U22 The Centenary Ulysses Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 15: Circe
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in "Nighttown...
Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Set in a maternity hospital, "Oxen" parodies the development of English prose. A celebration of maternity or a rival creative feat? Joyce called it th...
Episode 13: Nausicaa
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 mag...
Episode 12: Cyclops
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Barney Kiernan's pub, what does belonging look like? What do language and cliché have to do with self-determination, nationalism, and inclusion? O...
Episode 11: Sirens
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 10
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters connected only slightly by a prome...
Episode 9
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why does Joyce associate Stephen's conversation in the National Library of Ireland with such a dangerous Homeric episode? Scylla and Charybdis are mon...
Episode 8
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we track Bloom's wanderings in this lunchtime episode, we consider the relationship between food and power. We talk about food imagery, colonialism...
Episode 7
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode centers on the Evening Telegraph offices where men gather to talk about journalism, tell jokes, mock political speeches, and celebrate gr...
Episode 6
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 5
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Modelled on Odysseus's encounter with the eaters of the narcotic lotus flower, this episode explores how people lose themselves. With Maud Ellmann, pr...
Episode 4
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 3
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Proteus," the third episode of Ulysses, is notoriously difficult. We explore different responses to that difficulty as we talk with Ilaria Susmel, a ...
Episode 2
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring "Nestor," the second episode of Ulysses, we think about teaching as farce and learning as historical trauma and collaboration. We listen to ...
Episode 1
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Unive...