August 04- 10 2024 at Zürich James Joyce Foundation
For further information email fritzsenn@mac.com with ‘cc’ to info@joycefoundation.ch
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Wir freuen uns sehr, Sie einzuladen
zu einem Abend mit
Ulrich Blumenbach
Finnegans Wake – eine Ersetzungsübung
Seit knapp zwei Jahren sitzt Ulrich Blumenbach an der Übersetzung
von Finnegans Wake ins Deutsche. Damit nimmt er ein Monumental-
werk der englischen Literatur in Angriff, das ihn als Literaturwissen-
schaftler seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt, und versucht sich am Paradox,
das als unübersetzbar geltende Werk im Deutschen lesbar zu machen,
ohne gegen seine Komplexität zu verstoßen. Blumenbach stellt den
erzählerischen Erfindungsreichtum des Romans vor, veranschaulicht
den spielerischen Humor, die Musikalität und die Sinnlichkeit dieses
sprachlichen Spiegelkabinetts und lädt ein zum Tag der offenen Tür
im Turm zu Babel: „Traduirren wir alle Mann durchs Parlando“!
Anmeldung erbeten bis Freitag, 5. April
Augustinergasse 9 | 8001 Zürich | 044 211 83 01 | info@joycefoundation.ch
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation aims to keep alive the work and legacy of the writer James Joyce. Joyce lived in Zurich for more than four years and wrote large parts of his Ulysses during this time; he has also found his final resting place here.
Since its establishment in 1985, the foundation has been headed by the internationally renowned Joyce scholar Fritz Senn, supported by two curators and an administrative assistant. A broad circle of friends of the foundation is organized as an association.
Fritz Senn is still active in the Foundation, but as a result of the forthcoming resignation of the long-serving curators a renewal of the Foundation team is necessary. The following strategy, which the Board of Trustees has formulated together with the Foundation team, provides the framework for this.
The Foundation offers easily accessible, attractive services for a wide audience and it is also an important place for international, academic Joyce research. In order to keep the work and resonance of Joyce alive at the highest level the Foundation’s offerings are aimed at four target groups:
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- The academic Joyce community: The Foundation appoints Visiting Fellows from the international Joyce research community for temporary stays in Zurich. It offers a summer workshop and welcomes independent researchers as well as scholarship holders to its well-stocked Research Library.
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- Joyce enthusiasts: The Foundation offers the opportunity to get to know the work of James Joyce in varying depth and intensity through reading groups, events and collaborations with cultural institutions.
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- Children and young people: The Foundation offers workshops, lessons and guided tours in cooperation with schools and foundations. The focus is on the joy of language and playfulness of the cosmopolitan James Joyce.
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- Visitors to the city of Zurich: Joyce is a trademark of the city of Zurich with international appeal. The Foundation offers easy ways to get to know Zurich in Joyce’s footsteps.
In addition to the renewal of the Foundation’s staff and the (further) development of the above-mentioned services for the various target groups, a digitalization push is also on the agenda: The international networking of Joyce enthusiasts within and outside the universities, the joy of intertextual references in Joyce’s work and the new possibilities of digital processing of archive material offer ideal opportunities for
a digital presence.
The foundation is financed by income from the foundation capital, contributions from the public sector (City and Canton of Zurich) and private donations from the “Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation” association. In the future, it will be necessary to additionally finance individual projects and programme areas through contributions from private foundations and other sponsors.
The Foundation is thus looking for
a managing director (60-80%)
with, ideally, the following qualifications:
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- You can motivate people, mobilize and bundle forces; you are a good networker, a skilful and persuasive communicator, a person who is successful in working with a wide range of stakeholders.
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- You are an entrepreneurial thinker with knowledge and experience in cultural management. You are willing and able to take responsibility for co-designing and implementing the Foundation’s strategy and financing projects.
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- You are a person with a great affinity for James Joyce and the ability to make a relevant contribution to the further advancement of Joyce research. You have an academic degree (e.g. in literature, English studies or library management).
