Weekend Course on Beckett’s Plays at University of Cambridge

A weekend residential course on the plays of Samuel Beckett takes place at Madingley Hall, home of the University of Cambridge Institiute of Continuing Education. The course, which is directed by Dr Andy Wimbush, will explore how Beckett’s strange but often very funny plays, including Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days, can speak to us today about love, friendship,…

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Call for Papers: Beckett’s Environments 8th Annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference. 1-2 December 2023. A reminder.

A reminder that the deadline of 30 May is approaching for submission of abstracts for the 8th Annual Samuel Beckett Society conference which will be held virtually in December of 2023. Responding to the growing awareness of anthropogenic climate change and the need to reduce the environmental impact of academic travel, the Samuel Beckett Society…

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Latest issue of Beckettiana now available to download

Issue 19 of Beckettiana (2022) is available now to download here. Beckettiana is the only wholly Spanish-language journal devoted to Beckett Studies and is co-edited in Buenos Aires Argentina by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara. The current issue is a particularly rich one as it celebrates 30 years since the title’s initiantion.…

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Beckett & Japan: A Virtual Seminar Series. Saturday 13th May & Saturday 3rd June

The latest seminars in the online series Beckett and Japan will take place in the coming weeks. On Saturday 13 May, Seminar 4 features Euske Oiwa addressing the theme ‘Facing the Time: Beckett’s Theatricality and Installation Art’, and Kumiko Kiuchi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan reviewing ‘Thirty Years: Reception of Samuel Beckett’s prose…

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