U22: The Centenary Ulysses Podcast

08/05/2023

Thanks for all of your inquiries about our Eumaeus podcast! Our journey to Ithaca has met with some obstacles but we are proceeding perforce to the new episode!

01/09/2022

This great Ulysses documentary airs on BBC2 on September 7. (I'm in it for a minute or two!) Arena use a really lively montage approach, blending found footage and live action and animated adaptations with comments from Joyce-lovers. Even Salman Rushdie himself!

11/07/2022

Join us for the online US launch of the edition tomorrow, Tuesday at 9 PDT, 12 EDT, 5 BST! I'm really looking forward to talking with Ray Ryan of CUP, Vincent Sherry of Washington University in St Louis, and Daniel Mulhall Irish Ambassador to the US. Sign up here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_GkyJFK7PQp-8-O3r68RtHA

07/07/2022

I'm excited to announce that, this coming Tuesday at 9 PDT, 12 EDT, 5 BST, the Cambridge Centenary Ulysses will be launched in the US with an online conversation introduced by Ray Ryan of CUP, moderated by Vincent Sherry of Washington University in St Louis, and including myself and Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador to the US.
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GkyJFK7PQp-8-O3r68RtHA?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Cambridge+Centenary+Ulysses+webinar&utm_campaign=CBY_UlyssesWebinar_July2022&WT.mc_id=CBY_UlyssesWebinar_July2022

05/07/2022

I've been shy about this one, but here it is: an author video for the edition:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/irish-literature/cambridge-centenary-ulysses-1922-text-essays-and-notes?format=HB&isbn=9781316515945

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16/06/2022

So excited to share this animation I made with the wonderful Maria Doyle Kennedy and Adam Harvey. To learn more about the Penelope Animation Project, visit https://ies.berkeley.edu/penelope-animation-project

09/06/2022

Our episode on "Circe" is out now wherever you get your podcasts! Click the link below to listen now. 🎭

In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in “Nighttown,” Joyce’s version of the red-light district of Dublin. We talk about confusion, hilarity, gender roles, obscenity, and redemption. Joining us are Kelly Bryan from Blooms & Barnacles Podcast, John McCourt, professor at University of Macerata, Italy, and Ronan Crowley, postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-15-circe

In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in “Nighttown,” Joyce’s version of the red-light district of Dublin. We talk about confusion, hilarity, gender roles, obscenity, and redemption. Joining us a...

12/05/2022

Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! ☀️

Set in a maternity hospital, “Oxen” parodies the development of English prose. A celebration of maternity or a rival creative feat? Joyce called it the most difficult episode “to interpret and to execute”; we talk about the shortcuts he took in composing it and its unexpected humor. Joining us are Greg Harradine, a composer in the Scottish Borders, Emmet O’Cuana, Dublin writer living in Australia, and Chrissy Van Mierlo, Museum director at Loughborough Bellfoundry, UK, and recovering Joycean.

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-14-oxen-of-the-sun

Set in a maternity hospital, “Oxen” parodies the development of English prose. A celebration of maternity or a rival creative feat? Joyce called it the most difficult episode “to interpret and to execute”; we talk about the shortcuts he took in composing it and its unexpected humor. Joining ...

04/04/2022

Check out the book trailer for The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, which is set to come out this June!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBo0RafqAGI&ab_channel=CambridgeUniversityPress-Academic

This book offers accessible support and lively discussions of Joyce’s novel to curious general readers as well as students. Its eighteen essays by leading Jo...

03/04/2022

Our episode on "Nausicaa" is out now! Listen below. 🎇

A woman, a man, a beach at twilight, and at least one or**sm: but what exactly happens? Is Gerty MacDowell brainwashed or liberated by the women’s magazines she reads? Is the episode misogynist or empathetic? We complicate these binaries with Anne Fogarty, professor at University College, Dublin, Cathal Mac Thréinfhir, retired teacher in Limerick, Nuala O’Connor, Irish novelist, James Turner, professor at UC Berkeley, and Vicki Mahaffey, professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-13-nausicaa

A woman, a man, a beach at twilight, and at least one or**sm: but what exactly happens? Is Gerty MacDowell brainwashed or liberated by the women’s magazines she reads? Is the episode misogynist or empathetic? We complicate these binaries with Anne Fogarty, professor at University College, Dublin, ...

