A reminder that the latest in the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative will take place this Tuesday 11 August. Titled “Getting known: Publishing in Beckett Studies”, the session will share ideas on aspects of getting published in the discipline. An attractive list of experience speakers will include: Dr. Amanda Dennis (The American University of Paris),…
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The death has taken place of leading Beckett scholar Charles Krance on 28 July last at his home in Ruisse, France. A pioneer in the area of genetic scholarship in Beckett Studies, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1994, specialising in twentieth-century French Literature (and in particular Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Beckett),…
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The Journal of Beckett Studies has invited submissions in the form of a 300 word abstract for a special issue titled Beckett and Travel scheduled for publication in April 2027 as issue 36:1. Samuel Beckett was for all his life an inveterate traveller. Early travels to France, Florence and Kassel in the 1920s were followed…
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Galina Kiryushina and Pim Verhulst have published a call for papers for a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui titled ‘Broadcasting Beckett Across Borders’ which they are planning as guest editors. Over the past decade, Beckett’s exploration of technological media has attracted much interest, with essay collections such as Samuel Beckett and BBC…
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An interesting roundtable event has been announced around the subject of Beckett and Cyprus. The event will be hosted at the Centre of Visual Arts and Research in Nicosia and will co-organised by the Centre’s Collections manager Holly Kunst and international Beckett scholar Swati Joshi. Planning for the event is ongoing but the organisers have…
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The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has just announced its latest webinar. Titled “Getting known: Publishing in Beckett Studies”, the session will share ideas on aspects of getting published in the discipline. An attractive list of experience speakers will include: Dr. Amanda Dennis (The American University of Paris), Book Reviews Editor, The Beckett Review Dr.…
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Dans le cadre du festival « After Beckett : Festival Beckett/Not Beckett » organisé à Bordeaux du 9 au 11 décembre 2026, ce nouveau Beckett Brunch propose de réfléchir aux réécritures contemporaines de l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett plus de trente-cinq ans après sa disparition. Une attention particulière sera portée à la traduction comme pratique de transmission, aux nouvelles…
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La 26e édition du Festival Beckett aura lieu du 25 au 31 juillet à Apt, Banon, Roussillon en Provence et Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt. Le Festival Beckett est avant tout une histoire de fidélité : fidélité à une œuvre, à un territoire et à un public qui l’accompagne. Fondé avec passion et conviction par Henri Vart, le festival…
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La estimada revista en línea Beckettiana abre la convocatoria para la presentación de artículos, reseñas, notas o documentos acerca de la obra de Samuel Beckett en cualquiera de sus aspectos (teatro, poesía, narrativa, ensayística, traducción; intertextualidad, interdisciplinariedad, bilingüismo, puesta en escena, Irlanda, traductología, etc.) con miras a su inclusión en el número 23 del año…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Review, the official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, was published yesterday. In the excitement, howver, an article slipped through the presses. Therefore, the packed issue contains even more with the addition of Katherine Weiss’s interview with Puppeteers for Fears, which can be viewed here. Elsewhere, volume 2:1 features the usual…
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