Events – Page 14 – The Samuel Beckett Society

Samuel Becket, December 1988, in his nursing home in Paris. Photograph: Barney Rosset. One of the last, if not the last, set of images taken of Beckett before his death in 1989.

December 22, 2017December 22, 2017

Samuel Beckett Died On This Day in 1989

An excerpt from Mel Gussow’s obituary, published in The New York Times, 27 December 1989:

“Samuel Beckett, a towering figure in drama and fiction who altered the course of contemporary theater, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 83. He died of respiratory problems in a Paris hospital, where he had been moved from a nursing home. He was buried yesterday at the Montparnasse cemetery after a private funeral.

Explaining the secrecy surrounding his illness, hospitalization and death, Irene Lindon, representing the author’s Paris publisher, Editions de Minuit, said it was ‘what he would have wanted.'”

December 18, 2017

Corresponding with Beckett

A London Beckett Seminar conference at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1-2 June 2018

December 15, 2017

Joyce to Beckett: Ireland & Modernism

A symposium at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in association with the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies. The distinguished line-up of speakers includes many of the leading figures in Irish studies across several generations, as well as creative writers and actors. While the main focus will be on the two greatest Irish modernist writers, Joyce and Beckett, contributors will also consider other modern Irish writers and the appropriateness or otherwise of “modernism” as a category in poetry, fiction, drama and the visual arts.

December 12, 2017

The Hamish Canham (Applied) Prize – Free Prizegiving Presentation and Discussion

The free public event will take place in the 5th floor lecture theatre of The Tavistock Centre, London, on 13 December 2017. This year’s winner is Maryam Ghasemi, a former student of the Tavistock and Portman’s ‘Psychoanalytic Studies’ masters course. Her paper is titled, ‘Rockaby: Eros and Thanatos’, and is a psychoanalytic reading of the short play by Samuel Beckett.

December 11, 2017December 11, 2017

CFP: Samuel Beckett Working Group 2018

The conference theme of Theatre and Migration is intrinsically linked to questions of mobility and access, as it evokes various performances of borders. As a writer who moved from Ireland to France and wrote in multiple languages, Samuel Beckett’s works manifest the quest for transcending borders linguistically, culturally, artistically, philosophically and politically.

December 8, 2017December 10, 2017

Samuel Beckett and Cinema Book Launch & Screening, 10 Dec 2017

In celebration of the publication of his book Samuel Beckett and Cinema, Anthony Paraskeva introduces Beckett’s Film and a rare screening of Comédie. Tickets for the event are free, but registration is essential.

December 7, 2017September 2, 2018

Maxine Peake to star in Manchester production of Beckett’s Happy Days

The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is mounting Sarah Frankcom’s production of Happy Days from 25 May 2018 to 23 June 2018.

November 30, 2017December 1, 2017

Gare St Lazare Ireland to perform extracts from Beckett’s Watt, First Love, and Other Texts at the Abbey Theatre

In exploring the use of music in Samuel Beckett’s work, Gare St Lazare Ireland have created an entirely original performance that defies easy description. A meditation, a celebration, an interpretation; Here All Night’s absence of linear narrative frees us to go where the words and music bring us and offers another way to access both Beckett’s world and our own.

November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

MLA 2018: Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis

At the 2018 MLA Annual Convention in New York City, Panel 672 will be devoted to ‘Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis’. The panel will include presentations by Daniela Caselli, Arka Chattopadhyay, and Laura Salisbury. It will take place on Saturday 6 January in Sheraton, Madison Square, and run from 5.15pm-6.30pm.

November 27, 2017December 5, 2017

Lisa Dwan to read from Beckett’s ‘Foirades/Fizzles’

Royal Academy of the Arts: “To coincide with our landmark exhibition, Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’, Lisa Dwan reads from Foirades/Fizzles, a stunning publication that juxtaposed Jasper Johns’ vibrant, energetic etchings with a series of Samuel Beckett’s short prose pieces, both in their original French and translated into English. They have been the subject of notable scholarly works and the collection is now considered to be one of the greatest artist’s books of the 20th century, having been exhibited internationally and lauded for its significant impact across the visual arts, literature, music and theatre.”