and film by Joyce Garvey inspired by the myriad references to bats across the Joycean oeuvre and also by Lucia Joyce’s illustrations
The theme of this composite artistic event is concomitant and Caroline Elbay’s talk on the 24th October will address how, from the ‘bat-like soul’ of A Portrait of the Artist, to the ’little bats [who] don’t tell’ in Ulysses and the ‘bawk of bats’ in Finnegans Wake, Joyce’s alignment or connecting of the bat with female characters essentially debunks negative stereotypes thus placing the bat in its rightful place as a symbol of the creative spirit and positioning women in an environment of growing self-empowerment and liberation in the modern world.
Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses