U22 The Centenary Ulysses Podcast

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 windbaggery with Liam Heneghan, writer and professor of environmental science and studies at DePaul, Terence Killeen, former Irish Times editor and scholar at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, and Lucas Petersen, journalist and professor at Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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 empathetic? We complicate these binaries with Anne Fogarty, professor at University College, Dublin, Cathal Mac Thréinfhir, retired teacher in Limerick, Nuala O’Connor, Irish novelist, James Turner, professor at UC Berkeley, and Vicki Mahaffey, professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 thoughts are Margot Norris, professor emerita at UC Irvine, James Ramey, professor at UAM-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, and Elizabeth Salerno, senior librarian at the New York Public Library. We also feature two songs on the program for Molly’s tour with Blazes, “Love’s Old Sweet Song” and “Là ci darem la mano .”

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 transforms words into a seductive soundscape with Katherine O’Callaghan, lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Peter Kennedy, professor at the University of Hong Kong, as well as Dakota Brown and Emma Farry from the Berkeley Ulysses seminar. And we listen to some songs...