The Beckett International Foundation has announced details of its 34th Annual Research Seminar. The event will take place at the University of Reading and will include four presentations from eminent Beckett scholars Brenda O’Connell, Peter Boxall, Zoë Tweed and Minako Okamuro. The seminar will be held on Saturday 26 October in the University’s Minghella Building…
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The Journal of Beckett Studies has been the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies for over forty years. It is an anonymously peer-reviewed scholarly journal which is published twice a year under the direction of its chief editors, Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle. The editors have announced that…
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Continuing the highly successful series from last year, Katherine Weiss has scheduled two new dates for the The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative for the coming semester. The initiative, which was established to share information and create a newtwork of support to all Beckett scholars in the early stages of their research and career,…
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Following the hugely successful Beckett & Justice conference in Los Angeles, the Samuel Beckett Society looks forward to our tenth anniversary get-together which will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 5-7 June 2025 under the stewardship of Dr Hannah Simpson. The conference title is Beckett’s Relationships which should provide a wide scope for…
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Festival Beckett which takes place in Roussillon en Provence each year has just announced its programme for 2024. This year’s event will be the 24th iteration and will run from 15-20 July in the town in which Beckett and Suzanne saw out the end of the Second World War. Performance highlights in this year’s programme…
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Tolka, the bi-annual journal of non-fiction based in Dublin, has just published its seventh volume. Following its stated aim in publishing ‘work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories [to] encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction’ the latest issue features four creative responses to Beckett from…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is a special titled Beckett and the Anthropocene. Guest edited by Céline Thobois-Gupta, Amanda Dennis, Douglas Atkinson, and Nicholas Johnson, this volume contains contributions from Laura Salisbury, Einat Adar, Michał Kisiel, Lucas Margarit, Michiko Tsushima, Anna McMullan, Jonathan McAllister, Li Yanshi and Muhammad Saeed Nasir. As…
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Among the many high points of the recent Samuel Beckett Society conference Beckett & Justice at Cal State LA was the engagement with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha whose current exhibition …These Things That Divide The World In Two…. at REISIG AND TAYLOR CONTEMPORARY. The show is a response by the artist to his reading of…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available to all members. A particularly full and diverse issue features a full-length interview with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha, as well as another with documentary-maker Jacob Adams. James Knowlson provides a beautifully detailed reading of Beckett’s close friend Ethna MacCarthy’s poetry and personality. There are reports…
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This Summer sees a festival and celebration of Beckett crossing transnational boundaries, as Beckett: Unbound 2024 takes place in Liverpool and Paris. The brainchild of actor Adrian Dunbar and composer Nick Roth, the festival builds on the success of Beckett: Confined 2022, once again partnering with The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The…
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