17/03/2022

Episode 12, “Cyclops”, is out now! It starts local, in Barney Kiernan’s pub and with Jim Ward, tour guide to Nora Barnacle’s home in Galway, and goes global. Thanks so much to Jim and to our other guests, András Kappanyos, Valérie Bénéjam, Vincent Cheng, and Irish Ambassador to the US, Daniel Mulhall! Click the link below to listen now 🍻

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-12-cyclops

In Barney Kiernan’s pub, what does belonging look like? What do language and cliché have to do with self-determination, nationalism, and inclusion? Our wide-ranging interlocutors are Jim Ward, tour guide of Nora Barnacle’s Galway home, Valérie Bénéjam, maître de conférences at the Universi...

22/02/2022

Thank you all for your support of the Cambridge Centenary Ulysses!

Here is a discount code you can use to pre-order the book on the CUP website with a 20% reduction: CCU20.

www.cambridge.org/cculysses

22/02/2022

Save the date! 📚

Join us for an online celebration of Irish and Irish-American literature at Odd Mondays Monday, March 7, from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time. Brooklyn Irish-American author Kathleen Donohoe reads from her novel GHOSTS OF THE MISSING, Berkeley professor Catherine Flynn discusses JAMES JOYCE AND THE MATTER OF PARIS and her new edition of Joyce's 1920 novel ULYSSES, and Western author and poet Bill Vlach shares an excerpt from his historical novel THE GUNS OF SANTA MUERTE: A Tale of the San Patricios. Get the Zoom link from [email protected]. Buy the books from Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley (which was one of San Francisco's most Irish neighborhoods at one point) or online at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays. U22: The Centenary Ulysses Podcast

15/02/2022

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02/02/2022

Happy centenary to you all! We have some exciting news to share: The Cambridge Centenary Edition now has a beautiful cover and is set to be released this June!

The cover design is by illustrator and cover designer Lauren Downing for Cambridge University Press. You can pre-order the book now here: https://amzn.to/3s9AR9f

02/02/2022

Episode 11: Sirens is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! 🎶

Surrounded by singing men in the Ormond, Bloom experiences the consolations and dangers of music as he watches Blazes Boylan knock back a drink before his tryst with Molly. We talk about how Joyce transforms words into a seductive soundscape with Katherine O’Callaghan, lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Peter Kennedy, professor at the University of Hong Kong, as well as Dakota Brown and Emma Farry from the Berkeley Ulysses seminar. And we listen to some songs…

https://u22pod.com/episodes/hl1py869cwe46hxf1t8ala40cpgjux

Surrounded by singing men in the Ormond, Bloom experiences the consolations and dangers of music as he watches Blazes Boylan knock back a drink before his tryst with Molly. We talk about how Joyce transforms words into a seductive soundscape with Katherine O’Callaghan, lecturer at the University o...

29/01/2022

Catherine's article for The Irish Times is out today. Read it below! https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/ulysses-and-the-international-avant-garde-of-trieste-zurich-paris-1.4782547

Published 100 years ago, Ulysses was heavily influenced by James Joyce's European travels

26/01/2022

Catherine Flynn will be participating in a discussion on the 100th anniversary of Ulysses with Rare Books Los Angeles on Jan. 27! Register for the free online event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-novel-of-the-century-reflecting-on-james-joyces-ulysses-on-the-100th-tickets-238040023117

The Novel of the Century: Reflecting on James Joyce’s Ulysses on the 100th Anniversary of its Publication

09/01/2022

Episode 10: Wandering Rocks is available now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters connected only slightly by a promenading Jesuit priest and a Viceroy on parade. We talk about urban atomization, truth and the imagination, and sadistic humor with Matthew O’Leary, a philosophy graduate from Cork, Ireland, Scarlett Baron, associate professor in the English Department at University College, London, and Sergio Salvia Coelho, a theater critic from São Paulo, Brazil.

