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Please direct your attention to this exciting announcement from the Zurich James Joyce Foundation,  copied below:…Continue Reading Joyce Translation Scholarship and Looren Residency 2019

The International James Joyce Foundation is pleased to announce that Hans Walter Gabler has been elected as an Honorary Trustee, a position reserved for those who have done extraordinary service to Joyce studies over the course of a career.  Current and former honorary trustees include Umberto Eco, Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Morris Beja, Fitz Senn, and…Continue Reading Hans Walter Gabler Honorary Trustee Announcement

The International James Joyce Foundation invites paper proposals for its 2019 MLA session in Chicago.  The session topic is Joyce and women’s legal and civil rights.  Papers might discuss marriage, divorce, inheritance, suffrage, or any other aspect of women’s rights in Joyce’s work.  In light of contemporary feminist movements, proposals might consider Joyce’s place in our current debates or Joyce’s…Continue Reading CFP: Joyce Panel at 2019 MLA

From the President of the IJJF Almost exactly three years ago, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Nick Goldman of the European Bioinformatics Institute issued a challenge. As a mathematical biologist working on the possibilities of encoding information in strings of DNA, Nick hid a single Bitcoin in a string of DNA and…Continue Reading Art and Genetics

The International James Joyce Foundation plans to award six or more scholarships to aid graduate students who plan to attend the International James Joyce Symposium in Antwerp in June, 2018. The deadline for applications for the scholarships is February 15, 2018. Applicants need not be members of the Foundation; any graduate student working on Joyce…Continue Reading Symposium Scholarship Applications

Between 11 and 16 June 2018, the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics will host the 26th International James Joyce Symposium in the city that Joyce and his family visited in the summer of 1926. Belgium is small, so much so that all of the sites Joyce toured that year (Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels…Continue Reading Call for Papers: The 26th International James Joyce Symposium

Clive Hart, one of the founding fathers of Joyce criticism, died more than a year ago. As a tribute to Clive, his collaborator Ian Gunn has created a wonderfully useful digital archive with Joyce tools called JoyceTools. It contains three contemporary maps of Dublin and an 1874 admiralty map of Dublin bay. Joyceans who find…Continue Reading JoyceTools: A Tribute to Clive Hart

This week the latest issue was published of Genetic Joyce Studies, the electronic journal published by the Centre for Manuscript Studies at the University of Antwerp. The seventeenth issue opens with an editorial by Dirk Van Hulle calling for more cooperation among genetic scholars of Finnegans Wake and Ulysses. Sangam MacDuff discusses a new typescript of the…Continue Reading Genetic Joyce Studies #17

Between 11 and 16 June 2018, the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics will host the 26th International James Joyce Symposium in the city that Joyce and his family visited in the summer of 1926. Belgium is small, so much so that all of the sites Joyce toured that year (Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels…Continue Reading The Art of James Joyce: The 26th International James Joyce Symposium

On June 16, 2016, the board of trustees for the International James Joyce Foundation voted unanimously to move the organization to The University of Tulsa and appoint Sean Latham, Pauline McFarlin Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature, as its new executive secretary. The IJJF was founded by Thomas F. Staley at The University of Tulsa…Continue Reading International James Foundation Moves to Tulsa