The deadline for submission of abstracts for next year’s 11th Annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference is approaching. Proposals must reach the organisers by 1 November 2025. The theme of the event is Beckett and Intertextuality combining a celebration of the author’s 120th birthday and marking the 60 years since Julia Kristeva introduced the notion of…
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A Spanish language seminar on all things Beckett has just been announced which will be coordinated by renowned scholars Luz María Sánchez Cardona (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), José Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería) y Lucas Margarit (Universidad de Buenos Aires – Revista Beckettiana). Titled Seminario Vértice SB and running from October to next July, the series…
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The latest in the series of seminars from the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has been announced. Titled With and Beyond Beckett: Developing Competitive Research Careersthe session will feature Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter), David Pattie (University of Birmingham), andArka Chattopadhyay (IIT Gandhinagar) in a discussion of how Beckett Studies provided a springboard for…
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The organiser of the forthcoming seminar titled Decoding Colding in Beckett has announced that due to unexpected circumstances it is necessary to rearrange the date of the online event. It will now take place on Saturday 29 November. Further details including schedue and registration will be posted soon.
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The recently published Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge University Press) will receive its official launch next month. This online event will celebrate the publication of Ulrika Maude’s groundbreaking new book with responses from Doug Battersby, Molly Crozier, and Andre Furlani. Samuel Beckett and Medicine offers the first sustained analysis of the author’s abiding interest in medicine and…
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The publication has been announced by Bloomsbury of the monograph Staging Beckett in London. Authored by Matthew McFrederick, Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, it completes the Staging Beckett series which also includes …in Great Britain, and …in Ireland and Northern Ireland which were edited by…
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Following the highly succesful Beckett’s Relations conference at the University of Edinburgh, and to coincide with the launch of the Society’s publication The Beckett Review, recently-elected president, Liz Barry, marked the occasion with her first public address. Detailing the work of the Society over the past year and outlining the programme of events which it…
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The latest edition of Beckettiana, the Spanish language publication devoted to the author’s work and edited in Buenos Aires, is now available to download. Volume 21, co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara, contains an impressive collection of artciles and reviews from a varied list of scholars including Patrick Bixby, Everett Frost, Manuel…
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Announced this week is a new publication from the Bloomsbury imprint. Taking its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship Beckett and Nature, we are told is ‘focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, going beyond them into a questioning of the very concepts of “Nature” and “the natural.” It examines one of the most…
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We have had a request from our colleagues at the Edward Albee Society which we are pleased to pass on in the spirit of scholarly fraternity and as part of promoting international participation in literary endeavours. Dear Beckettians, I am writing you in my capacity as the President of The Edward Albee Society. While we…
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