The Beckett International Foundation has announced details of its 34th Annual Research Seminar. The event will take place at the University of Reading and will include four presentations from eminent Beckett scholars Brenda O’Connell, Peter Boxall, Zoë Tweed and Minako Okamuro. The seminar will be held on Saturday 26 October in the University’s Minghella Building with the following timetable:
10.30 – 11.00: Registration / Welcome
11.00 – 11.30: Dr Zoë Tweed (University of Reading): ‘Hybrid Bodies: A Hydro- and Eco-Feminist Reading of Company SJ’s Beckett sa Chreig: Laethanta Sona’.
11.30 – 12.00: Discussion
12.00 – 12.15: Tea / Coffee Break
12.15 – 12.45: Professor Minako Okamuro (Waseda University): ‘Drive My Car and Beckett’s theatre – On the origin of words’.
12.45 – 1.15: Discussion
1.15 – 2.15: Lunch
2.15 – 2.45: Dr Brenda O’Connell (Maynooth University): ‘Neurological disorder, Samuel Beckett, and me’
2.45 – 3.15: Discussion
3.15 – 3.30: Tea / Coffee Break
3.30 – 4.00: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford): ‘Happy Days in the Anthropocene’.
4.00 – 4.30: Discussion
Full details and registration can be obtained from here
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