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- You have knowledge and experience in or a keen interest and a flair for digital humanities.
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- You are familiar with the cultural landscape of Zurich.
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- You are used to communicating in German and English (written and oral) in everyday and professional situations.
We offer an appropriate salary with social benefits, secretarial assistance, a stimulating working environment and a great deal of creative freedom.
Start of employment is 1 September 2024. Please send your application electronically as an integral PDF document to application@joycefoundation.ch by Monday, April 15 at the latest. It should include a letter of application, a detailed CV and the names (with addresses and telephone numbers) of two referees.
If you have questions, please contact Professor Andreas Fischer, Vice President of
the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, by email at afischer@es.uzh.ch.
Job advertisement / Stellenausschreibung
Tuesday, 5 March at 6.30 at the Foundation
CULTURAL BELONGINGS
The Poetry of Gerald Dawe
Curated by Frank Ferguson, Ulster University, Coleraine
6 – 26 March 2024
Gerald Dawe celebrates the art of living in places. Whether the Belfast of the 1960s, the
anxious territories of the 1970s and 1980s, or the emergent ‘new’ Ireland, his writing
expresses the potency of memory to shape and sustain. One of the country’s most
distinctive living writers, his poetry and memoirs stand as powerful testimonies to the
energy, movement and possibility of the homes and cities in which he resides.
Official Opening
Aoife McGarry, Irish Ambassador
Readings, Comments, Conversation
Gerald Dawe
Ron Ewart
Frank Ferguson gallerypress.com
An apéro will be served to round off the evening.
RSVP: Thursday 29 February 2024
044 211 83 01 | info@joycefoundation.ch
Augustinergasse 9
Curated by Frank Ferguson, Ulster University, Coleraine
An Exhibition at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation
Strauhof, Augustinergasse 9
6 – 26 March 2024
Opening times: Monday-Friday 10 – 12 and 14 – 16.30
Guided Tour: Friday 15 March, 17.00
Gerald Dawe celebrates the art of living in places. Whether the Belfast of the
1960s, the anxious territories of the 1970s and 1980s, or the emergent ‘new’
Ireland, his writing expresses the potency of memory to shape and sustain. One
of the country’s most distinctive living writers, his poetry and memoirs stand as
powerful testimonies to the energy, movement and possibility of the homes and
cities in which he resides.
FREUNDE DER ZÜRCHER JAMES JOYCE STIFTUNG
Sehr geehrte Mitglieder
Wir freuen uns, Sie zur 36. Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins der Freunde einzuladen, am Dienstag, den 27. Februar um 18 Uhr in der Stiftung, Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zürich.
Vereinsgeschäfte / Antonia Fritz
- Protokoll der 35. Mitgliederversammlung vom 1. Juni 2023 (siehe Website)
- Kurzer Jahresrückblick 2023
- Neue Mitglieder des Vorstands nach Juni 2023 stellen sich vor:
Annkathrin Wollert (Quästorin)
Lara Giannini (Website, Social media)
sowie Hans Neukom als Revisor - Jahresrechnung 2023 / Annkathrin Wollert
Revisionsbericht Hans Neukom (siehe Website) - Entlastung der Präsidentin und des Vorstands 2023
- Abstimmung über Vorschlag zur Anpassung der Mitgliederbeiträge und Erweiterung um eine
Mitgliederkategorie (Artikel 5 der Vereinsstatuten) - Der Vorstand und das Stiftungsteam möchten künftig für die Durchführung der Bloomsday- und der
Weihnachtsfeier auch von den Mitgliedern einen Unkostenbeitrag verlangen. - Kurzer Jahresausblick 2024 / Antonia & Ursula Zeller für die Stiftung
- Wahl/ Bestätigung des Vorstandes für weitere drei Jahre
19 Uhr kleiner Umbiss
19:30 Uhr The Queen of Alliteration
Kurzlesungen aus dem Werk von Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860 – 1939)
mit einer Einführung von Fritz Senn
Monday, 26 February 2024, 7.30 pm
It is our pleasure to invite you to a Strauhof Lecture
by the former ZJJF scholar
Talia Abu
Tel Aviv University
Vegetarianism in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
In Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Joyce includes vegetarian practices
that indicate a deep engagement with particular moral and ethical
issues associated with food and eating. In the discussion Talia Abu
will address the cultural attitudes toward vegetarianism in Joyce’s
time, and will explore vegetarianism in Ulysses and Finnegans
Wake as a rebellion against mainstream social and cultural values.
