LASER TALKS STANFORD: "James Joyce's Ulysses at 100"

EVENT INFO

When: June 8, 6pm PDT, Find your timezone here

Where: Online, register via ZOOM

Duration: 2hrs

Description:

This special LASER will feature a presentation and dialogue with Sarah Cole (Columbia Univ) on James Joyce's "Ulysses", celebrating the 100th anniversary of its publication.

SPEAKER BIO

Sarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities at Columbia University. A specialist in literary modernism, she is the co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar and publishes widely on literary modernism and on war and peace. As Dean, she founded and directs the Humanities War and Peace Initiative and the Climate Humanities initiative at Columbia. She is the author of three books, Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century (Columbia, 2019), At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Oxford, Modernist Literature and Culture series, 2012) and Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (Cambridge, 2003),and has published articles in journals such as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Modernist Cultures, Modern Fiction Studies, and ELH, and in edited collections.

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The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks