The latest publciation in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett series is titled Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio and comes from the University of Reading’s Conor Carville. It is a welcome intervention on such a lightly studied work and promises to encourage further research in the area. As the publisher’s note asserts: ‘Samuel Beckett’s 1976…
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A call for papers has been announced by the organisers of ‘LOST BODIES: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality’ a conference to be held in Trinity College Dublin on July 7-8, 2022. The enforced cancelation of the Beckett Society’s 2020 annual conference scheduled for Bordeaux, titled “‘Stepping down into the sexpit’: Sex and Gender in Samuel Beckett’s Work’…
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A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts given to the University of Reading will provide unique new insights on the relationship between Beckett and his fellow Dubliner James Joyce. The gift of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection was announced on Wednesday 2 February, the centenary of the publication in Paris of…
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The Modern Language association has announced that the Samuel Beckett Society has had its status as an allied organisation of the association renewed for another seven years. This significant achievement guarantees a presence for the society in the highly competitive MLA annual convention for the stated period. The Samuel Beckett Society president Laura Salisbury welcomed…
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[English translation available at bottom of page] Con el aval institucional de The Samuel Beckett Society y organizado por el SeminarioBeckett México (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), el grupo de investigaciónLindisfarne (Universidad de Almería, España) y la revista Beckettiana (Universidad deBuenos Aires, Argentina) se hace un llamado a participar del 1er Concurso Internacionalde Ensayos en español para…
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The 7th International Annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 26-28 October, 2022 with ‘Beckett and Poety/Beckett y La Poesía’ as its theme. Under the title “Beckett & poetry”, we seek to investigate and debate the role played in Beckett studies by different critical approaches to his…
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The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at the IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference 2022. IFTR 2022’s conference theme, Shifting Centres (In the Middle of Nowhere), is apposite for the Samuel Beckett Working Group, as well as for our times (https://iftr.org/conference/call-for-papers). Beckett’s work has spoken readily to many over the last two…
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A colloquium in honour of the Beckett pioneer Rosemary Pountney is to be held at Jesus College, Oxford on 28 January 2022. Launching the Cambridge University Press series ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’, the event will include contributions from authors whose work has already been published in the series over the past year. The series is…
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Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon have been awarded funding from the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council for a 3-year project: ‘Editing Beckett: Towards a Bilingual Digital Genetic Edition of Samuel Beckett’s Works’ which forms part of the ongoing Beckett Digital Manuscript Project [BDMP]. The purpose of the BDMP, as stated by its…
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While we struggle with the seemingly-unending pandemic, the Beckett community has been continuing to perform, come together (occasionally) and write as best it can. In this issue, we review productions of Waiting for Godot in the claustrophobic confines of Zoom, to Happy Days in a limestone field on a remote island. Lisa Dwan talks about…
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