The final programme for the upcoming online seminar in the Grey Pluralities series has just been announced. Organised by Swati Joshi and supported by the Samuel Beckett Society, the session is titled The Ultimate Cell in Samuel Beckett takes ‘the skin’ as a starting point to think about broader concerns within Beckett’s work, particularly modes of confinement, noting that ‘The skin of Beckettian characters is caressed, kissed, washed, bruised, bandaged, surgically operated, mired in mud, hurt by boots, etc., thereby manifesting it as a somatic palimpsest, an enveloping boundary where the inscriptions of trauma, traces of tenderness, and gestures of care converge in a layered narrative of survival.’
The seminar will feature a mixture of keynotes and presentations as well as an address by Society Liz Barry, and will take place on Saturday 28 November from 9:45 to 12:30 GMT.
Participation is free of charge but registration is essential and can be made at this link
Full seminar programme can be downloaded below
