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3 de dez. de 2023 · Final details have been announced for Beckett’s Environments, the 8th annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society. The event will take place online on 1-2 December with participation and attendance free of charge to all current Society members. Registration is now open at this link.
- Conference 2023 – The Samuel Beckett Society
Responding to the growing awareness of anthropogenic climate...
- The Samuel Beckett Society
The 7th International Annual conference of the Samuel...
- Conference 2023 – The Samuel Beckett Society
Responding to the growing awareness of anthropogenic climate change and the need to reduce the environmental impact of academic travel, the Samuel Beckett Society is proposing its first completely online conference.
11 de jun. de 2024 · The 7th International Annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 26-28 October, 2022 with ‘Beckett and Poety/Beckett y La Poesía’ as its theme. Under the title “Beckett & poetry”, we seek to investigate and debate the role played in Beckett studies by different critical ...
- Day, 29th September 2023, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 20th October 2023, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 17th November 2023, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 15th December 2023, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 26th January 2024, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 23rd February 2024, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 22nd March 2024, 18.00-19.00
- Day, 19th April 2024, 18.00-19.00
- The Organisers
Dr Trish McTighe (Queen’s University Belfast) “Staging Place, Reconfiguring Time: Festivals & their Artists” What is the relationship between arts festivals and artists? As the festival form has become a vital component in contemporary global arts ecologies, this question might be seen to take on a certain urgency. It is vital that we understand th...
Prof Lucas Margarit (University of Buenos Aires) “Beckett’s Presence in the South: Notes from Buenos Aires” The first Argentinian translation of a work by Samuel Beckett was Esperando a Godot [Waiting for Godot], translated by Pablo Palant, and it was published in Buenos Aires in 1954. The publication was followed by the translation of several othe...
Dr Lois More Overbeck (Emory University) “Just a Little Correspondence… : Introducing Chercher” Beckett graciously met persons who expressed interest in his work, but he steadfastly refused interviews. He felt he had nothing to say about his work, which he knew only “from the inside, the making relationship”. His “making” continued beyond the writi...
Dr James Baxter (Trinity College Dublin) “‘fun, hats, sex, etc’: Samuel Beckett, New World Writing anthe Institutional Avant-Garde” Although Beckett visited the United States only once, his reputation was reinforced by a sturdy network of cultural intermediaries. This presentation will position Beckett’s transactions with the American literary maga...
Prof Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick) “‘The Salvation Army is no better’: Beckett and the Ethics of Social Need” At a time of indisputable crisis with regard to social need, this paper will consider Beckett’s mid-period writing in relation to timely questions about older age, disability, welfare and the provision of social care. Beckett’s no...
Prof Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University) “Beckett, Lefebvre and the Everyday” “In this play”, Beckett once said of Happy Days (1961), “you have a combination of the strange and the practical, the mysterious and the factual”, identifying a theatrical admixture that highlights the elusive quality of the everyday. Staged in an unusual and unsettl...
Olwen Fouéré (Independent) “On the 2015 Staging of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Lessness’ at the Barbican” The online seminar session will be dedicated to a conversation with celebrated actress Olwen Fouéré, concerning her staging and performance of Samuel Beckett’s prose piece “Lessness” at the Barbican Centre, London, in 2015. OLWEN FOUÉRÉ, born in Ireland ...
Dr Nicholas Taylor-Collins (Cardiff Metropolitan University) “Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Prose Bodies” Whilst great attention has (rightly) been paid to the intertextual references between Samuel Beckett’s drama and Shakespeare’s, relatively few analyses have examined how Beckett’s prose also talks with Shakespeare’s drama. This paper examines how...
Derval Tubridy is Professor of Literature and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and former Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Pro-Warden for Research and Enterprise. She is Co-Director of the London Beckett Seminar and Vice-Chair of the British Association of Irish Studies. She works on modern and contemporary literature, p...
Beckett & Japan: A Virtual Seminar Series Saturday 13th May & Saturday 3rd June Please join us for the fourth and fifth sessions in this seminar series examining aspects of the reception of Samuel Beckett’s work in Japan. This series is presented by the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR and
15 de nov. de 2022 · Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Accra, Ghana, 24th-28th July 2023. Samuel Beckett’s Drama and the Undoing of Myths of Empire and Imperialism. Beckett’s life is a dance between imperialisms, colonialisms and independence struggles.
Conference Report 2023. The Samuel Beckett Working Group held an online interim meeting in December 2022 during which members presented the development of their research. In addition, the group offered an ECR support session led by Dr Hannah Simpson (for more information, see the report of the interim meeting).