RSVP: Thursday 22 February 2024
044 211 83 01 | info@joycefoundation.ch
Dear Friends of the Joyce Foundation,
It is our pleasure to inform you of this great honour for Fritz Senn:
Yesterday, Fritz received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, which was presented by President Michael D. Higgins in Dublin.
For further details, see:
https://www.ireland.ie/en/irish-diaspora/presidential-distinguished-service-awards/
Congratulations, Fritz!
We are quite excited
Ursula Ruth Silke Frances
We are happy to invite you to our first Strauhof Lecture of the year:
Vitor Alevato do Amaral
Fluminense Federal University (Rio de Janeiro)
Joyce’s Poetry and A Portrait ReTranslated into
Brazilian Portuguese: Chances and Challenges
Joyce’s early and occasional poems – as well as his own translations – were
published in Portuguese for the first time in 2022: Alevato’s bilingual Outra
poesia edition contains poems dating from 1891 to 1939.
On the other hand, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) was first
translated into Brazilian Portuguese in 1945 and has been retranslated five
times so far. Vitor’s new translation is now in its final stage.
Vitor was a recipient of the Joyce Scholarship and Looren Residency in 2020
and is currently working on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at
Translation House Looren.
RSVP: Thursday 18 January 2024
044 211 83 01 | info@joycefoundation.ch
Saturday, 4 November 2023,
Matinée at the Filmpodium, Nüschelerstrasse 11, Zürich
Translating Ulysses
Netherlands/Turkey, 2023. Directed by Aylin Kuryel and Firat Yücel
Subtitles in English and German
The documentary portrays Kawa Nemir, renowned Kurdish author and translator of English literature, on his epic journey to bring Joyce’s Ulysses from the Irish sea to the Kurdish mountains.
But how can Ulysses with its complexity and infinite variety of words and symbols be translated into a language that is politically repressed? During his six-years’ task he collects a myriad of Kurdish words and idioms to create a Kurdish analogue to Joyce’s novel, attempting to redeem the collective memory of the Kurdish language and to build a bridge between his own Kurdish culture and world literature.
Kawa Nemir
Fr 27.10.2023 at Zürcher James Joyce-Stiftung
Zürich liest
«Werden Fische eigentlich seekrank?»
«Peace and war depend on some fellow’s digestion.»
«Wieso menstruieren nicht alle Frauen zur selben Zeit beim selben Mond?»
Folgen Sie Blooms Gedankengängen auf seiner Odyssee durch Dublin, kreuz und quer durch den Text.
Lesungen D/E. Platzzahl beschränkt!
Nehmen Sie einen Schluck von dem Meer, über das Joyces Odysseus jede Woche segelt, wenn sich in der Zürcher James Joyce Stiftung Literaturbegeisterte und Irlandfans zur Ulysses-Lektüre treffen. Sehen Sie selber, ob Ihnen ein Schluck genügt …
Lesende aus der Zürcher Joyce Community
Sprache:
Englisch und Deutsch
Eintritt:
Eintritt frei, Kollekte.
Tickets:
Keine Tickets, keine Reservation; Einlass, solange Platz vorhanden
Veranstaltungsort:
Zürcher James Joyce-Stiftung
Augustinergasse 9
8001 Zürich
2. Stock (kein Lift)
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Summer break reading groups!
Please note that there will be no Ulysses and Finnegan Wake reading groups at the Foundation from 20 July to 10 August.
