The full programme has been announced for ‘All that left me cold, or nearly’: Decoding Colding in Beckett by seminar organiser Swati Joshi. This is the second in the the Grey Pluralities in Beckett Series which is presented in association with the Samuel Beckett Society.
The full lineup is as follows:
Mark Byron (University of Sydney): From Absolute Zero to Universal Heat Death: Temperature Asymmetries in Beckett’s Worlds
Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick): ‘The Embers Cold’: Ageing and Frailty in Beckett’s Radio Plays
Thomas Symeonidis (Hellenic Open University): Autographic Cold: Inscriptions of Visuality and Figural Surfaces in The Lost Ones
David Pattie (University of Birmingham): A Frozen World: Beckett and entropic collapse
Marina Stavrou (Royal College of Art): Emotional Automation: Facing Cold in Beckett’s The Unnamable
Matthew Lloyd (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): ‘They mustn’t’: Directing the Living Dead, in Beckett’s Catastrophe
Eleftheria Kavazi (University of Oxford): ‘Cold Temperature Readings in/of Samuel Beckett’s Drama: Decoding Colding through Mathematical Modelling
Gina Case (Boston College):’As If He Really’: Reading Warmth into The Unnamable
Abhinaba Chatterjee (Independent Researcher): Beckett’s Mathematical Coldness: An Ontological Study of Quad
Wang Yu (National Chengchi University): Chill of Age, Heat of Speech: Language as resistance in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame
Download Full List of Abstacts and Biographies below
The seminar will take place from 10am to 12noon GMT on Saturday 29 November 2025. Registration at this link
The Samuel Beckett Society 
I didn’t notice a time and date for this seminar, perhaps not set yet.
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Hi Michael,
Details are at the bottom of the post. Saturday 29 November 10-12 am GMT.
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