U22 The Centenary Ulysses Podcast
U22 is about readers' journeys through Ulysses, James Joyce’s modernist epic about the lives of ordinary people on a day in Dublin in 1904. The podcast anticipates and accompanies a reader-friendly edition Catherine Flynn is bringing out with Cambridge University Press for the book’s centenary in 2022. Here, she and her co-hosts Rafael Aguilar, Emily Moell, and Louie Poore talk with the contributors to the volume and with readers of Ulysses from around the world. Listen to their first impressions, later realizations, and the challenges and the pleasures they met along the way.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Episode 15: Circe
Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
Episode 13: Nausicaa
A woman, a man, a beach at twilight, and at least one orgasm: but what exactly happens? Is Gerty MacDowell brainwashed or liberated by the women’s magazines she reads? Is the episode misogynist or em…
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 g…
Episode 11: Sirens
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 tr…
Episode 10
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 …
Episode 9
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, th…
Episode 8
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 …
Episode 7
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 windbagge…
Episode 6
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: doct…
Episode 5
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…
Episode 4
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 thought…
Episode 3
“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 prof…
Episode 2
Exploring “Nestor,” the second episode of Ulysses, we think about teaching as farce and learning as historical trauma and collaboration. We listen to a conversation between students at Caffè Strada, …
Episode 1
In our first episode, we talk about how Ulysses begins. We’re joined by Karen Lawrence, President of the Huntington Library, John Higgins of the University of Cape Town, and Jamie Salomon, leader of …