16 June 2022: Bloomsday 2022 at the Harry Ransom Center
Named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Joyce, observed annually on 16 June, the day Ulysses takes place in 1904.
Join us at the Harry Ransom Center on Bloomsday (June 16 2022) for an afternoon of Joycean celebration. Galleries are open all day to view the exhibition, Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, with guided tours at noon and 3 p.m. Plus, a Shakespeare & Company photo opportunity and Joyce recitations. No registration required for tours and activities.
Register below for our curator’s evening talk ‘”a gaud of amber beads” — Ulysses, Feminism, and Biography’ by Dr. Clare Hutton (4.30 p.m.) and an exclusive film Screening of BBC Arena’s feature-length documentary, James Joyce’s Ulysses (6 p.m.).
24 March 2022: James Joyce and Us: Anne Enright and Eimear McBride in conversation (British Library)
Two of Ireland’s finest writers, Anne Enright and Eimear McBride come together to share thoughts and feelings on the great modernist masterpiece of literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses, now celebrating its 100th anniversary. Chaired by Dr Clare Hutton.
They discuss what Joyce has done for them and for all of us: for women, for Ireland and the wider world. How Ulysses is a book both about the life of the mind and life lived in the mind; how it allowed language to flow and liberated the scope of literature, and how its honesty and provocation have played out over the century.
This event takes place in the British Library Theatre and will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person, or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. In-person ticket bookers will also be sent a bonus link to the online event. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
4 March 2022: Women and the Making of James Joyce’s Ulysses Exhibition Opens (Harry Ransom Centre)
James Joyce’s Ulysses, considered a landmark work of literary modernism, was first published on February 2, 1922. This exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, curated by Clare Hutton of Loughborough University, marks the 100th anniversary of the book’s publication and investigates the important and largely unacknowledged role of women in realization of his famed masterpiece.
Objects from the Ransom Center’s James Joyce Collection tell the story of the formative role of his family members and, in particular, of four women—Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Harriet Shaw Weaver, and Sylvia Beach, who were associated with innovative literary experimentation of the period—all of whom helped Joyce’s novel gain widespread notoriety and success.
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