The Beckett International Foundation has just announced that the 35th annual BIF Seminar will take place at the Minghella Studios, the University of Reading, on 1 November 2025. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beckett’s production of Warten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin in 1975, Walter Asmus, who assisted Beckett on this production, will join the conference for a…
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A fascinating new publication from Methuen which will be of interest to all Beckettians is to be launched later this month. The final book from late and hugely respected scholar Ruby Cohn, this volume is co-edited by current renowned Beckett scholars Daniela Caselli and Hannah Simpson. Titled Glancing at Dramatists’ Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori…
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A Spanish language seminar on all things Beckett has just been announced which will be coordinated by renowned scholars Luz María Sánchez Cardona (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), José Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería) y Lucas Margarit (Universidad de Buenos Aires – Revista Beckettiana). Titled Seminario Vértice SB and running from October to next July, the series…
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The latest in the series of seminars from the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has been announced. Titled With and Beyond Beckett: Developing Competitive Research Careersthe session will feature Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter), David Pattie (University of Birmingham), andArka Chattopadhyay (IIT Gandhinagar) in a discussion of how Beckett Studies provided a springboard for…
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The organiser of the forthcoming seminar titled Decoding Colding in Beckett has announced that due to unexpected circumstances it is necessary to rearrange the date of the online event. It will now take place on Saturday 29 November. Further details including schedue and registration will be posted soon.
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The recently published Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge University Press) will receive its official launch next month. This online event will celebrate the publication of Ulrika Maude’s groundbreaking new book with responses from Doug Battersby, Molly Crozier, and Andre Furlani. Samuel Beckett and Medicine offers the first sustained analysis of the author’s abiding interest in medicine and…
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The death recently took place of noted scholar and past president of the Samuel Beckett Society Robert Scanlan. The board of the Society express their deepest sympathies to his wife Joanne Baldine and his family. We publish here his full obituary which appeared in the Boston Globe: SCANLAN, Robert N. Theatre director, writer and professor,…
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The publication has been announced by Bloomsbury of the monograph Staging Beckett in London. Authored by Matthew McFrederick, Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, it completes the Staging Beckett series which also includes …in Great Britain, and …in Ireland and Northern Ireland which were edited by…
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Following the highly succesful Beckett’s Relations conference at the University of Edinburgh, and to coincide with the launch of the Society’s publication The Beckett Review, recently-elected president, Liz Barry, marked the occasion with her first public address. Detailing the work of the Society over the past year and outlining the programme of events which it…
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The latest edition of Beckettiana, the Spanish language publication devoted to the author’s work and edited in Buenos Aires, is now available to download. Volume 21, co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara, contains an impressive collection of artciles and reviews from a varied list of scholars including Patrick Bixby, Everett Frost, Manuel…
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