Reminder: Beckett International Foundation Seminar 26 October 2024

A reminder to those who have yet to register that the annual Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar will take place on Saturday 26 October at the University of Reading. The organisers ask that all those interested register by following this link as soon as possible and no later than Friday 18 October.

The programme is as follows:

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