Past Presidents of the James Joyce Society:
John Slocum, 1947-48
Padraic Colum, 1948-72
William York Tindall, 1972-77
Zach Bowen, 1977-86
Sidney Feshbach, 1986-2000
Nicholas Fargnoli, 2000-21
(some dates approximate)
James Joyce Society notice. Berg Collection. New York Public Library.
Events
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2026
- Jun 9, 2026 “Ulysses in Nighttown,” a Staged Reading by Elevator Repair Service Jun 9, 2026
- Mar 27, 2026 Lunchtime Launch: Chris GoGwilt, Keri Walsh, and Shinjini Chattopadhyay, "Joyce Studies Annual, Special Issue" Mar 27, 2026
- Mar 6, 2026 Lunchtime Book Launch: New Biographies of Bennett Cerf (by Gayle Feldman) and Margaret Anderson (by Adam Morgan) Mar 6, 2026
- Feb 2, 2026 Adapting Ulysses: Interview with John Collins and Scott Shepherd from Elevator Repair Service Feb 2, 2026
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2025
- Dec 12, 2025 Lunchtime Book Launch: Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible: "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" Dec 12, 2025
- Oct 8, 2025 Casey Drosehn Gough: "Joycean Saínz: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Mexican History in the Novels of Gustavo Saínz" Oct 8, 2025
- Sep 17, 2025 Julie McCormick Weng: “James Joyce’s Encounter with Sexual Harassment” Sep 17, 2025
- May 1, 2025 "Anti-Semitism and Blackface America as Metaphor in James Joyce's Ulysses," Amadi Ozier May 1, 2025
- Mar 17, 2025 Staged Reading of Exiles, by Elevator Repair Service Mar 17, 2025
- Mar 4, 2025 “Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body,” Talia Abu (Book Launch) Mar 4, 2025
- Feb 3, 2025 "Ulysses: A Design History," Glenn Johnston Feb 3, 2025
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2024
- Dec 10, 2024 The James Joyce Collection at the University at Buffalo, with James Maynard, Alison Fraser, and Damien Keane Dec 10, 2024
- Nov 12, 2024 Vicki Mahaffey, Book Launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" Nov 12, 2024
- Sep 12, 2024 "Complicit Reading: Castle-Agent Readers and the 'Hostile Milieu' of Ulysses," Eric A. Lewis Sep 12, 2024
- Jun 16, 2024 Bloomsday: Portals of Discovery Jun 16, 2024
- Jun 15, 2024 Bloomsday 2024: A Shout in the Street Jun 15, 2024
- May 22, 2024 Alison Armstrong: "Joyce in transition: the birth of ALP" May 22, 2024
- Feb 5, 2024 Mary Burke, "Mixed: Race and Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain" Feb 5, 2024
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2023
- Oct 25, 2023 "Close Readings, Genetic Readings, Decolonial Readings of Ulysses" Shinjini Chattopadhyay Oct 25, 2023
- Oct 5, 2023 Joyce and New York City Walking Tour, Part Two: Uptown!, Glenn Johnston Oct 5, 2023
- Sep 21, 2023 “What’s Love Got To Do With It? The Joycean Anecdote and Femme-Queer Modernist Counterpublics,” Margot Backus Sep 21, 2023
- Sep 15, 2023 Making Joyce Studies Safe for All, roundtable and open forum (remote) (RSVP necessary) Sep 15, 2023
- Jun 16, 2023 The JJS Bloomsday Celebration with IAWA–featuring Elevator Repair Service Jun 16, 2023
- Jun 1, 2023 Joyce and New York City: Walking Tour led by JJS Treasurer, Glenn Johnston (registration FULL) Jun 1, 2023
- May 16, 2023 Fargnoli/Gillespie, “An Introduction to an Introduction: ‘Reading James Joyce’ ” plus: “Tribute to Nicholas Fargnoli” May 16, 2023
- Mar 15, 2023 "Larsen’s Harlem, Joyce’s Dublin: Notes on Racial Legibility," Zoë Henry Mar 15, 2023
- Feb 2, 2023 "Friendship and the challenges of biographical writing: the Joyces and the Colums," Margaret Kelleher Feb 2, 2023
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2022
- Dec 9, 2022 “Finding Nora,” Nuala O’Connor Dec 9, 2022
- Oct 18, 2022 “Book Talk: Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word,” Gregory Erickson Oct 18, 2022
- Sep 23, 2022 “‘Their syphilisation you mean’: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease,” Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston Sep 23, 2022
- May 19, 2022 "Ulysses: A Pisgah View, "Paul Muldoon May 19, 2022
- Apr 8, 2022 “What's in a Name? Ulysses, Nationalisms, and Wars,” Tekla Mecsnóber, University of Groningen Apr 8, 2022
- Mar 25, 2022 Celebrating Michael Groden: A Public Tribute Mar 25, 2022
- Feb 8, 2022 – Jun 7, 2022 New York Ulysses Book Club (weekly) Feb 8, 2022 – Jun 7, 2022
- Feb 4, 2022 Ulysses Centenary & 75th JJS Anniversary II: Robert Spoo & Kerri Maher (RSVP required) Feb 4, 2022
- Feb 2, 2022 Ulysses Centenary & 75th JJS Anniversary I: Clare Hutton & Jonathan Goldman Feb 2, 2022
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2021
- Nov 18, 2021 “Introduction to the University at Buffalo Poetry James Joyce Collection,” James Maynard & Alison Fraser, SUNY Buffalo Nov 18, 2021
- Sep 24, 2021 “James Joyce and Watch Technology,” Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield Sep 24, 2021