(AGENPARL) – mer 03 gennaio 2024 Our annual Ulysses for All course is now available
** Ulysses for All 2024
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“What is a Nation?” Ulysses and the World Today
Spring / Summer Course 2024
We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year.
We are delighted to begin the new year by announcing that our annual Ulysses for All course is now open for registration!
Join our global readership and guest speakers at the James Joyce Centre this January with Ulysses for All 2024: “What is a Nation?” Ulysses and the World Today, led by Dubliner and Joycean Dr. Caroline Elbay.
Format: Zoom/In Person (at the James Joyce Centre)
Start Date: 31 January
End Date: 5 June
Time: Every Wednesday at 6-8pm GMT
Fee: €200
As we commence 2024 faced with myriad crises of humanity ranging from war and conflict in Europe and the Middle East, internal political unrest within the EU, continuing refugee crises, post-truth, fake news, etc., the sentiments of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” provide a chilling sense of prescience: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre…the centre cannot hold…Things fall apart…The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
In an attempt to consider the current world situation and attendant issues, Ulysses for All 2024 will focus on the question “What is a Nation?” and aim to arrive at a point where, even at a microcosmic level, an opportunity for what protagonist Leopold Bloom proclaims “I stand for the reform of …morals…New worlds for old…Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile…universal language with universal brotherhood” may be identified.
Ulysses is, without doubt, a pedagogic text – one that invites us to look into our own humanity and where Leopold Bloom undoubtedly constitutes Joyce’s attempt to embody the most humane attributes of a modern identity in a world engulfed by chaos due to religious, nationalist, and imperialist aggression – ideologies which Joyce would later dub “the wisdom of the old world.” Indeed, the idea of belonging to multiple “nations” simultaneously or, concentric nationalities, manifests nowhere better than in the character of Leopold Bloom, Joyce’s wandering, womanly, non-Jewish Jew.
Spaces are limited, so early registration is advised.
We look forward to seeing you in Ulysses for All 2024!
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