A multi-disiciplinary event marking the centenary of Samuel Beckett’s formative cycling holiday to Tours has just been announced for 28 May 2026 with the organisers issuing a call for papers, presentations and performances. Titled Beckett’s Beginnings/ Comment C’est, Commencez avec Beckett: Beckett, France and the Touraine – 1926-2026/Beckett, la France et la Touraine – 1926-2026,…
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A reminder that the closing date for submission of abstracts for MLA Convention 2027 is approaching. The Society is seeking applications for three separate panels for which full details are provided below. One panel is guaranteed to be accepted by the MLA organising committee while two will be submitted for consideration by the selection process.…
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The Samuel Beckett Society is pleased to announce calls for papers for the 2027 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association which will take place in Los Angeles in January. One panel is guaranteed to be accepted by the organising committee while two will be submitted for consideration by the selection process. In the spirit…
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The call for papers has just been announced for the second instalment of the Grey Pluralities Seminar series which will take place on 26 October 2025. Following on from last year’s highly successful ‘…but the clouds…’ seminar, ‘All that left me cold, or nearly’: Decoding Colding in Beckett’ aims to address the issue of coldness…
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Beckett and Intertextuality 11th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society University of Antwerp, 20-22 May 2026 No sooner has the dust settled on the remarkable Beckett’s Relationships in Edinburgh than we look forward immediately to next year’s annual conference. The call for papers has just been announced and it reads as follows: In 2026…
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Beckettiana es una revista en línea de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, abocada al estudio e investigación de la obra de Samuel Beckett. Es una publicación anual revisada por pares y de acceso abierto, existente desde el año 1992. En esta ocasión, Beckettiana abre la convocatoria para la…
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The Samuel Beckett Working Group (SBWG) of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) is proud to partner with the journal Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui on a forthcoming special issue dedicated to theme of Beckett and the Tragic. The project emerged from the SBWG’s gathering at the 2024 IFTR conference held in Manila, where the group…
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A reminder that the closing date for submissions for next year’s Samuel Beckett Society Conference which will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 5-7 June 2025 is fast approaching. Abstracts should reach the organisers by Monday 11 November 2024. The conference title is Beckett’s Relationships which should provide a wide scope for all…
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Furthering its commitment to enhance opportunities for those in their early stages of Beckett scholarship, the Samuel Beckett Society has announced a new initiative to promote the work of emerging scholars and researchers. The full text of the board’s statement reads: The executive board of the Samuel Beckett Society and the editor of The Beckett Circle seek…
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The Call for Papers has just been made for the Samuel Beckett Working Group which forms part of the annual conference of the International Foundation for Theatre Research to be held in 2025 in Cologne, Germany from 9-13 June. Aligning with the overall conference theme, the seminar’s chosen title is Greying the Carnival: Samuel Beckett…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 