This Friday, 20 September, sees the first in a series of interdisciplinary seminars which will explore ‘grey temporalities’ in Beckett’s work. The online seminar will include contributions from a list of notable speakers. Organised by Eleanor Green and Swati Joshi, the event is supported by the Samuel Beckett Society. Those who wish to attend can…
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Leading Beckett interpreters and innovators Gare St Lazare Ireland are premiering a new show at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett the piece is described as a ‘new exploration of Beckett and Dante in a show that seeks to combine literary embraces and repulsions of divine intervention and what it might…
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Katherine Weiss, organiser of the hugely valuable Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has asked us to remind all of the two seminars scheduled for the coming semester. The initiative, which was established to share information and create a network of support to all Beckett scholars in the early stages of their research and career,…
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The Beckett International Foundation has announced details of its 34th Annual Research Seminar. The event will take place at the University of Reading and will include four presentations from eminent Beckett scholars Brenda O’Connell, Peter Boxall, ZoĆ« Tweed and Minako Okamuro. The seminar will be held on Saturday 26 October in the University’s Minghella Building…
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The Journal of Beckett Studies has been the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies for over forty years. It is an anonymously peer-reviewed scholarly journal which is published twice a year under the direction of its chief editors, Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle. The editors have announced that…
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Continuing the highly successful series from last year, Katherine Weiss has scheduled two new dates for the The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative for the coming semester. The initiative, which was established to share information and create a newtwork of support to all Beckett scholars in the early stages of their research and career,…
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Tolka, the bi-annual journal of non-fiction based in Dublin, has just published its seventh volume. Following its stated aim in publishing ‘work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories [to] encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction’ the latest issue features four creative responses to Beckett from…
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Among the many high points of the recent Samuel Beckett Society conference Beckett & Justice at Cal State LA was the engagement with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha whose current exhibition …These Things That Divide The World In Two…. at REISIG AND TAYLOR CONTEMPORARY. The show is a response by the artist to his reading of…
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As we catch our breath following the outstandingly rich and varied few days in Los Angeles at Beckett & Justice, our 9th Annual Conference, the Samuel Beckett Society is delighted to announce the call for papers for our next gathering. Our tenth anniversary get-together will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 5-7 June…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available to all members. A particularly full and diverse issue features a full-length interview with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha, as well as another with documentary-maker Jacob Adams. James Knowlson provides a beautifully detailed reading of Beckett’s close friend Ethna MacCarthy’s poetry and personality. There are reports…
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