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100 Years of Ulysses

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Evening Documentary Screening  “100 Years of Ulysses” and Post-Screening Talk

June 17, 7 - 9pm

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RUNDOWN
7:20pm Opening Remarks
7:30pm Screening
8:30pm Panel discussion
8:50pm Q&A
9:00pm Ends

Produced to mark the 100th anniversary of publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, “100 Years of Ulysses”, a one-hour documentary devised by historian, Frank Callanan and directed by Ruán Magan, sets out to unlock one of most impregnatable and explosive books of modern times. Featuring interviews with writers and scholars including Eimear McBride, Paul Muldoon, John McCourt and Margaret O Callaghan, illuminative archive film and photographs, art works by Jess Tobin, Brian Lalor and Holly Pereira and a beautiful original score by Natasa Paulberg, “100 Years of Ulysses” brings viewers on an enlightening journey into the heart of one of the most inspiring and influential novels and reveals how it remains as relevant today as it ever was.

Film duration 53 mins, English dialogue.


Oliver Farry

Oliver Farry is an Irish journalist based in Hong Kong. He is currently Hong Kong correspondent for France 24 and Radio France Internationale (English) and he has also reported for TV5Monde, RTÉ, TG4 (Ireland), BBC Gaeilge, Radio New Zealand and Raidió Fáilte (Ireland). His print and online bylines include The Guardian, The Irish Times, The New Statesman, The New Republic, The Currency, The Millions, Berfrois, the South China Morning Post. In addition to news, he writes on a broad range of subjects such as books, film, photography, urbanism, food and drink and sport.

Kendall Johnson

Dr Kendall Johnson is a Professor at the School of English at The University of Hong Kong. As an interdisciplinary scholar of early American, British, and European literatures and history. He researches material print culture in a transnational and global historical frame. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was an Associate Professor of Early American Literature at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor in American Studies at The University of Hong Kong for the 2008‐2009 academic year.

Sarah Lee

Dr Sarah Lee gained her doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a thesis on the connections between Anglophone literature and visual arts and the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century. She has taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and The Education University of Hong Kong, and has published on modernist studies, Yesi, digital pedagogy and philosophy of technology. In 2018 she translated an excerpt from Ulysses into Cantonese for reciting at Bloomsday events.

Yvonne Wong

Dr Yvonne Wong holds a PhD in English Literature from Durham University, UK. She has published on Dorothy Richardson, popular culture, and her works have appeared on Hong Kong Review of Books. She has taught literature in the UK and in Hong Kong, and is currently teaching at College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include modernism, phenomenology, women writers, space and place in literature and inter-arts studies.


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Event Details

In-person
Fri 17 Jun 2022
7 - 9 p.m.

Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong

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20220617T190000 20220617T210000 America/New_York Asia Society: 100 Years of Ulysses

For event details visit https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/100-years-ulysses
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