As part of the Samuel Beckett: The German Room exhibition currently ongoing at the University of Regensburg in Germany, a one-day conference will take place on January 19 2026 featuring contributions from a fascinating group of noted scholars and practitioners.
Taking part in the proceedings will be:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Lubrich (University of Bern): ‘What a Schererei this trip is becoming.’ Samuel Beckett as a participant observer in Nazi Germany
Dr. Georgina Nugent (University College Cork): Beckett’s Tender Narrators
Dr. Megan Girdwood (The University of Edinburgh): Dancing with Samuel Beckett
Dr. Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin): ‘It’s the Lüneburg Heath you need’: Buried History in Beckett’s Landscapes
Dr. Sarah Jane Scaife (Trinity College Dublin): Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan (Beckett on the Rock: The Voice of Women): an analysis of Beckett’s shorter plays for women in conversation with the language, landscape, and culture of Inis Oirr.
The lectures begin at 2pm and are preceded by an English-language guided tour of the city of Regensburg, and later there will also be a guided tour of the exhibition Samuel Beckett: The German Room. The full programme of events is available here. Registration is essential at this link before 11 January 2026.
The Samuel Beckett Society 
is there any chance this conference will be on Zoom? Or recorded?
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