14 - 15
January 2014
Past Event
Luncheon Discussion of James Joyce's "The Dead"

Luncheon Discussion of James Joyce's "The Dead"

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
January 14 - 15, 2014
Share:
Default Event Image
14 - 15
January 2014
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

So speaks James Joyce's character Gabriel Conroy, favorite nephew of the Misses Kate and Julia Morkan, in his after-dinner address to their annual Epiphany dinner. As we read and reflect upon Joyce's short story "The Dead," can we conclude that we too live in a "thought-tormented age?" Is Conroy's "conservative" answer, recurrence to "the tradition of genuine warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality, which our forefathers have handed down to us and which we must hand down to our descendants," a sufficient answer? What are we to make of the fact that Conroy himself seems to be cut loose from the traditions he praises, himself a "man without a country," so to speak?

Please join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion co-moderated by William Schambra and John Weicher Lunch will be served.

For a copy of James Joyce's The Dead" -- from the collection Dubliners or telephone at (202) 974-2424.

Related Events
See More
03
June 2026
Virtual Event | Hudson Institute
Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?
Featured Speakers:
Elliot Abrams
Daniel Batlle
Getty Images
03
June 2026
Virtual Event | Hudson Institute
Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?

Please join Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle for a conversation with Elliott Abrams, whose leadership on Latin America policy stretches from his service as assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs under President Ronald Reagan to his role as special representative for Venezuela in the first Trump administration.

Getty Images
Featured Speakers:
Elliot Abrams
Daniel Batlle
Learn More
04
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Spain’s Latin American Reckoning
Featured Speakers:
Julio Crespo MacLennan
Daniel Batlle
Getty Images
04
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Spain’s Latin American Reckoning

Join Hudson as Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle sits down with Julio Crespo MacLennan, a historian and one of the leading scholars on Spain’s democratic transition and on Europe’s relationship with the wider world. 

Getty Images
Featured Speakers:
Julio Crespo MacLennan
Daniel Batlle
Learn More
11
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash
Featured Speakers:
Nadia Schadlow
James Mismash
Getty Images
11
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash

Please join Hudson Institute for a fireside chat between Hudson Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Industrial Base Growth and Director of the Office of Small Business Programs James Mismash. 

Getty Images
Featured Speakers:
Nadia Schadlow
James Mismash
Learn More
12
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Winning the Innovation Competition
Featured Speakers:
Bryan Clark
Dan Patt
Emil Michael
DVIDS
12
June 2026
In-Person Event | Hudson Institute
Winning the Innovation Competition

Please join Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Bryan Clark and Dan Patt for a conversation with Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael about the Department of War’s efforts to bring AI to the battlefield and implement an innovation strategy that makes the most of America’s commercial and government research sectors. 

DVIDS
Featured Speakers:
Bryan Clark
Dan Patt
Emil Michael
Learn More
See More
Related Research
See More
See More