The Finnegans Wake online group will run continuously. Please note here that no info emails will be sent during that period: you can always use the same link from the last email.
Our office will not be staffed during this time. Visitors are welcome during the usual opening hours from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 7.30 p.m.
On occasion of his recent book publication we are happy to invite you to a lecture by
Gabriel Renggli (University of York)
Gabriel’s book Joyce as Theory, published in February 2023,
examines the various scenes in Finnegans Wake that deal with the
production and interpretation of texts. Any reader of the Wake knows
that ALP’s letter is somehow important and that Shaun hates Shem’s
writing, but what Gabriel argues is that in these and other narratives,
Joyce presents a systematic philosophy of meaning-making – a
hermeneutics – which markedly resembles what would come to be
called “literary theory” in the second half of the twentieth century.
This lecture provides an overview of what theory is, how Joyce fits
into it, and how Joyce’s approach resembles that of Jacques Derrida,
in particular.
Students welcome!
RSVP until 19 May to: info@joycefoundation.ch or 044 211 83 01.
06.-12. August 2023
Der ukrainische Autor Kostyantyn Belyaev stellt seine Übersetzung zu Finnegans Wake auf Russisch vor. Der Abend findet Ukrainisch und Russisch mit deutscher Simultanübersetzung statt.
Im Rahmen der Strauhof lectures besucht der Autor, Übersetzer und Künstler uns in Zürich und gibt Einblicke in seine neuste Buchpublikation ‘Ja, liegt denn Dublin nicht auf Hawaii’?
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Übersetzerinnengespräch mit Christa Schuenke
Christa Schuenke ist mehrfach preisgekrönte Übersetzerin englischsprachiger Klassiker (z.B. Herman Melville oder F. Scott Fitzgerald) sowie zeitgenössischer Literatur aus dem anglophonen Raum.
Nach einer kurzen Einführung durch Dr. Katherine J. Williams (Englisches Seminar) und Dr. Florence Widmer (Übersetzerhaus Looren) spricht Christa Schuenke zunächst über das Übersetzen allgemein, mit Verweisen auf irische Literatur, z.B. Jonathan Swifts Gulliver’s Travels, W. B. Yeats oder John Banville.
Ein besonderer Fokus des Gesprächs liegt auf Christa Schuenkes Übersetzung des Romans Grace von Paul Lynch, die kürzlich im Verlag Freies Geistesleben erschienen ist.
Ort: online – Link auf Anmeldung via https://uzhalumni.ch/events/93369
Datum: Dienstag, 22. November 2022, 8:00 bis 9:45 Uhr
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New reading group ‘Ulysses in 18 weeks’
After a successful Ulysses in 12 weeks reading group that was part of the programme accompanying the Ulysses centenary exhibition, we are starting a new short reading weekly group with Fritz Senn:
Ulysses in 18 weeks
Start: Tuesday, 15 November
When: 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Where: Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Augustinergasse 9, Zurich
Since we can accommodate only a limited number of participants at Augustinergasse, it is first come, first served.
Please register by Thursday, November 9, by emailing info@joycefoundation.ch.
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New Audio Book
Audio book of Ulysses (in German) by Radio SWR2. Free download of audio files.
Vor 100 Jahren ist der “Ulysses” von James Joyce erschienen. SWR2 wiederholt aus diesem Anlass seine vielfach gerühmte gut 23-stündige Hörspielfassung in 18 Teilen. Das Meisterwerk der klassischen Moderne läutet eine Zeitenwende in der Romanliteratur ein: In 18 Kapiteln wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und über zahlreiche Stilregister ein Tag in Dublin erzählt.
Genau 100 Jahre nach seiner Ersterscheinung am 2.2.1922 wird im Strauhof zu diesem Klassiker eine Ausstellung eröffnet. In Zusammenarbeit mit Ursula Zeller und Ruth Frehner, den Kuratorinnen der Zürcher James Joyce Stiftung, werden Entstehung und Rezeption, Inhalt und Form von «Ulysses» in 100 Exponaten inszeniert.