The Samuel Beckett Society is committed to strengthening the field of Beckett Studies by supporting new scholarship from early career researchers. We would like to invite postgraduate researchers and those within eight years of submitting their PhDs to apply for a Ruby Cohn Travel Bursary to support their attendance at the Beckett and Poetry/Beckett &…
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Oxford University Press has just published a new monograph by Marco Bernini. Titled Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives, the author argues ‘that Samuel Beckett’s narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology’ and that ‘Beckett pioneered a…
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The Chinese translation of the first volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett has been published in two volumes in Dec. 2021 by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House (HLAPH), Changsha City, the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese translation is the first version rendered outside of Western Europe. The translator Bo Cao, a professor…
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New York’s ReelAbilities film festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. The weeklong festival is renowned for its wide-ranging international film selection, riveting conversations, and performances, presented annually in dozens of venues across the New York…
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In the true Beckett spirit of ‘going on’ despite everything, ‘Samuel Beckett and Nature’, originally planned to take place in 2020 by James Martell and his crew at Lyon College, will finally see the light of day on October 7-9 of this year. The event will feature both original keynote speakers, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of…
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The latest publciation in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett series is titled Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio and comes from the University of Reading’s Conor Carville. It is a welcome intervention on such a lightly studied work and promises to encourage further research in the area. As the publisher’s note asserts: ‘Samuel Beckett’s 1976…
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A call for papers has been announced by the organisers of ‘LOST BODIES: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality’ a conference to be held in Trinity College Dublin on July 7-8, 2022. The enforced cancelation of the Beckett Society’s 2020 annual conference scheduled for Bordeaux, titled “‘Stepping down into the sexpit’: Sex and Gender in Samuel Beckett’s Work’…
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A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts given to the University of Reading will provide unique new insights on the relationship between Beckett and his fellow Dubliner James Joyce. The gift of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection was announced on Wednesday 2 February, the centenary of the publication in Paris of…
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The Modern Language association has announced that the Samuel Beckett Society has had its status as an allied organisation of the association renewed for another seven years. This significant achievement guarantees a presence for the society in the highly competitive MLA annual convention for the stated period. The Samuel Beckett Society president Laura Salisbury welcomed…
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A call for papers has been issued by ibidem-verlag’s ‘Samuel Beckett in Company’ series editor, Paul Stewart, Professor of Literature, University of Nicosia, for a proposed edited volume with the title Samuel Beckett and the 21st Century Novel. Professor Stewart writes: ‘Beckett’s influence on an older generation of novelists, such as Coetzee, Banville, Auster and…
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