Joyce in Paris: a Colloquium
Saturday, June 14, 2025
La Maison de la Recherche, Nouvelle Sorbonne, 4 Rue des Irlandais, 75005 PARIS.
Joyce in Paris: a Colloquium
Stephen Dedalus launches our theme for the day when he muses to himself, “Just say in the most natural tone: when I was in Paris, boul’ Mich’, I used to….” How might we finish that sentence? How might we read this theatrical performance of a natural tone? What might we say about Stephen’s everyday life in the capital? What can we say about Joyce in Paris?
Vicki Mahaffey will be our keynote speaker and will introduce her new book, The Joyce of Everyday Life (Bucknell UP, 2024). In addition, we (Patrick and Joe) have invited a variety of Joyceans to speak on topics related to our organizing theme on roundtable panels. Speakers will have 10 minutes to speak with an hour of discussion to follow. We are particularly interested in topics addressed to our students who will have spent the month studying Joyce while abroad in Ireland and at the end of the program will have the chance to rethink what they have learned by considering Joyce in Paris. We are delighted (and, frankly, astonished) that so many Joyceans want to contribute to this little project of ours.
Vicki Mahaffey - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Background
Since 2011, we have had the pleasure of taking students to Ireland for a month of summer study through Northeastern University’s Dialogues of Civilization program. We have been lucky enough to meet with many of Ireland’s finest—from writers, artists, musicians, and scholars to the wonderful people who look after us up and down the country.
James Joyce has been a keystone for the program from the start. This year, we are expanding the itinerary and what better way to do that than to follow Joyce to Paris? We will be traveling with sixteen bright and engaged undergraduates to the French capital for five days. Our séjour will end with a colloquium that will offer the opportunity for scholars, students, and fans of Ulysses to meet, to share ideas, and to experience Paris through a Joycean parallax.
List of Participants
Joseph Nugent (Boston College)
Patrick Mullen (Northeastern University)
Benoît Tadié (University of Paris, Nanterre)
Carle Bonafous-Murat (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley)
Christian Dupont (Boston College)
Clair Wills (University of Cambridge)
Corentin Jegou (Nantes Université)
Daniel Ferrer (École Normale Supérieure-CNRS)
Enda Duffy (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Eve Watson (Institute of Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Flavie Épié (Université de Lille)
James O’Brien-Moran (South East Technological University)
Jonathan Goldman (New York Institute of Technology)
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé (Tulane University)
Marjorie Howes (Boston College)
Maurizia Boscagli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Michael Rubenstein (Stony Brook University)
Michelle Clayton (Brown University)
Moynagh Sullivan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Richard Kearney (Boston College)
Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin)
Sophie Rabau (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Sylvain Belluc (Université de Nimes)
Tiphaine Samoyault (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Valérie Bénéjam (Nantes Université)
Vicki Mahaffey (University of Illinois)
Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame)
Clíona Ní Ríordáin (University of Notre Dame)
Frank McNally (The Irish Times)
Thomas Bartlett (University of Aberdeen)
Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway University of London)
Organizers
Joseph Nugent
Boston College
Patrick Mullen
Northeastern University