5pm on Tuesdays in Trinity Term, 2012. University of Oxford
Desgn: Rhys Tranter

The University of Oxford has announced the speakers for this year’s Samuel Beckett Debts and Legacies series:

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2012 
University of Oxford

5.30pm on Tuesdays in Trinity Term, 2012.
New Seminar Room, St John’s College, Oxford.

23 April — Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
(University of Oxford)
“Beckett’s Evolutionary Vision”

30 April — Dr Yoshiki Tajiri
(University of Tokyo)
“The pseudocouple and sexuality – Rereading Mercier and Camier

7 May — Professor David Pattie
(University of Chester)
“The Arrival of Godot: Beckett, British Theatre and the 1950s”

14 May — Dr Gaby Hartel
(Berlin)
Out of the Dark or From the Visual World? Non-Iconic Sounds in High Modernity`s New Aurality and Samuel Beckett’s Use of the Radio.

21 May — Dr Katherine Weiss
(East Tennessee State University)
“The (Dis)appearing Body in Beckett’s Stage Plays”

28 May — Professor Chris Ackerley
(University of Otago, NZ)
“Monadic Consciousness: from The Unnamable to Endgame

4 June — Mr Jonathan Heron
(Artistic Director, Fail Better Productions, & IATL Fellow, University of Warwick)
“‘what do you take me for, a something machine?’: the 1964 National Theatre production of Play (and some new experiments in 2014)”

11 June — Dr Dan Katz
(University of Warwick)
“A Few Days Are All We Have: Malone Dies and Some Modern American Poems”

You can find out more by visiting the official Debts and Legaces website. [Read More]

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Rhys Tranter is a writer and teacher based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He is the author of Beckett's Late Stage (2018), and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of books and periodicals. He holds a BA, MA, and a PhD in English Literature.

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