Listen below: https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-10-wandering-rocks

This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters connected only slightly by a promenading Jesuit priest and a Viceroy on parade. We talk about urban atomization, truth and the imagination, and sadistic humor with Matthew O’Leary, a...

22/11/2021

Our ninth episode is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Click the link below to listen.

Why does Joyce associate Stephen’s conversation in the National Library of Ireland with such a dangerous Homeric episode? Scylla and Charybdis are monsters, one ready to create a lethal whirlpool, the other to sn**ch men out of the ship. Thinking through this surprisingly dramatic episode with us are Alex Benoit, English teacher at the Greenfield school in North Carolina, and Matthew Creasy, professor of literature at the University of Glasgow, as well as former Berkeley student, Mallory Gong.

http://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-9-scylla-and-charybdis

Why does Joyce associate Stephen’s conversation in the National Library of Ireland with such a dangerous Homeric episode? Scylla and Charybdis are monsters, one ready to create a lethal whirlpool, the other to sn**ch men out of the ship. Thinking through this surprisingly dramatic episode with us ...

22/11/2021

Surprise! We are back after a short break to bring you a new episode on “Scylla and Charybdis”. 🐉

23/10/2021

While we’re on a short break, listen to Catherine on the latest episode of Writ Large, a podcast about books that changed the world. 📚

https://www.writlarge.fm/episodes/ulysses

Perhaps more than any other book, Ulysses has the reputation of being difficult—it is dense, allusive, and often hard to follow. But Joyce wasn’t trying to be challenging for its own sake, or because he sadistically wanted to punish future students assigned his book. Quite the contrary. With Uly...

27/09/2021

Episode 8: Lestrygonians is out now! Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or click the link below.

As we track Bloom's wanderings in this lunchtime episode, we consider the relationship between food and power. We talk about food imagery, colonialism, animals, and class, and how the violent binary of “Eat or be eaten” breaks down in Bloom’s memory of his picnic with Molly on Howth Head. In conversation with us are Matthew Hayward, professor at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, Sebastián Maldonado-Cano, literature major from Texcoco, Mexico, and Mark Bloomberg, film maker from Brooklyn.

Thank you to our lovely listeners, sponsors, and guests!

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-8-lestrygonians

As we track Bloom's wanderings in this lunchtime episode, we consider the relationship between food and power. We talk about food imagery, colonialism, animals, and class, and how the violent binary of “Eat or be eaten” breaks down in Bloom’s memory of his picnic with Molly on Howth Head. In c...

13/09/2021

Our latest episode on "Ae**us" is out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts! Listen below:

This episode centers on the Evening Telegraph offices where men gather to talk about journalism, tell jokes, mock political speeches, and celebrate great oratory. We talk about rhetoric and windbaggery with Liam Heneghan, writer and professor of environmental science and studies at DePaul University, Terence Killeen, former Irish Times editor and scholar at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, and Lucas Petersen, journalist and professor at Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-7-aeolus

This episode centers on the Evening Telegraph offices where men gather to talk about journalism, tell jokes, mock political speeches, and celebrate great oratory. We talk about rhetoric and windbaggery with Liam Heneghan, writer and professor of environmental science and studies at DePaul, Terence K

30/08/2021

Episode 6 is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts!

In Glasnevin cemetery for the funeral of Paddy Dignam, Bloom thinks “in the midst of death, we are in life.” We think about different kinds of death and life in “Hades” with a variety of guests: doctors Kim Kwang Taik from Seoul, South Korea, and Alejandro Dagnino Veras from Lima, Peru, Barry Devine, professor at Heidelberg University, Amanda Greenwood, literary scholar and archivist, and from the 2020 UC Berkeley seminar, Dakota Brown, Dylan Duong, Jolene Gazmen, and our own Max Ambrose.

