All Program Dates
February 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
February 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 6, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 3, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 17, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
April 24, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 1, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 15, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 22, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 29, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
June 5, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Registration
Tuition for this course is $450. Members receive exclusive discounts on our programs and courses. Not a member? Learn more.
This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older.
Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email rsvp@rosenbach.org.
This course meets virtually on Zoom. Sessions will be recorded and these recordings will be available to watch up to thirty days after the entire course has ended.
This course is now sold out.
If you are still interested in joining the waitlist, please email rsvp@rosenbach.org.
Description
One hundred years later and people are still reading, and talking about, James Joyce’s Ulysses. From Samuel Beckett to Michael Chabon, from Jackson Pollack to Sean Scully, from Orson Welles to Spike Jonze and from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith few single works of literature have had the same inspiring effect on so many artists of different disciplines, making it one of the most widely read and discussed works of fiction written in the English language.
This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work. For those returning to the novel, this will be a great way to delve even deeper into a book whose depths never seem to end. Most of all, the best way to read Ulysses is with a group, over an extended period of time (with an expert leader), in a shared experience. The Rosenbach, home of one of the great Joyce collections in the world, including the most complete manuscript of Ulysses in existence, has been providing this experience for decades. Included in this course will be both an in person and an online presentation of our Joyce materials.
Participants in Ulysses Weekly:
will be able to access at their own convenience pre-recorded short lectures by the instructor
join live weekly class discussions (all recorded and available to to those who might not be able to make all the weekly meetings)
will have the opportunity to read at the Rosenbach’s Bloomsday Festival on June 16, 2025
Some special Ulysses scholars will also join some of the discussion meetings:
Patrick Hasting for “Calypso” and “Lotus Eaters” on 2/20
Robert Seidmann for “Hades” on 2/27
Paul Saint-Amour for “Rocks” on 3/27
Vicki Mahaffey for “Sirens” on 4/3
Jonathan Goldman for “Cyclops” on 4/10
Ellen Scheible for “Nausicaa” on 4/17
This course is sponsored by Lenni Steiner and Perry Lerner.
Instructor
Robert Berry is a Philadelphia artist and educator who has spent over a decade translating James Joyce’s Ulysses into comics and other media. He teaches courses in comics and Ulysses at the University of Pennsylvania and is known throughout the Joyce community for his work on ULYSSES “Seen” and his regular contributions to the James Joyce Quarterly. He occasionally still has time to paint pretty pictures and has been leading courses on Ulysses at the Rosenbach since 2017.