The next session in the London Beckett Seminar will take place on Friday April 28 at 18:00 BST. This month’s guest lecturer is Professor Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Her lecture title is ‘Beckett’s Obscene Body of Poetry and Other Precipitates’ and addresses the following abstract:The Published in 1935, Beckett’s first collection of…
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Watch trailer here. The highly acclaimed production of Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, and starring Bill Irwin (Clov), John Douglas Thompson (Hamm), Joe Grifasi (Nagg) and Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Nell) has been playing to packed houses since its opening. As it draws to a close this weekend,…
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Following a keenly contested process, incoming Samuel Beckett Society President Patrick Bixby has announced the results of the election of new members to the executive committee. In a message to members, Professor Bixby decalared: ‘the next Vice President of the Society (to succeed to the Presidency in two years) will be Elizabeth Barry of the…
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The University of Gdańsk will host a parallel seminar and conference from May 18-20 this year and are currently accepting submissions in an open call for papers. The seminar,Who Wrote Godot?, takes its title from a suggestion by Professor S.E. Gontarski(Florida State University, USA) who will be in Gdańsk/Sopot to launch his new book Bad…
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Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, remediation, appropriation Coming in February from Manchester University Press is a collection of essays dealing with the numerous and various adaptations of Beckett’s works. Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst and Anna McMullan, the volume is is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. Its pre-publication description promisies a volume…
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A reminder to existing members that they need to renew their membership to continue to help in the work of the society and to access The Beckett Circle and other members’ material. We also hope that all of those interested in the work of the author would consider joining us in broadening the dialogue on…
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The latest title in Cambridge University Press Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form examines and contextualizes the long history of mounting festivals of Beckett’s work in the country of his birth. The summary suggests that the phenomenon of ‘festivalising’ Beckett in Ireland ‘might…
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Clockwise from top right: Laura Salisbury, Swati Joshi, Molly Crozier and Elizabeth Barry This year’s MLA Convention is being held in San Franciso, California from 5-8 January, and continues the recent trend of combining in-person and on-line panels. The annual Samuel Beckett Society panel will be held virtually and can be accessed world-wide by those…
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The 7th annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society takes place this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taking Beckett and Poetry as its theme, the conference will allow for an exploration of Beckett as poet and the broader themes of poetics within his oeuvre. The event includes papers in English and Spanish further enhancing the…
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The School of English at Trinity College Dublin has announced that it will be hosting Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell as the inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows this coming academic year, 2022-23. This scheme is a collaboration with the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading, which has pioneered a series of Creative Fellowships since 2017. Through…
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