Thank you to our lovely guests and listeners!



Sponsors: Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley English Department, Cambridge University Press - Academic, Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco, and Global Irish

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-6-hades

In Glasnevin cemetery for the funeral of Paddy Dignam, Bloom thinks “in the midst of death, we are in life.” We think about different kinds of death and life in “Hades” with a variety of guests: doctors Kim Kwang Taik from Seoul, South Korea, and Alejandro Dagnino Veras from Lima, Peru, Barr...

28/08/2021

Bloom journeys through Dublin by carriage in “Hades”. This map, featured in the Cambridge Centenary Edition, depicts the path of the funeral procession, beginning at Paddy Dignam’s home and ending at Glasnevin Cemetary.

17/08/2021

Episode 5 is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts!

Modelled on Odysseus’s encounter with the eaters of the narcotic lotus flower, this episode explores how people lose themselves. With Maud Ellmann, professor at the University of Chicago, Ato Quayson, professor at Stanford University, and Michael Cooney, public relations officer at a plaintiff and labor law firm, we talk about whether Bloom finds himself again. We think about Ulysses as a map of the world as we range from the streets of Dublin to Accra, Ghana, and to Melbourne, Australia.
Listen below:
https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-5-lotus-eaters

Thank you to our lovely guests and listeners!


Sponsors: Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley English Department, Cambridge University Press - Academic, Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco, and Global Irish.

Modelled on Odysseus’s encounter with the eaters of the narcotic lotus flower, this episode explores how people lose themselves. With Maud Ellmann, professor at the University of Chicago, Ato Quayson, professor at Stanford University, and Michael Cooney, public relations officer at a plaintiff and...

31/07/2021

Episode 4: Calypso is out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts!

Enter Leopold Bloom. We talk about his odd ways and his responses to a range of concealed things in “Calypso,” from Blazes Boylan’s letter to Molly to other people’s experience. Sharing their thoughts are Margot Norris, professor emerita at UC Irvine, James Ramey, professor at UAM-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, and Elizabeth Salerno, senior librarian at the New York Public Library. We also feature two songs on the program for Molly’s tour with Blazes, “Love’s Old Sweet Song” and “Là ci darem la mano.” Listen below:

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-4-calypso

Thank you to our lovely guests and listeners!



Sponsors: Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley English Department, Cambridge University Press - Academic, Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco, and Global Irish.

Enter Leopold Bloom. We talk about his odd ways and his responses to a range of concealed things in “Calypso,” from Blazes Boylan’s letter to Molly to other people’s experience. Sharing their thoughts are Margot Norris, professor emerita at UC Irvine, James Ramey, professor at UAM-Cuajimalpa...

30/07/2021

Our next episode will be out very soon! We will discuss "Calypso", where we finally meet Leopold and Molly Bloom. What's your favorite quote from this episode?

17/07/2021

The latest episode of U22 is now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

“Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses, is notoriously difficult. We explore different responses to that difficulty as we talk with Ilaria Susmel, a bank clerk from Trieste, Italy, Sam Slote, a professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, and Piotr Prachnio, a literary critic from Poland. We talk about the protean obscurity as a point of identification, an occasion for exploration, and a series of beautiful and evocative sounds. We also listen to how the shifting language of the episode finds further transformation in translations into Italian, Portuguese, and Polish.

Listen below:

https://u22pod.com/episodes/episode-3-proteus

Thank you to our lovely sponsors Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley English Department, Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco, Cambridge University Press - Academic, and Global Irish.

“Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses, is notoriously difficult. We explore different responses to that difficulty as we talk with Ilaria Susmel, a bank clerk from Trieste, Italy, Sam Slote, a professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, and Piotr Prachnio, a literary critic from Poland. We...