'One-Day Ulysses Journey' Symposium to celebrate the Bloomsday in Turkey

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An online symposium will be held on June 16-17 on "Ulysses," the modernist novel of James Joyce published in 1922 which T. S. Eliot says heralds the end of the novel form and anticipates the future of modern literature in his review of the book written in 1923. 

The novel by the Irish author was published back then by Shakespeare and Co in Paris, owned by Slyvia Beach.

"Manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity," as T. S. Eliot puts it, Ulysses describes an ordinary day of the chief character Leopold Bloom, wandering around the streets of Dublin.

Different events are organized on June 16 each year, both in Ireland and in different parts of the world, named as the "Bloomsday" in connection to Ulysses.   

The "One-Day Ulysses Journey" symposium in Turkey this year will also be organized to celebrate the publication of the novel and the Bloomsday, and the speakers will be discussing Ulysses from different points of view and in connection to Turkey. 

Caroline Elbay, Sam Slote, Vike Martina Plock and Laura Pelaschiar will be delivering the keynote speeches in "One-Day Ulysses Journey" on Friday, June 16th, and Saturday, June 17th.

Dr. Demet Karabulut Dede and Dr. Maryam Nacafibabanazar from the Haliç University American Culture and Literature Department are organizing the symposium which will be free and in English language.

The updates for the online event are posted on the Twitter account @BloomsdayTR.

(AÖ/PE)