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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As part of the After Beckett : Festival Beckett/Not Beckett taking place in Bordeaux from 9-11 December 2026, this latest Beckett Brunch invites reflections, creative responses, and short papers on contemporary engagements with and rewritings of Samuel Beckett’s work, over thirty-five years after his death. This event will particularly engage with translation as a process of…
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The call for papers has just been announced for the 12th annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference which will be held in Bordeaux, France June 9-11, 2027. Titled East- and Southward Ho / Cap à l’Est, Cap au Sud, this conference, convened by Pascale Sardin and Karine Germoni, is a collaboration between l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Sorbonne…
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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 call for papers has been announced for the latest in the online Beckett seminar series Grey Pluralities curated by Swati Joshi. This latest session, titled The Ultimate Cell in Samuel Beckett, ‘seeks to synthesise discourses within Beckett Studies, fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue that sits at the intersection of carceral scholarship, haptic phenomenology, affect of…
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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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