Lectures on Tap - The Great Irish Epic: Approaching Ulysses by James Joyce

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📚 Lecture: "The Great Irish Epic: Approaching Ulysses by James Joyce"

🎤 Speaker: Prof. Sydney Mitsunaga-Whitten

Join us for an insightful evening with Sydney Mitsunaga-Whitten as we delve into Ireland's most celebrated—and most challenging—novel: James Joyce's "Ulysses." Joyce himself claimed his work would "keep the professors guessing for two hundred years," but beneath its notorious complexity lies an unexpected richness.

Set against the backdrop of a single day in Dublin, this novel is a humorous, radical, and deeply human exploration of marriage and the beauty of everyday life. In this engaging lecture, you will discover how Joyce transformed a simple walk through Dublin into one of literature's boldest experiments and understand why this modernist masterpiece remains vital and provocative today, over a century after it first scandalized its readers.

Sydney Mitsunaga-Whitten is a passionate scholar of literature, dedicated to unpacking the layers of meaning in Joyce’s groundbreaking work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of "Ulysses" and appreciate its enduring impact with the insightful Sydney Mitsunaga-Whitten!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.