Zooms & Podcasts
Weekly conversations. Participant voices. Ongoing podcasts throughout the 80 days.
Live Zoom Conversations
Each Wednesday during the 80-day reading of Ulysses, participating readers join live conversations with Joyce scholars, guests, writers, artists, and fellow readers from around the world.
Questions, observations, discoveries, and discussion are all part of the experience.
Intimate, optional, and shared as part of the reading.
Wednesdays, June 3rd – August 19th, 2026
11 AM California • 7 PM Dublin
Each conversation is later shared as a podcast—so you can return, or join in your own time.
Opening Zoom Conversation — June 3rd
Sam Slote
We begin the 2026 reading of Ulysses with Sam Slote joining readers from around the world for the opening Ulysses in 80 conversation.
Like the eponymous Joyce scholar in The Death of a Joyce Scholar, Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin and lives in the Liberties in Dublin. He is the co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses (2022) and the author of Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics (2013). In addition to Joyce and Beckett, he has written on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Queneau, Antonin Artaud, Dante, Mallarmé, and Elvis.
Thank You, Sam Slote
Our thanks to Sam for opening the 2026 Zoom series and sharing his insights on Ulysses, annotation, and the pleasures of reading Joyce.
Podcast coming soon.
Next Conversation
Robert Nicholson
Wednesday, June 10th
Joining the Conversation This Summer
June 3rd — Sam Slote
June 10th — Robert Nicholson
June 24th — Matthew Campbell
July 1st — Robert Spoo
July 8th — Catherine Flynn
July 15th — Patrick Hastings
July 29th — Joseph Valente
August 12th — Daniel Mulhall
Zoom information is shared by email prior to each conversation.
To receive updates and access information: readingulyssesin80@gmail.com
Participant Voices — Podcast Conversations
Along the way, Ulysses in 80 participants from around the world continue the conversation through shared podcast episodes and reflections.
Organic, casual, and often recorded in real time, these conversations emerge directly from the reading experience itself—exploring questions, frustrations, discoveries, favorite passages, editions, halfway thoughts, and the experience of reading Ulysses together over 80 days.
Episodes have included:
Why Read Ulysses?
What Edition Should I Read?
Halfway Through
…and conversations inspired by readers everywhere.
Recent Episode
How I Read Ulysses
One of the most common questions we hear is simple: How do I read Ulysses? In this opening episode, readers from the Ulysses in 80 community reflect on the experience of reading Joyce's masterpiece — the confusion, pleasure, frustration, humor, discovery, and momentum of reading together.
If You're Wondering
Three early conversations from Ulysses in 80 participants—on the spot, unfiltered, in their own words.