On the 20th anniversary of her death, an exhibition of new work draws on the archive of celebrated theatre designer and Beckett collaborator Jocelyn Herbert. The show, titled ‘whole body like gone’, is the work of artist Hannah Clarkson which uses archival images, sketches, and anecdotes from the Jocelyn Herbert Collection, combining them with new…
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Final details have been announced for Beckett’s Environments, the 8th annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society. The event will take place online on 1-2 December with participation and attendance free of charge to all current Society members. Registration is now open at this link. Non-members should join first by folllowing this link. The final…
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The provisional programme for the 8th Annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference has just been announced by the organisers. The event will take place completely on-line and shows a widely diverse international list of presenters. Participation and attendance is free of charge to all members of the society. Links will be provided closer to the event.…
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The annual Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar will take place on Saturday 4 November at the Minghella Building on Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. As always, the line-up consists of papers from four specially invited speakers, with ample time allowed for discussion and chat. This years speakers are Elizabeth Barry, Xander Ryan, Hannah Simpson and…
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The latest issue of the Beckett Circle, Autumn 2023, is now available to all members of the Samuel Beckett Society. Included are interviews with playwrights Hanah Khallil and Jen Barclay, an unpublished interview by Beckett biographer James Knowlson’s archive, a guide to the upcoming Society Annual conference (which will be held on-line and is free…
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Following on from the recent success of their Greek translation of Eleutheria, Thessaloniki-based Oblik Editions has just published a brand new translation of Echo’s Bones. Like its predecessor, Oστά της Ηχούς has been translated by Anastasia Deligianni, who also provides a full scholarly introduction. The handsome production is finished to the exceedingly high standards of…
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Download for free for a limited period The highly-anticipated, latest title in the Cambridge University Press ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ series has just been released. Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality, as its summary argues ‘rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett’s historical importance in the development of the “antisocial thesis” in…
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An online workshop aimed at researchers who are currently in the process of writing their dissertations has been organized by the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative. Appropriatey titled “Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished” and described as a ‘welcoming workshop’, the event will be led by Hannah Simpson, who received…
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A watercolour portrait of Samuel Beckett (above) by his friend, the major Irish painter Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), is to be auctioned in Dublin to raise funds for a signficant new Beckett project. The lot is included in the Adam’s Important Irish Art sale which takes place on Wednesday 27 September in Dublin and which…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 9th Annual Conference. The 9th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society will take place in Los Angeles, CA on the campus of Cal State LA from June 6-8, 2024. We hope that the conference theme, Beckett and Justice, will speak to several areas in Beckett Studies and will give space…
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